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EastWest BUY ONE GET ONE FREE promo plus special prices on Hollywood Brass and Strings

soundsandgear.com — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:33:21 +0000

Hollywood, CA (November 28, 2011) – EASTWEST, the industry leader in virtual instruments, introduces two special offers for the 2011 Holiday season. The first is the wildly popular BUY ONE GET ONE FREE promotion. This promotion allows customers who purchase any of 19 qualifying product by December 31, 2011 to choose a second product of equal or lesser value, free of charge. The second is the HOLLYWOOD SERIES HOLIDAY SPECIAL. This promotion allows customers purchase EASTWEST’s flagship Hollywood Series products; Hollywood Strings and Hollywood Brass, for up to 30% off the retail price.

BUY ONE GET ONE FREE: Qualifying products include Hollywood Strings (Diamond and Gold), The Dark Side, Symphonic Choirs (new version with WordBuilder inside PLAY), Sound On Sound 2010 Reader’s Choice Award winner Symphonic Orchestra (Platinum Plus, Platinum and Gold), Pianos (Full and Gold), Stormdrum 2, Goliath, Fab Four, Ministry Of Rock, Silk, Ra, Gypsy, Voices Of Passion and for the fist time ever, Ministry of Rock 2.

HOLLYWOOD SERIES HOLIDAY SPECIAL: Hollywood Brass and Hollywood Strings are the first two increments of EASTWEST’s flagship Hollywood Series – blockbuster, no-compromise virtual instruments designed with major motion picture, television, and video game scoring in mind. Customers can buy either products for 20% off the retail price, or both of them together for 30% off the retail price until December 31, 2011.

With over 60 international awards, EASTWEST offers a wide variety of critically acclaimed sample libraries and virtual instruments, many of which are used in today’s top music, film, television, and videogame productions.

Customers can take advantage of the BUY ONE GET ONE FREE and the HOLLYWOOD HOLIDAY SPECIAL offer at www.soundsonline.com and www.soundsonline-europe.com for European customers and at authorized EastWest dealers.

EASTWEST Announces the Release of HOLLYWOOD BRASS

soundsandgear.com — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:30:06 +0000

Second installment of flagship Hollywood Series adds world-class Brass to award-winning Strings for pure Hollywood magic

Hollywood, CA (June 10, 2011) – EASTWEST, the industry leader in virtual software instruments, follows their multiple award-winning Hollywood Strings Virtual Instrument with Hollywood Brass, a massive 150GB instrument that features unprecedented sound quality and the brand new PLAY 3 playback engine for the very latest in performance and control.

The second installment in the Hollywood series, Hollywood Brass is an epic achievement, once again combining the talents of Shawn Murphy, Doug Rogers, Nick Phoenix and Thomas Bergersen. Recorded in place at EastWest Studio 1, widely regarded as the “best brass recording room in the entire world” with 5 user-controllable mic positions, Hollywood Brass is designed to work seamlessly with Hollywood Strings (and the upcoming Woodwinds and Percussion) for the ultimate in virtual Hollywood scoring.

“Hollywood Brass is the most powerful, realistic and extensive brass library ever created. There is a focus and ease of use in this Virtual Instrument that is unprecedented,” said producers Doug Rogers, Nick Phoenix and Thomas Bergersen. “Hollywood Brass runs flawlessly in the completely revamped PLAY 3 engine and has 10 times the content and detail than its closest competitor, without any additional complexity or clutter. New revolutionary fanfare patches are light on computer resources, but offer the most playable and instantly gratifying results on just one midi channel. But words are just words. Once you experience Hollywood Brass, you will see that this is EastWest’s finest creation to date.”

Hollywood Brass is approximately 150 gigabytes of pure Hollywood magic and includes Solo Trumpet, 2 Trumpets, 3 Trumpets, Solo French Horn, 2 French Horns, 6 French Horns, Solo Trombone, 2 Tenor + 1 Bass Trombone, Solo Tuba, Solo Cimbasso, and a low brass section consisting of 2 Tenor Bones, 1 Bass Trombone, 1 Tuba and 1 Cimbasso. A world-class group of brass artists was gathered for a sampling marathon that lasted for 21 straight 11-hour days followed by a year of post-production.

An exhaustive list of articulations and techniques make Hollywood Brass the most expressive and realistic orchestral brass library on the market:

True legato intervals at 3 dynamics that are smooth and realistic in all situations
Polyphonic legato
True connected legato repetitions at 3 dynamics
Sustained legato samples from pp all the way to fff
True double tonguing for all instruments and sections
Expressive sustains
Mute sustains and staccatos
8 way staccato round robin at 4 dynamics
4 way round robin marcato short at 3 dynamics
4 way round robin marcato long at 3 dynamics
Multi dynamic playable runs patches that will inject real life into brass compositions
Trills at 3 dynamics
Multi speed and multi dynamic repetition performances that work flawlessly with PLAY’s superior time engine
Multi speed time synced crescendos
Multi dynamic portato that will breath life into softer compositions
Flutter tongue
Sforzando
Slide trombone legato
Falls
Various effects and clusters and more

Hollywood Brass also includes new brass reverb impulses taken from the smash hit convolution reverb Quantum Leap SPACES.

Hollywood Brass key features:

Produced by Doug Rogers, Nick Phoenix, and Thomas Bergersen
Sound engineered by Shawn Murphy – Academy Award, C.A.S. (Cinema Audio Society), BAFTA, and EMMY award-winning sound engineer
Extensive multiple-dynamic “true legato” solo and ensemble brass, with multiple sized sections and mutes
5 user-mixable mic positions, extensive articulations, and no shortcuts!
Includes new PLAY 3 64-bit/32-bit software on both MAC and PC, powerful scripting for ease of use, more user control and detail than any other collection, all recorded in the world famous EASTWEST Studio 1, the home of major Hollywood soundtracks and television themes.

EASTWEST/QUANTUM LEAP Hollywood Brass Diamond Edition will be available on July 10 for $995 MSRP ($795 introductory offer) and Hollywood Brass Gold Edition will be available for $595 MSRP ($495 introductory offer). For complete product information, demos, and ordering information, visit http://www.soundsonline.com/Hollywood-Brassor http://www.soundsonline-europe.com/Hollywood-Brass for European customers.

EASTWEST/QUANTUM LEAP HOLLYWOOD Strings is shipping!

soundsandgear.com — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:22:11 +0000

HOLLYWOOD STRINGS virtual (software) instrument, is now shipping. HOLLYWOOD STRINGS is an advanced collection of orchestral string instruments that offers unprecedented control over sound and performance while delivering extraordinary creative power to composers and content producers for film, video, web and music. Multiple finger positions for all sections, including open strings, are available for the first time in a virtual instrument collection.

HOLLYWOOD STRINGS, as the name implies, is a blockbuster virtual instrument that has many groundbreaking features not found in any other virtual strings collection. For instance, this collection was engineered to include multiple finger positions throughout the entire range of the fingerboard of each sampled instrument.

This range of positions allows composers to realize the true voicing and emotional content of a string section. Vibrato intensity and extensive dynamics, including five dynamics of up- and down-bowed sustains and notes, are also controllable by the composer. Extensive multi-dynamic true legato has been sampled for all sections in three different categories: slurred, portamento and bow change.

This results in unsurpassed legato performance that has never been available in the sample world. HOLLYWOOD STRINGS has five user-controllable microphone positions including main pickup (Decca tree), mid pickup, close pickup, surround pickup and an alternate vintage circa 1945 RCA ribbon room pickup, delivering the full range of the string experience.

“The intent with the HOLLYWOOD STRINGS collection was to produce an extensive and musical sonic pallet covering every nuance of string performance,” says Doug Rogers, founder and producer for EASTWEST. “This collection is unrivaled in the industry on every level. We assembled a team to produce this collection that included QUANTUM LEAP producer Nick Phoenix, Thomas Bergersen, a highly respected composer and orchestrator in Hollywood, and the legendary sound engineer Shawn Murphy, who has worked on countless Hollywood mega-films from Titanic, Star Wars and Jurassic Park to Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. The ensemble of sterling sound recordings, engineered in our award-winning EASTWEST STUDIO 1 with the finest equipment available by the top “ears” in the industry, has produced a string collection worthy of the name Hollywood, a name synonymous with world-leading, high-end films.”

HOLLYWOOD STRINGS comes supplied on a pre-configured hard drive. List price for HOLLYWOOD STRINGS is $1,695; an introductory price of $1,495 expires May 15, 2010

For more information and to order the collection, visit the EASTWEST Web site, http://www.soundsonline.com/hollywood-strings, or in Europe http://www.soundsonline-europe.com/hollywood-strings