Brass sounds in GPO
Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2017 8:39 pm
Hello all. Public School band director here with nearly 30 years of experience. I run finale 25 on windows 10 on a newer PC. I have GPO and also COMB2. My problem is this:
I find the woodwind and percussion sounds to be acceptable.
I find the upper brass sounds (trumpets, especially) to not sound good at all. Specifically, it seems that the 'edge' or 'attack' of the sound is off, at least the way I am used to hearing brass instruments. Even in MakeMusic's own posted demos the brass sounds are Very unconvincing to me.
I have tried:
*Copying the brass part into multiple layers and sending each layer to a different channel to try to create a layered sound
*Using the resonance and convolution settings to adjust tone and reverberation
*Putting the trumpets and horns in their own bank and cranking that bank up to maximum - for some reason this gives them more of the 'edge' and attack I think they are missing, but it makes balancing a score nearly impossible
*Kontact and various available trumpet sounds
I purchased a Yamaha MX61 to use as a DAW to try to get better brass sounds but not satisfactory so far.
Is it possible to put each instrument from a finale score into something like cubase and edit/filter each channel that way?
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
I find the woodwind and percussion sounds to be acceptable.
I find the upper brass sounds (trumpets, especially) to not sound good at all. Specifically, it seems that the 'edge' or 'attack' of the sound is off, at least the way I am used to hearing brass instruments. Even in MakeMusic's own posted demos the brass sounds are Very unconvincing to me.
I have tried:
*Copying the brass part into multiple layers and sending each layer to a different channel to try to create a layered sound
*Using the resonance and convolution settings to adjust tone and reverberation
*Putting the trumpets and horns in their own bank and cranking that bank up to maximum - for some reason this gives them more of the 'edge' and attack I think they are missing, but it makes balancing a score nearly impossible
*Kontact and various available trumpet sounds
I purchased a Yamaha MX61 to use as a DAW to try to get better brass sounds but not satisfactory so far.
Is it possible to put each instrument from a finale score into something like cubase and edit/filter each channel that way?
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.