![]() ![]() My advice, and it would be my advice even if I did not work for EW, is that if you have a computer rig that can handle either, listen to the many demos that have been posted by now and decide which sounds best to your ears. People will start comparing their perception of the attitudes of the two companies, whether they are "living libraries", etc. Some people will say one has the better workflow while others will say just the opposite.Ĥ. Some will say go with Cinesamples because it is Kontakt based while EW is Play, which in their opinion is vastly inferior and more resource hungry, when in fact it is mostly that the EW libraries, especially HS, are more resource hungry.ģ. Some will say the EW stuff sounds better while some will say the Cinesamples sounds better.Ģ. But I totally respect those who prefer one of the others.Let me save everyone some time and tell you how this will goġ. Personally, even if I had not worked for EW and been given the Hollywood Orchestra for free, it would have been my choice, which is why I spent my own money on a slave PC. So you have IMHO a lot of excellent choices, all with very different design philosophies. I know Spitfire is among the more demanding of the Kontakt based libraries, but probably less than the Hollywood Orchestra, especially Hollywood Strings. You are going to want a powerful PC slave to run a full Diamond orchestra. ![]() CineSamples would also be considerably more than the Hollywood Orchestra for similar content. To get as complete and orchestra with as many articulations, you have to spend about 4x as much with Spitfire, although you have a head start as you already own some. (I don't think personally the close mics sound so good.) The Hollywood Orchestra is pretty dry so you add your own ambience, but less sterile than VSL.Ģ. Spitfire is recorded in a lovely ambience but you are stuck with it. In my view, here is what it boils down to:ġ. It cost a bomb when I bought it but they are vastly less expensive today. I have my HS samples on a PCI-raid SSD setup which is very fast. You can use just the "light" versions of the sounds, however, and those are far less demanding - dramatically less so. The only thing is that Hollywood Strings is really very demanding if you want to use the "powerful system patches" that have so many layers and legato - caveat emptor etc. I am a huge fan of Spitfire - huge! - but EW offers a different sound. The recorded samples are not "sanded smooth" which at times is not what one wants, but overall I'll take the liveliness of these samples over some other libraries any time. ![]() I have been a fan of EW since their first large orchestral library in 2004 or so, and I continue to enjoy using them. The brass also has a different sound from the superb BML Spitfire libraries, so again it's for variety, not to replace. I use all these libraries when I write, especially if it's a situation in which the samples will not all be replaced, or even in circumstances when they will be "sweetened" but not discarded. I find EW excellent for runs if you write those, and its short articulations give you extra choices. Well, given what you've written, I would definitely get East West, if only for the strings and brass (I don't have the EW new winds).įor strings, I use Mural, Sable, and LASS in my template as well, but I like having EW because it sounds quite different. So do you think, without a slave machine EW is too demanding? But since i put them on the SSD, they work extremely fast. My EW Percussion i first had on the external HD (7200 rpm) and they loaded very slowly from that drive. All samples are on external HD + SSD drive. I run an iMac i7, 4Ghz Fusion drive, 32GB Ram. Thats why i was asking, if EW would be worth an additional option.ĥ. Spitfire have a much brighter sound, but sometimes its harder to get the right articulations out of them. VSL have great articulations and are very playable, but sound a little thin. i realized, that its always good to have many options to choose from. I would like it to become more than that.Ĥ. So till now it has become a passionate hobby but who knows. I like big orchestral sounds (as i am sitting in a symphony orchestra myself for almost 3 decades )ģ. I would say my music is orchestral, epic, cinematic. I already have EW Orchestra Percussion Diamond (the only East West Orchestra Lib.
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