Hollywood Orchestra Opus Edition

Hollywood Orchestra Opus Edition is the highly anticipated expansion to Hollywood Orchestra, the best-selling and most awarded orchestral virtual instrument ever produced. It includes brand new pristine recordings, reimagined original content, and powerful new features, all housed in our new revolutionary OPUS software engine. Produced by Doug Rogers and Nick Phoenix, recipients of over 100 international industry Awards, and sound engineered by multiple Academy Award and BAFTA winner Shawn Murphy, Hollywood Orchestra Opus Edition is the culmination of years of recording and programming and will set a new industry standard for achieving professional sounding orchestral soundtracks. Hollywood Orchestra Opus Edition will be released with the new Opus software and a companion product Hollywood Orchestrator, a must-have tool for composers of every skill level who want to achieve that Hollywood blockbuster sound quickly.

Our brand new OPUS software engine replaces PLAY and has been years in development. “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, dozens of new effects for the mixer page, scaleable 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.”

Contains 130GB of brand-new recordings
Hollywood Orchestra Opus Edition is jam-packed with 944GB of samples — 130GB of which are brand-new recordings. At Sweetwater, we’ve found that this library’s 18-violin string section vaunts some of the best legato phrasing we’ve ever heard in an orchestra virtual instrument. You also get new ensembles for Hollywood Brass and Hollywood Orchestra Woodwinds, and new string, brass, and woodwind multi-ensembles. The Opus Edition is a distinct upgrade over EastWest’s original collection. That said, it works seamlessly alongside its predecessor if you want to maintain backward compatibility with your prior projects.

Setting the right MOOD is a piece of cake
Tailoring the sound of Hollywood Orchestra Opus Edition to fit your project’s vibe is easy, thanks to its MOODS feature. Programmed for Diamond Editions that include all mic positions, MOODS permits you to effortlessly switch multiple parameters to match the feel of your project. Classic MOOD replicates the original Hollywood Orchestra’s sound. Soft MOOD is great for — you guessed it — softer, emotional passages. Epic MOOD delivers a heavy-hitting sound that’s tailor-made for action scenes. The Opus Edition’s interface even changes color to match your MOOD setting!

Features:

• Next-gen Hollywood Orchestra virtual instrument with 24-bit/44.1kHz samples
• Jam-packed with 944GB of content — 130GB comprise brand-new recordings
• Includes the original Hollywood Orchestra, plus Hollywood Solo Instruments
• Contains reimagined original content for all sections and solo instruments
• Cutting-edge OPUS software engine is faster, more powerful, more flexible, and more eye grabbing than its predecessor
• 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 loads of instrument-customizing features
• MOODS effortlessly switches multiple parameters to match the feel of your project
• Hollywood Orchestrator builds complex orchestral arrangements quickly and easy
• Mixer section includes per-instrument volume, pan, EQ, and an ultra-configurable reverb
• 500+ customizable presets make creating Hollywood-ready scores a breeze