Hollywood Strings Gold (47GB)

Hollywood Strings Gold contains 16 1st Violins, 14 2nd Violins, 10 Violas, 10 Celli & 7 Basses, all with a huge variety of articulations and playing styles.

Recording for “Hollywood Strings Gold” took place at the famous EASTWEST STUDIO 1, the same studio where many Hollywood soundtracks and television themes were recorded with a live orchestra.

Heading this project were co-producers DOUG ROGERS, NICK PHOENIX and THOMAS BERGERSEN and sound engineer SHAWN MURPHY, who has recorded and mixed the scores for more than 300 feature films including Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, Jurassic Park, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Titanic, The Bourne Ultimatum, Minority Report, Saving Private Ryan & Munich.

“Murphy was an obvious choice for this project; who better to obtain that quintessential Hollywood sound other than someone with his credits” says Rogers. “The sound of these virtual strings are as good as it gets” says Phoenix. “We have one of the top sound engineers in the business, a famous and beautiful sounding recording studio, the most incredible selection of microphones available, the best analog and digital recording equipment, and top Hollywood string players – how could we go wrong?” “I’ve used many virtual orchestras over the last decade, including some I developed with other composers and some I developed myself. With each new development, I got one step closer to my ideal compositional tool.” says Bergersen. “HOLLYWOOD STRINGS includes features that I consider necessary if you want to create realistic orchestral strings on your DAW.”

“Hollywood Strings Gold” has many groundbreaking features not found in any other collection. Finger position is, for the first time, controllable by the user, so you can play as far up the strings as you want, and get a fuller more romantic Hollywood sound. Vibrato intensity and extensive dynamics are controllable by the user.

Extensive multi-dynamic true legato has been sampled for all sections in three different categories: slurred, portamento and bow change. This results in unsurpassed legato performance that has never been available.

ABOUT HOLLYWOOD STRINGS GOLD EDITION

“Hollywood Strings Gold” is 16-bit, with one mic position (mid-tree, no divisi) and all articulations except bow change legato. You can read about the full range of the available articulations HERE.

The User Manual is available to read HERE.