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铜管独奏家音源库
《Brass Band Soloists》集结了英格兰北部顶尖演奏家，通过精细界面设计与创新的连音编程技术，呈现出无与伦比的真实感。
传统铜管乐队是英国古典音乐的基石，其温暖抒情的音色在传统交响乐团铜管声部中罕见。因此，采样音源库中常缺乏优质铜管乐队音色资源。
位于英北的Fracture Sounds团队扎根于铜管音乐文化腹地，多名成员拥有铜管乐队演奏经验。基于对乐器的深刻理解，这个音源库成为我们首个商用连奏音源产品的理想选择。
依托顶尖音乐家网络，我们汇聚了包括Black Dyke Band（黑堤乐队）和电影《Brassed Off》原型Grimethorpe Colliery Band（格林索普矿工乐队）冠军得主在内的区域顶级演奏家。
每位演奏家在Nave录音棚大厅独立录制，创新的乐器定位系统可实现空间调节自由。此功能使乐团音色能与现有音源库无缝融合，具备极高兼容性。包含高音短号、短号、柔音号、中音号与上低音号的音源组合覆盖广阔音域，其柔和音色与传统管弦乐器形成鲜明对比。搭配全新连音引擎，数字领域首次重现铜管乐器极致真实质感。
智能连音技术
告别繁琐的MIDI时值调整。智能模式下，音源通过实时分析MIDI音符自动适配过渡时长，确保零误差播放，在保真音质的同时免除后期编辑需求。
此技术的关键在于延迟机制——通过延迟音频输出，引擎可”预读”乐谱并进行演奏微调，完全仿效真人演奏逻辑。延迟值越高，演奏自然度越佳。连音设置面板显示精确延迟参数，用户可通过DAW的负轨延迟功能轻松补偿。在MIDI量化准确的前提下，此系统既能保证音符时值精准，又可让创作者专注作曲核心环节。
连音模式选项
除智能连音外，另设传统单速控制模式。两种模式的选择指南详见用户手册。
连音系统分为无颤音与有颤音两类，支持通过键位切换实时转换。区别于通用的颤音推杆设计，此分立式演奏技法可保留每件乐器的独奏特性，避免采样交叉点的叠音效应。
两种连音类型均包含滑音与舌奏技法，通过音符力度值自动触发。
三维空间定位
创新界面集成三种定位模式：”原位”采用标准铜管乐队坐席声场;”自定义定位”利用各坐席位置脉冲响应(Impulse Response)，突破普通声像调节局限，实现真实空间重组，特别适用于交响乐环境的多编制融合;”中央立体声”模式启用独立麦克风组，生成宽域中心声像，便于二次混音加工。
多重拾音方案
延续大空间录音传统，提供近场、大厅、远场三组立体声麦克风信号。通过直观的声场推杆或单独通道调节，用户可自由调配干湿比例：强调近场直达声或凸显大厅空间信息。
演奏家阵容
短号演奏家Jamie Smith(格林索普矿工乐队首席，业界公认的管乐”第一提琴”)以温暖音色突破小号锐利声线；高音短号/柔音号演奏家Alan Morrison(格林索普前首席)以穿透性音色塑造独奏焦点；英国冠军中音号演奏家Siobhan Bates(黑堤乐队)；哈德斯菲尔德大学音乐总监Jim Fieldhouse的上低音号完美衔接管弦乐团中的低音长号与大号声部。
功能参数
– 英国顶尖铜管五重奏: 高音短号/短号/柔音号/中音号/上低音号
– 三轨麦克风信号(近场/大厅/远场)
– 进阶连音引擎
– 三维乐器定位系统
– 推荐配置: 16GB内存/8核CPU/SSD存储
– 完全NKS支持
– 24GB压缩样本(原始50GB采样池)
– Native Access下载
KONTAKT – 22,67 GB
Brass Band Soloists
Brass Band Soloists brings together the finest instrumentalists in the North of England, with a refined interface and innovative legato programming that produces unparalleled realism.
The traditional brass band is a cornerstone of the British classical music scene, featuring warm, lyrical instruments rarely found in the brass sections of traditional orchestras. Consequently, they are often underrepresented in sample libraries.
In the North of England, where Fracture Sounds is based, lies the heartland of brass band music, so naturally many of our team members have performed in brass band ensembles. This personal experience and intimacy with the instrument made this library the natural candidate for becoming our first commercial legato library.
Leveraging our network of skilled players, we brought together top talent from the region, including competition winners from renowned bands like the Black Dyke Band and the Grimethorpe Colliery Band (featured in the film Brassed Off).
Each player was recorded individually in the large hall of Nave Studios, but our innovative Instrument Placement options allow for easy spatial adjustments. This feature enables the ensemble to blend seamlessly with other instruments in your existing sample library collection, providing versatility and integration. Covering a wide sonic range, the Soprano Cornet, Cornet, Flugelhorn, Tenor Horn, and Euphonium included in this package offer distinct timbres that are much softer compared to their orchestral counterparts, and paired with our new legato engine, these brass instruments have never sounded more realistic in the digital domain.
Introducing Smart Legato
Say goodbye to the tedious task of dragging MIDI across your timeline to perfectly sync transitions with the tempo of your composition. In Smart Mode, the instrument intelligently analyses incoming MIDI notes and selects the correct transition length, ensuring flawless playback every time and eliminating the need for further editing, while delivering a truly authentic sound.
The key to this feature’s realism lies in latency – by delaying the audible output, the engine is able to ‘look ahead’, and make adjustments to the performance in anticipation of upcoming notes – just like a real player would. The higher the latency, the more natural the performance. The latency figure shown in the legato settings is completely accurate, so you can easily compensate for this using the negative track delay feature in your DAW. This allows the instrument the time it needs to analyse the incoming MIDI data, while maintaining perfect timing—provided the MIDI is correctly quantised. With this feature, you can now spend more time composing, and less time nursing the instrument.
Legato Options
In addition to Smart Legato, we have included Classic mode, which behaves closer to existing legato libraries on the market, offering a single speed control. For more information about the two legato performance modes and when to use them, please see the user manual.
The legato is divided into two types: Non-Vibrato and Vibrato, which can be switched seamlessly using keyswitches while triggering a note. Keeping these as separate articulations, rather than combining them on a vibrato slider, preserves the soloistic quality of each instrument, as it avoids any doubling effect at the crossover point between samples.
Both legato types also feature slurred and tongued performances, triggered based on the velocity of each note.
Place Instrument Anywhere
Another new tool we have added to this brand-new interface is instrument placement, offering three options. In Situ has the players positioned as recorded, in their typical Brass Band seating layout.
The Custom Position mode allows you to freely place the instrument in a different position in the room, which can be useful when using these instruments in different ensemble configurations, for example when using them in an orchestral context. This mode uses Impulse Responses recorded from each seating position, through the same microphone setup, allowing for very convincing results which wouldn’t be achieved by panning alone.
We have also included a ‘Centre Stereo’ option, which uses a separate set of microphones positioned with the instrument in the centre of the soundstage. This overrides the main microphone mixer and eliminates the natural panning in the room, offering a wide centred stereo image, which can be processed further with panning and reverb if desired.
Microphone Positions
As with our other libraries recorded in large acoustic spaces, Brass Band Soloists offers three stereo microphone positions: Close, Room, and Far. For a drier sound, you can emphasise the Close signal, while the Far mics can be leaned on to capture the full depth of the hall. This flexibility is easily controlled through our Perspective Slider, or by muting and purging the mic signals you do not require.
Meet the Musicians
In the British Brass Band the Cornet is seen as the equivalent of the 1st Violin in an Orchestra, so we were proud to invite Jamie Smith on to the project who at the time of recording was the 1st Cornet and Leader of the Grimethorpe Colliery Band- one of the most renowned brass bands in the world. The Cornet sits in the same range as the Trumpet, but offers a much more mellow sound which contrasts the sharp brightness provided by the Trumpet.
Unparalleled Experience
Sitting next to Jamie on both Soprano Cornet and Flugelhorn is the previous 1st Cornet of the Grimethorpe Colliery Band, Alan Morrison, who was in the band just before the period dramatised in the film Brassed Off. We were delighted to have Alan’s experience on this project, and it’s shown through his fantastic playing on the Soprano Cornet, which provides a brighter tone than the Cornet, as a singular solo instrument that can cut through the entire Brass Band. The Flugelhorn also sits in the same range as the Cornet, but provides a darker supporting timbre, again contrasting any instrument you would find in a traditional orchestral brass library.
2023 National Champion
At the lower end of the instrument range is the Tenor Horn, played by Siobhan Bates, who performs in the Black Dyke Band who at the time of recording were the UK Brass Band champions. The Tenor Horn sits in a similar range to its orchestral counterpart, the French Horn. But as with all of the Brass Band instruments, provides a more mellow tone and its construction enables techniques like vibrato to be easily playable- a more difficult articulation to achieve on the French Horn.
Director of Music
Finally, the Euphonium played by Huddersfield University’s Director of Music, and multi-instrumentalist, Jim Fieldhouse. This bass instrument provides a nice balance between the orchestra’s Tuba and Tenor Trombone. Whilst it cannot perform the low notes of the Tuba, it does provide a warm bass tone which matches the timbre provided by the other instruments.
资源特色
– 4 of the best British Brass Band Soloists, performing across 5 instruments
– Includes Soprano Cornet, Cornet, Flugelhorn, Tenor Horn, and Euphonium
– 3 Microphone Signals (Close, Room, Far)
– Advanced legato performance engine
– Instrument Placement (In Situ, Custom Position, and Stereo Centre)
– Recommended 16GB RAM, 8 Core Processor, Store on SSD
– Full NKS support – works with Komplete Kontrol hardware
– 24GB download size (NCW compressed from a 50GB sample pool)
– Download through Native Access
Requires Native Instruments Kontakt Player or Kontakt FULL v6.7 and higher!
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