EastWest Hollywood Orchestra Opus Edition Virtual Instrument Plug-In (Download) - Manual (Page 12)

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CHAPTER 1: WELCOME 12 C H A P T E R <
1.1.2 Our Revolutionary New Opus Software Engine
Our brand new Opus software engine replaces Play and has been years in develop-
ment. “Many improvements were made to the Play software engine over the last
decade but we suddenly had a unique opportunity,” says producer Doug Rogers,
“we were able to bring Wolfgang Kundrus in as head of software development. He
was the mastermind behind the creation of Cubase, Nuendo, and Studio One. Then
we were able to bring in Wolfgang Schneider, the creator of Kontakt. With these two
titans of music software development now on our team, we decided it was time to
develop a brand new software engine from the ground up.
The Opus software engine is the realization of this effort. Not only is it faster, more
powerful, more flexible, and better looking than Play, it comes with some incredible
new features such as individual instrument downloads, customized key-switches,
new effects for the mixer page, scalable retina GUI upgrades for legacy products, a
powerful new script language, and many more features that allow you to completely
customize the sound of each instrument. It’s one of the most exciting developments
in the history of our company and will be the launching pad for many exciting new
products in the future.
1.1.3 Featuring Hollywood Orchestrator
Create full-scale orchestral music with complex arrangements by playing a few
simple chords with one hand and shaping expression with the other. Developed in
collaboration with Sonuscore, Hollywood Orchestrator used all the instruments in
Hollywood Orchestra Opus Edition to create real-time arrangements based on your
MIDI input with our innovative Scoring Engine.
With over 500 presets the can be customized, you can instantly create music in the
style of Hollywood’s greatest composers. Select from Ensemble presets to quickly
create rich orchestral arrangements. With Ostinato presets, you can build rhythmic
tension in different meters or create moving melodic lines by only changing a few
notes. With Score, classic Hollywood orchestrations become an endless source of
inspiration. Create your own User presets by modifying existing presets or build your
own ensembles from scratch!
Our Innovative Scoring Engine
At the heart of Hollywood Orchestrator is our innovative Scoring Engine, which can
produce results ranging from a basic string arrangement, to very complex orchestra-
tions played by the full orchestra. It achieves this in a two-step process by first mod-
ifying the MIDI input with a Note Selection process, then sending those note selec-
tions to a powerful Step Sequencer where chords are played with the programmed
rhythms. If you want to take things a step further, you can optionally activate our
step sequencers. Each slot has one of them. They take whatever the note selection
process outputs, and manipulates that. If you program a rhythmic pattern into the
sequencers and play a C-Major chord, the sequencers will take the notes from the
note selection and play the chord with that rhythm.