Audio Modeling Swam Brass Pt 3 Trombones Demo Review (4 FREE Swam Brass iOS Apps To Give Away!)
hey everybody welcome back to another
episode of Gavinski’s tutorials
today is the third in a three-part series
on the swam brass apps by audio modeling
in my first video i went into the trumpets
second video focused on the horns and tubas
and today’s video is focusing on the trombones
before i say anything else i want to just mention
i’ve got four copies of any swan brass app for
ios to give away to subscribers to the channel
if you’re not a subscriber yet you can subscribe
now that’s fine all the details of what you’ve
got to do to win are in the pinned comment at
the top of the youtube comments section now
before i continue with my introduction i’m going
to let you hear one example of how great these can
sound so you’re going to hear three different
trombones playing together and towards the end
a trumpet solo coming in so let’s have a listen to
that and then i’ll continue with my introduction
ah
um
so i’m sure you’ll agree these really
sound incredible uh they can sound very
very realistic and in any in any case that
you think they don’t sound that realistic
it’s not the
problem of my playing um i’m not a great
keyboard player i’m not a brass player and so on
now um let me just continue with the introduction
so i just want to say if you haven’t
watched the first two videos in this series
i would strongly recommend it so the
first video focused on the trumpets
but i also went into various important aspects
of how to set the app up correctly for example
to use with whatever mpe controller you might be
using to control it or whatever keyboard and so on
um in the second video as well as looking at the
tubas and the horns i also went into a lot of
detail about how to set up geoshred as a virtual
controller that you can use to play these apps
expressively i think that’s very useful because
it’s great to play these with an mpe controller
and not everybody has an mpe controller i think
geoshred is one of the best and cheapest options
for you to play these expressively with if
you don’t have a physical mpe controller
and even if you do have a physical mpe controller
some people might prefer geoshred because of some
advantages like how quickly you can play on
the glass screen or how easy it is to set up
custom scales and things like that now also in the
first two videos i had a lot of musical examples
including lots of examples of these played
in a very ambient way uh kind of experimental
putting on some a lot of effects for example
putting on heavy amount of reverb and so on
i think they sound incredible like that so
it’s worth going back and looking at those
first two videos to get more musical examples
today i want to keep this video very short
so the example i just gave is the only real
detailed musical example of some of these playing
together that i’m going to give the
main focus of today’s video will just be
a brief comparison of how these five apps
sound similar and different from each other
the other thing that i want to
mention here in the introduction is
some of the pros and cons of buying these
on desktop and buying them on ios i want to
help people make the best decision for them where
will be the best place for them to buy these apps
now on ios one big advantage is you can buy
the apps individually if you just want to buy
one trumpet for example you can do that
on ios on desktop you can’t just buy one
of these instruments you’ve got to buy bundles
so that’s one advantage that ios has now maybe
one advantage that desktop has is that there’s a
50 discount for students so if you’re a student
you could for example if you wanted to buy the
whole bundle on desktop you could get that for 300
half the price of the regular bundle on
desktop so that’s also worth bearing in mind um
another thing worth mentioning is on ios
there’s no big bundle there are three
smaller bundles the trumpets bundle the horns
and tubers bundle and the trombones bundle
and i mentioned in a previous video that the
reason for that is that apple does not allow
15 apps in a bundle so that’s an apple limitation
so on ios you can’t buy one big bundle with all of
these you can only buy the three smaller bundles
or you can buy the apps individually another
thing i mentioned in a previous video and that
i want to repeat here because it’s important for
people to be aware of is that in the ios apps some
functions are locked i’ve explored these in detail
and i can say that in general these are pretty
advanced parameters that are not that important
to the average user there are some things that
i think that people would like for example some
things about the half valve amount that can
make a bit of a difference to the sound or
the mute size and mute tone but in general these
are already really amazing sounding instruments
they’re very expressive i think that most people
will not really miss these locked parameters
these locked things will become available as
in a purchase at some point probably is what
audio modeling has said but they haven’t said when
and they haven’t said how much they will cost so
that’s another thing to bear in mind now um let’s
continue with this video and let’s have a listen
to the differences between these trombones i don’t
know if any of you have seen the movie chinatown
roman polanski one of my all-time favorite movies
and there’s a great old jazz soundtrack in it
so this is where i heard this song first
bunny berrigan can’t get started it’s an old
jazz standard i guess from the 30s it’s so cool i
love it so i’m doing my feeble attempt of playing
a bit of this into a very useful app
photon au which can record mpe midi so
let’s have a listen to how this sounds i’ll
just go through all the different apps i’m
going to start with the alto trombone and then
we’ll hear the same thing on the tenor trombone
notice though that some of these by default are
actually transposed right to make them a bit lower
when you play on the keyboard so do pay
attention to that so we’ll go through
all five in the middle we’ll just compare how
they sound give you an idea of the timbre okay
bye
wow
wow
wow
so here’s the double bass
now there’s very little difference
in the lower range of these
just two semitones let me play a couple
of notes on each octave for you to compare
okay
so i prefer definitely the timbre of the double
bass one down lower and the base one higher so
there is a bit of a difference in the
in the vibe of these okay base one
so there’s about four or five
semitones difference between
the base and the tanner base
not a huge amount of difference
is the lowest note on the bass on the tenor bass
is the lowest note okay let’s compare so bass
so
obviously the tenor bass goes
a little bit higher as well
okay so let’s compare the tenor bass and the
tenor trombone go down again so tenor trombone
is the lowest it can go
so there’s quite a bit of difference
in the range of the tenor bass and the
tenor so this is the lowest tenor bass can go
this is the lowest the tenor
can go so let’s compare
okay now let’s compare the tenor and the alto
so let’s see first the lowest
note we can get on the alto
okay this is the lowest note
on the alto and on the tenor
ah okay because the alto is not
transposed the tenor is let’s just
change this transposition so they’re both
the same so this is the lowest on the tenor
and on the alto it’s here
it’s just a few semitones
one two three four five semitones difference
so let’s just compare up high
uh
so there we go ladies and gentlemen well just
in conclusion um these sound seriously amazing
there’s nothing like them on ios except
the geo swam apps in geoshred which are
the audio modeling apps in geoshred
uh incredibly realistic incredibly expressive
just beautiful sounding beautiful sounding
they sound really really great as i’ve said a
few times with a bunch of effects on them as well
sound great with big reverb on them just beautiful
beautiful for ambient and experimental music
i mean all kinds of things you know you want to do
funk stuff you’re going to want a horn section in
there obviously jazz classical i mean even pop
or whatever you could find certainly room for a
trumpet and things like that um but yeah for me
personally i think these have immense potential
for beautiful ambient and experimental music i
really love them i just want to say a few things
the price is expensive by ios standards and
i do wish there was a better bundle available
i think that these would sell a lot more if there
was a jazz bundle for example with you know a
flugelhorn in it a b-flat trumpet um maybe one
trombone you know a tenor trombone or something
and a few other things and then maybe you could
have a classical bundle where there would be a
few other different apps instead of having the
trombone bundle the trumpet bundle and so on
but i also want to say about the price of
these i mean obviously i wish they were cheaper
because um then more people would buy them um but
i also understand why these are highly priced i
was having a conversation with pat scandalis from
maforte the developers of geoshred the other day
so he was a student at stanford and he studied
with julius oh smith who is considered the
father of physical modelling and he was just
showing me one of the books that julius wrote
and it was you know six inches wide a
hardback book i mean absolutely massive
and this is one of a series of i think he
said four books maybe on physical modeling
so you know the amount of knowledge that goes in
to making instruments like this it’s insane you
know uh you can’t just be your average coder and
go in you know here you need you need great coding
skill but you also need like serious serious
musical knowledge serious knowledge of dsp
uh you know there’s so much involved in designing
instruments like this you really really need to
understand all the subtle details of what it takes
to make a trombone sound like a trombone what it
takes to make a trumpet sound like a trumpet so i
do understand why these are expensive instruments
i just wish they were cheaper so that more people
could afford them because at this price on ios
they’re a little bit of a an exclusive thing
but i would encourage anybody you know even if
you can’t afford to buy all of them and personally
i’m really glad that i’ve got them all they’ve got
their subtle differences but they are beautiful if
you can’t afford to buy a bundle or three bundles
for that matter um definitely get one or two you
know because they really really really sound so
great um as i said also if you don’t have an mpe
controller don’t worry too much on ios there’s
geoshred which can act as a virtual mp controller
there’s also velocity keyboard by blue mango
and there is kb1 by kai aras so look into those
if you want to you know learn more about the pros
and cons of each of those don’t forget that
the audiobus forum so a-u-d-i-o-b dot u s
go to audiobus or just search on google
ios music audiobus forum you’ll find it
that is a great place to go and learn about apps
and get people’s opinion about different apps so
yeah treat yourself to at least one of these
preferably before the intro period ends at
the moment they’re twenty dollars for one app and
that’s going up to 30 after the 22nd of february
anyway really really beautiful instruments i’m
very glad we’ve got these on ios okay everyone so
i hope you enjoyed this i
hope you learned something
i hope it helps you to make a wise purchasing
decision and i hope you’re subscribed so you
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