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Garritan Jazz & Big Band
A Complete Jazz & Big Band Collection

Featuring Trumpets, Trombones, Saxophones, Rhythm Section and more.
A Comprehensive Collection of Saxophones ,
Extended Ranges of the Instruments, Variety of Mutes.

If you are serious about your music, you want your compositions to sound like the real thing. If you use just about any of the leading music creation programmes, such as Finale, Sibelius, Cubase, SONAR etc., then Garritan Jazz & Big Band is a must have.

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Featuring Trumpets, Trombones, Saxophones, Rhythm Section and more. A Comprehensive Collection of Saxophones , Extended Ranges of the Instruments, Variety of Mutes.

Includes NI KONTAKT Sample Player & GPO STUDIO to Work with Notation Programs. Create Realistic-Sounding Jazz & Big Band Arrangements Quickly and Easily Great Sounding Instruments, Advanced Programming for Expressive Control Control Dynamics, Tongue/Slur Articulations, Intonation, Vibrato & More. Build Your Own Bands and Jazz Ensembles with Individual Instruments An entire Big Band can be loaded on a single computer or laptop Mac or PC, Standalone, VST, DX, AU, RTAS, Runs in RAM.

Instruments & Demo's

Instrument List:

16 Saxophones:
Sopranino saxophone
Mezzo Soprano sax
3 Soprano saxophones
(2 straight, 1 curved)
3 Alto saxophones
C Melody saxophone
3 Tenor saxophones
Baritone saxophone
Bass saxophone,
Contrabass saxophone,
Subcontrabass saxophone,
plus derivative ensemble instruments

6 Trumpets
(with mutes):
5 Bb Trumpets
(all with extended range,
one with extreme range),
Open, straight mute, cup mute, Harmon mute, bucket mute
Flugelhorn,
Plus derivative ensemble instruments

5 Trombones
(with mutes):
4 Tenor Trombones
Bass Trombone
Open, straight mute, cup mute,Harmon mute, bucket mute
Plus derivative ensemble instruments

6 Additional Winds:
Piccolo
Alto Flute
C Flute
Bb Clarinet
Bass Clarinet
Tuba
Plus derivative ensemble instruments

3 Keyboards:
Steinway B grand piano
Vintage electric piano
Jazz Accordion

3 Guitars:
2 Electric guitars,
Acoustic guitar

6 Basses:
2 Upright acoustic basses,
2 Fretless electric basses,
2 Fretted electric basses

3 Drum Kits:
Classic Stick kits
Fusion Stick Kit
plus separate instruments (kick, snare, toms, hi-hat, cymbals)
Brush kit plus separate instruments

Percussion:
Vibraphone
(hard and soft mallets)
Wide variety of percussion including Latin percussion, bongos, congas, timbales, wood blocks, bells, whistles, etc.

Here are the first demos of the new Garritan Jazz and Big Band library - a library we hope will help fill a conspicuous vacancy in the world of sample libraries. These first demos are intended to give a taste of many of the new instruments and their capabilities. We hope you enjoy them and find the implications enticing and exciting.
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Big Band
with different combinations of instruments.		 A Big Band arrangement with many different combinations of instruments in a brief amount of time. The instrumentation for this piece is: 2 alto saxes, 2 tenor saxes, 1 bari sax, 4 trumpets, 3 tenor trombones, 1 bass trombone, upright bass, and drums. This example is taken from a book by Gary Lindsay called “Jazz Arranging Techniques - from Quartet to Big Band.

Jazz Quartet
with Tenor sax, Steinway Jazz piano, Fretless Electric Bass, Brush Drum Kit.
Jazz quartet with tenor sax, piano, fretless bass, and brush drum kit. Details about the individual instruments are contained in the instrument-specific demos below.
Jazz Quartet
with Soprano Sax, Rhodes Keyboard, Fretted Jazz Bass, and Fusion Drum Kit.

All inflections in the soprano sax are programmed, including bends, vibrato intensity and speed, tongue/slur, attack strength, air flow sounds, key click sounds, and player breaths.
Horn and Rhythm Section
with Bari Sax, Tenor Sax, Alto Sax, Trombone, and a Scream Trumpet on top.

Certain characteristics of the trumpet are controllable, like the “kiss” at the end of the final “double high C.“ Rhythm section is Rhodes, fretted Jazz bass, and fusion drum kit.

Jazz Quartet
with Flugelhorn, Vibes, Upright Bass, and Classic Jazz Drum Kit
All inflections in the Flugelhorn are programmed using the extensive MIDI controllers. The vibes are available in both hard and soft mallets; this demo uses the hard mallets. .
A Selection of Saxes
with Tenor sax, Bass sax, Alto sax, Soprano sax, Baritone sax, Sopranino sax and Contra-Bass sax.

The Garritan Jazz and Big Band library contains an unusually large list of instruments from the saxophone family; this includes rarely seen instruments like the sopranino, contrabass sax, and sub-contrabass sax. This demo uses essentially the same MIDI data (with a few modifications) for each of the featured saxophones. Octave transpositions, key transpositions and some phrase transpositions have been applied to keep each instrument in its “bread and butter” range. There have also been some modifications to articulations and tempi to supply some variety to the demos while still maintaining a direct comparison between types. Each saxophone has standard expressive controls (mod wheel volume/timbre, sustain pedal tongue/slur, velocity attack strength, etc.) but adds some new controls for things like key click sounds and air flow noise. There are also breath sounds available (and used in this demo).

Steinway Jazz Piano This features the Steinway piano in the library, This instrument has been designed with variable brightness control to allow adjustments to suit different mixing requirements. The brightness control in this demo is set to a moderate level. This demo features the excellent playing of W. Michael Jaap.
Vintage Electric Keyboard (Rhodes)

This demo is in two parts: The first part is “dry” with the tremolo control turned off. The second part has the tremolo control turned on at a modest level. The programming of this instrument mimics the stereo speaker tremolo of the original instrument. Once again, the artist playing this demo is W. Michael Jaap.
Upright Basses

The Jazz and Big Band library contains two fine upright basses. The two basses differ somewhat in basic sound character. Both instruments have extensive controls for string noises, finger noises, and amount of low bass content. The demo is in two parts, one for each bass.

This is one of the really groundbreaking features of the new library. The snare brush stirs are actually “playable.” This means that the brush stirs can be programmed at any given tempo and this tempo information can be later modified at will. This demo illustrates this unusual feature. The same MIDI data is repeated 3 times. The first time is at a medium tempo. The second time is at a slower tempo but leads to an accelerando near the end of this section. The third time is at a fast tempo. Note that the stirs follow all of the tempo changes. Of course, this demo also shows the various brush “hits” available for snare, toms, and cymbals..

Classic Jazz Drum Kit

 

The Classic Jazz kit uses single layer drum heads and a 15in hihat for the distinctive sound of classic Jazz drumming. This and the following demo are designed to display each of the drum and cymbal types in the kit for sound evaluation. Both kits are recorded “in place” in true stereo for a excellent three dimensional image.

Fusion Drum Kit

 This kit uses double layer heads and a 14in. hihat, along with other techniques to create the “tight” and dry sound of fusion recordings. All ride and crash cymbal choices are available to both kits. Different cymbals are used for these two demos to show some of the possibilities. Both demos are mixed dry.
Brass Range Demo

The extremely extended range of the brass in the
Jazz and Big Band library is demonstrated with this brief mix. The instruments are trumpet, trombone, bass trombone, and drums. The final note of the trumpet is the highest actual note recorded for the library - triple high C (concert Bb.) Once again, note that the last note has the characteristic “kiss,” a switchable characteristic in the library.

See Tom perform Trumpet Shakes

 

 

System Requirements

For Kontakt Player & Sound Library

  • 2.5 GB of free hard disk space.
  • DVD Drive.
  • Windows XP, Pentium 4 /Athlon 2.4 GHz or better is recommended. or
  • Mac OS X or higher
  • The Kontakt Player needs a soundcard for playing the sounds of Jazz & Big Band. Standard DirectSound, MME or ASIO drivers required; Windows-compatible MIDI hardware if required.
  • A MIDI interface is required if you are using a MIDI keyboard, another MIDI controller or an external sequencer. The MIDI interface integrated in many sound cards can also be used.
  • To play an entire big band, we recommend 1 GB of RAM or more. There is a direct correlation between the number of instruments that can be loaded and the amount of available RAM. The more RAM available the better.

Note: The Kontakt audio engine is designed to make use of the processing power of your computer's CPU. The powerful and complex algorithms of the Kontakt Player work best on modern and fast CPUs. Please also observe the systems requirements of your host application.
Compatibility: Win (VST 2.0, DXi2, ASIO, MME, DirectSound, RTAS) Mac(VST 2.0, ASIO, Soundmanager, OMS, Audio Units, Core Audio, RTAS)

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