Broadway Big Band

Delivering supreme content and groundbreaking technological innovation, Broadway Big Band – Kontakt Edition is a virtual instrument by Fable Sounds with a whopping 100 Gigabyte of audio content and a unique set of powerful features.

Exploding with character and attitude, Broadway Big Band – Kontakt Edition has been established as the ultimate virtual instrument for contemporary brass, reeds and rhythm section instruments. With multiple microphone setups, whether for live stage use or studio work, contemporary or an oldie, Broadway Big Band can do it all.

It has been used by top industry professionals on major albums, live shows, and high profile film, television, and theater projects. Putting the most detailed, realistic, versatile, and playable 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...

Key Features:

• 100 GB of multi-sample audio content at 24-bit / 44.1 kHz.
• Over 140,000 unique samples.
• Multiple microphone setups to combine or choose from for each instrument, providing several recording styles and techniques to accommodate a wide variety of music productions and genres.
• Real note-transition samples, including legato, glissando, etc.
• Real-time access to all of the articulations of each instrument, using the revolutionary real-time articulation-switching system, which is a part of the patented "Broadway Performer" technology.
• Dynamic articulation switching enables switching articulations for ongoing notes while they're still playing, offering the hyper-realistic fluidity of a live performer.
• Clever key-switch programming enables super-fast, easy and intuitive articulation switching in real-time.
• MIDI data morphing for mod-wheel driven crescendos and diminuendos enables the unique hybrid mode, using keyboard velocity and modulation wheel at the same time.
• Velocity curve control, and Velocity Shift slider, to help to manage with the wide dynamic range of the instruments when using a MIDI keyboard.
• Strumming engine for the Banjo and Ukulele makes it easy to strum on your keyboard.
• Unison Section – enables stacking multiple instances of the same instrument, creating a realistic section even when playing in unison.
• Real-Time Orchestrator – a revolutionary powerful feature which enables a keyboard player to play an entire mixed section of instruments with polyphonic polyrhythmic legato, distributing the voices to the selected instruments, as defined in a user editable orchestration scheme. Multiple orchestration schemes are possible within a single RTO multi, switchable in real-time via mouse click or user defined MIDI triggers.
• Includes a set of powerful instruments multis for easy section playing (both regular stacked multis and RTO multis).
• Revolutionary and patented alternate samples handling (round-robin), including an individual cycle for each note in each dynamic level of each articulation, resulting in up to hundreds of individual cycles per instrument, providing the most authentic performance ever offered by a multi-sample library or a virtual instrument.
• Create and recall snapshots of alternate cycles to lock performance and gain ultimate control.
• Dump & Reload articulations of instruments right from the interface, to optimize memory usage.
• Top New York musicians and recording studios.
• Color coded keyboard view presents the playable range and the various types of virtual key switches available for each instrument.

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