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Sound On Sound: Dan Dean Solo Brass
Dan Dean has already covered solo strings and solo woodwinds, and now he turns his attention to the brass family. Like the Solo Woodwinds collection (reviewed SOS October 2001), Solo Brass is a huge, 10-CD set supplied in a smart zippable wallet, with each CD dedicated to a specific instrument. The selection comprises bass trombone, cimbasso (bass tuba), euphonium, French horn, piccolo trumpet ...
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Key Buy: Review: Dan Dean Brass Ensemble
Pros: Excellent recording quality. Creative, musically useful programming. Wide range of articulations and dynamics. Close and ambient samples let you tailor the room environment.
Cons: No looped programs. No fall-offs or other jazz articulations. Bottom Line: An outstanding collection of horn section samples that plays and sounds incredibly realistic.
Dan Dean might not be a household name ...
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Keyboard Magazine: Review
Sound Quality: 9
Selection: 7
Implementation: 8
Documentation: 3
Bang For The Buck: 7
Formats
CD-ROM(E-mu Elllx and E4/IEOS).
Overview
Note-For-Note samples of nine
classic (and near-classic) electric
and acoustic bass guitars, plus pizzicato upright bass.
Contents
Fender Jazz Bass and Precision Basses, Rickenbacker 4001, Hofner Violin Bass, Gibson Thunderbird, Alembic Spoiler ...
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Electronic Musician: Review
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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Sound on Sound: Review: Dan Dean Solo Brass
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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Soundcastle: Review
... 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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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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Sonic Control: Review
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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