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Bel Canto Violin
The cat is out of the bag, and Straight Ahead Samples is now thinking out of the box! The jazz box that is. Over twelve years ago, we...
Ryan Corbitt
Nov 27, 20242 min read
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The Vintage Harp Free and What's Next
Last Friday, we expanded our collection of free sample libraries with the addition of The Vintage Harp! We hope you’ll download it and...
Ryan Corbitt
Nov 4, 20242 min read
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Dorico Playback and Atomic Big Band update
Today we've got a huge update for Dorico users. Our free playback template v1.1 for Atomic Big Band! The Horns now contains expression...
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Sep 25, 20241 min read
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Keyboard sounds or Virtual Instrumentalists
Last week we released Big Growlin' Sax, the latest in our jazz and jazz-adjacent sample libraries. This highly stylized version of a...
Ryan Corbitt
Jul 16, 20242 min read
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Dorico - Your Portal To the Music-Verse
Music notation, the most timeless, original method of recording music, is sometimes overlooked and forgotten, or at best an after-thought...
Ryan Corbitt
May 26, 20244 min read
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Rounding Out Our New Standard Series: My Favorite Soprano
We are pleased to announce our final installment in our New Standard series of wind instruments: My Favorite Soprano. This is a really...
straightaheadsamples
Apr 23, 20241 min read
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Happy 2024, its time to Sync things up!
We wanted to start off the year with an official announcement of something we quietly leaked in a video last month. It's a new free...
Ryan Corbitt
Feb 1, 20242 min read
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Archtop Guitar & Tuba: Just In Time For Black Friday
We are proud to announce our two newest libraries: Big Easy Tuba and JB-145: Archtop Guitar. Both arriving just in time for the holiday...
straightaheadsamples
Nov 8, 20232 min read
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Vibe | Tradition | Expressiveness - Sophisticated Bari Released
We're super excited to announce our newest library: Sophisticated Bari. This has been in the plans for a long time, and we're so happy to...
straightaheadsamples
Aug 10, 20231 min read
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"Lite" Version of Atomic Big Band! The Horns Now Available
We're super excited to announce something we've been working on for a while now: Atomic Big Band! The Horns Lite. We wanted to give...
straightaheadsamples
Jun 12, 20231 min read
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Expression Control & Art of the Alto
Our newest New Standard library was released a couple of weeks ago. Art of the Alto is our super soulful alto saxophone library that...
straightaheadsamples
Jun 12, 20232 min read
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What's the difference between Birth of the Trumpet and the trumpets in Atomic Big Band!?
A lot of customers and people curious about our instruments ask: What is the difference between, for example, Birth of the Trumpet and...
straightaheadsamples
Apr 17, 20233 min read
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