Play 4 Goes Into Beta Testing
Los Angeles, Aug 2, 2012 – In its forum on Soundsonline.com, EastWest Sounds president Doug Rogers announced that beginning the week of August 6, 2012, beta testing would begin on PLAY 4, their proprietary sample library engine. According to Rogers, this is a major upgrade that’s been in development for over a year. Some third [...]
Read More →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.
Read More →Insights: 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.
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With the new Hollywood Brass, what you write is what you get. And it’s much faster to learn than Hollywood Strings.
Read More →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.
Read More →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, [...]
Read More →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.
Read More →Notion 3: It’s Time Is Now
Notion 3 has the potential to be for the PC what GarageBand is for the Mac.
Read More →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.
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