EastWest Hollywood Orchestra Opus Edition Virtual Instrument Plug-In (Download) User Manual
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HOLLYWOOD ORCHESTRA OPUS EDITION
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CHAPTER 3: BROWSE
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For the Celli:
• Playing C1 plays an upward scale starting on the usual lowest cello note, C1. And all notes
C1 to G3 play upward scales.
• Playing C4 plays a downward scale ending on C1. And all notes C4 to G6 play downward
scales.
Playable Runs
Unlike the prerecorded runs, the instruments in this folder allow you to perform runs by playing
the notes. The several instrument types use different approaches to achieve the natural sound
of a run.
Repetitions Runs Script
This instrument uses a script to detect whether the run is moving upward or downward, and
playback the appropriate slur direction. When playing upward, there’s a slur from the lower
note, When playing downward, there’s a slur from the higher note. For the first note in a run,
or after a gap, there’s no slur.
The notes in this instrument do not respond to MIDI velocity; that is, changing the velocity on
any given note will not affect how loudly it is played. Instead, use the “Expression” MIDI CC
11 to set the loudness of the notes in the run.
Note that all samples in this patch are “repetitions,” that is, the sound of a single note being
played multiple times in quick succession (similar to a tremolo). In a fast run, each note in
the run is short enough that only the first note in the repetition has time to play, but if the run
stops on any note, you will hear the repetition. If you do not want this repetition effect, then
you will want to select a different patch for these longer notes.
If, for any reason, you want a different pattern of when to play the upward and downward
samples in this instrument, take the following steps:
• Turn off the script in this instrument by clicking on the Other button in the Player view, as
shown in the image at the left of the button turned on.
• Invoke MIDI CC 14 on the MIDI channel for this instrument (using a slider on a control
surface or an envelope in a sequencer).
• Set CC 14 to a value of 66–127 when you want to force the playback of downward samples
• Set CC 14 to a value of exactly 65 to force the playback of repetition samples (neither
upward no downward)
• Set CC 14 to a value of 0–64 to force the playback of upward samples.
Slur Runs
These instruments—only available in the 1st and 2nd Violins—generate the sound of a fast-
playing scale. Each patch includes all the components needed for every part of the run:
• the fast notes in the run
• the slurs that move the pitch from one note to the next
• the longer notes when you sustain a note in the middle of, or at the end of, the run
The sustained notes are available at 3 levels of vibrato:
• non-vibrato
• vibrato
• molto vibrato