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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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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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Electronic Musician: Review of Dan Dean Bass Collection, Vol. 2
The Dan Dean Bass Collection, vol. 2, has samples so smooth you'll have a hard time telling them from the real thing.
Some people are just fanatics when it comes to the bottom end of the musical spectrum. Dan Dean, an accomplished bassist, composer, educator, and sound designer, is clearly one of those people. His Dan Dean Bass Collection, vol. 2 ($199), is a unique treasury of bass sounds ...
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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 Brass (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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Sonic Control: Review of Dan Dean Solo Woodwinds
Overall Rating: (5/5)
Sound Quality: (5/5)
Usability: (5/5)
Programming & disc layout: (5/5)
Value: (5/5)
Dan Dean Solo Woodwinds is the latest a series of acoustic instrument libraries to be released from Dan Dean Productions (creators of the recent and also reviewed Dan Dean Solo Brass, Dan Dean Solo Strings and the Dan Dean Bass Collection). Included in this 10 CD-ROM set are ...
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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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Electronic Musician: Review of Dan Dean Solo Woodwinds
Samplers have been the traditional tools of choice for rendering the complexities of woodwind sounds. But hardware samplers are frequently hobbled by RAM restrictions, spawning presets based on a limited number of short, looped samples with few, if any, dynamic layers. To avoid those problems, composer and instrumentalist Dan Dean turned to the GigaSampler format. His Dan Dean Solo Woodwinds ...
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