User Manual

ARTURIA – BRASS 2 – USER’S MANUAL

Bend, After Touch, CCs...) and the instrument parameters you want to control with these

controllers(for example the pitch bend wheel controls the pitch parameter of the

instrument).

Each connection between a MIDI controller and a real time parameter can be configured

according to a response curve. Click on the connection you want to configure, and it will

highlight.

The connection can be set in different ways: with curves which increase rapidly from the

very beginning, with curves that slowly increase, upwards, downwards or anywhere in

between. The control parameter can also be reversed.

Take into consideration the different types of controllers and their action on the

parameters to which they are linked, notably the pitch bend and the aftertouch.

5.1.4 Virtual keyboard

The keyboard allows testing the sound directly in BRASS 2, with the help of the mouse.

When you push on the key, the velocity controller is a function of the position of the

mouse on the key. The farther toward the bottom that the key is clicked, the higher the

velocity is raised.

On the left of the keyboard, the two modulation wheels allow you to test the reaction of

both the pitch bend and the modulation. It also permits us to view their position when

controlled by a MIDI keyboard.

When using an external MIDI controller, you can view MIDI message input when the

MIDI Input indicator (to the top right of the keyboard) flickers. The notes played are also

indicated in color on the virtual keyboard of BRASS 2.

Above the keyboard there is a key range zone, which indicates the playing range of each

of the kit instruments after considering the split and harmonization parameters. The

playing ranges are represented by horizontal lines between the instrument’s playing

notes in the keyboard below. The lines are colored according to the color code indicated

in the Instrument preset management zone in the left section.

While playing BRASS 2, for each note that sounds in an instrument, a yellow circle will

appear above the concerned sounding note on the corresponding instrument’s colored

line.

5.2 Riff mode Presentation

The screen in Riff mode makes it possible to select, listen, play the keyboard, edit,

import and export phrases of brass sections.