Native Instruments Session Horns Pro May 2026

Third-wave ska (The Mighty Mighty Bosstones) requires fast, repeated sixteenth-note stabs. Session Horns Pro handles repetition better than any other sampled horn, because it has multiple Round Robins (different recordings of the same note) to avoid the "machine gun" effect.

The standout feature of Session Horns Pro—and the primary reason many producers choose it over competitors—is the Animator. native instruments session horns pro

Programming realistic brass lines is tedious. You have to manually program velocity, note lengths, and articulations (falls, doits, shakes) to make it sound human. The Animator solves this by acting as a phrase arranger. Third-wave ska (The Mighty Mighty Bosstones) requires fast,

When engaged, the Animator allows you to play simple chords or single notes, and the software automatically generates realistic accompaniment phrases. It intelligently assigns the Trumpets to higher harmony and the Trombone and Sax to lower foundations, mimicking how a real arranger would write for the section. The standout feature of Session Horns Pro—and the

It comes loaded with hundreds of phrases organized by genre (Funk, Reggae, Pop, Rock, etc.). You can sync the phrases to your DAW’s tempo, adjust the swing feel, and trigger fills in real-time. For a producer who cannot read or write music notation, this feature alone is worth the price of admission. It turns a keyboard player into a horn arranger instantly.

Session Horns Pro includes four individually sampled instruments, designed to cover the full spectrum of the standard horn section:

Each instrument was recorded in a dry studio environment (at Native Instruments’ in-house recording facility in Berlin) with multiple dynamic layers and round-robins. The dry signal is crucial: it allows producers to place the horns in any acoustic space using reverb, from a tight 1960s club to a sprawling Hollywood scoring stage.