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 Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 2:00 am Post subject: 'What's Hot' from Doctor Audio: Orchestral libraries |
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Greetings Hitsquad readers!
This week I am featuring one of the premier Orchestral libraries available. It comes in three flavors. Silver is the starter package. Gold, which at under $500 is the most affordable complete orchestral package on the market to date, and is a popular way to get full Orchestral sounds on a budget. Lastly comes the Platinum library. I have heard back from several of my film and TV clients that use Platinum and they all say that the different microphone positions make this library extremely useful.
Below, Eastwest talks about their 3 different mic positioning, and gives
details about what is contained in the library. This library is still on
sale and can be purchased at Doctor Audio. See
http://www.doctoraudio.com/eastwest.html
EW/QL Symphonic Orchestra Platinum
VIRTUAL LISTENING POSITION
This "virtual repositioning of the listener" in a concert hall
environment offers a surprising amount of tonal control, virtually
eliminating the need for EQ; and the ambient control, using any
combination of these three stereo tracks, eliminates the need for
artificial reverb (which usually sounds artificial).
You can create the sound "you" want. With other orchestral libraries,
you get what they give you, and apart from adding reverb and EQ, you
have virtually no control over the sound of the instruments. The control
of tonality and ambience in the EASTWEST / QUANTUM LEAP SYMPHONIC
ORCHESTRA enables each user to "design" the sound of the orchestra to
suit the work that is being created - no other orchestral collection
offers this!
Use the stage mics for a typical big Hollywood sound; boost certain
instruments by adding a hint of the close mics; add in the hall surround
mics to create a surround sound mix, or to add natural hall reverb.
Finally, you can say goodbye to lifeless, dry studio recordings.
In addition to this unprecedented control of tonality and ambience; the
real ambience of the hall, combined with the automatic sample switching
of up and down strokes that is built into the NATIVE INSTRUMENTS audio
engine and interface (included with each volume of the library), has
virtually eliminated the "machine gun" effect when playing fast
repetitions.
All of the players were recorded in position. All of the instruments and
sections were chromatically sampled, with multiple dynamics, with
extremely dynamic and expressive articulations, and although the library
is huge, it has been programmed to be "extremely easy to use". For
example, an efficient method of composing would be to use just the
"close mics" or the "stage mics" during the composition stage, adding a
combination of the three stereo pairs to adjust ambience and tonality in
the final mixing stage.
The EASTWEST / QUANTUM LEAP SYMPHONIC ORCHESTRA was produced by Doug
Rogers from EASTWEST and Nick Phoenix from QUANTUM LEAP, who
collectively have received over 30 international awards for sample
libraries they have created.
NO SAMPLER REQUIRED!
Each volume comes as a VIRTUAL INSTRUMENT which includes a
high-performance NATIVE INSTRUMENTS interface powered by the efficient
KONTAKT audio engine, including Direct-from-Disk*, for Mac and PC (*With
freely-downloadable Direct-from-Disk extension).
Each VIRTUAL INSTRUMENT in the collection combines intuitive handling
with excellent sound quality, and functions as a plug-in instrument,
without the need for a sampler.
For the sonically adventurous, many sound shaping tools have been built
in to the interface. Powerful multi-mode filters, envelopes, and LFOs
give a wealth of creative possibilities. Integrated high-quality reverb,
chorus, and delay effects are also provided.
Direct from Disk playback easily handles large samples beyond available
RAM (which is assignable).
Professional sound quality with advanced 32-bit processing; eight-part
multitimbrality and 256 voice polyphony allow for lush arrangements. The
clean and intuitive interface never lets the technology get in the way
of your creativity. All important instrument parameters can be
immediately adjusted without the need to page, scroll, or fumble through
a manual.
For system requirements and a complete list of instruments and
articulations see:
http://www.soundsonline.com/sophtml/details.phtml?sku=EW-155
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