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Legato Saxophones Library for Kontakt

Atelier Series Austin Saxes is a true legato saxophone library performed by session player and educator, Colin Houlihan.

Recorded at Orb Studios in Austin, TX – the goal with this release was to create a true workhorse full saxophone library that could accomplish a variety of musical tasks with vibe and ease. Just play your parts in and ride the modwheel!

Vibrato is a crucial characteristic. Just like Musical Sampling's Sasaki Trumpet release, they captured the natural, progressive vibrato found in Colin’s performances to keep things as musical and credible as possible. They've also provided both Natural (untuned) and Tuned variations of their patches – the former retaining natural pitch biases up the range of the instrument.

Musical Sampling have included two playing styles. The Workhorse patches cater to upbeat, energetic contexts. Great for jazz, rock and pop genres. The Emotional patches were recorded soft with a more subtle, emotive vibrato for delicate and expressive passages.

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Features

Legato saxophones
Two performance styles
Performed with natural, progressive vibrato
“Natural” and “Tuned” patch variations
Recorded dry for mixing flexibility
Adjustable reverb of custom hall impulse

Patches

Soprano Workhorse
Alto Workhorse
Tenor Workhorse
Baritone Workhorse
Alto Emotional
Tenor Emotional
Baritone Emotional

Specifications

Requires full retail version of Kontakt 5.8.1 or higher
Free Kontakt Player NOT supported
Recorded in 48khz / 24bit
3.9 GB compressed NCW format
Receive watermarked product by Pulse downloader

What Is The Altelier Series?

Oftentimes during the research and experimental phase of development, Musical Sampling creates instruments that don’t necessarily belong to a bigger, themed release. Instead of attempting to shoehorn them into a future release or trying to construct a comprehensive product around it, they decided to create the Atelier Series so that other composers can enjoy their explorations in sample development as well.

Ratings

The following reviews have been placed by customers who also bought this product from us. All reviews are provided through eKomi, Europe’s largest independent customer review company.

05.02.2022

Despite comments by another reviewer, I found installation to be a breeze!More importantly, this just sounds really, really good and is easy to play. I absolutely love the soft/emotional tenor patch, which is breathy and lovely and has a really intimate tone (I'm sure the faint pad noises help). I'd love to compare it to the Tenor Colossus, which I'm sure is more versatile as tenors go - but you get a huge amount for your money here, covering soprano, alto, tenor, and bari saxes.

01.02.2022

Finally a Legato (Expressive) Sax library that sounds how you have it in your head. Usually on other libraries you get more of a clarinet_esque sound particularly on the soprano/alto range, here they are present. It misses a bit the "growl" and the "bend" for a full fledge product but as they explained, the focus was legato, and they nailed it. For the gentleman and everyone as a piece of advice, this library like other companies, does not get installed via Native Access. You install Pulse Downloader and serial is for downloading it. Hence, you have to load instruments either from the Files tab, or direct from any folder, or in a smart workflow, just add them to quickload and have them at hand. And everyone, get Sasaki Trumpet too, I know I will.

28.01.2022

Absolutely terrible installation. I can't install either instrument. Wasted my money with this stupid company.Both Serial numbers are formatted completely differently, and neither one works.

Requirements

Requires full version of Native Instruments Kontakt

Please notice: This library can not be used with the free Kontakt Player! To use this "Open Kontakt" format, you need a full version of Kontakt, which is included in products such as Komplete or Komplete Ultimate.

The minimum required Kontakt version number for this product is stated in the product description or can be found on the developer's website.

System Requirements:

Mac:

macOS 10.14 or higher
64 bit
Intel Core i5 or Apple M1 (native)
RAM: 4GB (6GB recommended)

Windows:

Windows 10 or higher
64 bit
Intel Core i5 or similar CPU
RAM: 4GB (6GB recommended)

Supported Interfaces:

Mac (64-bit only): Stand-alone, VST, VST3, AU, AAX
Windows (64-bit): Stand-alone, VST, VST3, AAX

Legacy Versions:

If you require legacy installers of Kontakt Player please refer to this Knowledge Base Article.

Required Registration:

Musical Sampling products require you to register with the manufacturer at www.musicalsampling.com to activate your license. To use Kontakt Player Libraries you also need to register with www.native-instruments.com.

For your own protection this library is provided as individual personalized files including a Digital Water Mark - DWM!