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Play 4 Goes Into Beta Testing

By   /  August 3, 2012  /  Industry News  /  No Comments

Newly designed mixer for PLAY 4.

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 [...]

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SPAT: Your New Best Buddy For Mixing

By   /  March 29, 2012  /  Software Effects  /  1 Comment

Violins 1 placed

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.

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Insights: Hollywood Strings Keyswitch Finger Positions

By   /  March 13, 2012  /  Virtual Instruments  /  No Comments

First Position pitches for the violin. Click graphic for larger view.

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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Hollywood Brass 1: A Professional Orchestration Review

By   /  August 24, 2011  /  Virtual Instruments  /  No Comments

HollywoodBrass-Lrg

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

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The Vienna Suite: Prelude to a Review

By   /  February 20, 2011  /  Software Effects  /  No Comments

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

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Alexander Publishing Study Hall Posts Free Audio Seminar on Divisi Writing

By   /  February 8, 2010  /  Bucks  /  No Comments

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, [...]

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Hollywood Strings – A First Consideration

By   /  January 18, 2010  /  Virtual Instruments  /  No Comments

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.

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Notion 3: It’s Time Is Now

By   /  October 14, 2009  /  Virtual Instruments  /  No Comments

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

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EastWest Quantum Leap Gypsy

By   /  March 27, 2009  /  Virtual Instruments  /  No Comments

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

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QLSO PLAY – First Look

By   /  August 10, 2008  /  Virtual Instruments  /  No Comments

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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