Broadway Big Band v.1.3 KONTAKT

TEAM MAGNETRiXX | 11 May 2013 | 97.7 GB

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 Performer™ technology is a Patented* MIDI Processing System developed especially for the Broadway Big Band™ products. It enables the most comprehensive and intuitive access to the thousands of samples included in the Broadway Big Band™ virtual instruments, granting both the creative freedom and the fullest control over the finest nuances of performance, all in real-time but fully editable in step-mode as well. It chooses the pre-recorded note transitions based on context, and provides instant access to a virtually limitless variety of articulations and playing techniques.

This is acheived by a combination of several powerful concepts: Multi-dimentional key-switching, Bi-Directional key-switches, shift & option keys, and active key-switch behaviour.
Furthermore, Broadway performer introduces an advanced and unique way of managing alternate samples, modulation-wheel data-morphing, actively changing the articulation of an already played note, and more…

The Objective:

To enable composers, producers and arrangers to achieve real sounding organic Brass & Woodwind sound in a non-orchestral setting. The Broadway Big Band™ combines technological innovation and exceptional musicians in creating the most detailed, flexible and intuitive non-orchestral multi-sample library, and it’s doing so in the form of a revolutionary virtual instrument.

Multiple Microphone Setups

The need to have the artistic and technical flexibility in placing your instruments in an appropriate environment is also a key factor in our vision. The instruments were thus sampled with multiple microphone positions, using different microphone types, pre-amps and recording styles, allowing the user to mic the instrument according to the production needs, just as they would if they were recording a live musician.

Musical Performance

The necessity of having performers that bring the spirit of their “own” sound without being overbearing was one of the most important aspects of this project. The objective was maximizing the usability and flexibility, and keeping the performance of the recorded sound-samples breathing and full of life. Hence, the virtual instruments of the Broadway Big Band™ were recorded with world-class leading New-York musicians, who have been carefully chosen for the character in their musical performance and for their musical versatility.

New in version 1.3.0

· New and improved look;
· Much faster loading times (thanks to Kontakt 4.1);
· Improved stability and performance, including numerous bug fixes;
· Addition of preconfigured Multis for quick section emulation;
· Addition of an octave transposition slider for each instrument;
· The velocity control option on the main window is now persisted between sessions;