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Jazz and Big Band Sound Library

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Overview

A complete jazz and big band collection.

The Garritan Jazz and Big Band Collection is the industry's first jazz & big band sound library featuring virtual trumpets, trombones, comprehensive saxophone collection, keyboards, rhythm section - over 50 individual Instruments. Create your own realistic-sounding jazz & big band arrangements quickly and easily. Build your own bands and jazz ensembles!

The Jazz and Big Band Collection Includes the Native Instruments KONTAKT Sample Player, and works with most notation programs. This sample library contains great sounding virtual instruments with expressive control such as tongue/slur articulations, intonation, vibrato, extended ranges of the instruments, variety of mutes & more. Do it all on a single computer or laptop, Mac or PC, standalone, VST, DX, AU, and RTAS. Runs in RAM.

Features

16 Virtual 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 Virtual 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 Virtual Trombones:
  • (with mutes): 4 Tenor Trombones, Bass Trombone, Open, straight mute, cup mute, Harmon mute, bucket mute Plus derivative ensemble instruments
6 Additional Wind Instruments:
  • Piccolo, Alto Flute, C Flute Bb Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Tuba, Plus derivative ensemble instrument
3 Virtual Keyboards:
  • Steinway B grand piano, Vintage electric piano, Jazz Accordion,
3 Guitars:
  • 2 Virtual Electric Guitars, Acoustic Guitar
Virtual Basses:
  • 2 Upright acoustic basses, 2 Fretless electric basses, 2 Fretted electric basses
Virtual Drum Kits:
  • Classic Stick kits, Fusion Stick Kit plus separate instruments (kick, snare, toms, hi-hat, cymbals), Brush kit plus separate instruments
Virtual Percussion Instruments:
  • Vibraphone (hard and soft mallets), Wide variety of percussion including Latin percussion, bongos, congas, timbales, wood blocks, bells, whistles, etc.
Specs

Jazz and Big Band Sound Library Specifications:

  • 2.5 GB of free hard disk space
  • DVD Drive
  • Windows XP, Pentium 4 /Athlon 2.4 GHz or better is recommended
  • Mac OS X or higher, To get full functionality of all the programming a G5 is recommended. 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 system requirements of your host application
  • 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
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