
Listen to this shit, it gives me gooseflesh every time.

It's just string sections, but the legato is so beautiful it will make you weep. Johnson, the EASTWEST/QUANTUM LEAP SYMPHONIC ORCHESTRA is the most awarded orchestral collection ever, including winning Sound On Sounds Readers Choice Award an unprecedented 3-times, and the first orchestral collection to be recorded in a 'state of the art' concert hall where orchestras mainly perform. Oh, and if price is really no object, and you just want strings, consider LA Scoring Strings. This, more than anything else, is a very good reason to go with EWQL over products like Miroslave or GPO. If you later upgrade to Gold or Platinum, you won't have to reprogram anything - the patch structure is consistent throughout the library, so your songs will just suddenly get more lush. If you look online, you'll find tricks to increase this to 18 through clever programming. And the swells aren't shitty volume tricks, they're actually cycling through sample layers played with increasing tension.Īdditionally, for short staccato notes, East West wins again, with round robin sample sets giving you 8 unique samples before you hear the same one again, so you can play the same note repeatedly without it sounding shit. That's also where the advantage ends.ĮWQL Symphonic orchestra has expressive, playable patches where you can use the modwheel to induce swells. It includes, and is therefore 'powered by', Play, which functions as a VST Plugin, an Audio Units Plugin, a VST 3 Plugin, an AAX Plugin and a Standalone Application.


The primary advantage of Miroslav is that it has a wide selection of pre-built sections. Symphonic Orchestra Silver by EastWest is a Virtual Instrument Audio Plugin and a Standalone Application for macOS and Windows.
