Hohner Melodeon Pro vs Solo Trumpet Usage & Stats
Matching the layout of Hohner's iconic Double-Ray Black-Dot diatonic accordion, this intuitive virtual instrument features a super responsive fingerboard that plays and sounds like the traditional instrument in the most common two-row tunings of B/C, C#/D, and D/G, as well as an extended B/C+ layout with four chromatic buttons on a partial third row.
Simply touch in the bellows area to toggle between bellows push and pull, then play on the buttons.
Since you may want to play chords with more than 3 or 4 fingers, you'll need to turn off "Multitasking Gestures" in your iPad's Settings, under General/Multitasking Gestures.
Touch the sliders icon at the upper right side of the screen to bring up the controls where you can select the tuning (B/C, B/C+, C#/D, or D/G), and control the volume and reverb settings.
MIDI Control: The instrument may be played via MIDI from a MIDI keyboard or other MIDI file player or controller apps.
First launch the Hohner Melodeon Pro app, then choose "HohnerMelodeon" as the destination sound module in the CoreMIDI settings of other apps.
Set the MIDI channel using the "MIDI Channel" slider on the controls page.
Lowest note is G3 (MIDI Note 55) Range is G3 through E6.
The app responds to MIDI Note-on Velocity messages
Touch the "?" to toggle the note names On/Off.
Touch the "i" button to bring up the help screen.
All settings are saved when you exit the app and restored the next time it is run.
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GSi Solo Trumpet is a physical modeling emulation of a trumpet. This is a chapter GSi started a long time ago with one of the first plugins released to the public, then it evolved in a renovated emulation featured in the GSi Gemini, and now is here again with a new plugin.
Unlike other similar approaches to a digital recreation of a wind instrument, GSi Solo Trumpet is not meant to be necessarily controlled with a breath control or any other kind of expression controller. It can still be controlled from Midi CC messages and Channel Aftertouch, but its main purpose is to be played on a keyboard in a very natural way without being distracted by extra controllers. Solo Trumpet continuously analyzes the playing style, the use of velocity, staccato and legato, note distance and other elements in order to articulate the sound in a way that it sounds and plays natural and realistic. Features such as auto-bending, auto-vibrato and automatic expression are the key to a satisfying result and make Solo Trumpet a fun instrument to play.
Main features:
- Includes emulation of a Trumpet (without a Mute, with Harmon Mute and Cup Mute), a Trombone and a Tuba
- Two variations of each instrument: Warm or Shrill
- Automatic Vibrato with adjustable average rate
- Automatic Bending with adjustable average speed
- Automatic Expression depending on note velocity
- Expression can be controlled by aftertouch or Midi CC
- Automatic glide depending on velocity and note distance
- Alternate key feature
- Option to bend notes using a sustain pedal
- Adjustable manual pitch bending
- Adjustable average note length
- Built-in Stereo Delay effect
- Built-in Stereo Reverb effect
- Adjustable sensitivity to velocity and aftertouch
- Adjustable aftertouch lag time
- Built-in programmer with unlimited Programs
- Embedded user's' manual
- Available as Stand-alone App and AUv3 plugin
- Supports IAA
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Hohner Melodeon Pro VS. 
Solo TrumpetDecember 18, 2024