User Manual

ARTURIA – BRASS 2 – USER’S MANUAL

strong pressure for a short interval so that the oscillation can begin, then reduce the

pressure to arrive at the desired intensity. In other cases, the initial impact of pressure

may sometimes be strong enough to start the note, but it will start the note slowly. In

this situation, one must increase the pressure to an amount more than the volume of the

note simply to facilitate the speed of the attack; otherwise the note would begin much

slower than desired.

For an actual saxophone, it is the musician who automatically generates these variations.

This “gesture” can be reproduced with a breath controller for example, but when we play

on the keyboard, the synthesizer must reproduce these gestures automatically for each

note. In our case, an Attack/Decrease envelope is not only applied to pressures like the

pinch and the breath sound. The attack parameter in the BRASS 2 window sets the

attack time and rate simultaneously, and the decrease time to simulate the attacks is

more or less flexible.

Attack Figure