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What is your favorite SWAM app?
I know it's very personal, but I'm curious. What are people's favorites?
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Piccolo trumpet, hands down. Richest tone of the trumpets and feels very free-blowing and responsive with a wind controller.
Tenor sax is very nice and 'The Sound' preset (Stan Getz -like) is particularly good.
Contrabassoon is a bit niche but a real standout among the SWAM range, sounds very organic and physical.
Speeding through; strings are all fine, flutes are good but could use more projection to feel free-blowing with a wind controller (tweaking doesn't help enough), double reeds are all excellent, clarinets are fine (bass is best), saxes all good, trumpets all good (including flugels), horn good, euphonium very good indeed (like the contra, another one with a real sense of physical presence), tuba fine (bit weedy without some production). The only instruments I don't find satisfying are the trombones - just can't get a natural response no matter how much I play with settings (they're not too bad with a keyboard though).
For context, I play all the woodwinds irl (even have plenty of hours on a real contrabassoon), but no brass or strings.
The tenor sax, but I like the version on GeoShred Pro. Quite honestly, I don't like fiddling with the standalone versions and I can get the sound and performance I want much, much quicker with GeoShred.
All of the Saxophones but I agree with @Neum re Tenor.
Viola and Flugelhorns are good.
@Loups has summed the rest up nicely. I also struggle with the Trombones.
Don’t have the flutes.
I think I'll get the Cello and I'm interested in the Trumpet
I like the Tenor Trombone.
anyone uses the bass tuba? it sounds a bit stiff to me
Don't throw stones, but I love the flute...
I’m definitely going to get the Trumpet and Eb Tuba before the sale is over.
I enjoy the Bass
I’ve had the cello for a while now but didn’t really appreciate it until I got my Nektar Panorama keyboard. I love SWAM’s interface and ease of setup to map the controllers, etc.. it’s so playable.
So now I picked up the violin, trumpet, tenor sax and flute. Haven’t had a chance to dig into each of them yet.
Sure, I’d love to have more, but now I’m hoping for Pianoteq to have some black friday action.
GeoSWAM tenor and flute are my two favorites. After that, I like the bass flute, flugelhorn, alto sax, and pocket trumpet. I like to double them with synths sometimes.
For the flugel and pocket tpt, my patch is half-valve on, with harmon mute. This one is so nice.
The SWAM strings are good, but I prefer NAADA strings for the polyphony.
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Since I got all the main instruments I wanted (and a few cheap ones completing bundles) I've usually added just one niche instrument per sale. Got the alto trombone this time - love the range and tone, but it's still no fun to play with a wind controller. I think it's something about the slide model I'm not getting along with (and the response being too brittle but that's been less of an issue with this trom).
Bumping this for more feedback
got the cello, its great. bass tuba still on my list. lets see what else goes on sale next week…
Cello, flute, and tenor sax are my favorites, but I also have the French horn for sea shanties and star trek jams 😁
Here are a few that caught my attention more than others. Just so you know, I’m mainly a synth musician. 😌 I have never played the real instruments that SWAM was trying to emulate, but they are essentially synths anyway. Regarding real-world instruments, I have experience only with electric and classical guitar.
Bass Flute - Bansuri
Flute - Bansuri
French Horn F - Symphonic
Bass Clarinet - Pop
Bassoon - Classical
Oboe - Pop
Viola - Bartok
Cello - Shostakovich
And many others…
NAADA also has a bansuri. I think I prefer the SWAM bass flute bansuri. Compared to NAADA it's less sweet, more nasty. I haven't tried the SWAM flute bansuri; I only have the GeoSWAM flute.
I’m thinking of getting one of the strings - ideally violin, but wondering if the viola - or even cello is a better all round option, as they might have a bigger (deeper) range?
Any recommendations greatly received!
I have the strings pack and the violin is definitely the one I've used the least, for that reason.
Keep in mind that the SWAM strings are not polyphonic. NAADA strings are superior for section playing due to polyphony. For solo string instruments, the SWAM cello would be my first choice. Violin is very nice too.
I have used SWAM quite a lot, and to my ears, the Violin is the least convincing of the strings. I would rate cello and double base as the most realistic sounding, followed by the viola, then the violin.
SWAM does have an option for double string under Bow Polyphony so you can play two notes at once.
Just bought the flugelhorn because of this…
I found the Trumpet and Tenor Sax easy to get on with, however can't do anything with the Violin or Cello.
I think its because string players are more likely to add a bunch of varying vibrato and expression as they play and that requires manual intervention to modify the cc on the Swam string instruments.
I tried simulating this through Mozaic scripts but still have samples that sound a lot better for strings.
I'm rubbish with GeoShred, perhaps the answer is to get better at using that as a controller.
I’ve only bought the geoSWAM pizz bass and bass flute. There’re pretty good. As a trumpet/flugelhorn player, I find the flugelhorn SWAM to be the more realistic sounding than the trumpet. Haven’t bought it yet.
Thanks guys, sounds like the cello is a better option. Shame there aren’t many vids.
I have the Soprano and Alto saxes, and the GeoSWAM collection 1, and I must say that the Soprano is quite impressive