User Manual

ARTURIA – BRASS 2 – USER’S MANUAL

EWI

the famous dedicated controller from Akai

Once the controller is selected, you can load a control preset for each type of instrument.

The control preset is a set of “connections” from a MIDI control source(velocity, BC,

aftertouch, CCs, etc.) to one of the instruments’ parameters(attack, pressure, pitch,

etc.). These “connections” define the way in which you control a trumpet, a sax or a

trombone preset using your MIDI controller.

The connections given in the presets can all be modified at your convenience. For

instance:

 Connect the Velocity to the Attack and from then on it will be the force with which

you push the key that decides the attack of the note.

 If you link the Aftertouch to the Pressure, you can control the pressure sent to the

instrument simply by pushing the key.

 Same way, connect the Modulation Wheel to the Noise, with a negative curve

value. You will obtain an high breath level when playing softly on the keyboard,

and inversely, the breath will disappear when you play louder.

For more precision in the control of your editing, it is possible to set the maximum and minimum limits of the

editing in order to determine the range of action of the parameter. To do this, close the window “MIDI Settings”

and return to the principal screen. Click on one of the 2 small black arrows situated around the parameters to

define the extremes of you editing. A horizontal white line marks the editing threshold you just defined.

The nature of the response curve chosen for each connection can have an affect on the

final results.

In the following example, make sure that you have connected the velocity of the

keyboard to the pressure parameter of the model saxophone. A curve of this nature

means that one weak push permits us to immediately attain one dominant pressure

value. In an inverse sense, the curve implies that one must push strongly on the key

to attain the true pressure needed.

Adjusting the curves depends upon your keyboard and on the results that you wait for in

the playing phase.

Possible Response curves for the MIDI control parameters

Taking another example, connect the modulation wheel on the breath “Noise” with a

backwards curve value

. Doing so, you obtain an important breath level when you play

softly on your keyboard, and inversely the breath disappears when you play strongly.