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Gary Garritan Jazz & Big Band 3 Collection

Item ID: JazzBB3

Jazz and Big Band Virtual Instrument with 50-plus Sounds, ARIA Instrument Engine, and MIDI Playback and Recording - Mac/PC

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Swing with Dozens of Amazing Instrument Sounds!

Here's a great way to put together a full jazz or big band ensemble - without a big band budget! You'll absolutely love Gary Garritan's Jazz & Big Band 3 Collection, thanks to its 50-plus instruments, its amazing ARIA instrument engine, and its ease of use. You get multiple saxophones, trumpets, trombones, keyboards, wind instruments, guitars, basses, and even drum kits and percussion instruments. The Jazz & Big Band 3 Collection even includes ensemble presets that let you easily assemble great-sounding groups! Add onboard reverb and stereo effects for an even bigger-sounding experience. Best of all, this astounding collection is surprisingly affordable.

Gary Garritan Jazz & Big Band 3 Collection Software Instrument Features at a Glance:
  • More than 50 individual instruments
  • Amazingly realistic sounds
  • ARIA instrument engine
  • Ensemble presets
  • High-quality reverb and Stereo Stage effects
  • MIDI playback and recording features
  • Mac/PC


Instruments:
  • 16 saxophones:
  • Sopranino saxophone, mezzo-soprano saxophone, 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, rock organ
  • 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 (with controllable stirs) plus separate instruments
  • Percussion:
  • Vibraphone (hard and soft mallets), Latin percussion, bongos, congas, timbales, wood blocks, bells, whistles, and more

Gary Garritan's Jazz & Big Band 3 Collection puts more than 50 amazing instruments at your command!

System Requirements:
  • 2GB of free hard disk space
  • DVD drive
  • Windows XP, Core 2 Duo or better recommended
  • Mac OS 10.4 or higher, Mac Intel recommended
  • ARIA Player requires sound card for playing the sounds of Jazz & Big Band. Standard DirectSound, MME, or ASIO drivers required. Windows-compatible MIDI hardware required

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Specification Detail
Software Type Big Band Sample Player
Supported Computer Format Mac, PC
Supported Plug-In Formats Standalone, RTAS, VST, AU
Hardware Requirements - Mac Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8GHz CPU or faster, 2GB RAM
Hardware Requirements - PC Pentium 4 2.8GHz CPU or faster
OS Requirements - Mac Mac OSX 10.4 or later
OS Requirements - PC Windows XP or later
Manufacturer Part Number 631576

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Reviews

based on 3 reviews

Got My Money's Worth

by John Bowen from Reading PA
November 2, 2010
Music Background: Amateur singer/songwriter.
I purchased JABB3 via download from the Garritan website this past Labor Day. It's great that one can purchase something like that nowadays on a holiday.

Overall I'm very pleased with this... read more [+] package. For years I've been looking for a program to add brass arrangements to my original tunes. After trying to piece together sounds from free VSTIs from the net only to yield a sound something like the Salvation Army horns, I finally found a package of samples where the horns have SOUL. I'm not knocking the Salvation Army brass, but I wanted horns the caliber of Tower of Power or Chicago. ie SOULFUL brass and this package gave me what I wanted.

Yes, you can get better, but you'll pay more too. Hundreds more. If you're willing to study the user's guide and work at your MIDI commands you can obtain great results. For the price, you can't go wrong. Just the sound of the Steinway piano sample is worth the money in itself. close [-]

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by Julia from Seattle WA USA
November 24, 2011
Music Background: retired musician.
A lot of the problem I was having was getting my DAW to see the MIDI CCs on the menu for JABB3. It was driving me crazy. Then suddenly maybe because I opened the VI in a newer version of the DAW the o... read more [+]lder version now recognizes them. But what can I say, computers.

Straight out of the box it is not a load and play package. The tutorial on the Garritan page for doits, falloffs, and shakes does work. Seriously read as much as you can about setting up MIDI in your DAW. You will need to access these switches and manipulate them to get realistic sounding brass and saxes. You won't get Tower of Power right out of the box. The program is quite deep, and there is a lot you can do with it. For the price it's great. There are better out there, but then they cost three times as much. close [-]

Difficult to use the brass

by Julia from Seattle WA USA
November 21, 2011
Music Background: retired musician.
Granted I may have higher than usual expectations. The saxes don't sound that great, IMO. The trumpets and other brass are okay, but they are very difficult to get the effects such as doits, falloffs,... read more [+] and shakes. If you're going to be using these, unless you're very proficient at MIDI programming, you'd be better off with a product like Mojo Horns which have these as keyswitches and those are pretty easy to use. They've got keyswitches for the mutes, so why not for these? Also I'm not impressed with Garritan support. The brass can be made to sound very good IF you are very proficient at MIDI programming. None of them can really stand up to an exposed solo at this time. close [-]

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