"Glennbo" wrote in message
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pol...@optonline.net> grabbed the controls of the spaceship
cakewalk.audio and pressed these buttons...
How do the strings and brass sound and play if all you were going to do was
play them yourself, and not use any of the special tricks with articulation
and that kind of stuff?
To be more concise, how do those sounds compare with these cheep 16 bit
sounds in "Hollywood Strings Silver" and "Hollywood Brass Silver" from
EastWest, and how playable in real time like this are they?
https://youtu.be/gZ6YucPT8oU?t=144
From this demo, it looks to me like this is some real playable stuff, ands
both the strings and brass together would only cost me $200 and only use up
a 23GB of my hard drive space. Strings and brass are primarily what I'm
after, since I already have the Native Instruments B4 Organ and FM7 along
with Tootrack's essential pianos. Strings and brass I only have crappy free
stuff that is mushy to play and could never do a string quartet to be in a
pop/rock song, and horns that could never do stabs and hits like Tower of
Power. So far I'm kind of leaning toward the EastWest Hollywood Strings and
Brass, mostly because at $99 a pop, I can realistically save up and buy one
of them, then save up and buy the other one, but also because the demos I'm
hearing of them are really getting me excited thinking about what I could
do with those sounds.
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Well, judging from that vid, it was a simple staccato patch with no
keyswitching for different articulations, so I'd say they're as playable if
not better than what's in the vid. A lot is how the person playing is
articulating the notes. They taught us guys how to do that a long time ago
with the old Thomas Organs you'd see at the mall. Pull up a trumpet patch:
phrase like a trumpet player...etc.
I say if you're going to use them go for it.
Poly