Candy saxophone sampler review — Music Tech
Music Tech magazine reviews Candy, Yellow Tools’ saxophone ROMpler. Yellow Tools have built their own sample playback engine, and in this case they use it to deliver 9GB of saxophone samples covering the spectrum of sax and reed types.
As they point out, the saxophone is a very difficult instrument to sample properly because it has such a wide palette of sounds. “Candy certainly has plenty of inspiring sounds, but it still appears that sampling alone struggles to capture the range of timbres and effects saxophones can produce.” So if you really want to explore the saxophone in your computer-based music, maybe Candy isn’t for you. However, it sounds as if it could be useful for more experimental use, since there are a number of effects included: “The effects, although not chromatic, cover an assortment of squeaks, pops and squeals, and could be a great source of material for abstract sound designers.”
Despite its limitations, they give it a good 8 out of 10, citing its transparent editing of complex multi-samples, good-quality sound, and range of instruments and styles included. They call Candy “a significant leap in comparison to many existing sax samples” but suggest that there is room for improvement. I like the name, anyway.
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