Free tip of the day.
Record your midi information with your fake brass library etc...
Take your best mic, with your best preamp with your best compressor.
Solo your brass track. Throw it in mono, sum L and R together whatever.
Mic up your monitors, put on your headphones.
Move the mic around your room until it sounds good in the cans.
You might even want to use a second mic for up close. You want to give the brass some air by moving the mic back some, try 3 ft to 6 ft away. Now record that into your program. Depending on what you use, a good deal of them have already compensated the latency for you so it should already be lined up.
Whatever you have recorded will sound significantly different than what you started with and if you really want to go bananas, then run it thru a tape impulse like the Beamsonic stuff, really clusterf**k it with saturation and stuff to lofi it up and it should sound pretty cool. Alot of the old school synthesizers were played through keyboard amps or tube guitar amps. That would def add some dirt to your synthesizer and thus help to fatten it up, a tube preamp stage didn't hurt either.
I also +1 real horns if you can afford it. I started up my e session service because too many cats, always complained that session players cost too much.
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