Friday, August 25, 2017

Swing More Brass

Moving on to even more ways to blow your brains out using Swing More.

Tenor Trombone - Basics kicks in with 2300 samples in 600 megs compressed. It has 4 articulations Staccato, Marcato, Sustain and Fall. There are three mic positions Direct, Ambient and Wide. I suspect these three mic positions will persist through the entire Brass section, if that changes I'll let you know. Staccato and Marcato have 3 round robins, Falls 4 and Sustain doesn't have any. Staccato has 3 velocity layers while everything else has 2.

The Sustain has some vibrato baked in and is somewhat strident. The Marcatos have a nice overall sound and I think are the best of the four. The Staccato just sounds like an OK short note. The Rips for some reason are far louder than the other articulations.

Where the Trombone fails is in tone and dynamic range there just isn't that soft gentle tone that sounds like the player is barely blowing up to the nasty blowing the instrument away sound. This is more of a range of medium soft to medium loud.

I've listened pretty extensively to the solo trombones in Swing More, Session Horns Pro and even more orchestral trombones like the ones in Bravura Scoring Brass, Symphony Essentials and even the older Kirk Hunter Orchestra. The trombone in Swing More sadly seems to have less life and be less expertly played than the others. Aside from the Symphony Essentials Trombone, the others seemed to be more heavily sampled and often have better legato.

Session Horns Pro seems to be the closest direct competitor to the Swing More Brass. When I compare the trombones, the SHP just seems brighter and more lively. It also has many more options. If you want to blend in with Swing More, need more mic positions or happen to like the sound of this Trombone, you might use it. Other than mic positions, I can't see any advantage to using it over the Session Horns Pro which just seems like a vastly superior solo instrument.

The Tenor Trombone - Longs has a shade under a 1000 and 700 megs of samples. There are 3 articulations, Fast Vibrato, Slow Vibrato and No Vibrato. The Slow and No have 3 velocity layers and the Fast has 2.

As you would expect this sounds similar to the Sustain from the Basics patch, but the good news is that the Non Vib articulation does lose the Vibrato almost entirely and the Fast and Slow Vibratos are what you would expect. As a more focused patch this hangs together better than the Basics.

Tenor Trombone - Shorts is very similar to the Basics patch simply replacing the Sustain with a one velocity layer, 3 RR Flutter. So the stats and comments are mostly the same as for Basics. There are 2300 samples and 400 megs compressed.

One oddity is that the patch adds a fourth Staccato round robin but it is noticeably quieter than the other three. You are better off using the Basics Staccato as it is more consistent. The new articulation is the Flutter which is really loud even more so than the Falls. To me the tone of the Flutter was poor.

Tenor Trombone - Wah is an interesting patch. As you would expect from the name it has a Wah sound for either a short or a long period of time depending on the velocity. This seems like a rarer articulation and is fun to play with.

The long is stacked on top of the short and each has a single velocity layer. There are 4 round robins and the usual 3 mics. The only negative is that there is no real volume control since Velocity controls whether long or short plays and the modwheel controls the filter. I added in a modwheel volume control which to me improved the patch. I wish it had shipped that way.

Tenor Trombone - Legato Multi-Dyn has 2500 plus samples and 800 plus megs. The slow and no vibrato articulations have 3 velocity layers and the fast vibrato articulation 2. The patch gets its name from the no and slow vibrato having p, mf and ff velocity layers.  All the transitions are sampled both up and down for every transition from a single step to an octave. All three articulations use the same transition samples which works fine for on and slow vibrato but sounds a touch odd for the fast vibrato.

As with all legato patches it take a bit of getting used to as you want to hold both notes for part of a second to ensure a smooth transition. While not quite to the level of the best samples legato, it definitely sounds better than the fake legato that I use in my instruments.

Tenor Trombone - Legato Versatile replaces the p, mf and ff layers with Bend on the top velocity and either Staccato or Marcato on the soft velocity and a single velocity layer legato in the middle velocity range. It weighs in at 2800 samples and half a gig.

This is a strange but fun patch. The bend makes its only appearance and is a cool effect as it bends up and down fairly effortlessly unlike the falls which seem more forced. It would have been a natural addition to the Wah patch as they sound like cousins. You do have to strike your key firmly to get the bend to trigger as it is at the very top of the velocity range.

The Vibrato articulations have the marcato while the non vibrato has the staccato. Since I prefer the former to the later, I think slow vibrato is my favorite here and one of my favorites in the Swing More trombone line.

Trombones in Octaves is one of those funky patches that gives Swing More some of its unique flavor and value. It seems to have two Trombones playing an octave apart. At higher velocity are the Falls and at low velocity the Crescendos. I can definitely see these being useful in the right situations as the whole thing has a distinctive sound that I don't recall hearing in another Kontakt instrument.

The falls and short crescendos have 2 RR and the long crescendos have 1. Again since the articulations are stacked there is basically one velocity layer and there isn't much volume control.

Bass Trombone - Basics has 2200 samples and is over 400 megs compressed. There are Staccatissimo samples along with Staccato, Marcato and Sustain. All the shorts have 4 RR while the Sustain has 1. Sustain has 3 velocity layers and the other 2. They tend to go from moderately loud to very loud so no soft passages played here.

Tonally most of the instrument has a nice growl to it with the top octave starting to be a touch more smooth. There are some tonal inconsistencies in the round robins but not enough to create a problem. Overall I think the Bass works better than the Tenor. There are no overly loud articulations and the Staccatos sound fine.

Bass Trombone - Longs has 870 samples in 370 megs. It is another of Swing mores odd patches in that is has SFZ - Crescendo (loud short followed by slow build) on top off all four articulations. Sustain, Slide Up, Fall and Flutter would be those four. Sustain has 3 velocity layers and the other 2. Again all are loud to louder.

Like the Basics patch the Bass seems to be better than the Tenor Trombone. The Flutter especially seems to work for me here. Also the Stage mic setting seems quite solid. Maybe you need a bit of space to appreciate a Bass Trombone.

Bass Trombone - Shorts has almost 2500 samples and 400 megs. All four articulations are setup pretty differently from each other so we will take them in order.

XT Short has Marcato F on top and Marcato P on bottom with Staccatisimo F and P in the middle. Each has 4 round robins and two velocity layers.

Short has Fall F on top and Fall P on bottom with Staccato F and P in the middle.  Falls have 2 RR and Staccato 4 with both having two velocity layers.

SFZ - Crescendo has an articulation all to itself and with 2 RR and 1 velocity layer.

Finally Slide Up has Slide F on top and Slide P on the bottom for a surprisingly traditional articulation with 2 RR and 2 velocity layers.

Overall a fairly odd patch.

And now moving on to the Trumpet Section with 3 Trumpeters giving it all they have. The reason that a trumpet section and not a Solo Trumpet is in Swing More is that the original Swing library had the solo trumpet and they didn't want to duplicate content.

Trumpets - Basics has 2600 samples in two thirds of a gig of memory. The four articulations are Staccato, Marcato, Sustain and Fall. The Staccato and Marcato are similar with 4 round robins and 2 or 3 velocity layers depending on the note. The Sustain is actually quite different with the modwheel being used for the crossfade between the three velocity layers. The Fall has four round robins and one velocity layer with the Shake kicking in at the softer velocities above C3.

As a three instrument section, the trumpets have a fuller sound than the solo instruments we have been talking about. This generally works to Swing More's advantage and at the low and middle range the Trumpets sound quite good. The last octave to half octave depending on the articulation really falls apart though and becomes cringe worthy. The Sustain and Marcato are the best sounding to me and the modwheel crossfade gives the Sustain a much smoother velocity curve than most of the other instruments and also the ability to do swells at will.

Trumpets - Longs is a departure in that it has only one articulations this has Shakes at the top upwards from C4 and Marcatos at the bottom with the sustains at mid-velocity. It uses 786 samples and 400 megs. This patch baffles me as Marcatos aren't longs in anyone's book and they and the Shakes could have been given their own articulations. Possibly this patch makes sense for performance in ways I don't understand. I much prefer the Sustain on the Basics patch.

Trumpets - Shorts has a really funky set of articulations. All four start with a Staccato and then from left to right play Marcato, Fast Fall, Slow Fall and Doit. The Marcato covers the same range as the Staccato but the Falls and Doit don't, so going too low on those articulations merely triggers the Staccato. This feels sloppy. Still full points for creativity as I'm not aware that I've ever seen another Kontakt instrument quite like this one. It certainly creates a lot of movement and flair.

The stats are 2500 samples in 500 megs. The Staccatos and Marcatos have 2 or 3 velocity layers while everything else has 1. There are 3 or 4 round robins.

Trumpets - Legato is another confusing patch. The Legato is in the mid velocity with Shake from C4 upwards at high velocity and Marcato at low velocity. It is just too easy to play a shake or a marcato when you are trying to do a smooth legato. I just don't get the point. There are Fast and Run legato. The Fast feels like a traditional legato while the Run sounds like a marcato is being played on each transition. Again this feel like a performance patch for a specific situation that I don't understand, but it seems ill chosen to be the only Trumpets Legato patch. If you can get it sorted out there is a lot here to play with as there are 4700 samples in over a gig of memory.

Overall there is certainly a lot here, but at the risk of beating a dead horse when comparing the close mic on these instruments to the Session Horns Pro, the Swing More sounds tonally OK while the SHP sounds very good. Tone is hard to quantify, but SHP just seems to have that IT factor that is missing in SM. However Swing More has both Wide and Ambient mics which can be used by themselves or mixed with the Close mic to give a sound that SHP cannot achieve. With some reverb and EQ work I think that the SM brass and SM in general can sound like a solid backup band with the SHP taking the closer solo lead.

Some of the patches are quite clever and fill unusual niches, others seems just odd for the sake of being odd. The brass would benefit from some more traditional patches and the Trumpets Sustain with modwheel control showed just how much this collection misses modwheel crossfade articulations.

Thursday, August 24, 2017

Swing More Guitars

Afterward added note. Throughout this guitar review, I was annoyed at having so many slides so I made my own little nkis without slides. You are welcome to try them. No warranties asserted or implied and your mileage may vary etc...

No Slide nkis 

You should be able to unzip these into your guitar directory. They all end with No Slide so they won't overwrite any other nkis. You will probably have to tell Kontakt where your Swing More samples are and then resave.


Lets start with that fairly eclectic instrument, the Ukelele. I have over 24,000 results that come up in my Kontakt database. When I type in Ukelele this is the only instrument that pops up. To be fair I googled and 8Dio has a Kontakt Uke Pack for $150 bucks, but I think I'll stick with this one included in a pack that cost me only $100 more than just the 8Dio Uke by itself.

This Uke weighs in at over 2000 samples and about 400 megs. It has Close and Room mic settings. There are supposed to be four articulations, Long, Short, Fall and Triplets, but unless I'm misunderstanding what Triplets means I don't think that articulation is correct as it sounds like a slide type thing to me. The staccatos have 6 round robins and everything else seems to have 3. I am assuming the slide must be important in the big band uke as it sits on top of every single articulation.

The Long articulation has two velocity layers while the Short adds in a mute at low velocity for a third velocity layer. The others have one velocity layer. The Longs also uses the mod wheel to switch between vibrato and non-vibrato.

The sound seems right for a Uke. The Longs have a nice tail fading out while the Shorts have that abrupt feel that I usually associate with a Uke. Having the mutes is a nice touch. I wish there were an nki that had just the Longs and Shorts without the slide on top velocity layer of everything and the mutes and vibrato as separate articulations.

Again I'm not sure what triplets should be but I'm assuming three notes should be struck in rapid succession and the Triplets articulation sounds nothing like that. It isn't that big a deal since you can just hit the Short three times, it is just odd.
There is another glitch the slide doesn't go all the way down to C3.

This is a solid instrument that is good enough for some solo work and as a fairly rare instrument definitely adds value to the pack. Just be careful not to whack your keyboard too hard and get the slide by mistake.


The Mandolin is more lightly sampled than the Uke with the 'Single' nki having 1000 samples and 280 megs. There are Long, Short and Tremolo articulations and again Close and room Mics. The Longs and Shorts have a Slur at the highest velocity and one regular velocity layer. The Longs have 2 round robins and the Shorts 4. The Tremolo which is basically really fast picking of the same note has two velocity layers, one with an accent and one without.

The Mandolin seems more inconsistent than the Uke, for instance the Long D3 doesn't really even sound like the same instrument. While some variance is expect do to open strings and such, this just feels like it was sampled by an inexperienced player with the sound being all over the place on both Long and Short. The quick strumming of the Tremolo is the best part of this patch.

The Mandolin Strums patch is quite nice. After disliking the main patch, I didn't expect much, but this was a pleasant surprise. Strums are available for each key in Major, Minor, Dominate 7th and Diminished and a little on screen display shows you which you are playing. There are Longs, Shorts and Arpeggios to choose from in your strums. The Shorts have 4 round robins and the Longs 2. If you use the Longs give them plenty of time to breath otherwise go Short. You might also pull the Attack back to 0.

The Arpeggios are pretty interesting. You get 4 notes in sequence each time and you could almost use them to write yourself a little 4/4 melody.

There is more consistency in the round robins and across the keyboard than in the main patch. The tone is quite pleasant. The only question might be why the mod wheel wasn't used as the selection method for the three types of strums and the velocity allowed to dictate the volume. As it stand the modwheel opens and closes the filter and there is no volume change whatsoever.

The Mandolin Tremolo Sync patch is a clever patch that as the name suggests will sync the offered Fast and Slow picking to match the tempo selected in your DAW. It gets a wee bit odd below about 80 but works well above that. Both the Fast and Slow have an accent at the higher velocities and no accent at the lower. In a nice touch you can choose half or double speed if you prefer it to regular tempo.

This is a fun picking and grinning patch with clever use of Kontakt's time machine. I prefer a tempo of about 100 but you can go nuts and really crank it up. Again you might pull the attack to 0.


And now the Banjo. I guess there is less to do with a Banjo than a Uke or Mandolin as the Main or 'Single' nki is just a single articulation with a Slide at high velocity and a single velocity layer pluck on the lower velocity. Both have 2 round robins and per usual a Close and Room mic. A banjo expert could probably give you a run down on the tone, but to me a banjo played with even moderate competence sounds like a banjo and this sounds like a slightly flat banjo. To test this all banjos sound alike theory out, I tried the Realitone Banjo (thanks Mike Greene) and the free Philharmonica banjo. While the Realitone might have sounded slightly better than the other two, I wouldn't have wanted to swear to it under oath. They was all rootin' tootin' banjos.

One little quirk is that you can only play down to G3 and yet there are samples down to D3. Why would you record and include samples with no way to play them? I don't know.

So on to the Banjo Strums and the Banjo Groove. Like the Mandolin Strums above, the Banjo Strums have Long, Short and Arpeggio strums. The Banjo Groove patch replaces the short strum with a 130 bpm groove. Other than that the two nkis are identical. I must admit I've never been much on pre-recorded grooves, if you are into them I reckon these sound fine and since there are grooves for every key in Major, Minor, Dominate 7th and Diminished, you can't fault the effort.

Much like the aforementioned Mandolin Strums, the Banjo Strums sound quite nice, probably better than the single notes. Everything has 4 round robins. Again you have Major, Minor, Dominate 7th and Diminished strums in every key.

So there you have the Ukulele, Mandolin and Banjo. The Uke is the best of the bunch in my opinion and I can see it being your go to Ukulele for all your varied Uke needs. The Banjo sounds like a banjo and is not bad. The single note Mandolin is not the best, but both the Mandolin and Banjo strums sound pretty good.


And now on the the Jazz Guitar and its five patches. The Lead nki seems to be the standard single note patch. The has Long, Vibrato, Short and Mute. Again there are Close and room mics. The Short and Mute have 4 round robins and the Long and Vibrato have 2. Each articulation has one velocity layer with a slide at the high velocity of each. The mod wheel adds in some oscillation based vibrato. I prefer the sound without added vibrato since it has a natural vibrato articulation anyway.

I quite like the sound of this guitar. While I know that no virtual instrument has really captured the soul of the guitar, which is more obvious to me because I have a buddy who is a superb guitarist, this instrument has a very pleasant acoustic sound. While held back by a lack of velocity layers, it could be used as a solid jazz or even classical guitar for backup or brief solo work.

As you might expect the Jazz Guitar - Octaves gives you the ability to use the popular technique of playing your root and an octave above the root at the same time. From what I read this is pretty tough in real life, but this patch makes it easy. There are Longs and Shorts here with the usual slide on top. These slides are different however as they are specifically octave slides and there is a different type for Long and Short. The Longs have a single velocity layer under the Slide, but the Shorts have both a regular Staccato note in the middle velocity and a Marcato note at the soft velocity. The Longs have 2 round robins and the Shorts 2.

There are some inconsistencies in this patch probably because of the difficulty of playing the octave style. The overall effect is pretty good though and like the Uke this adds something I don't already have in any other instrument to my library.

The Jazz Guitar - Strums and Groove are much like the Mandolin and Banjo Strums. The Groove is a 90 bpm loop that again doesn't thrill me but might be useful if you are more of a loop person. The Strums are Long, Short and Arpeggio in every key in Major, Minor, Dominate 7th and Diminished as we have become accustomed to. Both the Longs and Shorts have 4 round robins while the Arps don't have any. There are some inconsistencies here for instance the Arps range from 4 to 6 notes and the longer round robins can vary in style a bit. Still they should work fairly well for tossing chords into songs without playing each note individually. The overall pleasant tone of the Jazz /guitar continues to be evident in these patches as well.

Finally we come to Jazz Guitar - Phrases which is a collection of about a 100 5 to 10 second guitar phrases across various keys. Unless you use the wrench to open the instrument and look at the group names you have no real way of knowing what keys and chords are being used. Well unless you have a good ear. This is so far from what I'm used to that I'll just let you draw your own conclusion about its usefulness to you.

Overall this is a nice guitar with a good tone. Most everything has a fair number of round robins, though not much in the way of velocity layers. If you don't have much in the way of acoustic guitars this might come in handy for many uses outside this collection, though I'm not sure you would want it to solo a whole song. Even if you have better acoustic guitars, it can be a nice change of pace or background instrument. The octaves patch has an interesting feel and might fit a few places.


The Bass Guitar - Fretless weighs in at 2500 samples and 400 megs. The groups have the name Fodera and so I'm assuming that are samples from the Fodera Bass Guitar. The included articulations are Sustain, Staccato, Mute and Glissando with the Close and Room mics. The Sustain and Staccato patches include Slides but in odd ways as the notes C1 and above have an upward slide at the highest velocity layers while the lowest velocities from C1 to B1 slide down. This a bit bizarre by anyone's standards. Also Vibrato samples can be triggers in place of Sustain by using a foot pedal.

Aside from the obvious of being a bass, the Fretless Bass Guitar feels a bit different than the previous guitars as if it were sampled by a different group. It has a good solid tone and it feels more like an instrument that could be used outside of the pack and could be sold by itself. Aside from the slides it has two velocity layers. The Staccatos and Mutes have 6 round robins while the Sustains have 2.

Like the Uke, a Fretless Bass can be harder to find so this adds some more value to Swing More. Just watch those slides, or you can try the little no slide patches at the top of the page, when you are jamming with this bass.


The Bass Guitar - Electric feels much like the Fretless. It has almost 3000 samples and again about 400 megs of compressed samples. Again we get Sustain, Staccato, Mute and Glissando articulations with no slides this time. Instead there are 3 velocity layers to go with 6 round robins for Staccato and Mute and 2 for Sustain.

Like the Fretless, the Electric seems to be a solid instrument that could be used for many things outside the pack as well as blending nicely within Swing More. Of course the Electric Bass is a pretty common instrument, so you might already have your preferences in this area well covered.

In Summery a quirky set of guitar and guitar-like instruments. Some are better than others, but you can get some mileage out of these especially the rarer instruments. If you love Slides you are really set!

Wednesday, August 2, 2017

Swing More Multis

Project Sam clearly had fun putting together the Swing! libraries. If they hadn't I suppose we wouldn't be looking at Swing More! would we? Part of that was creating a collection of 16 multis. Lets take a quick look at each of the multis and how they sound. Note this is made easier since Project Sam has included a description of each Multi at the top of the Multi itself.

One quirk with all the multis is that the lowest blue keys always stretch to the bottom of the keyboard even though the bottom octave or two has no notes. This confused me a bit at first.Also note that at least off regular non-SSD hard drives these do take a while to load up. Doing as Save Multi As... may help it load faster in the future. It does on my machine.

All Together Now is about that Saxy thang along with some Bass Guitar. The Bass is at the bottom with the Vibrato articulation of the Baritone, Tenor, Alto and Soprano Sax working their way up the scale. This isn't one of the best multis out of the box as the Alto Sax is way to hot and the Soprano Sax isn't playing the long vibrato at all but instead the fairly short Marcato. Pull the Alto Sax down by about 10 db and ignore the top octave and you have a nice little sax trio with bass guitar.

Alleyway is one of the quirkier Multis. It is the first one where pressing hard or in this case soft will start up a drum groove. to the far left is the Fretless Bass and Piano, move up a bit and a pitch shifted Jazz Guitar kicks in while when you hit the yellow a pitch shifted Vibraphone completes the lower ensemble. The upper side belongs to my favorite Sax, the Alto.  Soft velocity is soft, medium velocity is loud and hard velocity triggers a crescendo. Yeah definitely quirky.

Am I Dreaming is a question I ask myself every time a beautiful woman smiles at me. Sadly the answer is almost always Yes! The squeaking of a screen-door opening to another dimension that is the Bass Trombone's low end starts us off. At high velocity it does the start a note then quick fade and rebuild the volume thing. The Baritone Sax and then the Tenor Trombone kick in as we move up the yellow keys. Trumpet Legato joins in as we hit the upper blue keys and then shortly after that the Women's Ooh ensemble. A bit higher and both the Chimes and the Trumpet Shake kick in at the highest velocity layers. Overall quite a complex Multi.

Unfortunately the Bass Trombone is giving me two problems. On some notes it makes an audible and sometimes fairly loud popping sound as the SFZ Long samples come to an end. Also sometimes the release samples triggers fairly loudly after the note is released. I'm writing this review backwards, so when I look at the Bass Trombone separately I'll keep and eye out for this problem. I should note that some of this might be from using regular 7200 RPM hard drives and Studio One 2 which can be a resource hog.

Ambient Mandolin is a fairly simple Multi with a dreamy sort of Mandolin joining a Vibraphone for an ethereal effect.

Ballad is about the Guitars along with a Soft Piano that plays across the entire Multi. At the bottom we start with the Bass Guitar which is joined by the Jazz guitar and high velocity slides as we move on up. On the middle blue keys we get the Ukulele on the left and the Mandolin on the right before it all faded to the soft piano. This is basically an All the Guitars patch.

Breaking the Pattern certainly is well named.the bottom half is the Celli and Basses modwheel sustain while the top is the Violins modwheel sustain with a very loud piano arpeggio. I had to crank the piano down about 8 db to even hear the violins with the modwheel cranked. I'm sure someone can put this to use, but it just seemed odd to me.

Catch Me is a big Staccato stack with all the woodwinds, strings and vibraphone all contributing their staccato articulations to the Multi. It is good for quick stabs, but the integrity of the Multi is betrayed by the odd Clarinet choice of having the Bend Up articulation at the top velocity layer. Also the mix is a bit off.

Cinematic Vivaldi is a Tremolo Multi that works nicely in the middle of the keyboard with the Violins and Mandolin Tremolo. There is also an Ambient Piano and the Celli and Basses Legato. This is a creative Multi that feels nothing like a Swing collection.

Hurry has the Bass Guitar Staccato and the Kick Drum low joined by the Baritone Sax Staccato a little ways up the keyboard. The upper half is devoted to Banjo Strums. The Drums are supposed to kick in at high velocity with the Banjos, but they never do. I have no idea what the purpose of this Multi is.

Incognito is Jazz Guitar Phrases backed by very soft Vibraphone Tremolo and Drum Hits and Phrases. I can't see ever using this.

Solitude is the Strings on the bottom and a Soft Clarinet on top. Only the soft clarinet is much to loud. Crank it down and you have a nice little split keyboard patch.

Stuck In Time is another creative non-Swing type Multi. In this case the Clarinet and at the softer velocity layers the Women's Chorus provide a low key pad.

Sunny Morning Drive is a Multi that is all about the Guitars. The Jazz Guitar, Mandolin and Banjo all give us chords at the bottom. Soft velocity yields Arpeggios, middle velocity short chord strums and upper velocity long strums. On the upper half of the Keyboard the Uke takes the lead while the Mandolin Tremolo kicks in at high velocity layers. A nice little lead with the right hand and chords on the left patch. Note the arps don't work so well as the guitar is at about half speed.

The Improbables is stacks and stacks of staccato sax and horns. Bass Trombone and Baritone Sax, then Tenor Trombone and Trumpets kick in. The Alto and Soprano Sax join as the Bass fades. The upper velocity has a good kick to it while the lower velocity has a sweeter swing. Definitely a good Swing Multi for those time when you want a bunch of brass and sax playing the same note. There are enough round robins to avoid the machine gun effect even on quick stabs on the same note.

Undercover brings to mind a panther of reddish hue, a light reddish hue... could it be pink? Plucked Celli and Bass on the bottom with Shaker and if you go high velocity Cowbell. I didn't even know Swing More! had a cowbell. High are the Staccato violins. This one is fun.

Welcome to Broadway extends its invitation with Staccato Bass Trombone and Baritone Sax, an electric Bass Guitar and throbbing Toms. The Clarinet Legato is on the high side. Well sort of legato, the top velocity bends and the upper midish is staccato.

Thus endeth the Multis. I suspect that live players will get more out of these than the more composer types. There is a little something for most everyone and some of them are quite creative. Not really my cup of tea, but still a nice bit of added content.