EAST WEST HOLLYWOOD STRINGS GOLD UPDATE
EAST WEST HOLLYWOOD STRINGS GOLD UPGRADE
EAST WEST HOLLYWOOD STRINGS GOLD FULL

New computers are far more powerful and, besides, even the 'light' HS patches sound good to me.ĬSS has a wonderful musicality and plays quite well 'out of the box,' especially if you love legato patches. At first, it was pretty rough with multiple mics on the 'powerful' patches. I don't use the mid mic set that much which, unless I'm mistaken, is the mic in HS Gold.Ĭomputers have come a long way in the 10 years since HS came out. So, in my case, the extra mics are very important. In that regard, HZ strings from Spitfire, with its large selection of mics, is awesome, and I'm just taking the SINE player for a test drive later you may know it also has many mic positions. I love having extra mic positions in all my libraries. I think it depends on what you're trying to do with it. So I lean now towards investing in niche libraries and using HS Gold as a good all rounder with some really good articulations that have yet to be better.

EAST WEST HOLLYWOOD STRINGS GOLD UPGRADE

So to me the upgrade would be to just invest in Afflatus or other libraries from smaller developers, even soaring strings. Not into surround or close mics for strings. I think the only mic position I'd be interested in using in Diamond would be the main mics. So for those reasons I've decided to invest in other libraries and still keep using HSGold.

EAST WEST HOLLYWOOD STRINGS GOLD FULL

In the end, HS Diamond is still one of the most resource demanding libraries when used in full and I haven't yet found the sound to be remarkably better than Gold especially when you start caking on reverb and combining it with other libraries and other instrumentation. Each one fills a need for a specific purpose. I have a smattering of other strings that I use for special purposes like LASS Sordinos, Performance samples, and a thousand older libraries. I own and use a lot HS Gold and recently revitalized CS2 into my template. Is it just the library addict in me that's tempted by a seemingly good deal and succumbing to the sunk cost fallacy of already owning the gold version of this library, or is there a good argument to be made for the upgrade? :-D Did you upgrade from Hollywood Strings Gold to Diamond and feel it was worth it? Given today's string library landscape, would you say that's still a worthwhile upgrade to make? Would you say Hollywood Strings adds significantly different sounds to a string palette that has Century Strings and CSS (those are smaller string ensembles, but does it make a noticeable difference? Of course a lot of this is purely subjective, but I wonder if anyone else has found themselves pondering this. I'm not a huge fan of how the library is structured, it's hard to gauge which patches overlap and which ones complement each other, just from looking at the names.The diamond edition takes up an obscene 310GB of precious SSD space.I'm not sure if it wouldn't be smarter for me to really focus on and learn these, rather than bloat my template with yet more string options. I have Century Strings and CSS that I was considering making those my main string libraries (I also have Adventure Strings and Orchestral String Runs to complement these).there's additional bow change legato articulations.the additional mic positions might make it easier to mix with other libraries and.

EAST WEST HOLLYWOOD STRINGS GOLD UPDATE

I own Hollywood Strings gold and now I wonder if the update to the diamond edition is worth it for me (it's 'only' 98$ atm). There's currently a sale on upgrades at East West.

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