Best Horn Section for use with Sonar X3

Vir2's Mojo is a good choice and there's also Chris Hein Horns...
 
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Hello,
 
I have been using NI's Session Horns. This also comes in a "Pro" Version that increases the number of horns ( from 4 to10), phrases and articulations.. Check it out...Very nice....

I've been using Killer Horns for years. There's probably way more intricate ones available now but it's always done the job for me. 
 
I've found also that building a section up from parts usually results in more realistic sounds than using a horn section patch. So I usually copy the MIDI tracks out a few times, sometimes making small tweaks to humanize them, and then assigning individual horn patches to each one. SO there'll be a bari, alto, and tenor sax, for example. Plus it's more control when it comes to mixing them down.
 

I have absolutely zero experience with horns - no idea how to arrange or mix them. But I've been having some great fun with Native Instruments' Session Horns. There are some great melodic and rhythmic presets to get your started if like me you have no idea what you're doing with horns but need to add some horn color to a track. Here's a little example of a horn part I started playing with recently. It's just looped a few times - absolutely no mixing done at all, just an EQ preset on Session Horns, the bass sound is just a placeholder for now and the plucky sound I need to work on as well. Basically it needs a lot of work because the mix sounds like crap. Like I said I've have no idea how to arrange horns, but I know a thing or two about chords, so I've just given Session Horns a chord sequence to work with, chosen one of the Latin presets and set it to "rhythm only" so that it's playing my chords in a Latin rhythm & articulation. I really like what it's done! There are tons of presets in different styles and there are also lots of presets to set up the section in terms of which instruments play, which come forward in the mix, how the voicing brain handles too many notes etc. You can set the swing, dynamic settings and "humanize" the timing and the tuning.
 
There are a ton of mix & effect presets as well. I think I'm just going to end up routing the parts to their own tracks and mixing them myself. I think you can only do this output routing if you have the full version of Kontakt. 
 
Anyway I added a quick bass part and voila! I'm really liking fooling around with this library. Having never done anything with horns before I really feel like I could get obsessed with this and start overusing them 
https://soundcloud.com/sh...-session-horns-example

sharke
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Anyway I added a quick bass part and voila! I'm really liking fooling around with this library. Having never done anything with horns before I really feel like I could get obsessed with this and start overusing them 
https://soundcloud.com/sh...-session-horns-example

That's sounds fun! I'm leaning towards Session Horns out of the all the candidates. Another tool for this 69 year old dude having fun with music! (61 years of playing music and ain't sick of it yet!)
Walt
 

By far, Broadway Big Band colletction is the best for non-orchestral horns. Interval sampling. Fun to play live! Even has multi for big octave unisons. Created by a Jazz guy.

I bought N.I.'s Session Horns Pro on the weekend and have only had the chance to try it for about 90 minutes. So far, the sounds seem pretty good and it's definitely been easy and fun to use because of its smart voice allocation and smart chord features. It will take more experimentation to really see what it can do, and what its true quality is.
LJ

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By far, Broadway Big Band colletction is the best for non-orchestral horns. Interval sampling. Fun to play live! Even has multi for big octave unisons. Created by a Jazz guy.

VERY VERY expensive tho