EastWest SYMPHONIC ORCHESTRA/HOLLYWOOD FANTASY STRINGS

SYMPHONIC ORCHESTRA/HOLLYWOOD FANTASY STRINGS

The best-selling and most awarded orchestral collection ever created. All instruments sampled with close, stage, and surround mics. Recorded by 11-time Grammy nominated classical recording engineer Prof. Keith O. Johnson, the EASTWEST/QUANTUM LEAP SYMPHONIC ORCHESTRA was honored with Sound On Sound's Reader's Choice Award an unprecedented 3-times, and the very first orchestral collection to be recorded in a "state of the art" concert hall where orchestras mainly perform. Every detail of the recording hall is captured with incredible precision and detail, adding realism and shimmer to every note. You can create convincing orchestral performances with very little time and effort, and the natural ambience will make it feel as though the instruments are playing back live. Intelligent Performance section including Portamento, Repetition, Legato, and Round Robin Reset. Intelligent release trail engine that automatically follows the volume of note-on velocities.

Features

• SYMPHONIC ORCHESTRA:
• Over 124GB of material
• All instruments sampled with close, stage, and surround mics
• honored with Sound On Sound's Reader's Choice Award an unprecedented 3-times
• Symphonic Orchestra gives you every tool you need in one place
• Strings - Expressive, buttery and incredibly smooth, the strings shine when you need to capture delicacy and inner strength
• Brass - Dynamic, bright, and bold, you can use the brass section to pump up the strongest moments with trumpet and trombone marcato, crescendos, and fortepianos
• all subtle enough that they blend extremely well with the string section (they can also double the brass, but in a live setting, the brass section often overpowers the woodwinds)
• From bombastic bass drums and huge timpani rolls to detailed auxiliary percussion like crotales, chimes and steel plates
• HOLLYWOOD FANTASY STRINGS:
• 5 of the most iconic instruments from the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque eras
• includes true legato, diverse articulations, everything you need to produce the perfect fantasy cue to the highest professional standards
• same microphone placements, in the exact same studio
• Traditional celli are replaced with a viola da gamba ensemble
• violins are replaced with a hardanger fiddle ensemble
• Lutes and dulcimers are recorded in trios
• hurdy gurdies and traditional high and low string ensembles