Jazz EZX®
About the performer
This 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 sessions
Throughout 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.
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Windows XP, PIII/Athlon 1,8GHz with 512 MB of RAM |
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Mac OS X 10.4, G4 1GHz with 512 MB of RAM |
| 750 MB free hard disc space, DVD drive, A working EZdrummer® or Superior Drummer® 2.0 installation |
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Jazz EZX® - product details
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) |
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CREDITS
Original Concept for the Jazz Sessions: Andreas Sundgren and Brad Bowden
The Jazz EZX® Sessions were produced by: Mattias Eklund and Brad Bowden
The sounds for the Jazz EZX® were played by Roy “Futureman” Wooten at Blackbird Studios, Nashville, USA.
The sounds for the Jazz EZX® were recorded, engineered and mixed by Chris Grainger, Brad Bowden and Mattias Eklund at Blackbird Studios, Nashville, USA.
Blackbird Chief Engineer: Vance Powell
Blackbird Assistant Engineer: Mark Petaccia
Drumtech: Raymond Massey
The MIDI files for the Jazz EZX® were played by David Haynes, Atlanta, GA, USA & by Morgan Ĺgren and Per Mikaelsson, Toontrack Studios, Umea Sweden.
Sound editing: Mattias Eklund, Ulf Edlund & Stefan Bränberg
MIDI editing: Henrik Kjellberg & Nils Eriksson
Drum Tech/Consultant/ Tuner: Raymond Massey
Project co-ordination: Brad Bowden
Graphic designer: Fredrik Ärletun
Head of support, beta testing and configuration manager: Rogue Marechal
Coding: Olof Westman |
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