08-03-2019, 01:20 AM
(08-03-2019, 12:29 AM)Mattias Westlund Wrote:(08-02-2019, 11:33 PM)Nayrb Wrote: The infallible Internet has led me to believe that the bass trombone often comprises one part of the three trombone section. As such, I've begun to try to build any divisi parts around this idea.
A number of years ago I tried setting up a template that had only multiples of solo brass and winds samples, to facilitate arranging properly for the sections instead of having them play in unison all the time. From what I can recall it sounded very impressive, but added a layer of complexity and extra work that I wasn't prepared for at the time. And I also recall I didn't have enough solo instruments of high enough quality to make this work as well as I wanted. I think I should try this again, since I feel I'm becoming kind of lazy and complacent.
Still, there's the matter of combining solo brass into ensembles where you'll run into a lot of phase issues. Add enough of them together and you'll have a sound more reminiscent of Van Halen's Jump than an actual real life brass section.
Yeah, I suppose it sort of defeats its own purpose if you turn your brass samples into a synth patch!
For my part, I'm only using this approach when I'm working with intervals within a section. I'm not trying to build sections out of solo patches to play unisons. Maybe for a part where three bones could be playing only a two note part; but in those cases I've had just as much luck "cheating" and playing it with the section patch, with care. Sections made of solo patches might be a cool frontier for samples in the future, but like you, I just can't get anything with the samples I have that sounds as impressive as the basic section patches.