Mike Reagan - user testimonial & case study (22 min)

"I find Broadway Big Band to be revolutionary!  
...it actually helps me write better. I feel like I’m playing a live instrument. It makes it more fun. I feel less like I’m working and more like I’m making music. There are other libraries out there that do true legato, that do different articulations, but… I haven’t heard articulations and samples connect this way. It’s just seamless. However these guys are doing it, it’s different than anything else that I’ve heard and it’s definitely different than anything else I have played with.”

“It helps me create anything I want to create… it just allows me a lot of flexibility, to be able to hear different genres of music in my head and know that I can always go to Broadway big band to find not only the instrument that I need but the mic placement and the recording that I need.”

"Don't be fooled by the fact it''s called 'Broadway Big Band'. ...I'm using it in oechestral settings, I'm using it in Funk and soul pieces and I'm using it in cartoons... I use it extensively. It's the main focus of the pieces that I'm writing."

"The great thing about Broadway Big Band for me is that I'm able to hear a line in my head, play it in real-time with all the articulations without having to go back and tweak it and add articulations and use multiple midi channels. It's literally one midi channel per instrument. I play it and it's done. ...for a virtual instrument that is so deeply sampled there is nothing else that I know of currently on the market that even comes close to being able to do that."

“I’m reminded that music comes first. …it shifted my paradigm from samples first and then ideas second, and now I can reverse it. …  I can hear a sound in my head and I know that I don’t have to worry about it. I know that I’ll be able to accomplish it really quick because it’s easy to use.”

"for the first time I was feeling that I wasn't compromising the vision of the music, and I wasn't spending an enormit amount of time trying to create something to sound as live as I can. It just simply out of the box sounded great."

Mike Reagan
Film/TV & video game composer
Awards include: several "Best Score" and "outstanding achievement in music composition" awards for the video games "God Of War" and "God Of War 2", as well as "Darkwatch" and "Nowhere to Hide", Best use of music in TV for "Wow Wow Wubbzy" and Best original song for a children's soundtrack for his song"Take the First Step" featured in the muppets movie "Elmo in Grouchland".

Rob Arbittier - user testimonial (4 min)

"This is the most amazing tool I’ve ever come across for being able to do brass arrangements."

"It’s just amazing how realistic and clean the Broadway library sounds, and it’s definitely changed the way I work. "

"It was really easy to learn how to use..."

"At this point... if I would see a new title from Fable Sounds on the shelf I would just assume it’s amazing."

Rob Arbittier
Composer and music producer
Los Angeles

Jimmy Lockett - user testimonial (3 min)

"The sound, the concept, the whole approach to what they’re doing with the Broadway Big Band is something new in sampling, and something I think that’s going to really change the sampling world."

"A part of what makes it so special is the attitude that the samples were recorded with. It’s not just that they are recorded perfectly – which they are, and that you get all these options – that you do, but the musicians played the way they would play in a real performance and you really hear that, and when you try to use them that makes the difference."

"Once you get it you will not want to live without it."

Jimmy Lockett
Musical Theatre & symphonic composer
Las Vegas / New York

Tom Erba - user testimonial (4 min)

"It's so intuitive and so fast" ... "It really feels like a piece of software that was created by a user and with the users in mind" ... "As composers we often have our wish-list of ... features that would be put out with sample libraries we use that would make them more usable. Broadway Big Band has answered virtually all of these things for me."

Tom Erba
Film & Television composer
Recently won two Film & TV Music Awards for scoring season 1 of the WB's "Tom And Jerry Tales" and for his Hip Hop song: "Bring It On" used in the movie "Undisputed 2 : Last Man Standing"

Virtual Instrument magazine calls the Broadway Big band a "breakthrough library." , and says that it's "oozing with character and life." And that "these are the best sampled horns around." The review says that Broadway Big Band offers "terrific samples and programming", says that it's "very easy to play" and concludes that "This is one of the most impressive and ambitious libraries to come around in a few years."

Read the full review by Nick Batzdorf at the latest issue of Virtual Instrument Magazine…

Sound on Sound: (review)
Dave Stewart of UK magazine: "Sound on Sound", says that Broadway Big Band is a “highly versatile, well thought out package”; that it is “highly playable”; offers “clever programming” ,“innovative keyswitching” and “authentic musical timbres”; He calls it “expressive” and “animated”; He also states that “Fable Sounds are the only company apart from Vienna Symphonic Library to use this highly labor intensive, interval specific, sampling technique, and it works a treat” and says that it sounds “very realistic, and leaps out of the speakers as if possessed by the spirit of an avenging jazz warrior”. The review concludes that it has“all the styles and attitude required for a pop / rock / R&B brass section” and that “Once you've mastered its keyswitching techniques, the musical possibilities are endless.”