Arturia Augmented Brass

Acoustic instruments reinvented
Augmented BRASS delivers a rich variety of expressive, unique, and powerful brass sounds for modern production and composition, uniting beautifully recorded samples, bold synth engines, and seamless morphing between them.

Air and metal like you’ve never heard it
Go from evocative chamber trumpets to huge cinematic ensembles, somber melodies to thunderous synth-infused fanfares, essential brass tones to experimental textures unheard – all in the same place. Augmented BRASS morphs beautifully-recorded samples and powerful synth engines into captivating and refreshing sounds for your composition, production, and sound exploration.

Brass instruments evolved
Finally unlock the next-level brass sounds you’ve been looking for, from glossy ‘80s Blade Runner pads to earth-shattering orchestral tones, transformed for modern & experimental music making.

Project-ready sounds
Create brass parts that instantly lock in with your projects, from ambient production to library composition, with hundreds of tailor-made presets and endless tonal sweet spots.

Effortless expression
Command your brass sound with ease; make sweeping changes to any sound with the Morph control, intuitively alter key sonic characteristics with quick-fire macros, and more.

Deeper sound design
Augmented BRASS is easy to use, but it can go deeper if needed. Fine-tune every aspect of your sound, from your multiple engines to dynamic modulation, and everything in between.

Sampling
A vast range of expressive & powerful brass samples, from chamber trumpets to tubas, punchy staccatos to orchestral swells, alongside an embellished selection of outboard-processed and resynthesized recordings. The most comprehensive range of useful, musical, and creative brass samples, featuring dozens of articulations, forming an essential foundation for evolved brass sounds.

Synthesis
Infuse your brass timbres with the hard-hitting modern sound of 4 synth engines – Virtual Analog, Granular, Wavetable, and Harmonic – alongside the Simpler engine, a flexible library of impact and noise samples for extra energy, precision, and depth.

Deeper sound design
Rearrange, modulate, and customize every aspect of your hybrid ensemble.
Augmented BRASS’ simple interface and diverse preset library brings quick results to keep your flow moving – but when you want to get complex, you can. The Advanced panel takes you deep into the inner workings of the instrument, giving you detailed control over your sound sources, modulation, performance, and beyond.

Your production-ready brass library
For when you need immediate results to get that project finished, Augmented BRASS’ preset library contains hundreds of expertly-crafted presets, from ideal bread-and-butter brass to dense hybrid textures – all at the touch of a button.

Features
Virtual Instruments playable in a DAW (Live, FL Studio, Logic,…) or standalone with a MIDI keyboard.

Dynamic hybrid brass instrument

2 Layers within each preset; each layer contains 2 customizable sound sources

Detailed brass sample library with expressive and contemporary articulations

• Chamber recordings
• Orchestral recordings
• Processed recordings (tape, outboard, distortion, and more)
• Additional brass-style samples (synths, drones, textures, and more)

Flexible synth engines

• Virtual analog with our award winning TAE® technology
• Granular engine producing Warp, glitch and stretch sounds
• Harmonic engine based on additive synthesis
• Wavetable engine with look up table for more abrasive digital sounds
• Simpler (impacts, noise, and more)

Morph control moves between Layers A and B, and/or affecting up to 8 custom destinations

7 additional macros: Time, Color, Motion, FX A, FX B, Reverb, Delay

2 LFOs, 2 Function Generators, 2 Random Generators, 4 Keyboard modulation sources, dedicated Vibrato & Tremolo

2 FX slots per layer with 14 FX including ParamEQ, Bitcrusher, BL-20 Flanger, and more

Dedicated Delay and Reverb sends with 5 spatial/time-based algorithms

Built-in 16-step arpeggiator

Keyboard Offset feature

Over 300 factory presets included