Mojo 2 Horn Section Free Download

Brass instruments are notoriously difficult to synthesise, as anyone who remembers the honking monstrosities that tried to pass themselves off as horns in the early days of digital synths will be all too aware. Vir2's new Mojo Horn Section ROMpler solves this problem...

What it is: Mojo: Horn Section (MHS for short) is a VST/AU/RTAS/standalone virtual instrument based on NI's Kontakt 3 player engine, and intended to be all the horn section you'll ever need in the studio. It covers solo sounds to ensembles with 12 "core" instruments:...

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If you're looking for great-sounding brass and reeds for pop, funk, and big-band arrangements, Vir2's Mojo is a great place to start. The compilation of brass and reeds is dripping with attitude and a very human touch- which is to say that the samples appear to favor...

Funky pop, jazz and big band horn sections are notoriously difficult to sequence convincingly. The reasons for this are mainly performance-related. By comparison to symphonic players, jazz musicians enjoy more freedom of expression within a section and employ a variety...

Has your music lost its mojo? Maybe Vir2's new horn library can add some magic...

For many composers working with MIDI, horn sounds for pop, funk and jazz pose so many challenges that many of us have resigned ourselves to the feeling that we'll never get real-sounding...

Mojo is a dedicated, versatile, and innovative horn section instrument. This means it's dedicated to the same type of horn sounds you would use for funk, jazz, soul, rnb, etc. These are instruments, not just a dvd full of loops, so they respond to your playing and give...

Mojo is a full suite of horns geared for jazz, latin, pop and funk music production. If you were hoping to get French horns, tubas, euphoniums and so on, I'm afraid you'll have to look elsewhere. What you do get with Mojo is 12 instruments packed with (almost) every articulation you'll need to get your arrangement swinging. These are Alto Sax, Baritone Sax, Bass Trombone, Clarinet, Flugelhorn, Piccolo Trumpet, Soprano Sax, Tenor Sax, Trombone, Trombone Mute, Trumpet and Trumpet Mute.

Mojo Horn Section uses Native Instruments Kontakt Player and can also be loaded into a full version of Kontakt. Installation went without a hitch for me, but, as with all modern libraries, it's a good idea to check for updates before you dive in. The library weighs in at a respectable 15GB and, as with any library of this size and depth, it can never have enough RAM. Vir2 recommend 4GB. You'll need a fast drive, but I think every savvy SOS reader (is there any other kind?) is aware of that sort of thing by now. Copy protection is handled through Native Instruments Service Center and, as long as you remember your user name and password, is relatively painless.

I would recommend spending an hour or so with the manual before you jump in with both feet. Besides the keyswitch chart (that you will need by your side for your first adventures with Mojo), it answers many questions about the library.

Load up Mojo and you're met with a somewhat bare interface. All the usual Kontakt features are available, but as far as Mojo-specific controls go, only two knobs are present: 'Players' and 'Mode'. Everything else is hidden in menus. The Mode knob selects Polyphonic, Monophonic or Legato play. The Players knob is slightly more interesting and lets you adjust the number of players on any instrument from one to 10. This can be incredibly accommodating. If your arrangement calls for four trumpets in unison, just set the knob to four players. This feature is very attractive to arrangers for testing the balance of their arrangements. (As you probably know if you've tried this in other libraries, you'd usually need to have four trumpets loaded on different tracks.) If you don't care how it would really sound with a band, go ahead and double, triple, or decuple your players for a bigger, fatter sound.

Although Mojo doesn't load up a different sample set for each player, it does offer some effective tools to fool the ear into thinking it's hearing different players. Those tools include spread position, detuning, and velocity and timing variations. The Mode and Player knobs are also controlled with keyswitching, making it easy to record changes in your sequencer.

Each instrument comes loaded with every available articulation. This alone is refreshing, as it saves you the trouble of scrolling through dozens of articulations, plus you need not know ahead of time which ones are needed. Load the alto sax and, via keyswitching, you can access any nuance Mojo has to offer. The down side to this is that you have to load all these articulations into RAM, even the ones you aren't using.

A slight quibble to note here is that some articulations are missing from some instruments for no apparent reason. Why would there be a 'slur up' on the tenor sax but not on the alto? Also, while the swells sync to your sequencer's tempo (very cool), the octave runs don't.

I first used Mojo on a big-band sax soli section I was working on, and I was able to program the scoops and vibrato as promised. I needed to play with each note's velocity to get it to sound natural and the end result was exceptional. I then worked on a tutti brass portion of the same tune and was equally impressed. The trumpets and trombones had real punch and were even easier to program than their reedy counterparts.

Next, I put Mojo through its paces with a funk tune a la Incognito or Tower Of Power. Vir2 mention TOP as an influence for Mojo, so I was surprised to be underwhelmed by my results. I was able to trigger articulations I wanted, but the overall sound was somewhat 'synthy'. I went to Vir2's web site to listen to their demos (which are outstanding) and felt the same way about their funk offering as I did about mine, so it could just be a matter of taste.

I know you'll be clamouring to know how the solo instruments sound and I'm sorry to report that, even with their legato scripting in the background, the result is not fantastic. It's usable, for sure, but I can't imagine producing a realistic sax solo with Mojo. This isn't to say that Mojo fares worse than the competition on this front, because it doesn't. And, to be fair, I didn't try the provided wind-controller patches.

As well as the 12 instruments already mentioned, Mojo also comes with light versions that use fewer samples but contain the same number of articulations as their larger siblings. This can be very helpful when you have a full big band loaded. You have the option to use the light version while programming, and then switch to the full version before you bounce.

Mojo also contains a library of almost 2000 horn riffs. Although, at first, this seemed like a major selling point, and while some users may be able to incorporate these riffs into their music, I found them to be something I would look to as a last resort. I'd also prefer them to be laid out in a construction-kit style rather than being arranged by instrument, as they are. Also included are Multis, intended as a starting point for laying down section parts quickly. This is a nice inclusion, but honestly you'll come up with your own, more usable, combinations right out of the gate.

I was disappointed that a jazz flute was not included. I use flute in many of my pop, funk, jazz arrangements and find that the flutes in symphonic libraries just don't cut it in pop music. For me, a flute would have been more appropriate than the included piccolo trumpet, or even the soprano sax.

Vir2 Instruments have done a fantastic job with Mojo. If you put in the time, you can pull off some convincing arrangements. Perhaps after logging in the hours, you could even put down realistic parts in real time. The sections are very authentic and the solo instruments, while not the real deal, are as good as I've heard. Although there's perhaps some room for improvement, if you use horns regularly in your MIDI arrangements, you need to get your Mojo!

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Hardware workstations frequently fail miserably with horns and their various specialised playing techniques, and even dedicated sample libraries sometimes only scrape the surface. With Mojo 2, Vir2 are aiming to change all that. It builds on their first Mojo Horn Section library from 2009, both in scope, installation size and sophistication of the user interface and player experience. It's still a Kontakt library, and requires Kontakt 5 (Player or full version, 5.8.1 or higher) on at least Mac OS 10.11 or Windows 7. As with any ambitious library, reckon on using recent, reasonably potent PC hardware with plenty of RAM and a fast SSD for best results. Installation size is just under 65GB, by the way, so it's not totally out of the question for laptop users.

With a Mojo 2 instrument loaded (they typically occupy something around 0.5-2 GB RAM), we're then largely on familiar ground, with separate key ranges for playing and switching articulations. Some articulations are standard fare, and self explanatory: Sustains, Staccato, slightly longer Stabs, Bend Down, and Oct[ave] Runs Down and Up. There's also Doits (an upward bend from the main note), Rise To Hit (a brief upward run to the main note), Shakes (mostly two-note tremolos of varying interval), Trills, Swells (quiet to loud), Crescendos (the classic horn section attack/drop/crescendo) and Falls (aka fall-offs). As you'd expect, you can cue these up in real time to support surprisingly expressive and realistic playing. That's helped by extensive multi-sampling, most articulations having several velocity switched layers, and a cyclical or random round-robin implementation. Two articulation types, Swells and Crescendos, can adapt in length to either an absolute time (0.5 to 12 seconds) or, probably more usefully, anything between 1 and 16 beats of your DAW's current tempo. 152ee80cbc

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