Arturia BRASS

by Arturia

Product Features

• Virtual instrument playable through a MIDI keyboard
• Three instruments available : trumpet, saxophone, trombone
• 8 parameters to control the instruments in real time
• Total MIDI control of each parameter through powerful settings, control sense and hardness
• Configuration of instruments: 4 attack and 4 vibrato types, material, humanization

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B000E4AHUK
• Average Customer Review: 1.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #86,119 in Musical Instruments (See Top 100 in Musical Instruments)

Product Description

BRASS is a new kind of virtual instrument that faithfully reproduces the trumpet, saxophone and trombone in real time. It contains an extensive performance-based riff library which is entirely configurable and expandable. Choose, create, import and modify riffs to match your needs. You can also play the modeled instruments directly with a keyboard and other realtime controls. It's so dynamic and easy-to-use that you will never go back to flat sampled riff libraries ever again.With BRASS you can play your instrument with maximum expressivity, like a soloist would! All parameters can be modulated in real time. You can assign any MIDI controller to any parameter, switch automatization on some other parameters, and obtain a very lively and realistic sound. Choose a preset in the library, play through keyboard, use the controllers to add modulation. And if you have a breath controller, use it for even more realistic playing! When you play your BRASS instrument, by setting the attack range you will control how the attack reacts to your playing.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Bad documentation, terrible support, August 25, 2007

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Tom Mccarthy (Washington DC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Arturia BRASS

Almost everything about this product is perfect, with one exception that makes it (literally) useless: the Syncrosoft security dongle and the way Arturia implemented it.

This software is great when it works, but the documentation is a little shoddy. My software was rendered inoperable when I transferred my license from one of their dongles to another, something their site said I could do one every page but one, where in a sea of text, there was this one critical quote:

"If he transfers his PROPHET V license from the Syncrosoft key we provide to another Syncrosoft key, this customer will no longer be able to use our key to get PROPHET V working any more."

As it turns out, this also applies to Brass and Jupiter 8. All of these products ($1000) were rendered USELESS by transferring the licenses. Really amateur. I won't buy from them again.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Start your own dongle farm!, August 26, 2009

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J. Foust (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Arturia BRASS

Everything about this product is wonderful and unique. There is no other software that I am aware of that can let you produce realistic organic sounding brass like this, from your computer! It's all good...
Except for one thing; The idiotic dongle! Shame on you Arturia... (Understand that all of my software is legally purchased.) Dongles are an old outmoded method of licensing. It's antisocial, parasitical, and almost universally despised by customers. What if every software maker required one or more dongles? Hmmm? I've lost track of how many "universal" dongles I've had the displeasure of dealing with. In every case I look for the purchase of alternative non-dongle software from another company, and I've been permanently successful in two cases. In another case, the manufacturer moved away from using dongles. I have two (2) multiport USB hubs dedicated exclusively to these stupid things, and I hate it. I haven't mention all of the problems with dongles here. But I am aware there are a few little benefits in being married to a dongle for your software use.. IMO the problems, aggravations, and insults, far outweigh any benefit. Rant over...
This product is the only one of its kind on the market, capable of producing the most organic sounding virtual brass section in your digital audio workstation. The results possible are nothing short of astounding! So buy it now. Then buy a new USB hub, and build your own dongle farm!

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars If you need a USB donge to run this, I'm definitely NOT buying it., July 22, 2008

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J R (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Arturia BRASS

Thanks, Tom, for the warning about the USB dongle and Syncrosoft licensing for this product. I've gone through that headache before with the Korg Legacy Collection, both Digital and Analog Editions, which both require a USB dongle on which to download the Syncrosoft licensing information. It took THREE months before I was able to get it to download the licenses and begin using the software. For some reason, the dongle wasn't being recognized on my computer. What a TOTAL headache. Now, I look before I buy to make certain the software I'm considering to purchase doesn't require a USB dongle/key. What a HEADACHE. I'm definitely not going to buy Arturia Brass now. Thanks for the heads up! Jon