About the performerThis Jazz EZX features samples performed by the legendary Drum Virtuoso/Pioneer Roy ”Futureman” Wooten.
Futureman
is a multiple Grammy award winning composer, inventor, and
multi-instrumentalist who has been a pioneer in using sampled drums
since 1985. He has shared the stage and numerous albums with many Jazz
legends.
Roy started playing acoustic drums as a young child with
his brothers in Virginia. From that he has come a long way and is now
renowned for playing what is called a SynthAxe-Drumitar to trigger drum
samples.
As an instrumentalist Roy Wooten strives to employ the
power and science of Mother Nature and his percussive technique takes
playing drums way beyond just simple time keeping. His approach is a
much more all-encompassing and universal one. Futureman views himself as
a storyteller playing music to reach beyond the limits of common
musical understanding.
He invented and built the Drumitar to be
able to voice his own revolutionary approach to Jazz with the
groundbreaking group Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. As a result
Futureman has performed using Toontrack Music samples to an audience of
millions, live at some of the most popular and critically revered
performance halls, clubs, TV shows and festivals on the planet. Through
Roy Wooten our sounds have made it through to the airwaves of places
like Carnegie Hall and premier Greenwich Village Jazz club Blue Note.
About the sessionsThroughout
our history of creating sample libraries and instruments, we have
strived to both innovate and preserve in all areas of performance,
engineering, and genre.
In creating this library we went to new and
unheard of levels of dynamic. The recordings feature layered sampling
with numerous mic stems fronted by recording chains we had previously
only dreamt of.
In the fall of 07, we began the Jazz with
Futureman at the impeccable Blackbird Studios. His passion and knowledge
of Jazz history met with a relentlessly energetic and musical approach
to single note striking that left the Toontrack crew in utter disbelief.
Roy
hears every single hit and swirl recorded as part of a larger whole, as
part of a musical sequence rather than as solitary, monotonous hit. The
results are samples that strike with intensity and force lending unique
scope and musicality to these recordings.
The recordings for the
Jazz EZX set a benchmark for how sampling percussive instruments, and
musical instruments in general, will be done in the future.
Toontrack
Music has had the privilege to capture the magic of Futureman. His
touch, his heart, his philosophy and his unique approach to his craft in
this Jazz EZX. The story of jazz drums has a new chapter.
| SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS |
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Windows XP SP3 or newer, Pentium 4 or Athlon processor with 512 MB RAM |
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Mac OS 10.4.11 or higher, G5 or Intel processor with 512 MB RAM |
| 750 MB free hard disc space, DVD drive, A working EZdrummer® or Superior Drummer® 2.0 installation |
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Kickdrums:
• 18" Pearl Reference Series
• 22" Ludwig Maple Psychedelic
Snaredrums:
• 5x14" Pearl 50th anniversary Solid Maple Shell (Brushes)
• 5x14" Pearl 50th anniversary Solid Maple Shell (Sticks)
• 3.5x14" Leedy piccolo (Sticks)
Hats:
• 14" Masterworks Meritamon Series (Brushes)
• 14" Masterworks Meritamon Series (Sticks)
Tom 1:
• 10" Gretsch USA Custom Series (Brushes)
• 10" Gretsch USA Custom Series (Sticks)
Tom2:
• 12" Pearl Reference Series (Brushes)
• 12" Pearl Reference Series (Sticks)
Tom3:
• 14" Pearl Reference Series (Brushes)
• 14" Pearl Reference Series (Sticks)
• 16" Slingerland Radio king (Brushes)
• 16" Slingerland Radio king (Sticks)
Crash:
• 18" Paiste Fast Crash (Sticks)
• 22" K Zildjian Constantinople Medium (Brushes)
Ride:
• 22" K Zildjian Constantinople Light (Brushes)
• 22" K Zildjian Constantinople Light (Sticks)
