trumpet

Musicofx has released a new iPhone app (App Store link) that turns your iPhone into a virtual trumpet.

There are demos at the Musicofx site – and it doesn’t sound convincingly like a trumpet – but it does sound like a useful virtual instrument.

Trumpet also offers additive synthesis and can be used as a wireless MIDI controller.

If you’ve used Trumpet, leave a comment with your thoughts!

Description:

TRUMPET is a performance musical instrument for your iPhone. It plays, sounds, and operates like a real trumpet.

TRUMPET’s controls are based upon the principles of a real trumpet. You can adjust this control to include breath, touch, and even tilt control! It’s a great way to learn how a trumpet works, and it’s expressive enough to be a real instrument for proficient musicians.

TRUMPET includes a unique sound engine that uses sound samples of real instruments — including a trumpet, a muted trumpet, and a flugelhorn. TRUMPET also features the Visual Synth. Create your own sounds with our additive synthesizer, adding reverb, filters, and sculpting the overtones to explore the soundscape.

Control your music studio with TRUMPET — full MIDI control is included via the musicofx midi tool [PC *and* Mac], free with TRUMPET! Control GarageBand, Reason, or Logic wirelessly — a new performance MIDI controller!

Finally, you can record and share your TRUMPET performances. Upload, download, vote — you can even listen to them in your browser, embed them in your blog, or send them to Mom in an email.

At the 2009 NAMM Show, Arturia introduced Brass 2, featuring virtual recreations of three wind instruments – a trumpet, a saxophone and a trombone.

The characteristics of the real instruments have been analysed and modelled by Ircam Paris using mathematical algorithms.

Here’s what’s new in Brass version 2.0:

• New physical modelling of the saxophone
• Two new Saxophone mouthpieces
• Possibility to play four instruments at a time using a new Harmonization module.
• Advanced spatialization possibilities
• Improved MIDI control
• Better integration into DAW software.
• Entirely redesigned interface

HV Synth Design has released Trumpet Collection, the first in a planned series of acoustic modeled instruments, created with SynthMaker and based on a unique modeling method for creating sustained instruments.

While the modeling is not slavishly strict, the results are nevertheless amazing. Demos are available at the site.

Trumpet Collection Features:

• Instruments: Bass Trumpet, Classical Trumpet, Jazz Trumpet, Piccolo Trumpet and Cornet.
• All the instruments have their full natural range.
• Like real Trumpets, you can ‘blow’ the models from very soft to very loud with an increment of brightness (the high frequencies become more and more prominent). This is done via modulation wheel or breath controller.
• Low CPU load
• Controls: Lip tention, Breath noise, Vibrato (amplitude and/or pitch), EQ, Mute, Fine tuning.

Trumpet Collection is available for Windows PC (VST/Standalone) for US $179.

Samplemodeling has introduced The Trumpet – a modeled virtual trumpet that sounds amazingly realistic. 

This is not a sample library. The Trumpet is a Kontakt Player 2 Virtual Instrument, working either standalone, or as a plugin (VST or RTAS for the PC) and VSR, RTAS or AU for Mac. A master keyboard with some configurable MIDI controllers, pitchwheel, modwheel, and an expression pedal mapped to CC11 is required for real time playing.

The base material of the instrument consists of 237 MB of samples, chromatically performed by a professional trumpet player over a very wide dynamic range, in an anechoic environment, and recorded with state-of-the-art technology. All samples are 24 bit, are unlooped, and have a minimal duration of 10 sec.

The Virtual Trumpet engine is structured according to an adaptive model, based on the performance “fingerprints” of the real trumpet. The purpose of the model was to minimize the differences between the real phrases and those played by the virtual instrument. Dynamic interpolation is carried out at 32 bit, using a development of our proprietary “harmonic alignment” technology, successfully employed for the Stradivari Violin and the Gofriller Cello.

Proprietary modal resonance IRs, innovative techniques for sample modulation, and advanced AI midi processing are used for real time construction of all articulations and morphing across dynamics, vibrato, legato, portamento, trills, vibrato-like endings, shakes and so forth.

Check out this demo:

 

 Physically modeled trumpet [0:37m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

What do you think? Pretty amazing?

More demos are available at the Samplemodeling site. Read more…

Miles was cutting edge 40 years ago. Check out what Der Bekannte Post-Industrielle Trompeter is doing now!

Der Bekannte Post-Industrielle Trompeter (DBPIT) is an experimental/industrial project created by Flavio Rivabella.

The trumpet is its main feature. Field-recording and electronics are also used, but hardly ever computer-generated or synthesized sounds.

Each new DBPIT’s work is the result of some twisted-minded, deeply conceptual experiment…

Preview DBPIT below and download some of his MP3s from the site!

 

 mind control program: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download