big band

Namm Update: SONiVOX announced the release of Broadway Big Band (BBB). Broadway Big Band delivers real sounding woodwind, brass, and rhythm section instruments with unparalleled flexibility for any style of music.

With an introductory price of $2295 (!), BBB weights in at a 100 Gigabytes and delivers a huge array of big band instrument articulations, velocity layers, multiple takes and multiple mic positions. Moreover, the Broadway Performer performance tool allows users to harness this huge collection in order to get their music to recorded track quickly and easily.

Says Yuval Shrem, Co-President of Fable Sounds, “Broadway Big Band addresses a unique segment of the musical instrument market which is not only a personal love of my own, but enjoying a newfound popularity worldwide. Now, for the first time, a library of sounds is available to musicians who not only delight in this music as much as I do, but are eager to use this kind of instrumentation in projects from swing to salsa.” Read more…

Garritan is now shipping their Jazz & Big Band collection. Jazz & Big Band offers a complete collection of instruments to create realistic-sounding jazz and big band arrangements.

It features over 50 individual instruments including: a comprehensive saxophone collection (16 different saxes), 5 trumpets (with various mutes plus a scream trumpet), 5 trombones (with various mutes), a complete rhythm section, guitars, a Steinway jazz piano, vintage electric piano, acoustic and electric basses, vibraphone, Latin percussion and more.

The Jazz & Big Band Library features innovative programming for expressive control, dynamics, vibrato control, tongue techniques, slur articulations, jazz shakes, doits, falls, air sound, valve/key clicks, ensemble building from individual instruments, and more.

Garritan Jazz & Big Band is now available for $259.

Powered by the Native Instruments Kontakt Player, it will work on a single computer and/or laptop, Mac or PC platform, Standalone, or plug-in for all major sequencers (VST, DX, AU, RTAS), runs in RAM and works with major notation programs.

More information is available at the Garritan site.

Big Fish Audio has introduced Greg Adams’ Big Band Brass, a Aiff/Apple Loops/WAV/Acid collection.

Performance Loops producer Stephen Sherrard teams up with legendary trumpeter, composer, and arranger Greg Adams (Rod Stewart, Elton John, Linda Ronstadt, Lyle Lovett) to bring you over 4600 Big Band Brass loops and samples.

This DVD-ROM contains thousands of loops and samples from Greg’s big band arrangements, recorded with the Greg Adams Jazz Orchestra and featuring a 14 piece horn section. All loops and samples are presented as both ACIDized Wave files and Apple Loop Format AIFF files. Time stretch markers were meticulously edited for all loops to deliver the best sound quality possible when stretching or compressing the loops to match your project tempo.

Contents:

• Over 4600 Big Band Brass loops and samples

More information and demos are available at the Big Fish Audio site.