Conn & Mutes

My friend and excellent musician Menno supplied me with a recording of his Conn ChuBerry '27 alto sax. This gave me the opportunity to synthesize alto saxes on the VL1 while comparing the work in progress to the real thing. 
  Chu_Alto, ChuBerry, Conn'27, Alto_Conn and Conn_Alto are variations on a theme, where each was based on a different instrument model. I.M.O the most realistic alto saxes yet!!!

Mintzr12; Latest variation on the Mintzer Tenor theme. Has a better altissimo than HudsonTale.

Charlie; a Charlie Parker style tenor sax.

HUDSON? is a brighter version of HudsonTale.

TruMute, MuteDavis, DavisMute are trumpets with mutes. Based on a John McLaughlin/Joey DeFrancesco recording 'No Return'. The MuteDavis-patch comes very close to Joey's sound.

SquidLips & RandyMutes; the trumpet-through-an-autowah-approach. For playing Brecker Bros. classics or the solo on tower of power's 'what is hip'.

Mangione & CORNET; a smooth flugelhorn and a stylish cornet.

MarsaLips & Ferguson; Both based on the original JazzTrumpt patch, but timbrally superior. MarsaLips is intended for subtle phrasing, Ferguson for hair-raising highblow stuff. Ferguson responds more smoothly to breath control and should thus replace TRUMPETEER, HIGHBLOWER, TRUMP7 and TRUMP9. MarsaLips is a better version of TheTrump.

SuperTrump & FreeLoader; Latest incarnations of the exactTrump model. Very playable and realistic, especially for slow ballads.

Hummel; interestingly enough based on the same model as the trombone patch TrailBack, namely on Ken Barry's trumpbone. Nice for orchestral renditions.

TrailBack; Trombone, based on Ken's trumpbone model. Mod wheel 2 can be used for 'trailbacking'

Valve-It; what happens when you treat a cornet instrument model like a jazz trumpet. Smooth.


Regards; Wietze Krikke

