User Manual

● Pipe Gesture

The Pipe Gesture is selected by the Pipe Model switch, available on the main page              

or in the Play Modes page.

○ Valve:

■ Norm Valve: standard valve playing mode.

■ Half Valve Trans. (Half Valve Transitions): standard valve playing        

mode, with half-valve transitions. This emulates a slow-moving       

transition between the valve states.

■ Half Valve: half valve playing mode. This emulates the player not          

completely opening or closing the valves.

○ Slide:

■ Fixed Slide: fixed slide control during pitch-bend changes. Pitch is         

altered only by the player’s lips, using a fixed slide position.

■ SlideFlw Real (Slide-following, realistic): realistic control of the slide        

during pitch-bend. The pitch of the player’s lips is tuned to a multiple            

of the pipe length, until it reaches the maximum or minimum slide           

position. Additional bending will be made by lips only.

■ SlideFlw +/-7 (Slide following, enhanced) enables the player to move         

the slide up to +/- 7 semitones during pitch-bend, without taking into           

account the real, physical, limitations of minimum and maximum slide         

position that are present in a physical instrument. Beyond this range,          

additional bending will be made by lips only.

● Pipe Selection

○ Manual: the valves or slide must be controlled by correct use of MIDI CC             

controls. The MIDI CCs used can be assigned to “Valve 1”, “Valve 2”,            

“Valve 3”, “Slide Position” parameters in the Controller Mapping page.

○ Auto: valves and slide position are selected automatically at each note-on

● Unison Anti-Phasing (for unison ensembles): when playing two or more of the same            

instrument simultaneously this value must be different for each instrument in order           

to avoid phasing effects.

● Valves / Slide: shows a graphical representation of the instrument Valves / Slide            

position.

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IMPORTANT NOTE: The fingering for the valves and the slide position displayed on the             

GUI is our CUSTOM fingering/position, it does not necessarily coincide with the real one, as              

our current math model is based on straight pipes, rather than cylindrical pipes.

Audio section

● Effects : open the onboard FX section on the final stage.

● Pan Pot: pans the output signal left and right.

● Volume: main output volume.

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SWAM Solo Brass - v1.0.1

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