Comments on: Vir2 Instruments Mojo horn section plugin review

By: saintjoe

saintjoe — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:14:27 +0000

@kybrdmn, awesome tip man! thanks for sharing….really gives us an illustration of brass sections and how they play

good stuff

By: kybrdmn

kybrdmn — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:10:19 +0000

I’ll want to get this one, for sure!! Here’s a tip for realistic pop and funk brass for any library: When a live group of any size does a run up or down to a sustained note, they really only have time to adjust their pitch on the sustained note. During the run, some players will be flat or sharp on different notes in the run. If you’re using MIDI to play a brass section, try using separate instruments and throwing some pitchbends between notes, sometimes up, sometimes down. Also let the initial attack of the sustain note “Fade” into tune quickly.
I suspect that MoJo Horns may have that idea built in to short notes.

By: saintjoe

saintjoe — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:38:00 +0000

Yeah fam…that’s what it is! Being able to lay your own horn parts, that sound REAL!!! I know some folk out there feel my excitement lol. They also put tons of riffs in there, just like the riffs folks love to sample lol.

Through a vinyl effect on them joints and man…classic hip hop lol.

By: saintjoe

saintjoe — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:33:38 +0000

keep me posted fam, I had a listen to the solo joints “vol 1″ and I like. I think I have one of the later volumes, it was like maybe the sections or something in akai format?

By: madbull1971

madbull1971 — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:12:37 +0000

Hey Joe, I just got my Chris Hein Horns Volume 2 today. I’m about to start installing it. I’ll let you know how it sounds after I get a chance to play with it. It’s over 14 Gigs so it’ll take a while to install on my system.

By: Metatron72

Metatron72 — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:03:16 +0000

I think if you you asked most beatmaker/producer cats what’s the one hole in your library, the answer would be horns. I like to let friends (non-producer heads) fool around with my DAW, just so they can see how fun and accessible it’s all become. We’re all between 35 and 50 years old, so they always ask ‘whatup with the horns?’(they love the Pete Rock/Diamond type horns). Of course my answer is usually lemmee show you how to sample (haha). So yeah, this is prolly the perfect solution. Expensive? Yeah, but you’ll be sorted forever. I’ll be copping this one.
Keep ‘em coming Joe, you’re like the CNN of sound.

By: saintjoe

saintjoe — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:40:50 +0000

yeah no doubt, I’ve messed with CH horns before, even the akai format was pretty nice, they always seemed more “hype” sounding to me…whereas I think mojo can get really smooth.

I agree though CH are some good horns as well, it’s dope they are in Kontakt format now.

By: Madbull1971

Madbull1971 — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:28:56 +0000

Nice preview man, I’ve had Mojo for a while and they are some very nice sounding horns I use them off and on depending on what I’m trying to do. I’m not sure if you had a chance to check out what I told you about the Chris Heins Horns but I put the link below. Check out the audio demo (they give a rich sound…I know the demos are more focused on Jazz, Funk, Orchestral but they’ll work for anything type of music) they use key switching as well. Very similar setup as Mojo so if you are using to Mojo there would really be no learning curve. I have CH Volume 1 but Chris Horns are up to Volume 4 so far on the type of horns they have. They go deep when it comes to sound and the genre you can use them for and yeah they are kinda of expensive compared to Mojo if you were to buy all 4 volumes that is but Volume 1 & 2 for me would be enough. You can’t ever have enough horns.

Link:
http://www.chrishein.net/

By: saintjoe

saintjoe — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:43:30 +0000

no doubt fam, it’s real easy to tweak it, and the sound quality is dope.

By: VinnieTreux

VinnieTreux — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:35:35 +0000

Nice review Joe, this plugin seems real legit.

I love the option to add up to 10 players on any instrument.