Brass · Source 23

Trumpet.

Written as MIDI. Played as a trumpet.

Write the line in your piano roll and get a trumpet back on the track: broad at the bottom, singing in the middle, brighter the harder you push it.

Play it in the browser or on a track in your DAW · dø1, $12 a month with Pro
§ 01 · Hear it

Hear it.

Three takes of the same part, same settings, different seed. Step through them while it plays: same bar, different attack, timing and phrasing.

The part is the melody of After You’ve Gone: 34 notes at 138 bpm, the one the chooser on /sources plays on every instrument. This is the trumpet’s render as it came back: nothing played, sampled or edited.

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One part. 3 renders at the same settings, different seed. A sampler would return the same recording every time.

§ 02 · In your DAW

MIDI to trumpet.

Write the part in the piano roll you already use (Logic Pro, Ableton Live, FL Studio, REAPER, Cubase and Studio One) with dø1 on the track, or upload a .mid at /tools/sources. Notes, timing and velocity are read as written.

What comes back is a trumpet take: dry, close-mic, 24-bit / 48 kHz, on the track it came from. Usually 20 to 60 seconds. Render again and you get a different take.

Rendering in the browser is free with an account: 120 credits a month, 10 per 30-second render. The plugin is part of Pro, $12 a month: 2,000 credits, dø1 (AU and VST3) and Dø Desktop, which installs it.

Get the DAW plugin AU & VST3 · installs with Dø Desktop
23TpTrumpetE3–B♭5
Brass · Trumpet
In
MIDI: the piano roll on a dø1 track, or a .mid at /tools/sources
Out
A trumpet take · dry, close-mic · 24-bit / 48 kHz
Range
E3–B♭5
Presets
Open · Muted
Time
20 to 60 seconds a render
Price
$12 a month with Pro · free in the browser with an account

Why brass is hard.

A trumpet is a lip-driven resonator and the player is part of the instrument. Push a note and the harmonic balance shifts: the tone gets brighter, edgier, and eventually blares. A sample library approximates that with three dynamic layers and a crossfade, which holds until a phrase crosses a layer mid-note.

The range is E3–B♭5 and the character changes across it: low is broad and slightly diffuse, the middle is where melodies live, above the staff narrows and takes effort you can hear. A mute is a different sound, not a quieter one. It is a preset here, not a filter.

Questions.

Is it a trumpet VST?

Yes. dø1 is an instrument plugin: AU and VST3 on macOS, VST3 on Windows, for Logic Pro, Ableton Live, FL Studio, REAPER, Cubase and Studio One. Put it on a track, choose the trumpet, and the MIDI on that track comes back as a trumpet take. There is no sample library to install: each take is rendered for the part you wrote.

Does it follow velocity?

Yes, as tone. A high velocity is brighter and harder-edged, not just louder.

Is muted trumpet available?

Yes, as a preset of the trumpet, because a mute changes the harmonic balance rather than the level.

Can I write a brass section?

Render each chair as its own part and mix the stems. The Sing, Sing, Sing demo on /sources is four rendered trumpets summed.

More sources.

Brass

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