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Originally Posted by bgrotto  Unfortunately, you're wrong.
Your ear isn't hearing the timbre or ambience as fake, it's hearing the lack of realistic articulation. You gotta learn the instrument to program it convincingly, especially one as nuanced as brass. |
Yep. Brass instruments are extensions of the mouth. Different mouth shapes and breathing techniques yield widely different sound shapes. Also, some brass instruments have subharmonics - the fundamental frequency is actually lower in volume than the first overtone - which I don't hear adequately represented in synth brass sounds. Try eq'ing a trumpet where you think the fundamental tone is, and then try eq'ing the octave up and see what happens - it's friggin' weird.
And then there's the small fact that real brass is played in a real room.
I say let a synth be a synth. Embrace it, don't fight it.