WIVI WI (Visual Instruments)

At last, realistic sounding trumpets. Seriously, I've not heard anything as convincing as the WIVI trumpets (I have EWQLSO Gold and Garritan Jazz & Big Band, and WIVI easily outplays both in the respective styles through its shear expressiveness. All transitions and expression changes are extremely smooth and take the full timbre of a real trumpet, from ppp to fff. The mutes are good too, with a full range being represented, including a really good plunger. The sound is somewhat better through the room reverbs that are available than completely dry (it offers reverbs of church and concert hall on the wet side, studios on the dry side, or completely bypassed). There are some minor artifacts in the un-effected sound (ie, when using no reverb at all), but your trumpet section, real, sampled or in this case synthesized, needs an environment to sound like a trumpet anyway, so I don't see this as a big deal. The studio reverbs are good for commercial/jazz playing, the halls, churches are good for classical) I play the WIVI with a Yamaha BC3 breath controller. Control data is incredibly smooth and sensitive. You can really create a real performance with WIVI and a breath controller. I am a trumpet player, but setting up a good recording environment at home is just impractical. WIVI plays like a real horn and sounds like one. I'm a real sceptic when it comes to synthesizing real instruments, but this is truly exceptional. Thoroughly recommended.Read Review