EastWest Shows New Sample Engine and Virtual Instruments at NAMM
Jan 22, 2007 5:58 PM
Veteran soundware developer EastWest introduced a new sample engine called Play at Winter NAMM 2007 in Anaheim, California. Play's 64-bit support allows the user to load many more instruments and voices, limited only by the system’s RAM. The advanced sample storage (using lossless compression) and streaming technology in PLAY’s high-quality resampling engine saves RAM, speeds up load times, reduces disk load and saves hard drive space without reducing sample quality. Samples can be played back at 24-bit or 16-bit. With Play, all instruments are listed in one easy-to-use browser. The browser displays all instruments, and allows the user to audition other collections before purchase.
The Play sample engine is included with all new EastWest/Quantum Leap virtual instruments, and six new instruments were shown at NAMM. EastWest's Fab Four Virtual Instruments ($395) is a very accurate and comprehensive collection of the same kind of instruments and recording equipment used by the Beatles to record. Fab Four Virtual Instruments was produced by award-winning producer Doug Rogers and engineered by Ken Scott, who worked on five Beatles albums at EMI/Abbey Road Studios. Instruments were played by former members of Paul McCartney & Wings.
Quantum Leap Gypsy ($395) is a collection of detailed virtual instruments capable of playing completely realistic performances. Primarily aimed at film, TV and game composers, Gypsy captures an intimate European sound with amazing detail.
Quantum Leap Ministry of Rock ($495) is a huge collection of rock drums, basses and guitars recorded in EastWest's Studio 2. A modern-day rock toolkit that covers a myriad of styles, Ministry of Rock provides an all-in-one solution for rock productions. Songwriters, film, TV and game composers, as well as all rock musicians, should check this library.
Quantum Leap Pianos ($495) offers more than one-half million dollars’ worth of pianos, all meticulously recorded. These include a $225,000 Bechstein D-280 Concert Grand—the same kind of piano engineer/producer Ken Scott used to record Elton John, David Bowie and Supertramp—as well as a Steinway D Concert Grand, a Bösendorfer 290 Concert Grand and a Yamaha C7 Grand. Scott engineered the Bechstein’s close-miked recordings to provide users with a cutting, dynamic pop/rock piano sound, in addition to the variety of other piano sounds included in the collection.
Quantum Leap SD2 - The Next Generation ($495) is the sequel to Quantum Leap Stormdrum. The original Stormdrum was a very successful acoustic percussion library. SD2 – The Next Generation, is a completely new and improved concept that eclipses the original and then some. SD2 – The Next Generation offers some of the best multi-sampled percussion.
Quantum Leap Voices of Passion ($495) is a virtual instrument of female vocalists from Wales, Syria, India, Bulgaria and America. Songwriters and film, TV and game composers will like the ethereal, passionate, flowing, mysterious, wailing and whispering alto and soprano voices featured on Voices of Passion. Voices of Passion features true legato intervals and was created specifically for use in the film/TV/game genre, and also for use in the ambient and New Age genres.
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