Rediscovered by UK R&B artists like Amy Winehouse and Clary Brown, where it has been used as a solo instrument and/or to double bass lines.Ī favorite of movie studio orchestras from the early 1960s to the present day, adds a powerful low end to a horn section. Popular in the 30s-40s, when it was used as a bass instrument in big bands. Works well for solo lines, and in a section, paired with other woodwinds. In adition to typical Sustains, this instrument includes a set of Cracked Notes Sustain samples that can be triggered by playing high velocity levels i.e., no key-switch is needed to activate this special articulation.Ī dark-sounding woodwind instrument that was a staple of classic melodrama, Horror, lm noir, and B-movie soundtracks. Manipulate the interface using the controls of all NKS compatible hardware.Ī cool and Jazzy sound with no vibrato, inspired by Miles Davis, circa the "Kind of Blue" album. Vintage Horns 2 has been designed for seamless integration with the KOMPLETE KONTROL S-Series and Maschine, offering you a unique hands-on experience. We think you'll agree, and hope that you enjoy using Vintage Horns 2. The end result is a set of sampled horns with real character - and a product that we think is unlike any other horn VI available today. We deliberately left the tuning loose, and kept in some notes that other horn VIs would have deleted-the kind of honking, squawking, warbling, cracked, and slurred notes used by those classic players. To get the sounds we were after, we studied the playing styles of our inspirations, taking note of things like tone, vibrato, types of instruments, and special genre-specific articulations (growling, singing, flutter-tongue, etc). The inspiration for Vintage Horns 2 came from the iconic playing styles of such well-known musicians as Maceo Parker, Miles Davis, Junior Walker, King Curtis, Stan Getz, Freddie Hubbard, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Herbie Mann, Zoot Sims, and Gerry Mulligan. Vintage Horns 2 is not just a re-make of Vintage Horns, it is a completely different library that includes complimentary instruments to its predecessor.
Instead, our goal was to create a collection of brass and woodwind instruments that captured the character of horn players from the 60s and 70s, including the quirks and minor imperfections that made them sound so good. Like its best-selling predecessor, Vintage Horns, Vintage Horns 2 was not designed to be a perfect, pristine-sounding virtual instrument.
Vintage Horns 2 is a collection of virtual instruments specifically designed to emulate the sound of horn players from the 60s and 70s, including such classic styles as Vintage Funk & Soul, Cool Jazz, Roadhouse R&B and Rock 'n' Roll, 60s Pop Rock, Vintage Film Noir, and Soul Jazz.