Broadway Big Band – Why upgrade?

There are plenty of reasons to upgrade to Broadway Big Band from Broadway Lites and/or from Broadway Gig.

Here are some of them:

What you get:

A ton of additional instruments, including:

For Broadway Lites users:

  • Trumpet with Cup mute
  • Trombone with Bucket Mute
  • Trombone with Straight Mute
  • 2nd Trumpet
  • 2nd Trumpet with Harmon Mute
  • 2nd Alto saxophone
  • 2nd Tenor saxophone
  • Banjo
  • Ukulele
  • Upright bass
  • Drum Kit (Sticks)
  • Drum kit (Brushes)
  • Xylophone (Rubber mullets)
  • Xylophone (Plastic mullets)
  • Bongos
  • Congas
  • Timbalitos
  • Percussion Toys (a huge collection of percussion instruments)

Additional wind instruments

Added wind instruments – when upgrading from Broadway Lites

For Broadway Gig users:

  • Bb Clarinet
  • Soprano saxophone
  • 1st Alto saxophone
  • 1st Trumpet with Harmon Mute
  • Trumpet with Cup mute
  • Trombone with Bucket Mute
  • Trombone with Straight Mute
  • 2nd Trumpet
  • 2nd Trumpet with Harmon Mute
  • 2nd Alto saxophone
  • 2nd Tenor saxophone
  • Banjo
  • Ukulele
  • Upright bass
  • Drum Kit (Sticks)
  • Drum kit (Brushes)
  • Xylophone (Rubber mullets)
  • Xylophone (Plastic mullets)
  • Bongos
  • Congas
  • Timbalitos
  • Percussion Toys (a huge collection of percussion instruments)

Additional wind instruments

Added wind instruments – when upgrading from Broadway Gig

Additional articulations to existing instruments, including:

For Broadway Lites users:

1st Trumpet:

  • Chromatic Runs
  • Fall down – very slow
  • Fall down – very slow from sustain *(simulated)
  • Fall up – slow
  • Rip portamento *(limited intervals)
  • 4 Plunger patterns
  • 4 Plunger with flutter tonguing patterns
  • Staccato + Closed plunger
  • Staccato + Open plunger

Trombone

  • Fall down – Slow
  • 4 Plunger patterns
  • Short plunger (“Wow”) + Marcato
  • Flutter + Closed plunger

1st Tenor saxophone

  • Fall down – slow
  • Fall down from sustain – slow (simulated)
  • Growl – Sustain
  • Growl – Fall
  • Smear w/ Growl

Baritone saxophone

  • Sustain + Growl

1st Alto saxophone

  • Smear legato (a unique stylized jazzy glissando-like note transition technique)
  • Growl – Sustain
  • Growl – Fall
  • Fall down from sustain – slow

Additional articulations

Added articulations – upgrading from Broadway Lites

For Broadway Gig users:

1st Trumpet:

  • Chromatic Runs
  • Fall down – very slow
  • Fall down – very slow from sustain *(simulated)
  • Fall up – slow
  • Rip portamento *(limited intervals)
  • 4 Plunger patterns
  • 4 Plunger with flutter tonguing patterns
  • Staccato + Closed plunger
  • Staccato + Open plunger
  • Smear down & back
  • Marcato + Mild vibrato
  • Grace note
  • Flutter – Sustains
  • Growl – Sustains
  • Fall down (fast) with flutter
  • Rip up to sustain with flutter

 

Trombone

  • Fall down – Slow
  • 4 Plunger patterns
  • Short plunger (“Wow”) + Marcato
  • Flutter + Closed plunger
  • Sustain + Hard attack
  • Sustain + Flutter tonguing
  • Sustain + Flutter tonguing + Hard attack
  • Glissando / Portamento + Flutter tonguing
  • Staccato + Flutter tonguing
  • Fall down – Fast + Flutter

 

1st Tenor saxophone

  • Fall down – slow
  • Fall down from sustain – slow (simulated)
  • Growl – Sustain
  • Growl – Fall
  • Smear w/ Growl
  • Marccato + Mild vibrato
  • Slow smear into note
  • Alternate fingering
  • Clap FX

 

Baritone saxophone

  • Sustain + Growl
  • Double Staccato
  • Tripple Staccato
  • Double grace note short

Additional articulations

Added articulations – upgrading from Broadway Gig

Multiple microphone setups for all instruments*

Enhance your ability to make each instrument sit perfectly in the mix in any genre and any production style, whether in the studio or on stage, utilizing the sonic versatility offered by the different recording styles represented by the various microphone setups in Broadway Big Band.

This makes a much bigger difference than you might think, and cannot be easily emulated by EQ and reverb, because these are completely different recording styles and techniques, and completely different signal chains.

Microphone setups demo

Hear the difference the multiple microphone setups make

Multiple microphone setups in Broadway Big Band include:

  • All wind instruments offered in between 4 and 6 microphone setups
  • Banjo and Ukulele are offered with a strumming engine and with 2 stereo microphone setups
  • All percussion instruments include 3 stereo microphone setups

*Drum kits offered in stereo mixdown only

To upgrade now, go to your account, and in the “Available updates/Upgrades” you will find your Broadway Big Band Upgrade offer. If you have a discount coupon, apply it during checkout.