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3.7 HOLLYWOOD STRINGS
The Hollywood Strings Opus Edition library is designed to work together with the other
libraries in the Hollywood Orchestra Opus Edition series. It includes the same variety of
microphone positions and other features that help them blend into a unified sound.
The Hollywood Strings Opus Edition library is designed to create orchestrations of the
kind heard in movie soundtracks—but, of course, it can be used for many other types of
music, as well.
3.7.1 Instrument Sections and Ensembles
The instruments in Hollywood Strings contain instruments that capture the sound of
the 5 string sections (1st Violins, 2nd Violins Violas, Celli, and Basses) playing in the
multitude of articulations strings are capable of. There is also a Full Strings performance
where you can load up and play the entire string orchestra at the same time.
The Opus Edition includes new expansion content including 18 Violins and Ensemble.
The Ensemble features 3 Flutes, 3 Clarinets, 3 Bassoons, 2 Trumpets, 2 Trombones, 18
Violins, and 7 Basses all playing together simultaneously.
Some instruments contain a single articulations, while others feature multiple articula-
tions combined into a single instrument file. Full Strings are in a separate class, called
performances, which contain multiple instruments, but function as a unified whole.
• 18 Violins
[new]
• 1st Violins
• 2nd Violins
• Violas
• Basses
• Full Strings
• Ensemble
[new]
Divisi Instruments
The 1st Violins, 2nd Violins, Violas, Celli, Basses , and Full Strings include Divisi instru-
ments that end in ‘DIV A’ and ‘DIV B’. They appear in separate folders in the Browser:
for example, both ‘Violas’ and ‘Violas Divisi’.
Each of the divisi folders contain Divisi A and Divisi B versions of each of the instru-
ments in their respective main instrument set. They capture the sound of only the left
chair or the right chair at each shared music stand, and they are only available with the
close microphones, as opposed to the 5 microphone positions available in the main in-
strument set.
Divisi is common in orchestral string writing to sometimes split a string section into two
halves so they can play different phrases or notes. In a live orchestra, it is usual to have
the two string players sharing a music stand each take a different divisi part. And due to
the physics of orchestral sections, the loudness of a divisi part is not much less than if
the whole section were playing the part.