Broadway Big Band Now Shipping
Wow, I just ran into this sample library and it looks pretty amazing. It is the Fable Sound’s Broadway Big Band Distributed by SONiVOX. There are plenty of horn libraries out there and some are very good but this is the first that I have run across that I am really excited about for big band sounds. The recording quality really captures how I think a big band should sound.
They also seem to have broken some type of barrier in regards to how the sample library is played. I have never quite gotten the hang of other libraries and how you have to use the controllers to switch between the different articulations, but from watching the demo they seem to have done something to make playing and switching between articulations more natural.
Of course that is the demo and they always make everything look easy, and it is a very expensive library so I definately want to try and find some more info on it or talk to some who has used it before putting up that type of money.
In the past, the technique I have used to record midi horns is this. If it is a trumpet line, I find a generic trumpet sound to write with. After the writing is done (really done because this is a 3 step process that you don’t want to do over and over) I will take that midi track and duplicate it into usually 3 midi tracks. Each of those midi tracks I assign to the different articulations and such that I want for that line (scoops, swells, hard attack, etc) Basically one midi track per articulation.
Then in pro tools record each midi track on to its own audio track. Stereo track if the sample started out truly stereo.
After they are all recorded, I go into each track and cut out the stuff that does not sound good. so track one has all of the sustain notes, track 2 has all of the hard attacks, track 3 has all of the swells, etc. After cleaning up the audio and playing with the fades, bussing all the tracks to a L/R sub mix and then adding some verb, it usually sounds ok.
If it is a very important part, I will repeat this process with another library using the same midi tracks I started with. Layering like instruments and articulations from different libraries can really fatten up a sound as all libraries sound different.
I will check back if I am able to get my hands on this new library.
Matt
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