Originally Posted By: MarioD

These are the only three sax programs that actually sound like a sax.


We have a jazz trumpeter who mentors us and he sometimes, very mischievously, refers to saxophones as kazoos. With some sampled instruments I kind of agree with him.

I was at first disappointed that SWAM had so little sound demo on their site, but YouTube searches turned up stuff pretty quickly. It took a while to find one with a MIDI wind controller, but when I did, it's very close to real-sounding. Impressive. What I might not have spotted without someone commenting on it was the absence of transitions between samples, but I think that's important. The portamento control is neat. From an EWI it was quite hard to confidently tell it from the real thing.

I do have the full Kontakt, so VG are a possible. I listened to most of the sax libraries and they were all pretty good. Quite a lot lower cost than SWAM, but...

The Garritan library offers quite a few other instruments that would be nice to have, though I already have good instruments for quite a few. Blue Street Brass, Pianoteq acoustics and electrics, Various jazz & world percussion, so it would be duplicating really.

Thanks Mario; most useful.

Gordon.

Jazz relative beginner, starting at a much older age than was helpful.
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