You can only fix it, if you accept that the sound will be inferior (close mics, phase aligned etc.) So we went in a different direction.
However, solo woodwinds are inherently problematic because cross fading dynamics and vibrato can never be done right with a solo instrument. After the cleanup, we stand behind the original woodwinds. But really this was all about getting the right players.Ĥ. These new samples are comprehensive and all about extreme dynamics, comprehensive articulations and precision. I have never found better French horns than we have in HO, so we chose to focus on doing all new 2 trombones and all new 2 trumpets. We wanted to be able to point to this and say “this is what violins should be like”.ģ. The 16 violins alone took one week to record. Sean Murphy also made some tweaks to some of the close and mid mics. The attitude is a bit different, there are some different articulations and there is more focus and precision. The players are all new and all from the upper echelons of the film score world. It’s an alternate, like you would use in a different library. HO Opus has an all new 1st violins section. It is a big orchestra, so we decided to stay in that realm. So the question is, what do you do to take it even further? We wanted to embrace what HO is all about. With the reprogramming and new interface, Hollywood Strings is a really strong library. And you will be using the bigger patches, which will run easily.Ģ. It is Laser focused on orchestral instruments. The new interface allows control that you don’t have now. The new library addresses all the stuff that’s wrong with the old library first. No one is using these mega patches From the original release. To this date, no one has made such deeply sampled string legato patches with 5 dynamics, multiple string positions, vibrato and non vibrato. Even if we had used Kontakt, that would have been the case. (PLAY was the problem at the start but not any more) You have to understand that HO has string patches that no computer could handle at the time. The biggest problem with HO is the non specific interface and ridiculous amount of patches. Our first priority was to polish the old library.ġ. I end up using HO more than anything else in my template, but I recognize there are so many things that need to be addressed in HO. We all use multiple libraries to get some variety in tones. I own many of the competing orchestral libraries and found that there are many positives, but they all have weaknesses. I’m more focused on music these days than samples. There are a few reasons we decided to do an expansion. We all learn from each other and we just try and make the best stuff we can. "Hi Everyone! Keep in mind, we’ve been doing this for a long time.
It's all in the manual which is actually quite an informative read. NV is non vib, VB is vibrato, UB is up bow, DB is down bow, RR is round robin, LS is loose, LT is lite, and the numbers refer to the amount of dynamic layers.
I don't prefer Play over kontakt, but I have no issurs with it and the naming conventions really aren't difficult. It would also go hand in hand with their "create a composition in seconds" statement.
I dearly hope they haven't done the same thing here and that we'll get individual instruments, not full ensembles.īut if we consider that 230/5 mic positions = ~46gb, to presumably cover all sections, it does seem likely that this will be mostly ensemble patches. With the pop brass I seem to recall it's pretty much all ensemble patches. So with Hollywood Choirs you don't get Sopranos, Altos, Tenors, and Basses but just Womeb and Men. What concerns me a little is that I've seen EW move in a direction of "simplifying" things. Certainly an unexpected but welcome announcement.