In addition to a new software sampler, the Opus Edition of the Hollywood Orchestra features roughly 130 GB of brand-new sample content. On paper this looks like a very good implementation, I'm particularly interested in the patches that can have a legato top line with an orchestrated everything else, but stealing that top line from playing the chords. Hollywood Orchestra Opus Edition is a comprehensive sample library for EastWest’s brand-new Opus software sampling engine.
It took a long time for any other companies to join in, but finally everyone is doing it now. As many know, I've been banging this drum for over a decade now, ever since I got Symphobia - I love playable patches to get a whole mood going. I'm very keen to hear how the the orchestrator works in practice. Give it a day and there'll likely be videos and first demos. Most of the original content sounds the same, some fixes but a lot not fixed esp woodwinds (I did think they said they'd re-recorded much of this but I might be misremembering)įew comments yet on the new content or orchestrator. There are obviously multiple recorded samples for each single note, and the software rotates through the samples when hitting the same note over and over, so that the software doesn't. Opus can stream DFD and it works as well as Kontakt (this is huge) East West Hollywood Strings Samples Have Off Timing I find using the 'Full STR Pizz' (Pizzicato) preset, that the starting times of particular samples is late. These seems to be the initial summary:ĭownloading / activating all over the place (no surprise there - give it a few days)
I actually looked at VI-C for the first time in months to see what was going on.