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  • Synchron Library featuring Stopped Horns?

    First off, new website looks great!

    I'm flipping through some of the synchronized special editions and synchronized libraries and not seeing any horns that feature the stopped articulations. In the event I'm just missing it, do these currently exist or should I continue with the VI/Studio series for that?

    Thanks!

    -S


  • Hi Stephen,

    In the "Vienna, What's Next" video starting around 10:00, Herb says that the VI Brass will be ported over to the (newly-named) Studio series. To date, only the Dimension Brass has been ported.

    Indeed, according to my library, the stopped horns are limited to VI.

    Plowman


  • Correct!


    Paul Kopf Product Manager VSL
  • Ahh! Haven't caught up on all of the videos yet, so that's great news!

    Would also be cool (I think I've posted before about it) to get a Synchron Brass horn update with that technique.

    It wouldn't take toooo long just to get a Sfz, Longs, portato, portato long, staccato (bold and agile), and the cresc./decresc. articulations, right @Paul ??? 😅


  • I would like to see a Synchron Brass followup that has muted brass, and maybe additional regular sections (with different sizes) so that the articulations and microphones better match the soloists.

    The brass sections in Synchron Brass seem to have been recorded first for Big Bang Orchestra and then the soloists recorded later after they started using ribbon mics too. So the soloists recording doesn't actually match that well with the sections IMO, and I think the soloists end up being the strong point of the library and the sections are not quite as strong.

    An add-on expansion that gives muted brass could ideally solve this by recording a few sections too ord., like 2 horns and 4 horns, 3 trumpets, etc., to differentiate from the 4 trumpets, 6 horns in regular Synchron Brass and ideally match better with the soloists in regular Synchron Brass in terms of articulations.


  • @stephen limbaugh something else you can consider, the Sordina v2 mute emulator plugin. I use it to simulate stopping and straight mutes with the Synchron horns all the time. It isn't perfect, and I would much rather have recorded mutes, but it is pretty good.