User Manual

Expressivity

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● Expression: main expressive control. This model set/show how hard the player is           

blowing into the physical model, i.e the breath intensity.

● Vibrato Depth: controls the amount of vibrato or shake. Vibrato is modelled as rapid             

changes to the shape of the lips of the player (the embouchure) or their contact with               

the mouthpiece, and of the breath intensity:

○ Soft vibrato (< 0.5).

○ Shake (>= 0.5).

● Vibrato Rate: controls the average frequency of the Vibrato applied to the model.

● PP Attack Noise: controls the amount of attack noise audible on very low dynamic.

● Attack Tongue: the amount of percussive tonguing on mid- to high-velocity note-on           

events. It is ignored when Attack Control is set to Expression (see Advanced            

section).

● Flutter Tongue: controls the intensity of flutter-tonguing - a technique where the           

player moves their tongue rapidly, producing a growling or ‘rolling-rrrrr’ effect.

● Growl: controls the growl intensity, which models the player producing growling          

noises within their windpipe.

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SWAM Solo Brass - v1.0.1

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