Iconica Sketch has lovely Solo Brass, which you can use for decidedly non-orchestral settings!
(Also featuring caesuras and fermatas.)
Merry Christmas!
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Very nice 
Did you map the cornets to the Iconica trumpet sounds? For me the brass band template left them as HSO trumpet (or maybe you added trumpets directly from setup rather than cornets? - or neither of the above?) Thanks!
Yes. Sketch has Trumpet, Horn, Euphonium, Trombone and Tuba.
what do people do for bass trombone?
I love the naughty ending with the flattened seventh. I might add it in myself when we have the carol on Sunday night.
The following Trombones for HALion/Sonic come with Dorico in the Sonic Selection library and will play in a lower range…
[GM 056]Trombone
Solo Trombone
If you have HSO installed…here’s an HSO trombone preset stretched down to A-1 and up to D8 (Using full HALion 7). A-1 was as low as I could stretch this and it still sound something like a trombone.
Extended HSO Trombone.zip (67.3 KB)
Because the key switches were in the way to get any lower they must be moved, and thus require a new expression map. It’s included in the zip above.
The vstpreset file goes in the folder:
Documents/VST Presets/Steinberg Media Technologies/HALion Sonic/Program
The modded expression map can be imported in Dorico as needed under:
Library/Expression Maps…
Unfortunately Sketch has the layers locked on my system. I can’t stretch the range on those.
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thanks Brian! Yeah was wondering if the normal trombone would go almost low enough. Odd omission - it’s a standard orchestral instrument, much more common than bass clarinet or contrabassoon (which I am really glad to see in there).
Tenor trombone can play very nice pedal notes. But there is a gap from Eâ™2 down to B1 that it can’t play. Bass trombone typically has a trigger to switch from Bâ™ to F, so it can produce those between-notes.
Most orchestral tenor trombonists will use a Bb to F trigger trombone, so they too have a complete chromatic range down to C2; there are only six positions with the F trigger down, there being further distance between them than with the Bb tenor. The bass trombone is different in bore and bell size, makes a fatter sound, but it is still restricted, as with the tenor, if there is only one trigger. Most bass trombonists, however, will play a double trigger bass trombone which will have the complete chromatic capability to go all the way down to the pedal notes. The second trigger makes the trombone in Bb/F/Eb/G or Bb/F/D/Gb, but that should be of no concern to the composer or arranger, as the player will sort all that out! That being said though, there are some glissandos which might have to be faked.
As a bass trombone player myself, I always try and clear up any confusion.
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