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This can also be effective for playing very short, accented notes. This has four velocity-switched dynamic layers, the highest layer being aВ forte/piano/crescendo articulation, 'FoPiCre', aВ strongly accented note that subsides very quickly and swells back to aВ zippy crescendo. all notes played will each sound all four instruments playing aВ sustained articulation in unison.

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The Performance patch's default setting is the full four-piece section, in polyphonic mode, i.e. Section Setup, velocity switched articulation, Voicing Assistant modes and Octave Drop options are all selected from here.

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The Performance Patch main tab, showing the Animator's control panel. The majority of performance options are found on the Main screen tab, so we'll begin our tour here.

To this end, SH features aВ number of playing modes and arrangement tools for achieving this in aВ live performance. It's up to the user to select which instruments will sound, and how the notes played are distributed amongst them. The Performance patch is the most memory intensive, with all articulations for all four instruments loaded into this single patch. Rather than providing each section instrument as separate NKI (Native Kontakt Instrument) patches, the SH patch library consists of just two Kontakt NKIs: Performance and Single Articulation. As you'd expect from NI, the 44.1kHz, 24-bit samples are very clean and well recorded. Most of the high-frequency 'zip' comes from the trumpets and trombone, while the tenor sax provides an element of warmth. The overall tone is bright and zippy, suggesting close miking with an AKG 414 or something similar, although the mics used are not listed. Although recorded very dry, the sound is not entirely anechoic there's just enough subtle room reflection to give aВ sense of the recording space. Sound-wise, if you're after aВ tight, bright, controlled brass section, SH's core samples provide the ideal raw material. It's aВ 4.88GB library based around aВ four-piece brass section comprising aВ trombone, aВ tenor saxophone and two trumpets, the sort of line-up typically used in soul, funk, reggae, Latin andВ many other modern popВ styles.

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Session Horns (SH), the third of Native Instruments' Kontakt library collaborations with Hamburg company e-instruments (their first two being Session Strings and its larger Pro sibling) aims to fit that niche.

Less well catered for, however, are small-scale brass ensembles suitable for pop and rock applications, where tight, finger-snapping cool and funkiness are more in keeping than Wagnerian bombast. If you need to virtually recreate large-scale orchestral and cinematic brass, you can pretty much pick and choose from aВ variety of sample libraries. NI's Session Horns forsakes the cinematic to focus on a real-world brass section that's well suited to pop and rock music.