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Garritan
Jazz &
Big Band
The industry's first jazz &
big band library
The Industry's First Jazz & Big Band Library
- Featuring Trumpets, Trombones, Comprehensive Saxophone collection, Keyboards, Rhythm Section - over 50 Individual Instruments.
- Create Realistic-Sounding Jazz & Big Band Arrangements Quickly and Easily. Build Your Own Bands and Jazz Ensembles.
- Includes the NI KONTAKT Sample Player. Works with Notation Programs. Great Sounding Instruments with Expressive Control.
- Tongue/Slur Articulations, Intonation, Vibrato, Extended Ranges of the Instruments, Variety of Mutes & More.
- On a single computer or laptop, Mac or PC, Standalone, VST, DX, AU, RTAS, and supported Notation programs.
Jazz & Big Band Instrument List
16 Saxophones
Sopranino saxophone
Mezzo Soprano sax
3 Soprano saxophones
(2 straight, 1 curved)
3 Alto saxophones
C Melody saxophone
3 Tenor saxophones
Baritone saxophone
Bass saxophone,
Contrabass saxophone,
Subcontrabass saxophone,
plus derivative ensemble instruments
6 Trumpets (with mutes)
5 Bb Trumpets
(all with extended range,
one with extreme range),
Open, straight mute, cup mute, Harmon mute, bucket mute
Flugelhorn,
Plus derivative ensemble instruments
5 Trombones (with mutes)
4 Tenor Trombones
Bass Trombone
Open, straight mute, cup mute,Harmon mute, bucket mute
Plus derivative ensemble instruments
6 Additional Winds
Piccolo
Alto Flute
C Flute
Bb Clarinet
Bass Clarinet
Tuba
Plus derivative ensemble instruments
3 Keyboards
Steinway B grand piano
Vintage electric piano
Jazz Accordion
3 Guitars
2 Electric guitars,
Acoustic guitar
6 Basses
2 Upright acoustic basses,
2 Fretless electric basses,
2 Fretted electric basses
3 Drum Kits
Classic Stick kits
Fusion Stick Kit
plus separate instruments (kick, snare, toms, hi-hat, cymbals)
Brush kit plus separate instruments
Percussion
Vibraphone
(hard and soft mallets)
Wide variety of percussion including Latin percussion, bongos, congas, timbales, wood blocks, bells, whistles, etc.
Computer requirements
Includes Kontakt Player 2. Requires Sibelius 5 or later.
Windows: Windows XP or Windows Vista 32-bit, Pentium IV or Athlon 1.4GHz or faster, 1GB RAM (2GB recommended), 2.5GB hard disk space, DVD-ROM drive, ASIO-compatible soundcard recommended.
Mac OS X: Mac OS X 10.4 or Mac OS X 10.5, G4 733MHz or faster (G5 or Intel processor recommended), 1GB RAM (2GB recommended), 2.5 GB hard disk space, DVD-ROM drive.