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EASTWEST has announced the release of the Silver Edition of Hollywood Orchestral Woodwinds, the third installment of their acclaimed Hollywood Orchestral Virtual Instruments Series, designed for those on a budget or with less computer resources.

This downloadable version is 16-bit, comes with one mic position (mid-tree) and contains an essential set of articulations and instruments. Users can upgrade to the Gold and Diamond Edition when they need more options. The Silver Edition includes Bass Clarinet, Bassoon, Clarinet, Contrabassoon, English Horn, Flute, Oboe, Piccolo Flute.

As with the other best-selling Hollywood Collections (Strings and Brass), Hollywood Orchestral Woodwinds was produced by Doug Rogers, Nick Phoenix and Thomas Bergersen, and 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.

The Hollywood Orchestral Woodwinds Silver Edition is available to purchase for $199 USD / 149 EUR.

More information: Soundsonline / Soundsonline Europe

Time+Space has announced the Ultimate Collection by Garritan, a collection of 6 instruments on a USB flash drive.

Garritan is one of the world’s leading providers of virtual software instruments having received multiple awards and recognition amongst composers, producers and the pro audio press.

The limited edition Garritan Ultimate Collection combines six Garritan virtual software instrument libraries on one easy-to-install USB drive. Few other bundles offer the scope, variety of genre, or this number of superior sounding virtual instruments for just £449 / €559 (would normally be £774 / €894).

Garritan Ultimate Collection features

• Classic Pipe Organs – Offers six different historical pipe organs and 75 different stops.
• Concert & Marching Band 2 – Features an array of brass, woodwinds and percussion instruments.
• Instant Orchestra – An instantly playable orchestral library with many pre-packaged orchestral sounds.
• Jazz & Big Band 3 – With over 50 instruments you can create realistic-sounding Jazz and Big Band arrangements quickly and easily.
• Personal Orchestra 4 – Create lush symphonic music with over 150 orchestral instruments.
• World Instruments – Collection of over 350 expressive and exotic instruments from around the world.

Garritan Ultimate Collection for Windows and Mac (VST/AU/RTAS/Standalone) is available to purchase from Time+Space for RRP £449 GBP / €559 EUR.

More information: Garritan Ultimate Collection

Best Service has announced Chris Hein Horns Pro Complete, a bass and woodwind sound library based on the Chris Hein Horns Vol. 1-4 libraries.

The library is now based on Kontakt Player 5 and offers a completely reworked user interface as well as phase synchronized samples for perfect blending between velocities.

CHH Pro Complete is the most complete virtual-instrument library of Brass & Woodwind instruments for Jazz, Pop, Big-Band, Funk production but also to spice up your cinematic and orchestral tracks. With CHH Complete you get 54 Solo- and 32 Section-Instruments, partitioned in four volumes which contain different groups of instruments perfectly matching each other.

All versions are available as downloads or on a 64GB USB Stick, allowing instant installation.

Articulation settings of Chris Hein Horns Pro for Kontakt.

New in Chris Hein Horns Pro Complete

• New C-Flute Instrument.
• All new Graphical User Interface.
• Phase synchronized samples for perfect blending between velocities.
• Extremely customizable Articulation Presets including copy paste feature.
• New Key-Switch preset management.
• New flexibel Hot-Key management.
• Articulations can be unloaded to save memory.
• Speed Change for all articulations.
• Five different Velocity X-Fade Modes.
• Velocity Fade Filter.
• Transient Designer.
• New Effects: Attack Shapes, Air, Noise, Release Effects.
• 16 new Convolution Impulses for Reverb.
• Improved Key-Vibrato.
• Two independent, intelligent LFO-Vibrato types.
• Auto vibrato.
• Assignable Pitch-Bend.
• iPad & iPhone real time remote controller.

Chris Hein Horns Pro Complete is available for MSRP 649 EUR / $699 USD / £519 GBP. The upgrade from any CHH single volume is 349 EUR / $389 USD / £279 GBP, and a crossgrade from CHH Compact is 499 EUR / $539 USD / £399 GBP.

More information: Best Service / Chris Hein Horns Pro Complete

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

Sonivox has announced an “insane blowout sale” for Broadway Big Band, a virtual instrument by Fable Sounds.

Fable Sounds’ Broadway Big Band is an unprecedented and innovative virtual instrument. Up to now, it has been relatively impossible to simulate non-orchestral brass and woodwind instruments with the degree of clarity and depth which the music they produce demands. But Broadway Big Band changes everything… Now is your chance to experience the benchmark in modern brass and woodwinds virtual instruments at an unbeatable price!

Act now to take advantage of these fantastic prices on these incredible virtual instruments.

Broadway Big Band Blowout Sale

• Broadway Big Band – Normally $2495.00 – NOW ONLY $1595
• Broadway Lites – Normally $499.99 – NOW ONLY $299

This offer ends May 11th, 2012.

More information: Sonivox / Broadway Big Band Blowout Sale