Is it true that HALion doesn’t have a mute for brass instruments?
(The same goes for Iconia Sketch)
HALion doesn’t have any brass instruments, or any sample libraries. It opens them, and if the library has no mute, the there’s nothing HALion can do.
HALion does come with some muted trumpet patches, though.
I specifically mean HALion SO and Iconica Sketch. There is no support for the sound of the mute in these libraries. That is, if I add “con cord.” to the notation for any brass instrument, this “con cord.” will not sound.
I’m asking because I’m surprised why these libraries don’t have it. Maybe I’m just looking at the wrong thing.
Unfortunately, not all sample libraries have a “mute” articulation for brass instruments - HSO doesn’t. Therefore, you won’t hear a muted sound, no matter what you do.
Even when a library does have a Mute articulation, it’s usually a different instrument , in addition to the usual - you’ll have a Trumpet instrument, with it’s articulations, and you’ll have a separate Muted Trumpet instrument, with it’s own set of articulations. And the Muted Trumpet instrument will always be muted.
E.g., I use Session Horns, MOJO and (a very old) Quantum Leap Brass libraries and they all have mutes as separate instruments.
How you would handle this in the Score Editor, I have no idea, I rarely use it, and can’t read music anyway.
Hope this makes sense, I’m not always good at explaining things.