Broadway Big Band

• Virtual Instrument

Huge and innovative brass collection

Fable Sounds’ Broadway Big Band is an unprecedented and innovative virtual instrument. Up to now, it has been relatively impossible to simulate non-orchestral brass and woodwind instruments with the degree of clarity and depth which the music they produce demands. But Broadway Big Band changes everything

The Broadway Performer™ Technology

The Broadway Performer™ technology is a *patent pending* MIDI Processing System developed especially for Broadway Big Band™. It enables the most comprehensive and intuitive access to the thousands of samples included in Broadway Big Band™. Granting both the creative freedom and the fullest control over the finest nuances of performance, the Broadway Performer™ allows real-time but still fully editable performance by automatically choosing pre-recorded note transitions based on context, thus providing instant access to a virtually limitless variety of articulations and playing techniques.

How does it work?

The Broadway Performer™ is a stand-alone application, standing between the MIDI keyboard or the MIDI sequencer and the Broadway Big Band virtual instrument. The Broadway Performer™ changes and manipulates the MIDI information, adding MIDI controller information and note events by analyzing MIDI input data in real-time. As it analyzes this data it accordingly chooses the appropriate samples among the thousands of possibilities available for each instrument, and communicates note on data to the virtual instrument.

In addition to the intelligent way the Broadway Performer™ interpolates MIDI data, it also allows for an intuitive new approach to switching between articulations and playing techniques, maximizing access to almost infinite performance options without being technologically overwhelming or overcomplicating the creative workflow. This is accomplished by giving you direct acess to all available articulations all the time via the Performer’s special way of creating “virtual key-switching, and the capability to monitor your articulation choices via the “Virtual Key-Switch Monitor,” as seen below.

Instruments

*The following are the lists of instruments and articulations included in the first edition of the Broadway Big Band™ series. Additional instruments and articulations will be available on future editions.

The Broadway Big Band™ instruments are divided into 2 groups:
Polyphonic instruments & Legato instruments (using the Broadway Performer™)

LEGATO INSTRUMENTS:
(including real prerecorded note-transitions using the Broadway Performer™)

TRUMPETS:
- (Bb) Trumpet

TROMBONES:
- Solo Tenor Trombone

SAXOPHONES & WOODWINDS:
- Soprano Saxophone
- Alto Saxophone
- Tenor Saxophone
- Baritone Saxophone
- Clarinet

RHYTHM SECTION:
- High Hat prerecorded legatos for perfect realism in transitions between the 5 levels of openness.

POLYPHONIC INSTRUMENTS:

TRUMPETS:
- Solo (Bb) Trumpet 1
- Solo (Bb) Trumpet 2

TROMBONES:
- Solo Tenor Trombone

SAXOPHONES & WOODWINDS:
- Soprano Saxophone
- Alto Saxophone 1
- Alto Saxophone 2
- Tenor Saxophone 1
- Tenor Saxophone 2
- Baritone Saxophone
- Clarinet

RHYTHM SECTION:
- Upright Bass
- Banjo
- Ukulele
- Drum-kits
- Xylophone
- Latin Percussion


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