Session Horns brings a bright, lively four-piece brass ensemble to a keyboard near you. As you’d expect from NI, the 44.1kHz, 24-bit samples are very clean and well recorded. Most of the high-frequency ‘zip’ comes from the trumpets and trombone, while the tenor sax provides an element of warmth. The overall tone is bright and zippy, suggesting close miking with an AKG 414 or something similar, although the mics used are not listed. Although recorded very dry, the sound is not entirely anechoic there’s just enough subtle room reflection to give a sense of the recording space.
Sound-wise, if you’re after a tight, bright, controlled brass section, SH’s core samples provide the ideal raw material. It’s a 4.88GB library based around a four-piece brass section comprising a trombone, a tenor saxophone and two trumpets, the sort of line-up typically used in soul, funk, reggae, Latin and many other modern pop styles. Session Horns (SH), the third of Native Instruments’ Kontakt library collaborations with Hamburg company e-instruments (their first two being Session Strings and its larger Pro sibling) aims to fit that niche.
Less well catered for, however, are small-scale brass ensembles suitable for pop and rock applications, where tight, finger-snapping cool and funkiness are more in keeping than Wagnerian bombast. If you need to virtually recreate large-scale orchestral and cinematic brass, you can pretty much pick and choose from a variety of sample libraries.
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