Dan Dean Productions Releases "Dan Dean Solo Brass" for Tascam GigaSampler10 disk library comprised of Bass Trombone, Cimbasso, Euphonium, French Horn, Piccolo Trumpet NV, Piccolo Trumpet V, Trombone, Trumpet NV, Trumpet V and Tuba.  September 12, 2001Dan Dean announced the release of his new "Dan Dean Solo Brass" CD-ROM library for GigaSampler and GigaStudio. Priced at $649 (US) for the 10 CD set, this orchestral library features chromatically/multi-sampled Bass Trombone, Cimbasso, Euphonium, French Horn, Piccolo Trumpet NV, Piccolo Trumpet V, Trombone, Trumpet NV, Trumpet V and Tuba. The set is packaged in a custom CD wallet specifically designed for this unique product. Single instruments will also be available at $119.00 per instrument.
All of the instruments were recorded in 24 bit stereo using Dean's proprietary recording techniques and bit reduced to 16 bit via Apogee's UV-22‚ process.
Each and every note of all of the instruments has been chromatically sampled in up to 8 layers of dynamics (ppp through fff). Most instruments include basic legato non-vibrato, portamento, staccato, forte piano (with long, medium and short crescendos) and mutes. articulations.
Programming features developed by Donnie Christian of DS Soundware and Dan Dean, allow unprecedented control over the samples. Programming features include "Fast Attack ModWheel" which places selectable staccato samples at the start of each NV legato note for fast articulation of quick musical passages. The new "Ensemble" presets allow access to numerous velocity layers simultaneously. This feature creates realistic sections and ensembles using the long, unlooped samples created for this project. As each note is played, slight timbral and pitch variations create realistic ensembles when used in our "ensemble" presets. There is full Keyswitching and Mod Wheel implementation of the programming, which allows for on-the-fly switching from NV to Staccato, NV to Portato, NV to Mutes and other permutations.
There are presets which achieve these same effects via Velocity Switching, where there is a Staccato or Portato layer at the top velocities over the NV samples. There are also "Layers" presets, which allow access to all of the separate velocity/timbre layers separately. This is a powerful preset allowing the user to assign individual voices to different sample layers. Using this preset, multiple parts can be played using completely different samples. For more information, visit their web site at www.dandeanpro.com. |
