This is great for people working on large arrangements who need to spread their orchestra across multiple machines.This ambitious project was conceived by two American producers, Doug Rogers and Nick Phoenix (respective heads of the East West and Quantum Leap sample library empires) and brought to fruition by Grammy-winning recording engineer Professor Keith O Johnson.For the library to live up to its creators ideals, it was imperative to find a concert hall with great acoustics, and they seem to have succeeded, although for contractual reasons, the identity of the 2500-seater hall and its resident orchestra remain a mystery.
Recording started in August 2002, the orchestra giving up their Summer break to the sampling sessions, and editing the resulting multi-channel recordings lasted nearly another year. Eastwest Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra Gold Torrent Full Version Of TheThe full version of the finished symphonic extravaganza weighs in at around 67GB (second in size only to the efforts of the Vienna Symphonic Library), and in terms of size and scope alone, must be considered a leading contender for any work requiring orchestral samples. Note, however, that smaller versions of the library are also available for those on a budget (see the final page of this review for more details). Each comes in a large box covered in glossy artwork showing (for reasons of confidentiality) a different concert hall from the one used in the library Inside are the librarys 19 DVDs and an A5-sized, 126-page operation manual which covers the whole set (the manual is identical whichever volume you buy). The text is well written, and affords Professor Keith O Johnson the chance to give a spirited account of his multi-miking methodology. The orchestras performances were recorded from three different positions in the concert hall, referred to as C (close), F (full mix, derived from clusters of stage mics) and S (surround, from elevated mics near the back of the hall). All the recordings were made simultaneously from these three positions, creating three stereo versions of each sample. This enables users to adjust the mix of close, stage and hall surround sound to their own taste, and allows the construction of 5.1 mixes. Placing the stage mics at the Symphonic Orchestra sessions. Professor Keith O Johnson (centre, grey shirt and glasses) can be seen fine-tuning the mic positions. The librarys presets preserve these placements, so users can build up a full orchestral mix with ease. For further realism, the makers have attached release trails (aka release triggers) to the librarys presets to show off the sound of the concert hall. These reverb-only samples, which sound only when keys are released, are cleverly programmed to match the level of their corresponding samples, and you can edit their volume, decay and pan settings, or even turn them off altogether. As a result, there are no sampled licks, chords, mood pieces or full-orchestra tutti effects; instead, the library concentrates on providing users with a wide and expressive range of multisamples. The manual gives a clear and logical (though sometimes cryptic) list of all the variations in playing style, but says nothing about the instruments themselves. This is forgivable in a library geared to music production rather than musical education, but it would have been nice if somewhere amidst all the technical verbiage, someone had spent a few words explaining what some of the more obscure instruments are, or given some instrument pitch ranges for the benefit of less experienced composers. Rather than being supplied as a standard sample library, EWQLSO is supplied with its own sample player based on Native Instruments Kompakt, which is itself based on their Kontakt software sampler. Installing the full library is a straightforward, if lengthy, process you should allow at least a morning to copy the contents of all 19 DVDs to your computer. Having the content files separate from the main installer is actually quite useful, since there are cases where you might want to remove these large files from your system and put them back at a later date. And in this situation, you wont have to uninstall and reinstall the actual application and plug-in. Eastwest Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra Gold Torrent Registration Tool ProvidedThis means that after installation youll be able to use the software for a five-day grace period, during which time you need to register and authorise your product with Native Instruments using the registration tool provided. The authorisation process is of the challenge-and-response type, and youll get two licences for each part of the library, meaning that you can install the library on two separate machines.
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