Originally Posted By: silvertones
I'm going to be playing some keys in a and and am looking for good early Motown kind of horns.


You're in luck, quite a few MIDI synths and samplers, the Horn "Section" Patches can do that task very well, and likely are targeted at them to begin with.

And, John, do not overlook Hammond Organ patches as substitute for many of the Motown horn section stuff, works a treat in actual practice, adds drama that the static horn part on one keyboard can't, provides the ability to also become a PAD for the parts where the horns might drop out and just plain works better in the combo band performance.

Or as we used to say back in the days when the Hammond with Leslie was king keyboard, "Just hold down two keys and flick the Leslie switch off and on, the singers'll do the rest..."


--Mac