Electronic Musician: The Ultimate Bass Library
This is the first in a new series of features aimed at spotlighting the best available sounds. As the availability of sound libraries continues to grow, sorting out what's hot and what's not has become increasingly difficult. Reading detailed reviews is a great way to learn about the specifics of a particular product, but sometimes you need broad comparisons of products that share the same ...
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Sonic Control: Review of Dan Dean Bass Collection
Overall Rating: (5/5)
Sound Quality: (5/5)
Usability: (5/5)
Programming & disc layout: (5/5)
Value: (5/5)
Recently, I have been noticing a definite upward trend in the innovative steps that sample developers have been taking to not only embrace new technologies, but also in their conviction for creating ultra-realistic sampled renditions of traditional orchestral (and no-so-traditional) ...
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Sound On Sound: Review of Dan Dean Solo Strings (Akai)
Dan Dean's renowned trio of solo instrument titles is now available in the ubiquitous Akai S1000 format. A big hit with the film music community, these libraries (whose Giga-format originals were reviewed in SOS September and October 2001, and January 2002) can now be readily accessed by those musicians who continue to use Akai-compatible samplers.
Rather than create low-alcohol 'Akai lite' ...
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Electronic Musician: Quick Pick: Brass Ensemble
Dan Dean Productions' Brass Ensembles includes four French Horns, three trumpets, and three trombones in sections. All of the instruments are chromatically sampled in up to eight layers of dynamics. Performances include basic legato (without vibrato), portamento, and staccato. Samples with mutes as well as stopped French horns are also included.
Unique to this collection is what Dean describes ...
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Sound Castle: Review of Dan Dean Solo Woodwinds
... family size package chip, box beer, telephone and entry door clip clamped, woman and children on the country skillfully (thanks Dan!). Thus in approximately the preparations for the test listening program for Dan Deans "solo Woodwinds" ran. The AKAI format with 9 CDs was appropriate for me in black zipper bag (black more zipper wallet) forwards. Thus available 10 CD set for Gigasampler (in ...
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Electronic Musician: Electronic Musician – Sound Advice
Every instrument included in Dan Dean Solo Brass ($649) is sampled chromatically. The ten-CD collection for GigaStudio offers as many as eight layers, recorded from ppp to fff for each note of every instrument. Dean recorded the samples in 24-bit, 44 kHz stereo and used Apogee's UV-22 bit-depth reduction system to convert sounds to 16-bit resolution.
Instruments included in the collection are ...
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Sound On Sound: Review of Dan Dean Solo Strings
Many musicians feel the urge at some time in their career to add the sounds of a real string section to their music, whatever its style. However, while booking a session with professional string players almost guarantees a good result, given a suitable arrangement, those of us relying on MIDI have a harder job. The massed string sections available from most synths create very passable ensemble ...
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Sonic Control: Review of Dan Dean Solo Brass
Overall Rating: (5/5)
Sound Quality: (5/5)
Usability: (5/5)
Programming & disc layout: (5/5)
Value: (5/5)
Recently, I have been noticing a definite upward trend in the innovative steps that sample developers have been taking to not only embrace new technologies, but also in their conviction for creating ultra-realistic sampled renditions of traditional orchestral (and no-so-traditional) ...
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