Hi Dox,

Hollywood Brass is an excellent orchestra brass section and should come very close to the sounds you are looking to emulate. That is if you are looking for orchestra brass and not a jazz band brass section.

Here are a few things that may help:
1-always stay within the natural range of the instrument. This will yield the best emulations.
2-never play the sections like a pianist. In other words don't play all of the notes exactly at the same time.
3-if possible, it should be but I don't own that library so I don't know for sure, use the mod wheel or an assignable slider or knob for CC11, expression. This is very important as no horn player plays at a constant volume.
4-play each single instrument. Don't play three trumpets at the same time. Play each one individually and slight change the start/end time, vibrato if being used, and volumes.
5-if possible choose a different instrument for each track. For instance for #4 choose three different trumpets. If that is not possible then slightly change the timbre for each instrument.
6-Try to emulate an instrument's nuances via MIDI CCs and/or key switches. This requires looking at the manual and the MIDI Implementation page if it has one as each piece of software has different ways of doing these things.

I hope this helps and feel free to contact me if you need more help and/or information.

Note I added #2 because in some instances playing a few notes simultaneously can be beneficial IF they are a pad and you have other single horns in the foreground. I didn't want to confuse you be saying don't play all the notes at once and then say play them individually.

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