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Matthewrymarz · Post by **Matthewrymarz** » Thu Oct 12, 2017 1:56 am

I'm looking to make electroswing. I don't have kontakt but I might save up for it. Is that worth doing so?

layzer · Post by **layzer** » Thu Oct 12, 2017 2:30 am

you dont need to spend $200 or even a vst for that, just go sample riffs from old swing videos on you tube.

JPQ · Post by **JPQ** » Thu Oct 12, 2017 2:41 am

what kind brass jazz/classical/cinematic?

drunken jesus · Post by **drunken jesus** » Thu Oct 12, 2017 4:52 am

layzer wrote:you dont need to spend $200 or even a vst for that, just go sample riffs from old swing videos on you tube.

^this, it sounds mostly sampled from the songs I heard, alternatively you could buy a pack of pre-made phrases to chop, buying a full fledged brass vst or kontakt + a brass library seems like a waste of resources unless you really wanna make your own riffs to sample and chop

Matthewrymarz · Post by **Matthewrymarz** » Thu Oct 12, 2017 5:09 am

I like to write my own riffs and stuff. I've got a few samples off splice but it's hard for me to work with pre-made loops and stuff when I don't know the notes

dune_rave · Post by **dune_rave** » Thu Oct 12, 2017 5:37 am

IMHO Best "not sampled" Brass is Arturia Brass. However I can't say its cheap or not because its kinda abbandoned, at Arturia.com its unavailable.

drunken jesus · Post by **drunken jesus** » Thu Oct 12, 2017 5:42 am

check out some of the free maize vsts from bigcat and see how far they get you http://bigcatinstruments.blogspot.com/ or possibly a cheap rompler, any $200 brass library will probably require kontakt which will double the cost

I don't have much experience with loop packs but I imagine most sample packs probably have information about the key, tempo and what not, also trying to emulate sample based music without samples will also require a good fx chain to make it sound right, just playing a brass riff and adding it to an existing track won't give you the sound you're after no matter what plugin you use

anomandaris1 · Post by **anomandaris1** » Thu Oct 12, 2017 10:14 am

Native instruments Session Horns for 99 EUR will do the job... It doesn't require full Kontakt, there is a free version called Kontakt player that loads some NI instruments and third party libraries.
Check also Garritan Jazz & Big Band instrument - 150 USD.
I think that these two are the cheapest offers on the market.

https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/po ... yers-guide

evilantal · Post by **evilantal** » Thu Oct 12, 2017 6:36 pm

How about Big Fish Vintage Horns 2 for this style?
http://www.bigfishaudio.com/detail.html?532310

Or Zero-G Phantom Horns if you're looking for loops...(goes on sale QUITE often at 50% or more off)
https://zero-g.co.uk/products/phantom-h ... pple-loops

bill45 · Post by **bill45** » Thu Oct 12, 2017 6:58 pm

Impact sound works, straight ahead jazz horns.

Googly Smythe · Post by **Googly Smythe** » Thu Oct 12, 2017 7:06 pm

EastWest Hollywood Brass Gold is currently $199 (down from $265).

http://www.soundsonline.com/hollywood-brass

mcbpete · Post by **mcbpete** » Thu Oct 12, 2017 7:12 pm

Samplemodeling's The Trumpet and/or The Trombone. €159 each and works with the free Kontakt Player

Despite being kinda goofy this shows off quite a lot of the articulations you can achieve:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCC1Vqk3_hA

atya · Post by **atya** » Thu Oct 12, 2017 7:26 pm

Dunno about 'best' ... but depending on what you're after you can get away pretty cheap with some of the aforementioned freebies + Sonatina, DSK Saxophone, ... or even add some rompler presets. If you really want to burn some cash here's another package that hasn' t been mentioned so far:
http://www.chrishein.net/web/CHH-C_Overview.html

JPQ · Post by **JPQ** » Thu Oct 12, 2017 7:47 pm

Few kontakt libraries and which is correct depends what brass selection you want. these need more work i like results.
https://www.bestservice.de/en/chris_hei ... mpact.html
https://www.bestservice.de/en/chris_hei ... mpact.html
ps. there is few other things what i think.

Matthewrymarz · Post by **Matthewrymarz** » Fri Oct 13, 2017 3:27 am

Thanks for all the replies, I'll look into them all

What's the best brass vst for around $200