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Eastwest has announced it is now shipping its Hollywood Orchestral Woodwinds virtual instrument for Windows and Mac.

Over 70 weeks, the EASTWEST team recorded, edited and programmed every nuance of world-class orchestral woodwind players with meticulous care. The result is a comprehensive library of breathtakingly real woodwind sounds – the perfect addition to the critically acclaimed Hollywood Strings and Hollywood Brass.

Hollywood Orchestral Woodwinds is the most powerful, realistic and complete woodwind virtual (software) instrument, weighing in with a massive 145 GB of meticulously captured realism and detail.

As with Hollywood Strings and Hollywood Brass, this library was sound engineered in the legendary EASTWEST Studio 1 by Academy Award, C.A.S. (Cinema Audio Society), BAFTA, and EMMY award-winning 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 and III and many more.

Hollywood Orchestral Woodwinds includes Alto Flute, Bass Clarinet, Bass Flute, Bassoon, Clarinet, Contra Bass Clarinet, Contra Bassoon, Eb Clarinet, English Horn, Flute, Flute 2, Oboe, Piccolo Flute, with unprecedented sound quality and expression, true legato plus 5 user-controllable microphone positions (Diamond Edition only); Hollywood Orchestral Woodwinds is designed to work seamlessly with the existing sections of the Hollywood Orchestral series – Hollywood Strings, Hollywood Brass and the upcoming Hollywood Orchestral Percussion – for the ultimate in virtual Hollywood scoring.

Hollywood Orchestral Woodwinds Diamond Edition is now available for the introductory offer of $795 USD ($995 USD MSRP), and Hollywood Orchestral Woodwinds Gold Edition will be available the introductory offer of $475 USD ($595 USD MSRP).

More information: SoundsOnline / SoundsOnline Europe

Eastwest has announced Hollywood Orchestral Woodwinds, the newest addition to their critically acclaimed, multiple award-winning Hollywood Orchestral series.

Hollywood Orchestral Woodwinds is the most powerful, realistic and complete woodwind virtual (software) instrument ever created. Weighing in with a massive 145 GB of meticulously captured realism and detail. As with Hollywood Strings and Hollywood Brass, this library was sound engineered in the legendary EASTWEST Studio 1 by Academy Award, C.A.S. (Cinema Audio Society), BAFTA, and EMMY award-winning 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, Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, Star Wars: A Musical Journey , Jurassic Park, Jurassic Park The Lost World, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Titanic, Minority Report, The Bourne Ultimatum, Saving Private Ryan, Munich, The Passion Of The Christ, X-Men: The Last Stand, and Ice Age, etc.

Over the course of 70 weeks, the EASTWEST team recorded, edited, and programmed every nuance of world-class orchestral woodwind players in this historic environment. The result is a breathtakingly real woodwind collection optimized to blend seamlessly with Hollywood Strings and Hollywood Brass.

Hollywood Orchestral Woodwinds includes Alto Flute, Bass Clarinet, Bass Flute, Bassoon,Clarinet, Contra Bass Clarinet, Contra Bassoon, Eb Clarinet, English Horn, Flute, Flute 2, Oboe, Piccolo Flute, with unprecedented sound quality and expression, true legato plus 5 user-controllable microphone positions (Diamond Edition only); Hollywood Orchestral Woodwinds is designed to work seamlessly with the existing sections of the Hollywood Orchestral series – Hollywood Strings, Hollywood Brass and the upcoming Hollywood Orchestral Percussion – for the ultimate in virtual Hollywood scoring.

Hollywood Orchestral Woodwinds Diamond Edition will be available on July 23 for $995 MSRP ($795 introductory offer) and Hollywood Orchestral Woodwinds Gold Edition will be available for $595 MSRP ($475 introductory offer).

More information: SoundsOnline / SoundsOnline Europe

EASTWEST has announced it is offering customers the opportunity to Buy One, Get One Free through the end of June on select products.

Music creators can purchase any of the following EASTWEST products by June 30, 2012 and get one of equal or lesser value free:

• Hollywood Strings
• Ministry of Rock 2
• The Dark Side
• Spaces Reverb
• Symphonic Choirs
• Symphonic Orchestra (Platinum and Gold)
• Goliath
• Stormdrum 2
• Silk
• Gypsy
• Pianos (Platinum and Gold)
• RA
• Ministry of Rock
• Fab Four
• Voices of Passion

“There’s a sense of devotion about these projects, the long months spent recording and programming seeming to go beyond the call of duty. Sample libraries don’t get much better than these, and any composer with an ear for sound will find much inspirational material in them,” said Sound On Sound Magazine of EASTWEST products.

More information: SoundsOnline / SoundsOnline Europe

Soundsonline has announced a two-week, site-wide Spring Promotion, offering 30% off the list prices of most EastWest, Best Service and ZERO-G purchases made from May 7 through May 21, 2012. The Eastwest offer also includes upgrades and licenses.

EASTWEST, based in Hollywood California, offers the most critically acclaimed line of virtual instruments for composers. EASTWEST virtual instruments are considered to be the best available, and are endorsed by the who’s who of the music, film, TV, and games industries, including Danny Elfman (Spiderman, Nightmare Before Christmas, Terminator 4), James Newton Howard (The Dark Knight, King Kong), John Powell (Hancock, The Bourne Trilogy), Thomas Newman (Revolutionary Road, WALL-E, Lemony Snickets), Brian Tyler (Fast and the Furious, Dragonball), Chris Beck (Pink Panther 2, Under the Tuscan Sun), David Newman (The Spirit, Cat In The Hat, Ice Age), Steve Jablonsky (Desperate Housewives, Transformers), Paul ‘Wix’ Wickens (Keyboards/Musical Director, Paul McCartney), Herbie Hancock (12-time Grammy Winning Pianist and Composer), Teddy Riley (Producer Michael Jackson “Dangerous” and “Invincible”), David Kahne (Producer Paul McCartney), and countless others.

Best Service, based in Munich, Germany, and Zero-G based in Devon, United Kingdom are prolific developers and publishers of a large collection of fine virtual instruments and sample libraries. Both Best Service and Zero-G have been exclusively represented by EASTWEST in North America for more than two decades.

This promotion makes the finest composers tools available for a fraction of their normal cost. No matter what your style, genre, or professional goals are, now is a great time to invest in your music. There’s something for everyone at Soundsonline.com.

More information: SoundsOnline / SoundsOnline (Europe)

Best Service and Zero-G products are not available from the European store. Promotional prices may not be combined.

Eastwest has announced a sweepstakes on its Facebook page, offering a chance to win a fully licensed Terapack valued at $7,199 USD.

The TERAPACK includes EASTWEST/QUANTUM LEAP products Hollywood Strings Gold, Spaces Reverb, The Dark Side, Symphonic Orchestra, Symphonic Choirs, Symphonic Choirs Expansion, EastWest/Quantum Leap Pianos, Stormdrum 2 and SD2 Pro Upgrade, Voices of Passion, Ministry of Rock 1, Ministry of Rock 2, Fab Four, Goliath, Silk, Ra, and Gypsy. The TERAPACK is available for Mac and PC, is compatible with all major DAW platforms, and requires a separate iLok key (not included) for operation.

The TERAPACK is supplied on a Western Digital Caviar Blue WD10EALS 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5″ Internal Hard Drive (subject to change without notice), with a 5-year manufacturers warranty for optimum performance. The hard drive includes the EASTWEST/QUANTUM LEAP virtual instrument collections listed above. The winner of the sweepstakes will receive full licensed versions that can be run directly from the drive, saving installation time and space.

To enter, visit Eastwest on Facebook. No purchase is required, and the winner will be chosen March 31, 2012.

More information: Eastwest on Facebook

Eastwest has announced it is offering 50% off the retail prices of two critically-acclaimed titles: Eastwest/Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra and Pianos on all purchases made through March 31, 2012.

Recorded by 11-time Grammy nominated classical recording engineer Prof. Keith O. Johnson, and produced by Doug Rogers and Nick Phoenix, the EASTWEST/QUANTUM LEAP SYMPHONIC ORCHESTRA is the most awarded orchestral collection ever, and the only orchestral collection to be recorded in a “state of the art” concert hall where orchestras mainly perform.

EASTWEST/QUANTUM LEAP PIANOS is the most detailed collection of the world’s finest grand pianos ever recorded and includes a Bechstein D-280, Steinway D, Bösendorfer 290, and Yamaha C7, each recorded with 3 mixable mic positions.

“These are real acoustic piano sounds. I’m absolutely amazed. EastWest/Quantum Leap has gone the extra mile to provide stunning quality acoustic piano character – the whole collection is superb!” said 12-time Grammy winning pianist and composer Herbie Hancock. “The new meaning of heavyweight. Players agreed that EastWest/Quantum Leap has by far the most detailed and biggest-sounding pianos of the bunch.” Said KEYBOARD Magazine.

The PLAY interface includes impulses from the same hall the producers used to record Symphonic Orchestra and Symphonic Choirs so the pianos can blend with those collections.

Customers can receive 50% off the retail price at Sounds Online and at authorized EastWest dealers now through March 31, 2012.

More information: Sounds Online / Sounds Online (European customers)