Fable Sounds – Broadway: Big Band

Big Band is a virtual instrument from Fable Sounds that delivers premium content and groundbreaking technological innovation, with a whopping 100GB of audio content and a unique set of powerful features. With an explosive character and approach, Broadway: Big Band has been hailed as the best virtual instrument for modern brass, reed and rhythm section instruments.

It can do it all with a variety of microphone settings, whether for stage or studio use, modern or vintage. It has been used by leading industry professionals on albums, live performances and high-profile film, television and theatre projects. With the most detailed, realistic, versatile and playable instruments, Broadway: Big Band is essential for producing jazz, funk, pop, blues, R&B, Latin, hip-hop and more.

A groundbreaking feature enabling polyphonic, poly-rhythmic legato across a mixed section of instruments. Using RTO you can play an entire section on the keyboard, and the notes you play are orchestrated in real time and distributed to the various instruments in the RTO multi, based on orchestration schemes that you can create yourself. 

This is an extremely powerful system which is extremely easy to use. Great for live shows, as well as tracking under tight deadlines. It also offers articulation presets which can replace the built-in key-switching with alternative midi triggers such as foot-switches, freeing your left hand for playing notes rather than key-switches.

UNISON SECTION

From now on, you can use any of the Broadway Big Band wind instruments multiple times in the arrangement or in a multi, even when playing unison, creating a realistic section of multiple instruments. This means that even with multiple instances of just one instrument, you can still get a realistic section of multiple instruments playing in unison. 

The feature is not some kind of a doubling effect, but rather it uses different samples, and performs slight adjustments to make sure each instance of the instrument sounds a little different from the other. The results are very realistic. The feature also includes “Humanize” and “Detune” knobs for further control over the section sound.

VELOCITY CURVE CONTROL

Due to the extended dynamic range of the wind instruments included in Broadway Big Band, it is sometimes difficult to keep dynamics under control when using a MIDI keyboard’s velocity. To help overcome this, we’ve added a new knob to control the velocity curve, which helps adjusting the responsiveness of the Broadway Big Band instruments to various MIDI keyboards. The new velocity curve control feature can also be MIDI automated to make changes within a song as needed.