From Zero-G: https://www.zero-g.co.uk/store/sax-supreme-p495.php

Regularly $80, today only for $30 (discount code: SAX62). Sadly, even at the discounted price I can't afford it this month, so I figured I'd at least let you all know about it so maybe somebody else can score it. 

It sure sounds good. Listen to the "Classical" demo. Hope they plan alto and baritone versions.

Thanks Bit, That just cost me $30 but it sounded pretty good in the Jazz demo. Can't wait to compare it with the CHH soprano sax. Kind regards, Rick

What the heck. $30 can't be wasted if I find at least one song for it, right?

Roight!

If you're looking for Sax plugs?

Please consider Sample Modeling... They are the real deal.

http://www.samplemodeling.com/en/products.php

The others aren't bad? But they are not as good. If you don't have a sax player but want one? 

Samplemodeling...

There are girls you look at and say, yes, she's pretty? 

And then there are girls who when you see them? You say "Wow..."

That's samplemodeling... They will make you say "Wow..." And no, I don't work in the music industry or am I am anyway connected with these guys, other than being a very happy customer.

They are not the cheapest? Nor do they sound that way. You will not be disappointed with the good people at Samplemodeling. I have been very satisfied with their products and their quality. They have some brass and other wind instruments as well? And I have been begging them to develop/release a  solo Violin. I believe it would be "epic..." 

Watch Stephano play "the sax?" 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs1rk6M-n60

Not just the 1st part, watch it all the way through... It's not long. Their Sax plugs are amazing.

$352 for three saxaphones?

$30 for one (not quite as good)?

Maybe in 6 months time I'll have a $30 Bari and a $30 Tenor?

Yaa, a bit pricey.
I'll wait for the AudioMIDI  Samplemodeling all brass+winds for $29.00 no brainer.
 
They'll do that after the ultrararenever Omnisphere 50% off sale, roight?

I think the future is in modeled instruments, but we've a way to go. There is nothing magical about modeling that makes it inherently superior to sampling. I've heard some pretty awful modeled instruments. 

It comes down to how complete the model is, IOW how many factors are taken into account. A customer of mine who worked for the National Weather Service once told me that weather forecasting could theoretically be 100% accurate, except that the model would have to be so detailed that by the time the computers had finished the calculations the weather would have come and gone.

All sample libraries suffer from a common limitation, which is that they can't cover every articulation and subtlety of expression. You're always stuck with what the recordist decided to include in the collection. But for instruments that are highly complex in timbre but restricted in articulations (such as a piano or drums) samples will remain king for a long time. Saxophones, however, would indeed seem good candidates for modeling.

Got to play with this, a little, over the weekend and I feel like it is worth the $30. Can't find much about it on the net and the manual is only about 5 pages of general info.

I wanted to set the vibrato up to use aftertouch vs. the default mod wheel. Went into the script, per the manual, and changed the selection in the drop down box to aftertouch vs. mod wheel (amt CC#=1) but I get no vibrato when applying aftertouch. Just curious if any other users have tried this with positive results.

Hopefully I'll get to play with it more tommorrow and try some other keyboards to see if that makes any difference. Perhaps I have interpreted things wrong but there are several alternate controllers, in the drop down list, that the vibrato can be assigned to. 

Anyway, hoping someone here has had the chance to play with this and might shed some light on it.

Kind regards,
Rick

Played with this more today and I'm not really sure it is worth the $30 now.

I'm using it in the latest Kontakt full 4.2 and they do say they recommend using it in Kontakt 5 full so maybe that is some of what I'm seeing.

Anytime I try to change the vibrato controller it kills the audio engine in Sonar and some times causes Sonar to crash. Don't have Kontakt 5 full so I can't try it there but my guess is that the scripting was meant to take advanage of the new features of 5.

It will work for simple lines in a tune but it is not something I could play live and get the articuations that I thought I heard in the demos. I'll just stick with my CHH soprano sax and leave the Zero-G alone. Another $30 lesson learned...

Kind regards,
Rick