Swam solo brass
Here you will find everything related to the installation, activation, updates, release notes and manuals of our Virtual Instruments and Applications.
General Information
- Are you planning to create any Ensembles like Strings Ensembles and Brass Ensembles in the near future?
- Is it possible to control SWAM instruments using only note-on velocity?
- Warning! Expression controller non received
- Where can I find a free VST/Host?
- Where do I find User Manuals?
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Product & License Management
How To...
- Can I keep my SWAM instruments on an external drive?
- Can I use SWAM instruments without a physical MIDI controller?
- How do I create ensembles using SWAM instruments?
- How to install and authorize products through the Software Center
- Is there a way to access the reverb module to modify the default reverb type on SWAM instruments?
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Compatibility
Known Issues
Sales, Billing, Offers
What are the technical requirements for using SWAM instruments?
Supported formats and OS
Solo Brass v1, Solo Strings v3, Solo Woodwinds v3
- Standalone, Audio Units, VST, VST3, AAX, NKS 64bit
- macOS 10.10 to 12 (Monterey) - M1/Silicon supported natively
- Windows 10 and 11
Solo Woodwinds v2, Solo Strings v2 (discontinued)
- Audio Units, VST, AAX 64bit*
- macOS 10.7 to 12 (Monterey)** - M1/Silicon architecture supported through Rosetta 2
- Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10
Small footprint!
- SWAM Saxophones
- Disk space: 276 MB
- RAM: 80 MB for each instrument instance
- SWAM Clarinets
- Disk space: 152 MB
- RAM: 80 MB for each instrument instance
- SWAM Flutes
- Disk space: 100 MB
- RAM: 50 MB for each instrument instance
- SWAM Double Reeds
- Disk space: 245 MB
- RAM: 80 MB for each instrument instance
- SWAM Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass
- Disk space: 15 MB each
- RAM: 15 MB for each instrument instance
- SWAM Trumpets, Trombones, Horns & Tubas
- Disk space: 125 MB each
- RAM: 15 MB for each instrument instance
CPU load
The realism and expressiveness of SWAM instrument sets can be very CPU intensive. Therefore, they require a modern computer with at least a 1.6 GHz Core 2 Duo CPU. Less powerful systems may also give decent results but might require larger buffer sizes, involving higher latencies.
* 32bit products have been dismissed starting from Woodwinds 2.8 and Solo Strings 2.0 (November 2017)
** Audio Units on Mojave, Catalina, Big Sur, Monterey
If the plugins are not found by your DAW after the installation, clean the Audio Units cache and reboot the system.
To clean the Audio Units cache:
- In the Finder, choose Go > Go to Folder from the menu.
- Type ~/Library/Caches in the "Go to the folder" field.
- Press the Go button
- Remove the "com.apple.audiounits.cache" file.
- Remove the ~/Library/Caches/AudioUnitCache folder