Studio Horns in Logic Pro for iPad
The studio instruments are high-quality multisampled players that offer a collection of solo and grouped instrument presets. See Studio Bass, Studio Piano, and Studio Strings.
Studio Horns provides a collection of highly expressive single and section brass instruments. It provides controls that enable you to customize Studio Horns to match your preferences and to work best with your controllers. See Studio Horns details parameters.
Studio Horns instruments feature a large collection of samples that cover different playing styles, such as sustain, staccato, or falls. These playing styles, called articulations, are accessed from the Articulation pop-up menu in the plug-in menu bar. You can also switch articulations remotely with keyswitches.
Default section and single instrument keyswitches are covered in Studio Horns keyswitch mapping.
To add Studio Horns to your project, choose it from the Instrument > Studio Instruments submenu in an Instrument channel strip or the Plug-ins area. See Intro to plug-ins. Also see Add, replace, reorder, and remove plug-ins in the Plug-ins area and Work with plug-ins in the Mixer.
Studio Horns Instrument parameters
The parameters shown in the plug-in change when a solo or section instrument is chosen.
Instrument pop-up menu: Choose a solo or section instrument.
You can use MIDI channel events to control section instruments. If you want to play specific instruments in a section, you can send MIDI messages on their respective channels, then add a list of channel assignments. See Studio Horns section MIDI channels.
Last Played field: Displays the most recently used articulation.
Monophonic button: Turn on monophonic mode for solo instruments.
Dynamics via Ctrl button: Turn on to enable control of an instrument’s dynamics (soft-loud) and timbre in real time. Additional dynamic control and mapping functions are available in the Details parameters.
Auto Vibrato knob and field: Set the intensity of vibrato in the chosen sound. You can also assign manual vibrato control in the details parameters.
Humanize knob and field: Set the amount of random variation in the chosen sound. This emulates changes in embouchure by introducing small pitch and level fluctuations.
Key Clicks knob and field: Set the level of key and pad noise for sections that contain saxophones and solo saxophone instruments.
Note: The Key Clicks knob isn’t shown for trumpet or trombone instruments.
Attack knob and field: Set the amount of time it takes for the instrument to fade in, following a MIDI note on message.
Release knob and field: Set the amount of time it takes for the instrument to fade out, following a MIDI note off message.
Volume knob and field: Set the output level of the instrument.
Use advanced articulation features
Studio Horns provides several articulations for falls and doits. These can be played on your keyboard like any other articulation. Horn players often attach a fall or doit directly to a note end, so the fall or doit happens with no gap after the previous note. Studio Horns features a special mode which allows you to smoothly connect a fall or doit articulation to the previous note at any position “on-the-fly”, as a real musician would play it.
In Logic Pro, to create a smooth fall or doit, add a second (Fall or Doit articulation) note of the same pitch directly following any note. There should be no, or a minimal, gap from the previous note.
Note: Velocity of the Fall or Doit note can be different to the previous note. You can also vary the length of the Fall or Doit note. This allows you to create very subtle falls or doits at the end of any note.
To perform falls and doits live on a keyboard, you can use the predefined keyswitches for Falls and Doits. These operate in Trigger mode, which automatically creates the Fall or Doit event and places it immediately after the previous note. Try this by holding a note with a Sustain articulation. While the note is playing, press the keyswitch for the Fall Long articulation. The sustained note is then stopped with a long fall.
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