Jazz & Big Band 3 is now shipping!

The third version of the world´s most popular jazz and big band sample library has just arrived at Time+Space!

Garritan Jazz & Big Band 3 is now powered by the ARIA Instrument Engine and adds new features, new instrument sounds and updated programming at a lower price.

Jazz & Big Band 3 features trumpets, trombones, comprehensive 16 Saxophones collection, winds, keyboards, basses, rhythm section – over 50 individual instruments. Create realistic-sounding Jazz & Big Band arrangements quickly and easily.

Jazz & Big Band has become the industry standard winning numerous prestigious industry awards including Electronic Musician´s ´Editor´s Choice Award, Sound on Sound ´5 Star´ award, and Music Tech Magazine´s ´Recommended´ award.

RRP: £99.00 / €119.00 + free UK shipping until 8th July 2010

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New Big Fish titles for Hip Hop and Jazz fans!

The first titles of 2010 for American sample library giants Big Fish Audio have arrived at Time+Space!

Impressions: Jazz delivers 62 construction kits containing drums, electric and upright bass, piano, electric guitar, saxes, clarinets, flute, and trombone. The beat is swinging and the melodies are truly works of art with 5.3GB of content in Apple Loops and Acid Wav formats.

RRP: £64.95

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G-Suite is a collection of 40 expertly crafted urban construction kits. Each kit is fully broken down for your production needs, including full drum track loops and single hits. The entire library is around 6GB of content (2.3GB of original 24-bit WAV files) so there is plenty for you to work with to keep those club bangers coming!

RRP: £64.95

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Chris Hein Horn series is complete!

“The musical content and execution are second to none — add some classy reverb, and these horns will shine!” – Sound on Sound

Chris Hein has delivered exceptional virtual instruments over the years and this latest release – Chris Hein Horns 4: More Brass & Woodwinds – completes the Horns series.

Featuring flugelhorn, saxophone, clarinet, tuba, cimbasso and alphorn, each has approximately 2,000 samples covering 18 different playing techniques. The unique user interface incorporates 72 control features in 11 different edit pages allowing you to customize any aspect of sound shaping and playability.

RRP: £399 / €399

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The release of this new title subsequently brings a new version of Chris Heins Horns Complete which now includes all four Horns libraries for just £899/€899, (would normally be £1596 if bought separately).

With 54 extremely detailed solo instruments and 32 sections, Chris Hein Horns Complete is the largest available Brass and Woodwind library for Jazz, Pop, Funk & Big-Band. With its large sections and high dynamic sound, CHH also works great to spice up your orchestral productions. For an extremly low bundle price for CHH-Complete you get aprox. 80,000 samples and 44GB content.

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From Guitars to Horns, Hip Hop to Country – Big Fish release four new titles

California-based sample giants, Big Fish Audio have released four new sample libraries covering a wide selection of musical tastes…

Funk Soul Horns delivers over a thousand classic, funky and soulful horn licks recorded from a 6-piece horn section (2 trumpets, trombone, alto sax, tenor sax, and bari sax) in 24-bit quality sound. What´s more, there´s individual instrument tracks for every one of those licks plus over seven hundred additional trumpet, trombone, alto, tenor, and bari sax solos.

Nashville Sessions features electric and acoustic guitars, drums, bass, pedal steel, fiddle, mandolin, and more in the form of 22 big construction kits plus over 140 extra loops and licks. These kits cover traditional and current Country and Western styles plus the most popularly-used Country and Western rhythms and chord progressions.

Studio Guitars: The Michael Ripoll Project If you´re looking for guitar loops and licks for rock, pop, blues, funk, country or jazz this collection trumps all other guitar libraries. The product has many different kits of guitar loops in many different styles and each kit has a large variety of loops that all work great together or individually. You´ll find electric and acoustic guitars, leads and rhythm parts, as well as intros, fills, choruses, verses and everything in between.

Platinum Essentials 3 Back with more hits, the king of west coast Hip Hop Keith Clizark presents 40 construction kits fully broken down for your production needs. This is pure authentic west coast flavor at its best – drums, bass, piano, synth, guitar, strings, percussion and more… all put together by the west coast mastermind himself.

RRP: £64.95 / €74.95 each

Add some Vintage R&B to your productions…

Big Fish Audio’s Vintage R&B is a collection of 25 construction kits inspired by the classic Rhythm & Blues sounds originally produced by Motown and Stax Records in the 1960s and 70s. Today, these great sounds have also been embraced by many contemporary artists, including Amy Winehouse, Joss Stone, Rafael Saadiq, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, and others.

Vintage R&B features nearly 7 GB* of live-played loops, all brimming with old school attitude: funky drums, in-the-pocket bass, funk guitar, keyboards, congas, percussion, and a fat five-piece horn section with trumpet, alto sax, tenor sax, trombone, and baritone sax.

* 6.94 GB total content. 4 GB WAV, 1.9 GB Apple Loops, 1 GB REX

RRP: £71.95

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Loopmasters release three new download packs…

Loopmasters’ download collection continues to rapidly expand with the release of three more titles…

Broken Beat, Nu Jazz & Soul Vol 2 goes even deeper into the vaults of Papa Records with over 780 Acidised Wav and Rex2 samples which explore the boundaries of House, Broken Beat and Lounge and feature authentic live instuments broken down into easy to use loops and individual hits. Lovingly assembled by Reel People leader and Papa Records founder Oli Lazarus, this collection features over 700MB of pure, soulful sounds.

RRP: £24.95

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Minimal Underground Techno has been created from analogue machines and treated to liberal doses of fx, compression and editing to form a palette of sound destined for the underground. Featuring Wobbly Melodies, Spiky Bleeps, Fractured Percussion, Dubbed out Glitch FX, Cavernous Impacts, Perpetual Rising Breaks and Thick Moody Chords, Minimal Underground Techno provides all the ingredients to make moody minimal productions in Techno, House or Dubstep.

RRP: £24.95

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Wave Alchemy’s SFX Collection Vol 1 is Wave Alchemy’s third release which offers over 1.5GB of 24-bit 100% royalty free sound effects, created using the finest of vintage and new age electronic equipment. All of the sounds in this library have been crafted from the ground up with many being enhanced by classic processors such as the Eventide H3000 and Sherman Filterbank. The sheer volume, quality and diversity of the material included make this our most exciting release to date and would be an essential addition to any producer’s arsenal.

RRP: £44.95

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Ultimate Sound Bank go Jazzistic!

This awesome collection is full of authentic sounds, loops, kits, and instruments entirely dedicated to Jazz: drums, double bass, jazz guitar and some typical electric keyboards.

The result – that classic jazz sound with swinging, and modern attitude. This is the ultimate jazz loops product for comping a vintage vibe, or remixing some jumpin´ grooves!

But that´s not all, thanks to the UVI concept, Jazzistic also includes the following instruments ready to play:

2 excellent sounding Double Basses
Several variation of a pure Jazz Guitar
Vintage Rhodes MK1
Jazz selection of Hammond B3 sounds
Recording Jazzistic
Drum kits

Supplied with the UVI Workstation, it is also the first UVI Soundcard to contain Kits and Patterns in BPM format, for improved flexibility.

RRP: £135.99

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