EastWest goes BF (I guess) with new bundles ($139-$339) @ Jrrshop

[Kirean]

Jrrshop put up some EastWest bundles up. Might be their BF deals and available at other storefronts as well, but who knows. Didn't see specific marketing materials.

Ancient Bundle - $139

• Ra
• Ancient Kingdom
• Silk
• Gypsy

https://www.jrrshop.com/eastwest-ancient-bundle.html

Future Bundle - $159

• Iconic
• Lo-Fi
• Forbidden Planet
• String Machine

https://www.jrrshop.com/eastwest-future-bundle.html

Hollywood Bundle - $339

• Hollywood Orchestra Opus
• Fantasy Orchestra
• Hollywood Strings 2
• Hollywood Choirs

https://www.jrrshop.com/eastwest-hollywood-bundle.html

FORUM coupon works.

Edited Saturday at 07:57 PM by Kirean

[fjz]

Ah, maaaan!?! Here we go again with the EastWest stuff. You got my eyeing that Ancient Bundle now. 

[Fleer]

Yeah that’s a crazy price. Got them all except RA. 

[fjz]

16 minutes ago, Fleer said:

Yeah that’s a crazy price. Got them all except RA. 

How do you like them. Prettyyyyyy, prettyyy good, or no? 

[husker]

That's crazy.  I paid around $100 for the Ra, Silk, and Gypsy bundle sometime this year, and I felt I got a good deal then.   Now adding one of their newest libraries?   Wow...

[Fleer]

1 hour ago, fjz said:

How do you like them. Prettyyyyyy, prettyyy good, or no? 

The former. Mind you, I’m definitely an EastWest aficionado. Didn’t get RA but the guitar in Gypsy is still top notch. Lots of articulations in that library too, as well as in Silk (while less in RA). Then that new Ancient Kingdom is heaven on earth for a flautist like me. 
Those other bundles are at least as good, the largest one being the best (if you’re into orchestral, of course) but the middle one is pretty pretty good too, containing three of their newer libs. 

[kitekrazy1]

Thinking about Ancient Kingdom but it's over 130gb.  I guess hoarding EW libraries is my next thing. That library seems to have mixed reactions.  

[Amberwolf]

I have an ancient CD demo set of the stuff in the Ancient bundle, I think it was for gigasampler; partial ranges of various instruments.  I converted them to wave files so I could test them out, not having GS, and used a few bits in The Skaergaard Intrusion (newer, better mix) and The Tomorrow Option (older, needs serious mix work) as various backing sounds.   Probably in other stuff too, over the years, but those are the only ones I know for sure as I set out specifically to use some of those kinds of instruments, and they were the only good samples I had.   

[Fleer]

Ancient Kingdom is Eastwest’s newest library, dedicated to specific wind instruments, played by Saulius Petreikis:

“Saulius Petreikis is a Lithuanian composer and wind instrument virtuoso, known for blending ancient Samogitian-Baltic harmonies with global World Music traditions. Over the past 20 years, he has released 11 original albums, contributed to more than 30 others, and performed in major international projects such as Two Steps From Hell, Hans Zimmer: A New Dimension, and The World of Hans Zimmer – An Immersive Symphony. Mastering over 50 unique wind instruments, Saulius electrifies audiences with spirit-lifting improvisations and genre-defying performances that resonate worldwide. He also composes for film, theater, and video games, collaborating with artists across disciplines to create powerful, boundary-breaking works, leaving a profound mark on the global music scene.”

[Amberwolf]

I dug out the cd set, it's from 2001 (did not realize I'd had it that long!).  Looks like I was mistaken; the cover art style is so similar between what I have and what the ones in the Ancient Bundle look like, I made an assumptive connection in my miswired brain.

 (EDIT:  at the end of the booklet it actually does say QL was part of East West, so I guess that's why it looks so similar).  

It was Quantum Leap Products Rare Instruments for Gigastudio, and appears to be the actual library rather than a demo, though it's still just partial ranges, perhaps that's just all the viable sample range of each particular instrument.   

It includes Far East, Middle East & India, and Europe. 

I think the biggest instrument on it is a whopping 148mb....but even so, theyre very nice.   I can only imagine their libraries have gotten better over the years as space has become less of a consideration.

[fjz]

1 hour ago, Amberwolf said:

It was Quantum Leap Products Rare Instruments for Gigastudio, and appears to be the actual library rather than a demo, though it's still just partial ranges, perhaps that's just all the viable sample range of each particular instrument.   

It includes Far East, Middle East & India, and Europe. 

I think the biggest instrument on it is a whopping 148mb....but even so, theyre very nice.   I can only imagine their libraries have gotten better over the years as space has become less of a consideration.

Might have been the precursor to the RA library.

[Amberwolf]

3 hours ago, fjz said:

Might have been the precursor to the RA library.

Apparently so--a quick google on your phrase finds the RA manual which says this:

Quote

RA was born a few years ago, as a sample library called “Rare Instruments.” All of the sounds from Rare Instruments are included in RA, but this represents approximately onetenth of the content. We recorded the other ninety percent of RA at Ocean Way Studios in Hollywood. Because of the size and complexity of the project, we brought in two talented producers, Pacemaker and Tony Austin as co-producers. They have worked on other Quantum Leap projects and had some great ideas for RA. We spent time hunting down the best ethnic artists on the West Coast. Los Angeles is so ethnically diverse and blessed with excellent institutions like Cal Arts, it is actually the ideal place to record a rare and ethnic collection. The result of this effort was the original Quantum Leap RA. Once EastWest created the PLAY System with its advanced sample-playback engine, it was only natural to recreate RA within that new environment. This new version offers the exact same set of rare and ethnic instruments as the older version, but now part of the growing set of libraries available within the PLAY System. RA is a 13 Gigabyte virtual instrument that covers many typical, and some unusual instruments, from diverse parts of the World: Africa, the Americas, Australia, Europe, the Far East, India, the Middle East, and the Turkish Empire.

 

[fjz]

I basically thought it might be the case when I read the list of included regions you mentioned above for the Rare Instruments library.