User Manual

Introduction

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SWAM Solo Brass is a collection of solo brass instruments conceived and developed by             

Stefano Lucato and the Audio Modeling team. These instruments are based on Physical            

Modeling technology and do not make use of any samples.

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SWAM Solo Brass collection includes fifteen brass instruments, grouped in three product           

families:

● SWAM Trumpets:

○ Flugelhorn (E♭), Flugelhorn, Trumpet, Trumpet (C), Piccolo Trumpet.

● SWAM Trombones:

○ Double Bass Trombone, Bass Trombone, Tenor Bass Trombone, Tenor        

Trombone, Alto Trombone.

● SWAM Horns and Tubas:

○ Bass Tuba, Tuba (E♭), Euphonium, French Horn (F), French Horn (B♭).

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SWAM Solo Brass instruments comes as a Standalone application for Desktop and iOS, as             

VST, VST3, Audio Units and AAX plugins for Desktop, and AUv3, IAA plugins for iOS.

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Any SWAM Solo Brass product can be set to emulate both Valves and Slide (i.e. Coulisse)               

instruments. Have you ever wanted to play a French Horn with a slide? With Physical              

Modeling that's possible!

Of course, the default settings at startup set the instrument to its traditional configuration.

In addition to standard SWAM controls such as staccato / legato (with velocity- or             

CC-controlled portamento time), dynamic expression and vibrato depth and frequency,         

there are several additional parameters to control the instrument behavior which are           

specific to the brass instruments.

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SWAM Solo Brass - v1.0.1

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