Fable Sounds Kicks Off Broadway Big Band Line of Virtual Instruments
January 29, 2005
Launching their new company with a highly ambitious project,
Fable Sounds previewed the first release in its Broadway Big Band
Series, the Grand Opening Edition, in their quest to create the world's
largest, most detailed non-orchestral virtual instrument, at this year's
Winter NAMM show.
The "Broadway Big Band"
covers a wide range of articulations and playing techniques for instruments
such as trumpet, trombone, saxophones, clarinet, and rhythm section
instruments, all recorded in New-York's finest recording studios and performed by world-class
musicians who gave the samples. Hundreds of
hours were spent in the studio, extensively sampling every playing technique
and articulation imaginable in various dynamic levels and including all the
intervals of the full range of each instrument up to intervals as wide as
major 9th.
Broadway Big band offers versatility of genres by providing
several options of recording styles to choose from for each and every
instrument included in it. The entire project was recorded with at least 4
microphone positions for each instrument, to enable the choice of
recording-styles and approaches in order to match every musical production
in various genres.
The "Broadway Performer," both available as a MIDI plug-in and
as a stand-alone program is a unique supplement developed especially for the
Broadway Big Band products. It is a midi
manipulation tool, which enables access
to the numerous samples and articulations in real time based on context. It includes a
system of virtual key-switches and data morphing processors,
and enables switching between different articulations and note transitions
in real time, making the usage of key-switches a much more intuitive one,
and giving composers and music producers the true creative freedom and
intuitive workflow they were all waiting for.
With thousands of sampled
intervals in various styles such as Legato, glissandos, chromatic-runs,
Rip-Portamento, and the unique "Smear Legato," and "Clap-Bend," the products
of the Broadway Big Band provide realistic note transitions, which
were always the main obstacle standing between sampler-users and the realism
they seek. Now the Broadway Big Band not only includes all the intervals up
to major 9th in various playing techniques but also enables switching
between them in real-time without the need of multiple midi tracks and
complicated programming. It also enables easy and intuitive access to
numerous non-legato articulations such as Staccato, Staccatissimo, Falls (up
& down), Rips, Flutter-Tonguing, Plunger (Wah-Wah effects), Smearing effects
and many more.
The Brass instruments were sampled with various mutes (Cup, Straight, Harmon
& Bucket). The Broadway Big Band includes numerous unique and useful
articulations and playing techniques that were never sampled before, and
were never available to sampler-users anywhere, according to the company.
The Grand Opening Edition of the Broadway Big Band is loaded with dozens of
gigabytes of extensively sampled sonically superior samples. It includes
instruments such as Bb Trumpet, Tenor Trombone, Soprano, Alto, Tenor and
Baritone Saxophones, Bb Clarinet, Upright Bass, Drum-set and percussion.
These instruments will be available as a full Big Band package, or as separate
components ("Broadway Trumpets," "Broadway Trombones," "Broadway Saxophones
& Woodwinds," and the "Broadway Rhythm Section" add-on.
Grand Opening Edition is slated for a Q1 release. For more information, visit their web site at www.fablesounds.com. |
