Dan Dean Solo Woodwinds is the latest a series of acoustic instrument libraries to be released from Dan Dean Productions (creators of the recent and also reviewed Dan Dean Solo Brass, Dan Dean Solo Strings and the Dan Dean Bass Collection). Included in this 10 CD-ROM set are instruments such as Alto Flute, Flute, Bass Flute, Bass Clarinet, Clarinet, Bassoon, Contra Bassoon, English Horn and Oboe (each instrument occupying one CD of the ten in the library. Designed with an emphasis put on realism and expression, these woodwind samples feature up to 6 sampled velocities per note, with hundreds of samples per several-hundred megabyte instrument patch.
Articulations include:
NV (Non-Vibrato)
V (Vibrato, except Clarinet),
PT (Portato or mezzo-staccato)
ST (Staccato).

Advanced programming features include:
Keyswitching
Mod wheel control fast attack variants
Mod wheel control slow attack variants
Ensemble presets (in 5.1 update)
Individual layer access
and many other features.