Then we were able to bring in Wolfgang Schneider, the creator of Kontakt. He was the mastermind behind the creation of Cubase, Nuendo, and Studio One.

'Many improvements were made to the PLAY software engine over the last decade but we suddenly had a unique opportunity,' says producer Doug Rogers, 'we were able to bring Wolfgang Kundrus in as head of software development. Our brand new OPUS software engine replaces PLAY and has been years in development. Hollywood Orchestra Opus Edition will be released with the new Opus software and a companion product Hollywood Orchestrator, a must-have tool for composers of every skill level who want to achieve that Hollywood blockbuster sound quickly. Produced by Doug Rogers and Nick Phoenix, recipients of over 100 international industry Awards, and sound engineered by multiple Academy Award and BAFTA winner Shawn Murphy, Hollywood Orchestra Opus Edition is the culmination of years of recording and programming and will set a new industry standard for achieving professional sounding orchestral soundtracks. It includes brand new pristine recordings, reimagined original content, and powerful new features, all housed in our new revolutionary OPUS software engine. While not as editable as, say, something like Kontakt (an issue EastWest plans to address with the upcoming release of Play Pro, the Play editor), those who want excellent plug-and-play sounds will be delighted.Hollywood Orchestra Opus Edition is the highly anticipated expansion to Hollywood Orchestra, the best-selling and most awarded orchestral virtual instrument ever produced. For this one, you’ll find performance options, envelopes, miking, doubling and reverb effects, velocity response, and the like. Its interface also adapts to different libraries. Play is a sophisticated 32/64-bit engine with VST/AU/RTAS/standalone compatibility but is easy to navigate (Figure 4). And while the library doesn’t have the variety of Independence Free, that in no way detracts from the quality of the included sounds-they’re truly representative of EastWest’s libraries, and that’s a very good thing. There’s also no copy protection and no time limitations however, the sample set is limited in that it doesn’t include surround or close miking, just stage miking. But the 1.71GB sample library and great-sounding instruments are well worth this minimal effort. The best VST plugins 2020: the finest synth, drum machine, sampler and effect plugins you can buy right nowĪctually, the program isn’t totally free you need to answer a simple online survey (hint: tell ’em you read EQ).

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