EXs3 Brass & Woodwinds
This large Expansion sample library (over 700 Mbytes!) features a wide variety of natural-sounding brass and woodwind instruments, perfect for many styles of popular music. Many instruments have been newly sampled, including the trumpet, trombone, tuba, French horn, flute, sax, and clarinet. The instrument selection provides plenty of variety beyond the basics, with both piccolo and alto flute, piccolo trumpet and cornet, bass clarinet, and so on. Each sound has been sampled from instruments made by top-ranking manufacturers, keeping in mind the sounds and playing techniques of famous musicians.
For each instrument long samples were taken at a great number of points, giving you extremely nuanced and realistic sounds. Even single notes can be richly expressive, with samples of idiomatic dynamics, trills, falls, growls, and staccato articulations. Sophisticated programming lets you use controllers (such as velocity) to vary the attack articulation, for easy performance of natural-sounding wind instrument slurs that would be difficult to produce by simply playing back raw sample data.
The samples are accompanied by 128 Programs and 64 Combinations, to take full advantage of the new sounds.
EXs3 Brass & Woodwinds is expected to be available in mid-November 2007.