East West

Virtuoso solo violin sounds are at your fingertips with EastWest / Quantum Leap Solo Violin, a new sample library recorded at Remote Control Productions, a film score facility in Santa Monica, California -- the same one run by Hans Zimmer.  

EastWest released PLAY 3, the latest version of the advanced sample engine. PLAY 3 provides 64-bit support, optimized performance on all platforms (Mac and PC), and much more.  

Anyone working on any kind of cinematic piece will find the sounds in EastWest's Hollywood Brass instrument invaluable to their film scores and soundtracks. The 150 GB Hollywood Brass virtual instrument is said to offer pure Hollywood magic, with loads and loads of expressive and realistic orchestral brass sounds.  

Putting all of its sound design tools in one convenient pack, EastWest has released Zero-G's new Odyssey bundle -- a collection of eight sample libraries offering ambiences, soundscapes, drones, loops, single hits, FX, and more.  

Tone2 teamed up with virtual instrument giants Best Service and EastWest to release ElectraX, a new instrument that covers all the synthesis bases, including explore multi-synthesis oscillators, analog modeled filters, chaotic fractals, samples, psychoacoustic processing, flexible modulation, and more.  

To celebrate its MIPA award for The Dark Side, EastWest launched a buy 1, get 1 free promotion on select virtual instruments and sound libraries. Until April 30th, anyone who buys The Dark Side, Hollywood Strings, or other qualifying products will get a second collection for free.  

Explore the Best Service realm of modern electronic pop music with Modern Pop, a new multi-format sound library now available from EastWest. The 2.2 GB library offers everything from organic to synthetic, with percussion, brass, electric bass, guitar, and piano sounds; and synth basses, Moog sounds, synths, leads, pads, bells, filtered sounds, and more.  

Nick Phoenix teamed up with EastWest to produce and engineer Quantum Leap Spaces, a 24-bit true stereo convolution reverb featuring a lot of custom impulses taken from around the world (from concert halls, churches, cathedrals, caverns, recording studios, soundstages, forests, a swimming hall, and much more).  

Version 2.1.1 of EastWest Play software happens to include the Symphonic Choirs "WordBuilder Inside Play" upgrade as well. This major update provides direct integration of WordBuilder into Play and makes Symphonic Choirs easier to use.  

Next month on January 11th, EastWest will unleash Quantum Leap Ministry Of Rock 2, the next-generation version of the original virtual instrument, which offers a whopping 57 GB of professional sounds by Nick Phoenix.  

'Tis the season to buy, buy, buy, and for a limited time, EastWest will be awarding happy shoppers with a free virtual instrument with the purchase of a qualifying EastWest / Quantum Leap product, such as Symphonic Orchestra, Ministry of Rock, and more.  

Through the end of the month, you can get the EastWest Complete Composers Collection HD bundle of seven virtual instruments on a handy 1 TB hard drive for under a thousand bucks.  

You have until Halloween to take advantage of EastWest's Rocktober Pack, which bundles three virtual instruments at more than half off their list prices. You can choose the standard Pack with Ministry of Rock, Goliath, and Fab Four; or, swap any or all of those for other ones by EastWest or Quantum Leap.  

Set to hit the red carpet next week, EastWest Hollywood Strings Gold Edition includes all the lush orchestral strings sounds from the company's Diamond Edition, plus a whole lot more.  

The EastWest TeraPack puts 10-day trial versions of the entire line of EastWest / Quantum Leap virtual instruments on a terabyte hard drive. Those who buy the TeraPack can later purchase full versions at 50 percent off the list price.  

EastWest's The Dark Side collection of virtual instruments offers tougher, edgier instruments than the norm; included in the box is 40 GB worth of processed drums and percussion, basses, guitars, ethnic instruments, keyboards, strings, effected instruments, and more.  

EastWest / Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra is now available as a free PLAY edition / starter version. To get your free copy of the virtual instrument, just answer a brief survey at the Soundsonline site.  

Most electronic musicians who have wrestled with orchestra simulations often complain about how difficult it is to replicate the variety of expression that a string section in an orchestra can demonstrate. I myself get frustrated with this fact, since you're not even going to see a "spicatto" patch on most synths. Expression and articulation breathe life into music and so top-notch producers and instrument makers for EastWest/Quantum Leap have come up with EastWest/Quantum Leap Hollywood Strings.  

Combining the Halls of Fame collection with the powerful impulse response modeling capabilities of Yellow Tools ORIGAMI has borne fruit in the form of Best Service Halls Of Fame ORIGAMI Edition. Which is great for them, but what are their grandchildren's surnames going to look like?  

If you're a composer, and you coincidentally loathe scavenger hunts, let EASTWEST / Quantum Leap do the scavenging for you. The EASTWEST / Quantump Leap Complete Composers Bundle puts it all together, saving you the time and trouble . . . and probably some dinero in the process.  

We check out some EastWest software and sample libraries at Winter NAMM 2009, including EastWest RA. In addition to a wide load of instruments from around the world, you also gain access to microtunings that lock your controller keys in place so you're always in key.  

As the rep from East West explains it, East West Play 2 will "now allow you to do what you want it to do." It's a big improvement over the first version of Play, which had an artificial intelligence hellbent on thwarting your every creative impulse.  

The radically-advanced virtual instrument called East West Quantum Leap Silk is one of the most realistic "ethnic" instrument collections we've ever heard. Sampled note transitions and smart micro-tuning make this collection play and sound as smooth as. . . uh. . . pudding.  

For EastWest's NAMM debut of Quantum Leap SILK -- a collection of historical instruments of Persian, Indian and Chinese ancestry -- Adam Sandler will perform the famous shampoo monologue from Billy Madison at EastWest's NAMM booth . . . No, no he won't. But you could imagine what it would be like if he did.  

The amply named John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton once said ". . . absolute power corrupts absolutely . . ." If that's true, EastWest wants to absolutely corrupt you with the release of PLAY 2.0.  

At Winter NAMM 2009, EastWest Quantum Leap SD2 gets a booster shot of percussion. The 4 GB update gives you 2.5 GB of solo instruments, war drums and a whole bunch of flavors of percussion from around the world and 1.5 GB of classic samples from SD1.  

If you're looking for more grooves that emphasize the feel of some of the smoothest sailing piece of the 70s and 80s, look no further. EastWest releases Satin Grooves!  

How to make EastWest Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra -- a veritable symphony in a box:

1. You cut a hole in a box
2. You stick your symphony in that box

 

EastWest / Best Service really gets thorough with horns. If you thought Chris Hein Horns Vol. 1 was a little solo heavy, Chris Hein Horns Vol. 2 might please you. It's a more sectional approach to horn sampling.  

When he wanted big, cinematic percussion sounds to add to his electronica tracks, Mike from Agency of Spirits knew exactly where to turn: EastWest Quantum Leap Storm Drums 2. As you can see in this video interview, the mere mention of the sample collection summoned gathering storm-clouds from the fringes of the Ft. Lauderdale sky.