Ah, the orchestra is so breathtaking and heart-stopping that you wish you could have yours in the palm of your hand. Well, a lot of people had brought solutions to that aspiration over the years from keyboard and synth manufacturers up to software synthesizer developers and sample kit dealers. Okay, let's say you're under contract for a TV series and you've got yourself a sample-playback synthesizer with amazing orchestral instrument sounds. The problem is the TV producers are running onto your neck for that three-day deadline and for one thing, you realize that recording the instruments one by one will eat up your time. A solution would be to arrange a track and orchestrate it using your notation program; this is a bad move because, unless you're Franz Liszt or Hector Berlioz, good orchestration will eat up your time. It's good thing to note that there are loop and sample collections out there to grant you that instant orchestral track you need, and one of them comes as Big Fish Audio Symphonic Manoeuvres 2.

The followup to the first Symphonic Manoeuvres release, Symphonic Manoeuvres 2 features 10 massive construction kits recorded in multiple keys at tempos ranging from 80 to 165 bpm. The kits include string, brass, and woodwind sections, percussion, a piano, harp, and choir. Each of these sections has been recorded individually so making your own arrangements other than the original is possible. What's different about this release is it also features 23 additional choir chords held for about 10 seconds, adding that heavenly (or hellish) touch to your tracks plus a set of orchestral drones that, similar to the main construction kits, have their parts individually recorded. What's more is that all parts come in closed mic'd and room mic'd versions therefore adding additional flavor into your tracks. Symphonic Manoeuvres can give you a range of uses from your orchestral overture needs up to that string section for a pop tune you're working on.

Symphonic Manoeuvres 2 comes as a dual-layer DVD release having a total size of 6.1 GB compressed. Once unpacked, the package has a total of 3.5 GB of Acidized WAV (835 loops) and 3.5 GB of Apple Loops(835 loops) files. Symphonic Manoeuvres 2 costs $99.95.