Re: [Finale] 2006/GPO

[Lon Price]

Being a sax player myself, I find this thread well, amusing.  But seriously, there's not much out there in <any> sample library that comes even close to covering saxophones.  The Vienna Library saxes ($265 at Sweetwater) have only tenor and soprano--no alto or bari even.  Forget C-melody, bass, contrabass, etc.--you gotta be dreaming.  ;-)  No orchestral sample library that I know of has saxes, and believe me, I've looked.  I need 'em for mockups of my "horn" arrangements.  No, so far, saxes haven't been dealt with realistically in the sample library world. ******************************************** Lon Price, Los Angeles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://hometown.aol.com/txstnr/> On Jul 15, 2005, at 10:37 AM, John Howell wrote: Umm, am I the only one to whom it has occurred that at the very least, alto and tenor sax are ORCHESTRAL INSTRUMENTS, and are played with a sound the is quite different from a jazz sound?  As are the saxes in wind ensembles.  Thinking that a single set of sax samples will serve all possible uses just isn't realistic.  There's no question but that they belonged in the orchestral set of samples. Somebody dropped the ball, or wasn't thinking in real world terms.

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