Make your strings shine in your mixes with Hollywood Strings 2 from EastWest, the sequel to the award-winning Hollywood Strings 1, which provides 148 instruments, 160GB of samples, and six flexible mic positions. Atmos ready and ideal for music and film productions, Hollywood Strings 2 delivers intimate strings for any occasion.
Recorded using new close-miking techniques for even more clarity and emotion, Hollywood Strings 2 provides you with precise trills, runs, and fast articulations to compose everything from cozy studio pieces to large, epic orchestrations. The library offers several sections, including six 1st violins, four 2nd violins, four violas, 4 celli, and three basses, as well as the full 21-player ensemble for you to arrange to your heart's content, all available in three Moods: Classic, Soft, and Epic.
It’s only fitting that these strings suit cinematic metal or heavy rock as well as they would an epic film cue. If you’ve had your fill of massive ensembles and need focus and precision, Hollywood Strings 2 delivers a uniquely intimate string library.
Their goal was simple—capture the same cinematic quality as the original, but with more granular control than any string library to date. The result is clear, clean, and dry, with a character that effortlessly lends itself to any genre.
Tight pizzicato, gritty spiccato, and tons of other articulations are at your disposal. Play through the various staccato options, and you’ll find a mix of clean and staccato slur articulations for maximum realism and character.
Many patches contain expressive vibrato controlled via the modwheel. Combined with deep slurs and portamento, you can capture any performance you need, in any style. You get the same grandeur as the original Hollywood Strings 1, but with infinitely more flexibility.
They’re equally adept with hefty staccato and lyrical melodies in their higher range, with every articulation captured in pristine detail and next to zero bleed or ambience in the close mics.