EastWest Hollywood Orchestra Opus Edition Virtual Instrument Plug-In (Download) User Manual
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HOLLYWOOD ORCHESTRA OPUS EDITION
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These patches do not include release trails.
Flutter Tongue
When a brass player flutters his tongue while playing, similar to the rolled R in some languages,
it produces a characteristic sound captured in the several Flutter Tongue files in this library.
The Mod Wheel affects the loudness, allowing a continuous crescendo or decrescendo mid-
note. Velocity does not control loudness for this instrument.
Clusters
When the several players in a section play different notes close to each other in pitch, usually
a minor or major second apart, the effect is called a cluster.
Use the Mod Wheel to control the loudness, even in the middle of a single note. The Velocity
parameter does not influence the dynamics.
Because more than one pitch is being played, you may need to experiment to find the best
MIDI note to achieve the sound you want.
Special Effects (FX), Rises, and Oddities
The Hollywood Brass library contains several instrument files with unusual effects. You will
get a better idea of what is available by listening than by reading any attempt at descriptions.
Legato
For most brass instruments, a legato sound is created with a slur that joins the two con-
secutive notes without a fresh attack at the start of the later note. This slur occurs only
when there is no significant gap between the end of the earlier note and the start of the
later note. In addition, the two notes have to be at most an octave apart. Moving from D3
to D4 generates a legato slur; moving from D3 to D#4 does not.
Trombones, by virtue of their slide mechanism, can generate another kind of legato,
one in which there is some amount of portamento connecting the two notes, an audible
anticipatory movement of the pitch toward the next note. This effect is known as “slide
legato.”
PLEASE NOTE:
By default, all legato instruments are monophonic. By allowing only one
note to play at a time, PLAY makes sure that there is no ambiguity about what two notes
should have a legato transition between them. It is possible to turn off the monophonic
behavior with MIDI Control Code 22. When in the top half of its range, 64–127 the con-
troller preserves the default behavior. But whenever CC 22 is in the range 0–63, poly-
phonic behavior is turned on. You do need to listen to the output carefully to see whether
there are unwanted legato slurs between notes in different polyphonic voices. If so, one
remedy is to move those two voices to separate MIDI tracks.
Legato Slur
The basic slur legato patch creates a slur between notes as long as there is no delay between
the end of the first note and the start of the following note. Plus, the interval between the two
notes has to be no more than an octave.