--- title: "Heavy Brass - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads in United States | Apple App Store" description: "Heavy Brass delivers the most flexible and innovative approach to modern brass sounds ever provided by a virtual MIDI instrument!¹ With this ultimate brass app your productions and live performances w" --- # Heavy Brass — United States > Trumpet, Trombone & Saxophone ![Heavy Brass App Icon](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple211/v4/82/4a/76/824a76c3-eaad-e90d-e7ac-1f448e79b6ce/BrassAppIcon-1x_U007emarketing-0-6-0-85-220-0.png/434x0w.png) **Developer:** [Christian Schoenebeck d/b/a Crudebyte](https://apptail.io/developer/christian-schoenebeck-dba-crudebyte-xoT) **Category:** Music **Rating:** 4.2/5 (37 ratings) **Price:** Free **Bundle ID:** com.crudebyte.brass **Store:** Apple App Store **Country:** United States **Version:** 2.4.1 (released 2026-01-19) **Original Release:** 2015-11-20 **Languages:** English **App Store Link:** [Download on Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/app/id1037802910) **AppTail Page:** [https://apptail.io/app/heavy-brass-Njdl/united-states](https://apptail.io/app/heavy-brass-Njdl/united-states) ## Heavy Brass Description Heavy Brass delivers the most flexible and innovative approach to modern brass sounds ever provided by a virtual MIDI instrument!¹ With this ultimate brass app your productions and live performances will gain such powerful and amazing tone you previously were only able to retrieve from a real brass section! This app contains the following instruments: Trumpet, Trombone and Saxophone sampled in four different brass sections. Watch and listen to the demo video on our product website! Minimum requirement: at least iPad 3 / iPad Air 1 / iPad mini 2. This app supports Audio Unit v3, Inter-App Audio and Audiobus, so you can directly use it with other apps as well! External MIDI keyboards and controllers are supported as well of course, both via Lightning/USB cable connection, as well as wireless via Bluetooth LE MIDI.¹ There are 3 fundamental sound categories: „Singles“, „Switches“ and „Combis“, where „Switch Sounds“ allow you to either switch or crossfade between configurable articulations. Some „Combi Sounds“ allow you to switch or crossfade between predefined articulations as well. 24 Single Sounds: Solo Trumpet, Solo Sax, Solo Trombone, Heavy Brass 1-4, Section 1, Section 2, Section 3, Section 4, Crescendo, Growl, Doiks, Shaker 1, Shaker 2, Staccato 1, Staccato 2, Staccato Sax 1, Staccato Sax 2, Falls 1, Falls 2, Falls 3, Falls 4. Switch Sounds: Five base sounds: Section 1, Section 2, Section 3, Section 4 and Crescendo, which are switchable or crossfadeable to four alternative articulations: Shaker, Growl, Doiks or Falls. 16 Combi Sounds: Sections Velocity Layer 1, Sections Velocity Layer 2, Sections Velocity Layer 3, Sections Velocity Layer 4, Sections Velocity Layer 5, Sections Velocity Layer 6, Sections Modwheel Layer 1, Sections Modwheel Layer 2, Staccato Layer 1, Staccato Layer 2, Staccato Round Robin 1, Staccato Round Robin 2, Staccato Round Robin 3, Sections & Staccato Round Robin 1, Sections & Staccato Round Robin 2, Sections & Staccato Round Robin 3. General Features: • Low latency disk streaming. • Polyphony up to several hundred stereo voices.² • Configurable audio latency down to 1 ms. • Integrated effects with 18 presets. • App States: Save app's entire state as user presets. • 16 parts. • Provides Audio Unit v3 plugin version of this app, which allows it to be used as virtual instrument directly within third-party multi-track DAW apps. • Support for Apple's "Inter-App Audio" system. • Audiobus support. • MIDI velocity response curve editor. • Master Tune & Scale Tuning. • App can keep running in the background, so you can play on your keyboard while e.g. using Safari or another app to display scores or surfing the Internet. • Virtual on-screen piano keyboard with velocity support, scalable & scrollable. MIDI Player / Recorder: • Record, save and load your songs in standard MIDI file format. • Share your songs easily as audio file. • Unlimited amount of tracks. • Configurable target MIDI channel per track. • Unlimited recording and playback length. • Open MIDI (.mid) files directly from other apps (i.e. from Safari, Mail). • Download or upload MIDI files with iTunes. • Load your favorite songs as MIDI files from the Internet, and watch at the virtual keyboard how to play it. • Metronome. • Use the "Tempo Zoom" dial knob to i.e. slow down playback at any time and learn your favorite songs more easily. ¹ For more information about adapters and connecting external MIDI keyboards: ² Various sounds are using several voices per note. Polyphony depends on the exact device model being used. You find a polyphony table on our product website. Anti-Spy Commitment: We take your privacy very seriously. None of our apps contain so called „spy” behaviors and we committed ourself to a very high privacy standard. For more information read our „Privacy Policy for Mobile Apps”. ## Heavy Brass Screenshots - [Screenshot 1](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple113/v4/bb/9d/4c/bb9d4cf9-a55d-38ae-c282-5a34da4806ee/pr_source.png/2732x2048.png) - [Screenshot 2](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple123/v4/64/2b/09/642b0937-e71a-312e-1df8-f4ac2ef22b7b/pr_source.png/2732x2048.png) - [Screenshot 3](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple123/v4/0d/c4/3a/0dc43a56-e89d-810b-9d50-8cec01e3e9c4/pr_source.png/2732x2048.png) - [Screenshot 4](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple113/v4/f8/85/e8/f885e88b-8538-a0aa-e60c-6b2d7b89abdc/pr_source.png/2732x2048.png) - [Screenshot 5](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple113/v4/f6/e2/bf/f6e2bfb6-ced7-2b2e-2c60-2573b3dad765/pr_source.png/2732x2048.png) - [Screenshot 6](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple123/v4/e6/13/ea/e613ea35-7000-7456-6c9a-44592b9b8c01/pr_source.png/2732x2048.png) - [Screenshot 7](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple113/v4/63/f6/3a/63f63ad5-e28e-f066-2427-68eacb6162db/pr_source.jpg/2732x2048.png) - [Screenshot 8](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple113/v4/37/e3/31/37e331a9-4338-daef-b761-59be2f0087ef/pr_source.png/2732x2048.png) - [Screenshot 9](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple113/v4/7b/90/35/7b903573-ee49-994f-7070-83ed1aabdef8/pr_source.png/2732x2048.png) - [Screenshot 10](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple113/v4/7d/48/f9/7d48f9b3-fee3-4acd-82fa-b5e9414e211a/pr_source.png/2732x2048.png) ## Heavy Brass Rating Breakdown in United States - 5 stars: 23 (62%) - 4 stars: 8 (22%) - 3 stars: 0 (0%) - 2 stars: 3 (8%) - 1 stars: 3 (8%) ## Heavy Brass Reviews in United States ### ***** "The best horn emulator available." This app has literally changed my musical life. I love Jamaican music and Big Band. However, although I can play most instruments, I cannot play brass. This is the solution. I play it through my m audio keyboard using usually three or four tracks dedicated for brass layers. The best part is that they have come the closest you can to solving the issue of nuance with brass instruments. There are several different textures and combinations to choose from as well such as: doits, shakes, falls, crescendos, etc. -- jack meohoffr, 2024-11-21 ### ****- "Pretty good" I love it! Congratulations on making a great app One pointer, the keyboard is very small and makes it VERY HARD to attempt to play the right notes -- LaLomation, 2023-05-04 ### ***** "Needs another update ASAP" Using iPad Pro 14.6 and sounds grt! Had to repost review. I thought software was glitchy, found out it was my 3.5 aux cord going bad. Brass instruments are just what I needed in my Arsenal. Already produced a song in first hour. Nice job guys. 5 star. 👍 -- Thafunky1, 2023-01-01 ### ***** "Really amazing sounds" Easily 5 stars -- Canoesailor, 2021-08-27 ### ****- "Keyboard needs to be bigger" I love the sounds on this app. Absolutely fantastic. Nut I like to record using the iPad and the keyboard on the app is just too small to use fingers to form chords. Love to see a keyboard mode that you could use after choosing the sounds you want to work with Thanks for listening -- SandSBonz, 2020-12-26 ### ****- "Fix trombone" friends, greetings, congratulations on the application, heavy brass is excellent, it just seems to me that they should correct something and the trombone does not sound clearly, it lacks presence, it is the only negative thing, please take my opinion into account, thank you -- pianista 12345678, 2020-09-25 ### ****- "Wish it would work with the iPhone 7s plus" See titles… Overall I am very pleased with the different effects -- AlanLaBudde, 2019-08-24 ### ****- "Works on Linnstrument!!!" This app works very well with the Linnstrument controller. The app is stable most of the time, but I have experienced some crashing. I really am impressed with the sounds. I would like the developer to expand the sound set even more. Admittedly, this is one of the first set of this type that I own. The user interface seems intuitive at first glance, but sometimes it’s hard to know which sounds you’ve selected due to the multiple layers selected. In other words, sometimes I just want to pick a single sound and find instead multiple layers playing. The reverbs and the echoes effects are a nice touch. These effects are simple, intuitive and very useful, although basic. Please fix the “pitch bend range” toggle to be less tedious! If more sounds were added and issues fixed I would give 5 stars. Overall, this is a nice addition and worth the money. -- Timesrunninout, 2019-03-30 ### ***** "Realistic horns" Best on iOS. Very high quality and great variety and articulations. -- J-mazing, 2019-01-25 ### ***** "Very realistic yet feasible to them without knowledge" Very realistic yet feasible to them without knowledge -- pdd 84, 2018-12-16 ### ***** "Sounds are terrific" This is as good as iSymphony Orchestra for way less money. I hope it works in MainStage, that would be ideal. Long ago in Florida I spent an evening listening to a guy playing a hard ware synth that had a great trombone section effect, and since getting my iPad Pro I have been trying synths to get that. With iSymph and Heavy Brass, I’m there at last. Yay! -- Lundberg02, 2018-10-18 ### **--- "Misleading" I use GarageBand a ton. I’ve written over a hundred songs on it and on it, it has a thing you can tap on to get more instruments and I thought I would be able to use this on GarageBand because this was one of the options when I tapped on that, but I can’t use this with GarageBand, so I can’t make songs like I want to and so it was a waste of ten dollars. I would’ve been totally fine paying that if I could use it on there. -- DisneyLoverForever, 2018-09-22 ### **--- "You did not fix you interface" How idiotic! can this be. Your selection buttons are dark gray background when not selected and white background when selected. Only when selected is it readable and when not selected it is most difficult to read. THIS NEEDS TO BE INVERTED!!! -- QuinnX., 2018-05-07 ### ***** "I love this app" Please don't pay attention to the weird reviews, this is the best and most realistic brass app. Sounds amazing, I wish I had it on my mac as well. If you are thinking about it, do it! -- GrMoAlvRz, 2018-05-07 ### ***** "Drum Corps Sound" Love this for ‘DCI sound’ and trying for ‘Latin Regional’ effect. Using in AUE on my IPad 12” Pro Garage Band...but it won’t work in ‘Inter App Audio’. Your reverb effects do not work in AUE, by the way. -- TrinityTurret, 2018-04-18 ### *---- "Bad" On my iPad 2 the program only runs for a minute then crashes. Can you make one for the iPhone I have a 5s. I can't use this great program and I wanted my money on it! -- Cantusit, 2017-12-24 ### ****- "Good and bad" Good sound, bad interface. Worth $5 though. -- muddyslug, 2017-11-26 ### ***** "The Funk brass app I've been looking for!" I'm a professional keyboardist pushing the iPad tech edge by performing using keyboards as controllers to control 8 iPad app Synths and samplers live. Until now, I have built great sounding horn sections by using separate instrument samples and layering them through my virtual patch bay to create a horn section. While this has sounded very realistic, it eats up much of my patch bay space, limiting other instrumentation. Heavy Brass resolves that beautifully. With just one patch using only one virtual patch bay slot I get that same amazing power horn sound leaving the other slots free. And it sounds incredible. For MIDI users, the program shows the PC MIDI code for each sound patch - I've not seen another app do this and I love this feature. I tested it recently at a show for a very large crowd and it performed flawlessly. This app sounds amazing, is very MIDI friendly and is completely stable - I've seen no crashes. Lastly, the developers are very responsive to questions and comments. I give this 5 stars - easily! -- The Virtual Keyboardist, 2017-07-16 ### ****- "Excellent results..." Hoping for a few more features... would like to control length of swells. Is there a way to do this? Would be great to select which instruments are in combos. Getting pro sounding results already, tho... -- musician dan, 2017-06-25 ### ***** "From a music composer to another, this app is amazing!" I just don't know how this app can sound so amazing being its on an iPad! 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