Heavy Brass

🇺🇸 United States
Christian Schoenebeck d/b/a Crudebyte  | 
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4.2
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Votes
98
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App Age
10y 2m
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Last Update
Jul 07, 2025

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4.2
4.56
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Number of Ratings (Voted)
97
591K
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App Age
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353MB
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Heavy Brass
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Trumpet, Trombone & Saxophone
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Heavy Brass delivers the most flexible and innovative approach to modern brass sounds ever provided by a virtual MIDI instrument!¹ With this ultimate brass app your productions and live performances will gain such powerful and amazing tone you previously were only able to retrieve from a real brass section! This app contains the following instruments: Trumpet, Trombone and Saxophone sampled in four different brass sections. Watch and listen to the demo video on our product website! Minimum requirement: at least iPad 3 / iPad Air 1 / iPad mini 2. This app supports Audio Unit v3, Inter-App Audio and Audiobus, so you can directly use it with other apps as well! External MIDI keyboards and controllers are supported as well of course, both via Lightning/USB cable connection, as well as wireless via Bluetooth LE MIDI.¹ There are 3 fundamental sound categories: „Singles“, „Switches“ and „Combis“, where „Switch Sounds“ allow you to either switch or crossfade between configurable articulations. Some „Combi Sounds“ allow you to switch or crossfade between predefined articulations as well. 24 Single Sounds: Solo Trumpet, Solo Sax, Solo Trombone, Heavy Brass 1-4, Section 1, Section 2, Section 3, Section 4, Crescendo, Growl, Doiks, Shaker 1, Shaker 2, Staccato 1, Staccato 2, Staccato Sax 1, Staccato Sax 2, Falls 1, Falls 2, Falls 3, Falls 4. Switch Sounds: Five base sounds: Section 1, Section 2, Section 3, Section 4 and Crescendo, which are switchable or crossfadeable to four alternative articulations: Shaker, Growl, Doiks or Falls. 16 Combi Sounds: Sections Velocity Layer 1, Sections Velocity Layer 2, Sections Velocity Layer 3, Sections Velocity Layer 4, Sections Velocity Layer 5, Sections Velocity Layer 6, Sections Modwheel Layer 1, Sections Modwheel Layer 2, Staccato Layer 1, Staccato Layer 2, Staccato Round Robin 1, Staccato Round Robin 2, Staccato Round Robin 3, Sections & Staccato Round Robin 1, Sections & Staccato Round Robin 2, Sections & Staccato Round Robin 3. General Features: • Low latency disk streaming. • Polyphony up to several hundred stereo voices.² • Configurable audio latency down to 1 ms. • Integrated effects with 18 presets. • App States: Save app's entire state as user presets. • 16 parts. • Provides Audio Unit v3 plugin version of this app, which allows it to be used as virtual instrument directly within third-party multi-track DAW apps. • Support for Apple's "Inter-App Audio" system. • Audiobus support. • MIDI velocity response curve editor. • Master Tune & Scale Tuning. • App can keep running in the background, so you can play on your keyboard while e.g. using Safari or another app to display scores or surfing the Internet. • Virtual on-screen piano keyboard with velocity support, scalable & scrollable. MIDI Player / Recorder: • Record, save and load your songs in standard MIDI file format. • Share your songs easily as audio file. • Unlimited amount of tracks. • Configurable target MIDI channel per track. • Unlimited recording and playback length. • Open MIDI (.mid) files directly from other apps (i.e. from Safari, Mail). • Download or upload MIDI files with iTunes. • Load your favorite songs as MIDI files from the Internet, and watch at the virtual keyboard how to play it. • Metronome. • Use the "Tempo Zoom" dial knob to i.e. slow down playback at any time and learn your favorite songs more easily. ¹ For more information about adapters and connecting external MIDI keyboards: https://doc.crudebyte.com/iOS/External_MIDI_devices/ ² Various sounds are using several voices per note. Polyphony depends on the exact device model being used. You find a polyphony table on our product website. Anti-Spy Commitment: We take your privacy very seriously. None of our apps contain so called „spy” behaviors and we committed ourself to a very high privacy standard. For more information read our „Privacy Policy for Mobile Apps”.}
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Rating
4.2
98 voters

Some Latest Reviews

jdsundberg
06 Mar, 2025
2
Installed the app onto my iPad. For the most part it seems to work. However, if I use my external keyboard, the settings in the app are ignored. I am trying to play solo-saxophone with my midi keyboard. However, no matter what settings I set - the external midi keyboard gives the same sounds (not saxophone).
Dk4711
02 Jan, 2024
5
Super realistische Brass sounds. Mehr braucht es nicht. Der Solo-Sax Sound könnte etwas besser sein.
LaLomation
04 May, 2023
4
I love it! Congratulations on making a great app One pointer, the keyboard is very small and makes it VERY HARD to attempt to play the right notes
SandSBonz
26 Dec, 2020
4
I love the sounds on this app. Absolutely fantastic. Nut I like to record using the iPad and the keyboard on the app is just too small to use fingers to form chords. Love to see a keyboard mode that you could use after choosing the sounds you want to work with Thanks for listening
pianista 12345678
25 Sep, 2020
4
friends, greetings, congratulations on the application, heavy brass is excellent, it just seems to me that they should correct something and the trombone does not sound clearly, it lacks presence, it is the only negative thing, please take my opinion into account, thank you
Stan&slaffsky
14 Sep, 2020
5
Вполне пристойный духовой синт для мобильного варианта. Есть разные варианты духовых "миксов", где-то брассы поближе звучат, где-то саксы. На решение о покупке повлияла поддержка Audio Unit, визуализациям которой более скромная, нежели в режиме Standalone: просто список возможных патчей на фоне логотипа. Есть варианты артикуляций (шейки, гроулы, фоллы верх и вниз, стаккато). Есть парные патчи(например, легато + шейк и т.д.), где артикуляции переключаются с помощью велосити или колеса модуляции. Из недостатков: лично мне не хватает управление вибрато с помощью модуляции, особенно в сольных инструментах. Считаю, что синт своих денег стоит, учитывая, что покупал перед Новым годом со скидкой.

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Additional Information
Rating:
4.19
Voted: 98
App Store Link:
Price: 9.99 $
Website:
Email: -
Privacy Policy:
Categories: Music, Education
Size: 353MB
App Age: 10 years 2 months
Release Date: Nov 20, 2015
Last Update: Jul 07, 2025
Version: 2.4
Version history
2.4
Jul 07, 2025
• Audio Unit: added audio rendering time statistics. • Audio Unit: detects audio dropouts and shows a warning in this case.
2.3.1
Mar 15, 2022
This update fixes the following software issue introduced by recent feature update: • Fixed a potential crash when switching to a different sound.
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