FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Dan Dean Productions Releases "Dan Dean Solo Strings/AKAI" in AKAI® format

"Dan Dean Solo Strings/AKAI", the award winning library comprised of Solo Violin, Solo Viola and Solo Cello in AKAI® S-1000 format brings unparalleled sound quality and realism in sampling to the world’s most widely accepted and import friendly format - AKAI!

MERCER ISLAND, WA (October 4th, 2002) – Highly regarded in the music industry, sampling wizard Dan Dean announced the release of his new "Dan Dean Solo Strings/AKAI" CD-ROM in AKAI® S-1000 format for all AKAI® and all AKAI®- compatible samplers today. A mainstay in the Gigasampler® format since its release, this Solo Strings AKAI long awaited award-winning library is priced at $199 (US) and features chromatically sampled Solo Violin, Solo Viola and Solo Cello in various articulations.

Each and every note of all of the instruments has been sampled and placed on the keyboard. There is absolutely no transposition, pitch-shifting or stretching effects typically found in other libraries. This feature creates digital instruments of the highest caliber, where all the harmonics of each note are true. Another important feature of chromatic sampling is constant body resonance. Any note can be played anywhere on the instruments without any shift in body resonance.

A number of articulations, such as Arco Vibrato, Staccato, Pizzicato, Tremelo, Half-Step Trills and Whole-Step Trills are included in each bank.

It has always been DDP’s basic premise to produce digital instrument libraries of unsurpassed sonic quality, hence the new DDSS/AKAI uses exactly the same beautifully recorded, high-definition stereo wave files as the original Gigasampler® version. We have been working on this and all of the other new AKAI® releases in the DDP line for over a year, to arrive at a truly optimal version for AKAI"a version that when played side by side with its Giga counterpart, sounds the same.

All of these samples were recorded using our proprietary recording techniques. We think these are the best sounding solo strings available anywhere today. Finally, in the world’s most widely accepted and cross-platform friendly format"AKAI®!

About Dan Dean Productions

Founded in 1979, Dan Dean Productions, Inc. is primarily involved in music production for the broadcast media and sample library design and development. Broadcast media clients include: the Boeing Company, Nike, Soloflex, Haggar Sportswear, Coke, Diet Coke, Mountain Dew, Microsoft, MSN, Hewlett Packard and many others.

Since its inception, Dan Dean Productions has created truly cutting edge sample libraries, receiving numerous awards such as Keyboard Magazine’s "Key Buy" awards, Sound on Sound Magazine’s "5 star" designations, Electronic Musician’s "Hot Pix" award and others. The following lists DDP’s critically acclaimed sample libraries:

Dan Dean Solo Strings (Giga)
Dan Dean Solo Strings/AKAI
Dan Dean Giga Bass Collection (Giga)
Dan Dean Solo Woodwinds (Giga)
Dan Dean Solo Woodwinds/AKAI
Dan Dean Solo Brass (Giga)
Dan Dean Solo Brass/AKAI
Dan Dean Bass Collection 1 (EMU)
Dan Dean Bass Collection 2 (EMU)

And just released

Dan Dean Brass Ensembles (Giga)
Dan Dean Brass Ensembles/AKAI