EWQL Hollywood Woodwind

[David Stowell]

To add to their existing Hollywood Strings and Hollywood Brass, EastWest has now released (as of 23rd July) Hollywood Woodwind.

Europe
www.soundsonline-europe.com/Hollywood-Orchestral-Woodwinds

everywhere except Europe
www.soundsonline.com/Hollywood-Orchestral-Woodwinds

Priced at £593.71 / €748.51 / $995.00

No Demos as of yet.

[wizzarts]

Dear Mr. Stowell,

I just sold my dog, my girlfriends (yepp, not only one, I sold all of them), my underwear and my neighbors car only to buy hollywood strings and brass.

And now you present a link to hollywood woodwind. Life can be so cruel once in a while. :-O

Seriously, thanks alot. I will see how I can manage the next step.

[Rosqvist]

I saw your post and thought I'd state my question here instead of starting a new thread.

What woodwinds library is "best" if price does not matter (much). Now, what is "best" is a matter of choice, of course. Realism and how it blends well with other libraries, are essential (to me).
(I use Sibelius together with cubase for composing, the latter for the mixing.)

Having composed music with the Ewql gold oboe for almost a year, together with the much dryer LASS and Alicia's keys-piano, I have lately begun to look for a woodwinds-library with a better sound. Not necessarily one with more tweeking possibilities than others. I like composing, not endless mixing.

What it all seems to come down to are these three:
Samplemodellings, Berlin Woodwinds och Hollywood Woodwinds.
All out during 2012, And old vienna.

I don't know how any of these functions with Sibelius 7, my finished downmixes always end up in cubase.

Any thoughts?

[wizzarts]

Unfortunately I haven't bought Hollywood-WW yet. For now I am using EWQL Platinum and Goliath. Also I have installed Oxford-dynamics and reverb. This helps alot. So all instruments are "placed" in one room. A much better blending. Also I use a bunch of controller-data (automated via G11 logitech-keyboard) ie. ~C64 and so on.

I am looking forward to get the Hollywood-WW. Meanwhile I personally would say, EWQL Platinum being that Trills and dif. styles are sampled and accessable via keyswitch...

Listening to DEMOs is nice but not very useful. Those are normally done with cubase or similar sequenzers with all controllers you can dream of.

Maybe other sample-fans are reading this and be able to tell you more...

[Rosqvist]

Okat. Agree on the value of listening to demos.
I have read discussions on other more technical forums, and that information is slightly more useful. The technical data aside, what it comes down to is (I think) which way results in a presentation that best represents the musical idea, before handing it over to the musicians?

Ah, I think I will just stick to the old ewql oboe, until the berlin woodwinds are on sale.

[wizzarts]

Well, to be honest, when I am in need of more realistic playbacks I load the sib-midi-files into cubase. There I can handle all kind of controllers via Doepfer "Regelbank" - a board with 4 times 8 midi-data-knobs asigned to modulation, volume, vibrato, air, and so on.

Then I can thing and play as an, lets say, oboe-player. The difference is enormous.

What I am saying is that everything depends on the sibelius playback-capability. The quality of the samples is quite good, but you will need to control the variation, filter etc. as well. The question is how deep will you go into this stuff.

For a normal Demo of a piece I only use the sib-output, improved with oxford dynamics and oxford reverb. That is okay for most visitors of my web-site. Only to get a first impression.

As a commercial advertisement-campagne I use recorded tracks done by an orchestra.

I have to say that I am not really a friend of giving mp3s away. I want musicians to develop own ideas on a given material. to often concertband try to copy exactly what is on a CD or as a mp3 on my HP.

Writing for movies makes things more difficult being that most customers expect a ready-to-use-audio-file.