The Garritan set included in Finale is not "Jazz" per se, is it? None
of the orchestral trombone voices covers any of the trigger range, I
don't believe, and 99.999% of orchestra trombonists play with F
attachments most of the time. Lots of second trombone parts in
orchestral scores go into that register.
I agree with you that most jazz trombone SOLOISTS don't use a trigger
trombone. James Morrison is a notable exception. See
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L14anXqrGQ
Ron Wilkins is another.
Jazz SECTION players often use an F attachment. It isn't uncommon at
all to see a 3rd trombonist in a big band playing something like a Bach
36 with an F attachment. It seems to me the main point of including
multiple trombones in the software collection is to build a section with
some timbral diversity. The samples need to be able to cover the
playing range that comes up in the real world. It seems really silly
and pointless to cut the range artificially.
Darcy James Argue wrote:
Hi Craig,
The range is realistic -- jazz tenor trombone players almost never
have an F attachment. I am sure the players they sampled for the JABB
trombones did not have an F attachment on their horn.
The full JABB set has a proper bass trombone in addition to the four
tenor trombones.
Cheers,
- Darcy
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On 8 Aug 2008, at 11:04 PM, Craig Parmerlee wrote:
I have not noticed any problems so far playing the included Garritan
sounds on the Aria player.
I have ordered the full Garritan big band set. My first project with
the included Garritan sounds was a flop. It was a trombone quartet.
None of the trombone voices could play a low C, which is easily in
the range of a tenor trombone player with F attachment, and an octave
inside the range of a good bass trombone player. I tried to
substitute with a tuba voice but for some reason that sounded really
funky. So I used a contrabass clarinet to get me through until the
JABB set arrives. I hope the "real" Garritan sounds are not so
unrealistic in their instrument ranges. At least there should be a
real bass trombone voice in the JABB set.
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