With just a touch of effort, you can create super-realistic brass parts that could fool even a golden ear. With these, the pulse is sharp and clear, though its real life speed is consistently a little slower than the tempo figure displayed by Play. For a full list of supported hosts, go to and click on 'Specifications'. However, I was surprised to find that the drive in question is a bare internal type, which means that you either have to put it in a spare drive slot inside your computer or buy a suitable external case for it. Beyond 30 days, the manufacturer's warranty will apply and returns and service must be arranged with the drive manufacturer. The cimbasso, the orchestra's maddest-looking brass instrument.
Post-mature readers will recall an even more distant time wherein electric keyboards had no touch sensitivity at all. That is not the case with this. Microphone choices: Close, Mid-range, Main, Surround, Vintage—you get plenty to choose from. For slower, repeated-note passages, EastWest recorded 'legato repetitions' with four round-robins. String samples can be easily searched and chosen in Hollywood String's sample browser window.
While these devices have much faster access speeds than regular hard drives, they are considerably more expensive. Though the surround mics sound more distant, the difference between them and the main miking is actually fairly subtle. Returning to the old chestnut of system resources, buyers should be aware that, due to an idiosyncrasy in Play's design, multiple dynamic layers in sustain and legato patches are always active even though only one or two of them are audible at any one time. Mac: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor 2. To protect your investment against theft or loss we recommend the.
Extensive multi-dynamic true legato has been sampled for all sections in three different categories: slurred, portamento, and bow change. In the early days of orchestral libraries, I'd occasionally encounter trombones that sounded fine through most of their dynamic range but became very thin-sounding when played louder. CruiserCustomizing is a great destination to find motorcyle Tournnament Research. Though the samples do their job well, I noticed that the time-stretching used on these instruments introduced some extraneous audio artifacts. This muted timbre minus the flutter is used to good effect in 'Insects', an improvised free-for-all of disjointed, random, atonal staccato notes. If the hard drive develops a defect, it may be returned to EastWest within 30 days of shipment.
It's worth noting that Play always outputs a stereo signal, so summing to mono must be done either in your sequencer or mixer. The Play engine's browser window. Noting this is important particularly for Diamond owners, because those editions actually include both Gold and Diamond editions. Access one of Hollywood String's special features, Finger Position, on the left of the main interface screen. If you need one of those, use the played trills samples. Buyers also need an iLok Security Key, not provided with the library. Check out these to see just how great of a value you would be getting if you chose to invest in a virtual instrument like Hollywood Strings.
Since the concept, style and design of Hollywood Brass match those of Hollywood Strings, you might care to read the review of the latter at. Dim the lights, sound the horns. Kudos to the producers here because these samples have been incredibly consistent across the sections. As I have said in previous issues of this magazine, with massive depth of options comes a steep learning curve. Upgrade to Hollywood Strings Gold and Diamond Edition when you need more options. With the round-robin setting, two different bow strokes are recorded for each note.
This is also a good idea because then the original drives will serve as a backup. This is the dilemma with virtual instruments. There are a few glitches I can think of one on the 6 French Horn Legato patch from F to G slur, above middle C, I believe. As one who likes to compose by playing, the provision of pre-programmed, full, six-octave strings sections is very helpful. Velocity is used in Hollywood Brass in a more specialised way — for example, to control the loudness of the attack in accented articulations, or to open the cutoff frequency of the low-pass filter used in some patches. I Want Something To Live For 2:50 10. To reduce the strain, the makers provide 'lite' versions of all instruments' main sustain patches, which halve the sample count by using only two dynamic layers.
No-one in their right mind would criticise the effort that went into creating it, but at times I felt a little less effort might have been beneficial — for example, I occasionally found myself hankering after some simpler, less multi-dimensional patches for example, straight velocity-controlled vibrato sustains. If this is what comes from owning your own world-famous studio, I'm going to get on the phone and make a bid for Abbey Road right now — can anyone reading this lend me 30 million quid? Very thorough and very precise. Following orchestral sample library best practice, the producers recorded completely different first and second violin sections. Velocity is used to control the speed of the intervals, including that of the portamento slides: playing hard triggers a quick note transition, while the 51-60 velocity range works best for slow-moving performances. On the other hand, if you want a string library that is easy to use, it will not sound realistic. For film composers, this tool is a must. Smooth Running A realistic legato sound — a smooth, unbroken, joined-up line of notes, the hallmark of orchestral strings — is not easy to achieve with samples.
There's also a dedicated solo trumpet 'no vibrato' patch, which would be my default choice for traditional orchestrations. To get that many instruments and articulations from other sources is much more expensive. That is the give-and-take of virtual instruments. That, and some of the samples are absolutely atrocious that out-of-tune oboe, really? Connoisseurs of the violin family will know that pitches played high up near the bridge have a warm sound, while notes played low down on the neck sound more bright and open. In the interests of musical expression, Hollywood Strings uses an unprecedented amount of sample crossfading, causing a hike in polyphony that required some improvements to Play's software. For maximum flexibility of programming, having access to the individual layers used in the instruments would be very handy.