User Manual

ARTURIA – BRASS 2 – USER’S MANUAL

4 QUICK START

This chapter will introduce you to the general principals of the functions in BRASS 2. You

will find a precise and detailed description of each function in later chapters.

BRASS 2 is a virtual instrument that offers the possibility of programming and playing

different brass instruments quite easily. It offers 3 types of instruments: the trumpet,

tenor saxophone, and trombone either in solo or ensemble modes.

The BRASS 2 software is divided in two parts: Live and Riff modes.

4.1 LIVE mode

Live Interface

As the name indicates, the “LIVE” mode is designed to play in real time on a MIDI

keyboard or with the help of a breath controller. In version 2 you can play up to four

brass instruments simultaneously, using different harmonization modes. It is also in this

interface that you can change the tonal characteristics of each instrument and create

new presets. By “preset” we mean either instrumental settings that permit you to obtain

a particular sound and performance response, or up to four such presets along with the

harmonization settings to use with these instruments (this forms a kit “preset”), or the

harmonization settings, grouped in a harmonization “preset”.

The Live mode window is composed of three distinct parts:

• on the left side reside the kit, harmonization and instrument presets as well as the

harmonization editor and file manager;

• on the center is the real time synthesizer;

• on the right, is the general configuration that concerns all of the following: the

instrument selected, the spacialization, and MIDI settings.