The Best Virtual Jazz Trumpet?! Reviewing Straight Ahead Samples' Birth of the Trumpet!

[@counterpoint1014]

As a trumpet player, this does sound very good with the smart delay. With a hair of reverb and quality mixing, you have yourself a darn near-authentic jazz trumpet player at your fingertips. Thanks, Christopher. Your sample library exploration is much appreciated.

[@ChristopherSiu]

It’s really magical isn’t it? Thanks for watching!

[@MagicianPrestoDC]

Thank you ! Your demos and tutorials are really amazing and much better than a lot of stuff online. It stands out and also your skills are a feast to watch. There is just one thing that would augment the number of viewers and that is to please zoom up the part of your NKI so people watching your videos on a phone can see the things you click on and off more in detail. Thank you ! You re awesome

[@ChristopherSiu]

Thank you so much! I’ll keep that in mind.

[@c-m-laurin-lenschow]

That smart delay feature is actually mind blowing

[@ChristopherSiu]

Right?!?

[@craigpurdie3528]

WOW!!! What a great presentation...I bought this when it came out and had trouble loading with only 16 GB of ram. I recently upgraded to 32 GB & a new CPU, and now thanks to you, I am starting to appreciate what this can do....Thank you, THANK YOU!

[@ChristopherSiu]

My absolute pleasure!

[@MarceloArzubialdeRodriguez]

Yo I have 8 ram gigs

[@PaulCassidyOrchestrations]

I don't have a use for a jazz trumpet but this does sound impressive. I sometimes layer the Chapman Trumpet with a trumpet section because it gives the section a bit of life. P.S. I like how you wave to us at the start of your videos, and I've started to notice that I'm waving back! 😆

[@ChristopherSiu]

Yes, I definitely think the Chapman Trumpet is one of the best cinematic/classically based trumpets we have on the market today. This guy is a jazz game changer however. Anyway, Siu later! *waves*

[@AdemVessell]

Great video! That truly is mindblowing and I'm so THRILLED to hear and see this. This is an instant buy/no brainer. I've been waiting what seems like forever for something just like this. A realistic trumpet? Oh boy YES PLEASE!

[@arthurlee91]

That is insane!!! Good on Straight Ahead audio for making such an extraordinary library!

[@ChristopherSiu]

Agreed!!

[@JakeEufil]

Thank you so much for this vid. I like your reaction! 😂 It is truely mind blowing !🤯

[@ChristopherSiu]

Thanks Jake!

[@JakeEufil]

@@ChristopherSiu we should thank you for all those reviews !😇

[@sourcefor]

Great vid and it sounds good, but I think the embertone trumpet sounds more realistic, I just wish it had more control!

[@Nicdehouwer]

Chapman, you mean? I have that one, but that's not nearly this flexible and agile? I adore me some Embertone, but I really believe this one is far better.

[@dreddiknight]

Already bought! Watching to comment and thumbs up because you deserve it! 👍🏿

[@ChristopherSiu]

Thanks so much!

[@sourcefor]

I take it back it does sound great!

[@ChristopherSiu]

Yep, this is specifically a jazz trumpet, which I think does the job nearly perfectly.

[@jerrycullingford38]

The smart delay difference is amazing! Definitely one for the list to get when I have the spare cash for it... Though I'll have to see if there's a demo version to check whether my old Core 2 quad PC (which is maxed out at the motherboard 8GB limit) has enough resources to run it properly.

[@ChristopherSiu]

Absolutely! 8gb seems like it would struggle, I think at least 16-32 would do nicely.

[@ncn0505]

That sounds great, i have one question, which earphones are you using? 👍🏻

[@ChristopherSiu]

Apple EarPods haha

[@JairusC]

WHAT WHAT WHAT THIS IS SO MIND BOGGINGLY GOOD. I believe this is going to be added to my library even though I more than likely shouldn't. Ahahaha. Thank you SO much for this review!

[@ChristopherSiu]

I KNOW RIGHT??

[@DJKOPhivestarr]

Thanks for the video, enjoyed the Freedom Album!

[@ChristopherSiu]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for listening :)

[@saleemmarji3131]

hi thank you for your vids plese plese plese do best jazz sample liberys plz

[@ChristopherSiu]

On the list!

[@samuelgl]

Sounds great! Regarding the smart delay, I think Noteperformer does something similar

[@68caribou]

@Christopher Siu, hi! Have you compared this plugin with other ones since? Thank you.

[@ChristopherSiu]

Nope! I haven’t tried many others, but this one is the most intuitive and worth the delay.

[@68caribou]

Thank you! I'm looking for a plugin pretty versatile; that could also be used in different genre like Funk. Do you think it would work?

[@ChristopherSiu]

Check out EW’s Hollywood Pop Brass.

[@68caribou]

@@ChristopherSiu , thanks a lot!

[@TemmeSikkema]

Very interested in this one!

[@ChristopherSiu]

Awesome!

[@juancarlosmoranliberio7337]

Hola mi amigo pasame ese nki de trompeta saludo desde ecuador

[@crcmusicinternational]

Definitely look into Fable Sounds (Broadway Lites and Broadway Big Band) if you haven't already

[@ChristopherSiu]

I’ve checked it out! Definitely pricey but seemingly decent sounds.

[@crcmusicinternational]

@@ChristopherSiu Most definitely pricey indeed 🙈 BUT almost every year there’s a 78% off sale for the Lites library 🙏🎶💯

[@WillyJunior]

Doesn't sound realistic at all to me. Especially 18:15.

[@antames]

Allll daaaat j A A A z!

[@ChristopherSiu]

Smoooooth

[@altobarriolasonora9891]

Neecsito esa trompeta por favor!!!!!!!

[@DevanshRastogi]

*J A Z Z*

[@ChristopherSiu]

Y E S

[@dafingaz]

🎺

[@sourcefor]

Now if they could only make a good sax

[@ChristopherSiu]

On its way, haha!

[@caseylockwood5512]

@@ChristopherSiu Wait seriously? Trumpet doesn't super interest me, but I think we've ALL been starving for a legitimately convincing and expressive sax. I'm excited!

[@ChristopherSiu]

@@caseylockwood5512 Yes seriously! Can't wait!!

[@thomaseddie9450]

Jazz cornet hmm maybe!! trumpet, not even close.

[@ChristopherSiu]

Agree to disagree 😉

[@thomaseddie9450]

@@ChristopherSiu A comparison would be "Birth of the Bechstein D282 Concert Grand' and it ends up sounding like a Young Chan upright.

[@Zeaiclies]

The Trumpet sounds fake like every keyboard Trumpet does. 🤮

[@ChristopherSiu]

Definitely miles ahead of some others in this category.

[@Zeaiclies]

@@ChristopherSiu Cine brass and Cine brass pro Albion Fire Trumpet and two other daws are far more realistic than this and some are in the same class while two are higher class

[@ChristopherSiu]

Fire trumpet is comparable. The others are great for cinematic music, but for jazz lines, not so much.

[@Zeaiclies]

@@ChristopherSiu I was not even talking about jazz, just reallizm of sound.

[@ClintAshlock]

Too bad there wasn’t a flugelhorn in there for mocking big band charts. I can’t imagine anyone is utilizing the Harmon stem extended or closed cup.