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Developer Opportunity or One Musician's Fantasy?
It seems to me – all you developers out there – that the first one to put a really good, Audiobus enabled brass app in the App Store would be rewarded with abundant app sales. If it did for brass what Galileo does for organs... in other words; realism, variety, and depth, to play stabs, swells, solos, various ensembles, styles, affectations, and idiosyncrasies. It is all that is missing from the passenger list on the mighty Bus. Yonac, are you "listening"?
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I think the difference between a really competent organ app and the same quality brass app is that you can make great organ sounds entirely through math and synthesis. Brass though ... has to be sampled. That's a pretty big initial investment for a developer! Though maybe an enterprising person could hook up with an existing sample library and consider novel ways to play those samples back within the ram constraints of today's iOS devices.
Best bet is probably the Neo Soul Keys guys, they use a lot of samples in their stuff and have developed an innovative way of handling them efficiently.
The Wi guitar devs said they'll be getting on board at some point.
They also have the Wi orchestra app...some decent sounding wind instruments in there.
WI Orchestra would be great to have on the bus.
@commonstookie – yeah, I've seen some good (but highly limited) brass bits here and there – Wi, SampleTank, bs-16i, to name a few, but a really full-featured brass app is what I'm missing. I have to use a Vst on my Desktop for brass tracks currently. I'd like to reach the point of an 'iPad only' rig eventually. Such an app would get me one step closer.
@syrupcore – yes... definitely not the same as putting an organ app together. My comparison was intended to convey the level of variety, realism, and depth that my fantasy brass app would have.
Thought I wasn't searching for the right keywords when I was looking for a decent brass app. Speaking of which, the iTunes store is still horribly bad for sifting through the thousands of apps.
I'm hoping GarageBand does something brilliant along the lines of their smart strings; give someone like me, lacking any conventional/professional training, just enough to pull off some great sounds.
I'd like to see a synth with wood/brass physical modelling, I've heard some really convincing sounding brass sounds with different articulations etc on some of Korgs physical modeling synths. Especially stuff like solo trumpets, trombs, saxophones and similar (also wood instruments) with all the different articulations and noise modeling/simulation (that I'm guessing would be hard to accomplish with a small iPad sample lib).
(BTW Impaktor is a good example on a synth that recreates various percussion sounds using this synthesis tech)
Edit: Please do correct me if there´s more to it then just calling it physical modelling. My synthesis knowledge does´nt really extend beyond knowing the names and what the cutoff and resonance knobs do lol
As does WI Orchestra, it's all modelled. The big drawback with WI Orch is the connectivity. Recording is in-app overdub or iPad out only, control is in-app keyboard or external MIDI keyboard only. Some nice sounds though.
More than ten years ago, it was the same story for computer DAW plugins – all kinds of everything, but very little brass, and what there was sounded terrible. I got one of the few sample-based VSTs and lived with it, though I was never really happy with it.
Several years later, a VST came out that was synthesized and modeled brass, and it was freaking amazingly realistic, but it was just too expensive for me at the time (like $700 for the basic version). I don't even remember the name of the VST or the company that made it anymore... but now there are tons of brass VSTs, and some really good ones, so I am positive that the right developer could really make something incredible, maybe even using a combination of synthesized, modeled, and samples
I just remembered... Arturia (iMini) sell a really nice brass plugin for desktop/laptop DAWs. It's all modeled - no samples. Maybe they are the company that could do it right for iOS. They have a page of sound demos on their website, so one can hear how some of their patches sound. Not all great, but most of them are really, really good. A breath controller makes them even better.