Some background on Australian Orchestral trumpet playing.
We are heavily influenced by the USA trumpet sound. The USA orchestral brass tends to be brighter than the European trumpet tone, and far straighter. The French school of trumpet playing uses quite a lot of vibrato compared to other schools. In Germany, it is more common for a rotary valve trumpet to be the primary instrument of an orchestral player. They tend to have a much warmer sound - indeed traditional valve trumpets are sometimes called 'American Trumpets' in Germany. Even if German orchestral players perform on valve trumpets the concept of sound is still different to other schools. The British school of sound is different again - very much due to the Brass Band tradition in Britain.
On a side note - I've had a good listen to the demo's and I wouldn't be surprised if the solo trumpet is so David Elton, who was at the time the principal trumpet of the Sydney Symphony, where the pool of players for Cinematic Studio Strings was largely pulled from. The other top players in Sydney have a different approach (or concept of sound). If it is Dave, then we will have the co-Principal trumpet of the London Symphony Orchestra at our fingertips (he was appointed co-principal late last year with Phil Cobb).
KyleJudkins wrote: ↑Nov 18, 2018 5:40 am
nice legatos - but that's probably the only thing that's really standing out to me... something that can already be mostly reproduced with sample modeling anyways.
Not really. The transitions in SM are too perfect and more specifically, too uniform to be completely realistic. The transition from note-to-note on a real instrument is different for every player and is different depending on if the transition is purely a valve/slide/key change, purely a harmonic change or a combination of both and then it depends on how wide the legato interval is as depending on the notes played an interval of a perfect 5th can cross 4 harmonics on the instrument, and a French Horn can cross a different harmonic for every tone.
