Brass I

Brass I is part of the Symphonic Cube, which consists of ten "Vienna Instruments Collections". Brass I features the following instruments:

• Trumpet.
• Viennese horn.
• Tenor trombone.
• Tuba.
• Trumpet ensemble (3 players).
• Horn ensemble (4 players).
• Trombone ensemble (3 players).

Articulations

Performances:

• Interval Performances: legato, marcato; slow & fast.
• Horns, tenor trombone: Interval Performance Glissandos.
• Repetition Performances: legato, portato, staccato; crescendo & diminuendo.
• Performance Repetition upbeats: slow, medium, fast.
• Performance Trills.
• Solo instruments – Grace Note Performances: minor and minor 2nd, up and down.
• Trumpets: runs.
• Trumpets, horns, trombones – arpeggios: major, minor, diminished triads; staccato, medium & fast.
• Solo trumpet – mordents: legato, 12 variations.
• Trumpets, horns, trombones – muted/stopped:
  - Interval Performances
  - Repetition Performances: legato, portato, staccato
  - Fast Repetitions
  - Upbeats.

Single notes:

• Short notes: staccato and portato with various attacks and note lengths.
• Long notes: sustains with various attacks and vibratos.
• Horns: blared sustains.
• Dynamics: crescendo & diminuendo in various note lengths, various vibratos; fp, sfz, sffz, pfp.
• Solo instruments – trills: half tone, whole tone; crescendo & diminuendo.
• Flutter tongues: normal and crescendo variations.
• Trumpets, horns, trombones – muted/stopped:
  - Short notes: staccato, short portato, medium portato
  - Sustains and dynamics in various note lengths
  - Flutter tongues.
• Trumpet ensemble: out-of-tune-sustains, rips & falls.
• Trombone ensemble: clusters.

The Vienna Instrument Engine:

• Powerful proprietary streaming audio engine, developed by Vienna Symphonic Library's Christian Teuscher.
• Up to 3,456 Articulations (Patches) on one MIDI channel.
• RAM pre-load of up to 25,600 stereo samples (based on 1.6 GB available RAM under Windows; 48,000 samples on a 3 GB Mac G5).
• 64 stereo voices per instance streaming from disk.
• Extremely low load times (average 1 sec. per Patch) using pre-caching.
• Lossless real-time de-compression for using less RAM and hard disk resources.
• RAM Optimizer kicks unused samples out of RAM.
• Pre-configured Patches.
• Performance Detection algorithms integrated in Patches without the need to switch manually between articulations.
• Trigger comprehensive sets of articulations using hardware controllers (MIDI learn), key switches, and speed, without ever leaving the current MIDI channel.
• Layer Articulations for simultaneous or crossfade performances in one Preset.
• Easily design your own Instruments using Drag & Drop.
• Switch Velocity Crossfades and Release Control on/off on the fly.