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SPAT: Your New Best Buddy For Mixing

SPAT: Your New Best Buddy For Mixing

One of the most difficult problems in mixing orchestral mock-ups, knowing how to spatially place instruments quickly and easily, has now been simplified with Ircam SPAT, a 32Bit downloadable audio plug-in that works with any library.

Hollywood Strings: Keyswitch Finger Positions

Hollywood Strings: Keyswitch Finger Positions

Hollywood Strings Keyswitch Finger Positions feature offers composers the unique coloristic writing opportunity of actually playing full lines across positions 1-4 on the string instruments, or to select smaller areas to perform on a single string.

Hollywood Brass 1: A Professional Orchestration Review

Hollywood Brass 1: A Professional Orchestration Review

With the new Hollywood Brass, what you write is what you get. And it’s much faster to learn than Hollywood Strings.

The Vienna Suite: Prelude to a Review

The Vienna Suite: Prelude to a Review

VSL’s Vienna Suite is a powerful, 64bit native set of nine effects for both Mac and PC.

Alexander Publishing Study Hall Posts Free Audio Seminar on Divisi Writing

With the release of new orchestral string libraries from Audiobro and EastWest which enable the use of string divisi writing, a free 10-minute audio seminar with matching PDF download has been posted in the Alexander Publishing Study Hall entitled What the Heck Is String Divisi & Is It Contagious? http://alexanderpublishing.com/studyhall.aspx Narrated by Peter Lawrence Alexander, [...]

Hollywood Strings – A First Consideration

Hollywood Strings – A First Consideration

HS’s studio sound provides composers another choice as to which string ensemble recorded in which space do we want for the piece we’re working on.

Notion 3: It’s Time Is Now

Notion 3: It’s Time Is Now

Notion 3 has the potential to be for the PC what GarageBand is for the Mac.

EastWest Quantum Leap Gypsy – Part 1

EastWest Quantum Leap Gypsy – Part 1

EastWest Gypsy: An exciting package offering a plethora of colors and ensembles you might not have thought of before!

The New Music Computer Lab: Spring 2009

With tight budgets what’s the best way to build a computer lab?

QLSO PLAY – First Look

QLSO PLAY – First Look

In early July, Sonic Control’s Peter Alexander was given the opportunity to have a sneak preview of EastWest’s Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra Platinum in the new PLAY software instrument. Here are his first impressions.