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Heavy Brass

Name: Heavy Brass
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.37 (100 reviews)

Bring the raw power and authentic bite of real Trumpets, Trombones, and Saxophones to your iPad with ultra-low latency and advanced MIDI articulations.

Key Figures

Downloads

48K+

User Rating

4.4/5

Total Ratings

100

Publisher

Christian Schoenebeck d/b/a Crudebyte

Professional Power for Your Horn Sections

Heavy Brass delivers the bite and character of real sessions to your iPad. From live stage performances to complex studio arrangements, get the authentic sound your production deserves.

Expressive Articulations

Master your sound with realistic Shakes, Falls, and Growls. Use velocity layers and crossfades to achieve the nuance of a real world-class brass section.

Low-Latency Precision

Engineered for the stage with configurable latency down to 1ms. Play with confidence using external MIDI keyboards or the scalable on-screen interface.

The following screenshots and description are sourced directly from the app's official store listing and are the property of the app developer.

App Store

Screenshots

Heavy Brass - Heavy Brass app interface showing brass section types and articulation settings with a virtual keyboard — Heavy Brass app interface showing brass section types and articulation settings with a virtual keyboard

Heavy Brass - A large virtual modulation wheel dial on the Heavy Brass app interface used for adjusting instrument sounds and articulations. — A large virtual modulation wheel dial on the Heavy Brass app interface used for adjusting instrument sounds and articulations.

Heavy Brass - Heavy Brass mobile app interface showing brass instrument articulation settings and a virtual keyboard. — Heavy Brass mobile app interface showing brass instrument articulation settings and a virtual keyboard.

Heavy Brass - Interface of the Heavy Brass iPad app showing the single sounds selection screen with various brass articulations and a virtual piano keyboard. — Interface of the Heavy Brass iPad app showing the single sounds selection screen with various brass articulations and a virtual piano keyboard.

Heavy Brass - Interface for multi-track MIDI recording and playback in the Heavy Brass music production app. — Interface for multi-track MIDI recording and playback in the Heavy Brass music production app.

Heavy Brass - iPad interface of the Heavy Brass app showing the Combi Sounds selection screen and virtual piano keyboard — iPad interface of the Heavy Brass app showing the Combi Sounds selection screen and virtual piano keyboard

Heavy Brass - Interface for managing and restoring saved app state presets in Heavy Brass — Interface for managing and restoring saved app state presets in Heavy Brass

Heavy Brass - Professional interface of the Heavy Brass app featuring virtual piano keys, brass section selection, and sound category valves. — Professional interface of the Heavy Brass app featuring virtual piano keys, brass section selection, and sound category valves.

Heavy Brass - Advanced tuning settings in the Heavy Brass app including master tune controls and a visual scale tuning graph for precise MIDI instrument adjustment. — Advanced tuning settings in the Heavy Brass app including master tune controls and a visual scale tuning graph for precise MIDI instrument adjustment.

Heavy Brass - Settings menu of the Heavy Brass app showing audio MIDI driver and polyphony configuration options — Settings menu of the Heavy Brass app showing audio MIDI driver and polyphony configuration options

Description

Heavy Brass delivers the most flexible and innovative approach to modern brass sounds ever provided by a virtual MIDI instrument!¹ With this ultimate brass app your productions and live performances will gain such powerful and amazing tone you previously were only able to retrieve from a real brass section! This app contains the following instruments: Trumpet, Trombone and Saxophone sampled in four different brass sections. Watch and listen to the demo video on our product website! Minimum requirement: at least iPad 3 / iPad Air 1 / iPad mini 2. This app supports Audio Unit v3, Inter-App Audio and Audiobus, so you can directly use it with other apps as well! External MIDI keyboards and controllers are supported as well of course, both via Lightning/USB cable connection, as well as wireless via Bluetooth LE MIDI.¹ There are 3 fundamental sound categories: „Singles“, „Switches“ and „Combis“, where „Switch Sounds“ allow you to either switch or crossfade between configurable articulations. Some „Combi Sounds“ allow you to switch or crossfade between predefined articulations as well. 24 Single Sounds: Solo Trumpet, Solo Sax, Solo Trombone, Heavy Brass 1-4, Section 1, Section 2, Section 3, Section 4, Crescendo, Growl, Doiks, Shaker 1, Shaker 2, Staccato 1, Staccato 2, Staccato Sax 1, Staccato Sax 2, Falls 1, Falls 2, Falls 3, Falls 4. Switch Sounds: Five base sounds: Section 1, Section 2, Section 3, Section 4 and Crescendo, which are switchable or crossfadeable to four alternative articulations: Shaker, Growl, Doiks or Falls. 16 Combi Sounds: Sections Velocity Layer 1, Sections Velocity Layer 2, Sections Velocity Layer 3, Sections Velocity Layer 4, Sections Velocity Layer 5, Sections Velocity Layer 6, Sections Modwheel Layer 1, Sections Modwheel Layer 2, Staccato Layer 1, Staccato Layer 2, Staccato Round Robin 1, Staccato Round Robin 2, Staccato Round Robin 3, Sections & Staccato Round Robin 1, Sections & Staccato Round Robin 2, Sections & Staccato Round Robin 3. General Features: • Low latency disk streaming. • Polyphony up to several hundred stereo voices.² • Configurable audio latency down to 1 ms. • Integrated effects with 18 presets. • App States: Save app's entire state as user presets. • 16 parts. • Provides Audio Unit v3 plugin version of this app, which allows it to be used as virtual instrument directly within third-party multi-track DAW apps. • Support for Apple's "Inter-App Audio" system. • Audiobus support. • MIDI velocity response curve editor. • Master Tune & Scale Tuning. • App can keep running in the background, so you can play on your keyboard while e.g. using Safari or another app to display scores or surfing the Internet. • Virtual on-screen piano keyboard with velocity support, scalable & scrollable. MIDI Player / Recorder: • Record, save and load your songs in standard MIDI file format. • Share your songs easily as audio file. • Unlimited amount of tracks. • Configurable target MIDI channel per track. • Unlimited recording and playback length. • Open MIDI (.mid) files directly from other apps (i.e. from Safari, Mail). • Download or upload MIDI files with iTunes. • Load your favorite songs as MIDI files from the Internet, and watch at the virtual keyboard how to play it. • Metronome. • Use the "Tempo Zoom" dial knob to i.e. slow down playback at any time and learn your favorite songs more easily. ¹ For more information about adapters and connecting external MIDI keyboards: https://doc.crudebyte.com/iOS/External_MIDI_devices/ ² Various sounds are using several voices per note. Polyphony depends on the exact device model being used. You find a polyphony table on our product website. Anti-Spy Commitment: We take your privacy very seriously. None of our apps contain so called „spy” behaviors and we committed ourself to a very high privacy standard. For more information read our „Privacy Policy for Mobile Apps”.