Controls

The interface is very consistent: the upper row has the performance controls, de middle row the timbre controls, while the bottom row has the vibrato sections.

The performance row:Click for larger image

  • Breath Pressure: you can choose between Modulation Wheel and Breath Controller, Here you can also set a threshold for more or less breath pressure. (note: when you blow soft, you hear a few low harmonics. When you blow hard, you hear much more high harmonics, while the sound became much ouder In fact, blowing hard on a trumpet, causes distortion in the air column, and indeed when you add distortion to any audio signal you increase the high harmonics.
  • Attack for ‘blowing’ explosive attacks.
  • Player Lips. Sometimes the lips are audible, a kind of short thrill. Trumpet players have told me that this has to do with imperfect blowing. Jazz players however make often use of this imperfection, to get a more agressive tone. .There are two knobs: Amount (midilearn) and duration of the lip thrill .
  • Instability (long tone have always some instability)
  • Breath noise (midilearn),
  • Flutter Tongue - this is done with a rapid up and down movement of the tongue (midilearn)
  • Portamento : you can choose between midilearn and velocity,
  • Pistons or slide (selectable)

The timbre row:Click for larger image

  • Timbre: Width Bore, narrow bore. plus Harmon mute (selectable) The first  tones are blown with a width bore (concert trumpet), the second with a narrow bore (jazz trumpet)
  • Note-to-note transition. When the note-to-note transition is audible (legato), then this is also imperfect playing, Pressing a piston, when another one is not released in time. And again jazz players mka use of this.
  • Damping: with this knob you can alter the bore structure, and so alter the timbre (midilearn).
  • 4 stage EQ,
  • Low Brass (loudness). With this knob you can add lots of extra harmonics and so also the loudness for low bass instruments. Heree is also a relationship with the bores structures.
  • Tuning

The bottom row:

  • Pitch and amplitude vibrato via aftertouch or midi learn.
  • Volume
  • Overblowing has to be done with the Pitch Wheel. Overblowing a trumpet and you start on a C than you hear always the harmonic serie C E G Bb (C) But when you alter the bore (Damping), you get other series and effects