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If you decide your order isn't suitable for any reason you can return it - just let us know within 30 days of receiving it. Please keep hold of all the original packaging until you're sure you want to keep the order.
Eligibility for Money Back Guarantee
Important: For hygiene and software licensing reasons, some items are only eligible for our Money Back Guarantee if they are returned to us unused and sealed in the original packaging with all software still "unregistered." Details of exclusions are shown within the product descriptions. Products include:
- Monitors and Headphones
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This table provides an overview of your statutory consumer rights, compared with our standard returns policy and optional extended money back guarantee and warranty.
| UK & Europe | EU Standard | Gear4music Standard | Gear4music Optional |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return Period | 14 days | 30 days | up to 180 days |
| Standard delivery charges refunded? | Yes | Yes | Yes, up to 30 days |
| Upgraded delivery charges refunded? | Standard costs only | Standard costs only | Standard costs only |
| Free collection on cancellation | No | No | Yes, up to 30 days |
| Free collection if defective, delivered damaged or incorrect item | Yes, within 14 days | Yes, within 14 days | Yes, within 30 days |
We are unable to accept returns of any custom made items designed to work together as a unique package and some items are only eligible for money back guarantee if they are returned to us unused and sealed in the original packaging. For full information on our returns policy, please refer to our returns and refunds information guide.
Key Features
SWAM Horns and Tubas is a selection of five virtually-modelled tuba and horn instruments, recreated through the proprietary SWAM-B physical modelling engine. Unmatched in versatility, realism and authenticity, SWAM Horns and Tubas offers flexible control over virtually every aspect of your sound from articulation expression, timbre and even micro-tuning. Comprised of Bass Tuba, Tuba (Eb), Euphonium, French Horn (F), French Horn (Bb) models, each instrument delivers the same natural behaviour and response as the real instrument, making it the ultimate studio composition tool and live performance plug-in.
Unlike sample-based libraries with static sounds, SWAM Horns and Tubas physical modelling engine allows you to adjust parameters and variables on the fly in real-time. Real-time physical properties can be adjusted such as the bell resonance and dispersion angle, dirtiness, breath noise and dynamic sensitivity. Several Play Modes offer a more humanised response, including the ability to add and customise a mute to your instrument. The wide range of timbral adjustments works in tandem with the onboard FX section, comprised of EQ, compressor and reverb to customise your sound to perfection.
Comprehensive MIDI mapping and integration make SWAM Horns and Tubas the ideal instrument for live performances. Supporting numerous MIDI message types as well as offering advanced velocity curve control ensures you can perform highly complex and dynamic pieces on the stage without compromising your performance.
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Flexibility in the studio is vital in producing the best results for your session. SWAM Horns and Tubas provides you with the ability to customise virtually every aspect of your sound to perfectly blend with your instruments and mix. Perfect for any mixing engineer, composer or producer, the proprietary SWAM-B modelling engine means you are not bound by the restrictions placed upon the sampled sound you are triggering. Instead, you can adjust the behaviour characteristics of your instrument in the same way a musician could when recording the instrument for real.
Physical elements can be manipulated in real-time such as the pipe length, breath pressure and lip tension, ensuring all the dynamic expression is maintained in emotive performances. Several Play Modes are employed to give you control over the style of performance within your instrument. The Pipe Model can be changed from valves to slides with control over the speed as well as choosing between four different mute types for traditional jazz-style solos. Advanced features such as the bell resonance, bell dispersion angle, breath noise and even the size of the mute allow you to add the humanisation element needed for authentic sounds and performances. In-depth tuning parameters are employed to allow you to finely tune against the exact pitch of other instruments within your mix unlike the static pitch of sampled libraries, ensuring no sour notes are heard in your mix. Ensuring you can fit within the sound of your mix and style, a handy FX section is included with compressor, EQ and Reverb to customise your sound for your sessions and projects.
On-stage, SWAM Horns and Tubas offers the most realistic brass instrument sound available on the market today. Comprehensive MIDI mapping ensures that no matter what controller type you use, SWAM Horns and Tubas can map all message types from CC, Hi-Res CC, Aftertouch and more to your instrument. Additionally, SWAM Horns and Tubas come with a wide range of presets that are mapped to common controller types, offering a plug-and-play solution for most live performers. Advanced velocity curve control ensures that every note will have the exact expression you need to convey the emotion within your composition.
The beating heart of SWAM Horns and Tubas is the new and improved SWAM-B audio engine technology. Utilising physical/behaviour modelling as well as multi-vector, phase-synchronous sample morphing; SWAM Horns and Tubas delivers unparalleled authenticity with a natural and full-bodied sound – just like the real instrument. Meticulously replicating the physical and acoustic properties of a horn and tuba, SWAM has been able to create the most realistic-sounding virtual instrument on the market. From the studio to the stage, the SWAM-B engine provides endless sonic variation making it perfect for compositions and performances alike.
Using only a fraction of RAM occupancy, SWAM Horns and Tubas can outperform even the most detailed sample libraries. Using only a mere 16MB of RAM per instrument instance, you can create highly complex and detailed compositions with several instrument layers without breaking a sweat. The immaculate modelling engine that delivers the small footprint is key in letting you dive into large projects which require several instances of the plug-in. All of this power is packed into only a small download package and unlike gigabyte-sized sample libraries, will let you get up and running and composing in no time.
