Glory Days Horns by Orchestral Tools
A downloadable Sibelius Sound Set for Windows and macOS
Four trumpets, three trombones, a bass trombone, two alto sax, two tenor sax and one baritone sax.
Add instant big band brass flair to your scores with the Glory Days Horns sound set for Sibelius. Our integration gives you intuitive control over the full articulation set - shakes, scoops, falls, mutes, and more.
Craft expressive vintage horn parts with a choice of mutes, runs, legato, and effects. The iconic brass sound of big band jazz is now just a few notes away.
Total vintage brass articulation coverage
- Solo trumpet, sax, trombone, and 4-part sections
- Falls, scoops, shakes, wah-wah, bucket mutes, and more
- Intuitive access right from the Sibelius score
- Check the manual and videos below for the complete articulation set
Iconic big band brass at your fingertips
- Craft authentic solos, riffs, and section parts
- Stack vintage brass layers into any composition
- Add richness, tone, and vintage vibe in minutes
Effortless setup
- Automated install, no configuration needed once you've told it where the library is!
- Optimized RAM usage, even for big arrangements
- Works great with NotePerformer and Sibelius sounds
Sax articulation demo:
Brass articulation demo
Specs
Hardware: Minimum RAM to use library properly (all patches, all articulations at once): 32Gb. You might get away with 16Gb if you've got nothing else open and are only using a few things. But generally, if you're using any sophisticated sample libraries you should have 32Gb or more in your machine. You should also be running these libraries from SSD. Any modern CPUs are quite capable of running this, and if NotePerformer can run on your machine, the chances are your audio hardware is OK.
Software: This requires full retail Kontakt (5.8.1 or more). It will work with Sibelius 7.5+ (the full version of Sibelius, not the cut-down versions).
Package:
Installer: does all the hard work for you. It takes longer to install the library!
XML Sound Set
209 hand-configured custom Close Mic 1 patches that are autoloaded when you press play, so you don't need to configure a thing. (and 209 replacement patches that combine Close Mic 1 and Tree Mic, if you would like a bit more space by default).
Numerous playback configurations, standalone and ones which allow use with NotePerformer and Sibelius 7 Sounds.
Playback Configuration Merge Tool, so you add this library painlessly to any existing playback configurations you have, and even add effects! (in fact, this tool is independent of the sound set - anything can be merged).
Plugins for correcting "legato lag" (that's where a sample library's legato algorithm delays playback of all the notes after the first) and importing house styles based on playback configurations.
Comprehensive templates so you can see all patches and articulations in use, rather than just reading about it!
Friendly house style, and minimally invasive playback dictionary improvements to support the library operation. Now even Sibelius will know what a Solotone mute is!
Friendly manual, because sometimes you do want to read all about it!
Purchase
In order to download this Sibelius Sound Set you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $39 USD. You will get access to the following files:
Download demo
Development log
- Plugins fixedSep 08, 2023
- FFS AppleJun 11, 2023
- Losing the tree micJun 11, 2023
- Dammit AppleJun 06, 2023
- Installer fixMay 30, 2023
- The non-vib updateMay 10, 2023
Comments
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I have another library installed in the same folder. But... "can´t install this without a Kontakt Player library with a numeric SNPID to attach"....
Thanks for help!
You need a Kontakt Player library in the same directory you're installing this to, and it has to be an older one (for instance, the Kontakt preset library). This is because of a bug in Sibelius that fails to recognise library IDs such as "ID3" as valid Kontakt libraries for autoload. What my script does to make non-Kontakt-player libraries install as autoload is to install a pointer under that library and alter the filenames in the sound set to make Sibelius think that Glory Day Horns is part of that library so it will autoload. That requires a "host" library, but one which is old enough to have a library ID (SNPID) of between 001 and 999. There's a list somewhere on the internet which tells you what those libraries are - I'm sure you have one somewhere.
Quick note to any reading this (yeah, right) that the chap fixed this problem with some help.
I'm also trying to load Glory Days into Kontakt 8, which is not recognizing it. The NICNT didn't have a UPID in it so I copied one from somewhere online which allows the library manager to register it, but it still isn't showing up. I'm wondering if what you are discussing is the issue.
It sounds like you're talking about the actual library: I think that that needs full Kontakt to work (and my sound sets support versions 5 and 6 - Sibelius can't even talk to Kontakt 7 on Windows. In modern versions of Kontakt all libraries need to be registered through Native Access.
My sound set works by copying the library to essentially pretend it's part of another library. But you'd still require a full version of Kontakt 5/6 for that to work on Sibelius Windows. Sibelius Mac can talk to Kontakt 7 through AU. So Kontakt already broke compatibility with Windows Sibelius, and I wouldn't be surprised if it broke Mac next.
Wonderful work!! I just bought these and they work great! Thank you so much!!