Anyone scoring on crazy deadlines should not even think about not having this. If you need something in a hurry, here you go. In fact, it's absolutely stormingly brilliant. Well I don't care what anyone says, this is a hoot. It's so masked in the basic preset with the reverb and space, but on the close mics its there in all its horror - it just plan fades out when you release a key. But there it is a but - a big CAPS LOCK BUT - there appear to be no release samples. There's several legato options which in general work very well, and the crossfading between layers works way better than the woodwinds. These are better than I expected from their reputation. It's a smooth bump, but a bump nonetheless. As for the rest, the problem really is those two velocity layers not crossfading. The three new patches are pretty good, ensembles of flutes, clarinets and bassoons. Well that all downloaded quicker than I expected. They all seem to be working ok as they are as far as I can tell, do the updates add anything? PS - in the Installation Center, there's updates there for my other libraries. The CC thing is super-frustrating, I'll almost certainly have to run my transformer scripts in Cubase still. Opus seems to perform very nicely - I have it set to purge by default and it's performing like a champ. Looking forward to trying out the rest, especially the woodwinds and Orchestrator. ![]() ![]() I'm not sure about the divisis either, they seem odd spatially. General comment - the default mixes feel too wet and soggy, I always want to load up the close and mix with the mains. The range here seems oddly limited, there's no bottom couple of octaves. Ditto - I far prefer the tone of Symphonic Orchestra's (that really was - and is - definitive for the Hollywood sound). it's fine, but nothing I don't already have a ton of good and mostly better options for. The new 2 Trombone patches restore the feel of Symphonic Orchestra's 4TB articulations (ironically). It's still a great sounding library though, and some of the articulations are really handy, such as the slurred and spiccato runs.īRASS. ![]() It claims 2 layers via CC11 expression but buggered if I could find them. And try as I might I can't control any dynamics at all on the otherwise lovely 18v Sul Tasto Flautando. At least there's a setup page now, but every time you load a new instrument it reverts to the default. But ye gads could EW not have taken this opportunity to standardise their CCs?! They're all over the bloody place. The new 18 violins sound wonderful, sweeping and romantic. I've thus far downloaded the strings, brass, harp and percussion. They will never see a single penny from me again (which is a shame, because they have some great products). So I essentially threw out several hundred dollars for nothing.ĮastWest always seemed pretty shady with their business practices, but that was the last straw for me. Yeah, I was one of those idiots that got tricked into upgrading my Brass, Strings and Woodwinds (all Gold) to the Diamond Edition of the Hollywood Orchestra, because that would give me the 'best deal' for the OPUS release. I could be losing my marbles again, but if he did do that, it really is pretty bad because he twisted the arm of many to upgrade for a few weeks when it was totally unnecessary. I think I remember Doug saying beforehand specifically that ONLY those witth the full HO would get the discounted upgrade, before Opus came out. If I would ever lead a company, I would never make my existing customers feel so unappreciated. But why they charge you the same for owning any ONE of the 4 collections in the past or owning the full package is really beyond me. ![]() FriFlo wrote: ↑ 10:13 amYup! Typical East West move! TBH, I have been expecting that now and that is why I held off.
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