What do you think of Big Fish Audio's Big Bad Horns?

[trevorallan]

One last shot: I went back last night to look at the users forums for BRASS on Arturia's website, and it was very hard to find a really positive comment anywhere (there were one or two seemingly satisfied customers, maybe). On the other hand, I found a number of serious problems mentioned which I'd entirely forgotten. Sometimes it plays back in the wrong key! Many crashes, some complete incompatibilities with other sequencers (particular problems with DP), and many complaints about lack of support.

If they'd give it some serious work, I'd be glad to recommend it because I think the IRCAM research was probably pretty sound (no pun intended). It's as though there's a really good instrument on the other side of the Grand Canyon, but no stable bridge (interface) to get to it.

[bayswater]

Dan, my experience was the same. I don't do much with horns, but recently did a mock up of a 60s R&B thing. The few horns I have (GPO, Sampletank, Miroslav, EXS 24) didn't work. In the end, I used the ROM samples in my K2000! There has to be a simple cheap solution better than that.

[towerproductions]

Dan, I've been using Mojo horns and those work pretty well with DP and Kontakt.

[Dan Worley]

Dan, I've been using Mojo horns and those work pretty well with DP and Kontakt.

Thanks, Tower. Zed mentioned that one too, and it's now the one I'm most interested in. $385. Not unreasonable but I'll have to save up for it. I've gone plug-in crazy as of late. I need to show some control.

Thanks

[mhschmieder]

Broadway Lites - Normally $499.99 - NOW ONLY $299 until 11 May!

Maybe I should make this a separate post, so more people see it?

I can't say whether I'll take advantage of it, as I am so happy with Sample Modeling that I'm not sure this library would do antyting for me.

[Frodo]

Broadway Lites - Normally $499.99 - NOW ONLY $299 until 11 May!

Only until 11 May? Hmm. And the full version is down from $2495 to $1595. I've had my eye on this library for a long time and never took the leap. I don't remember them ever offering any appreciable discount before.

This is major. Sadly, my VI budget is minor for a few more months.

[kgdrum]

Broadway Lites - Normally $499.99 - NOW ONLY $299 until 11 May!

Only until 11 May? Hmm. And the full version is down from $2495 to $1595. I've had my eye on this library for a long time and never took the leap. I don't remember them ever offering any appreciable discount before.

This is major. Sadly, my VI budget is minor for a few more months.

I bought Bdwy Lites when it was on sale in December for $199,for me it was the single worst purchase during the Holiday sales,can't recommend.
If I had to do again@ $199 I'd pass.

[zed]

I have been very unimpressed with SONiVOX products that I have bought--but not so much because I didn't like the samples. In some cases the actual samples are awesome. What I don't like are the SONiVOX players and the restrictions imposed by lack of foresight (e.g. no way to change the pitch bend range), and really poorly implemented knobs. I always wanted to stretch the upper and lower samples to extend the keyboard range and couldn't. And then their DVI players also used to crash DP, though I think that was no longer a problem in DP 7.x.

This product, however, is for Kontakt. So presumably you can get under the hood and change things like the pitch bender range and stuff.... though not necessarily. SampleModeling, as an example, has their instruments locked so that you can't get under the hood in Kontakt.

I would want to know that you can get under the hood before buying Broadway Big Band, because I don't trust SONiVOX to have made all the necessary parameters available on the front of the GUI for their instrument(s).