Broadway Big Band
Delivering supreme content and groundbreaking technological innovation we are proud to bring you Broadway Big Band – Kontakt Edition, a whopping 100 Gigabyte Virtual Instrument by Fable Sounds. Broadway Big Band – Kontakt Edition puts the most detailed, realistic, versatile, and playable, character filled wind & rhythm section instruments at your fingertips. Broadway Big Band is an indispensable tool for creating Jazz, Funk, Pop, Blues, R&B, Latin, Hip-Hop, and much more…
The Broadway Big Band™ instruments are divided into 2 groups:
Polyphonic instruments & Legato instruments (using the Broadway Performer™)
LEGATO INSTRUMENTS:
(including real prerecorded note-transitions using the Broadway Performer™)
TRUMPETS:
– Solo (Bb) Trumpet
TROMBONES:
– Solo Tenor Trombone
SAXOPHONES & WOODWINDS:
– Soprano Saxophone
– Alto Saxophone
– Tenor Saxophone
– Baritone Saxophone
– Clarinet
RHYTHM SECTION:
– HH prerecorded legatos for perfect realism in transitions between the 5 levels of openness.
POLYPHONIC INSTRUMENTS:
TRUMPETS:
– Solo (Bb) Trumpet 1
– Solo (Bb) Trumpet 2
TROMBONES:
– Solo Tenor Trombone
SAXOPHONES & WOODWINDS:
– Soprano Saxophone
– Alto Saxophone 1
– Alto Saxophone 2
– Tenor Saxophone 1
– Tenor Saxophone 2
– Baritone Saxophone
– Clarinet
RHYTHM SECTION:
– Upright Bass
– Banjo
– Ukulele
– Drum-kits
– Xylophone
– Latin Percussion
ARTICULATIONS for Wind Instruments (Partial list) :
*Most of the Articulations of the Broadway Big Band instruments include multiple alternate samples for improved realism.
– Sustains (Various Dynamics) : >With Normal Vibrato > No Vibrato > Deep Vibrato > Progressive Vibrato
– Sforzando (Various Dynamics)
– Staccato (Various Dynamics)
– Staccatissimo (Various Dynamics)
– Falls (Up & Down) + Various speeds
– Flutter Tonguing
– Growling
– Rip into note
– Smear / Glide into note
– Plunger (Wah-Wah effects) : Various patterns + Static positions
– Shakes
– Triplets
– Grace Notes
– Alternate Fingering
– Mutes (Trumpet & Trombone)* : > Straight Mute > Harmon Mute > Cup Mute > Bucket
NOTE TRANSITIONS (Partial list) :
– Legato
– Glissando
– Rip Portamento
– Chromatic Runs
– Smear Legato
– All the above note transitions recorded both into sustained notes and into short notes, most in various dynamic layers.
– All wind instruments were recorded in at least 4 microphone positions, to provide various sound choices.
* Not all articulations available for all instruments.
ARTICULATIONS for Upright Bass:
Pizzicato Articulations:
– Sustains no vibrato
– Sustain with vibrato
– Short notes – half muted
– Muted
– Slap
– Glissandos (various intervals)
– Bend into note (both up and down)
ARTICULATIONS for Banjo:
– Staccato (Down stoke) – Various dynamics
– Staccato (Up stoke) – Various dynamics
– Sustain (Down stroke) – Various dynamics
– Sustain (Up stroke) – Various dynamics
– Muted (Down stoke) – Various dynamics
– Muted (Up stoke) – Various dynamics
– Half Muted (Down stoke)
– String muting release samples
– Grace notes
ARTICULATIONS for Ukulele:
– Sustain (Down stroke) – Various dynamics
– Sustain (Up stroke) – Various dynamics
– Muted (Down stoke) – Various dynamics
– Muted (Up stoke) – Various dynamics
ARTICULATIONS for Drums:
– Kick drum
(normal + Gain up)
– Snare drum
(Center, off-center, rim-shot, rim, buzz-roll-components, double-hit, stick-click, roll-to-hit, cross-stick, various brush swishes)
– Tom x2
(Center, rim-shot, rim, muted)
– Floor drum
(center, rim, muted)
– HH
(Edge, tip, open, half-open, loose, closed, tightly-closed, splash, stomp, legato-stomp-from-open, legato-stomp-with-hit-from-open.)
– Cymbals X5
(16″Crash, 19″Crash, 20″K-Ride, Crash-Ride, Splash. Tip, Edge, Bell, Harmonics, Scrapes)
Up to 16 dynamic levels for each (sometimes more)
Right & Left hand versions + Alternate samples
Sticks / Brushes
Various areas of the drums and cymbals (center, off-center, rim-shot, rim, cross, edge, tip, bell…)
& more…
ARTICULATIONS for Xylophone :
Plastic Mallets – single stokes + Alternates in 4 dynamic layers (PP, MP, MF, FF)
Plastic Mallets – single stokes – Muted + Alternates in 4 dynamic layers (PP, MP, MF, FF)
Plastic Mallets – Scrapes
Plastic Mallets – Glissando effects
Soft Rubber Mallets – single stokes + Alternates in 4 dynamic layers (PP, MP, MF, FF)
Soft Rubber Mallets – single stokes – Muted + Alternates in 4 dynamic layers (PP, MP, MF, FF)
Soft Rubber Mallets – Scrapes
Soft Rubber Mallets – Glissando effects
ARTICULATIONS for Hand Percussions :
– Congas
– Bongos
– Timbalitos
– Cowbells
– Agogo
– Woodblocks
– Claves
– Castanets
– Ratchet
– and more…
Drums were recorded in drumset position, using 25 microphones onto hi-definition multi-track-channels at 192KHz and were down-converted to 44.1KHz and mixed-down to stereo to improve usability.
Xylophone was recorded using 3 stereophonic microphone setups (Top, Buttom & Room).
Hand Percussions were recorded separately using 3 stereophonic microphone setups (Close, Loose & Room).
