
HSO covers all the major orchestral instrument groups in some 27GB of sample data, but isn't priced too far out of reach of the cash-strapped UK media composer, and as its title suggests, it is provided with a custom version of Halion Player as the front-end.

There are, of course, products that sit between these two extremes ( EWQLSO Gold Edition, for example) and Steinberg's new Halion Symphonic Orchestra ( HSO) falls firmly into that camp.
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For more demanding composers, at the other end of the spectrum would be libraries such as EWQLSO Platinum Edition or, more recently, VSL's Vienna Instrument series (reviewed in SOS July 2006).
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When writing music for picture, TV and film composers often need to mock up a convincing sampled orchestral score for the director to approve or, when budgets are limited (which is most of the time!), for use in the final audio mix.įor those with limited resources - financial or in terms of computer horsepower - products such as Garritan Personal Orchestra ( GPO) or East West/Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra ( EWQLSO) in its cut-down Silver Edition format have provided a decent introduction. While synthetic versions of orchestral sounds still have their musical applications, many recording musicians and composers need their orchestral sounds to be as realistic as possible. Recreations of orchestral instruments have come a long way since the first fizzy string and brass patches appeared in our hardware synths. We find out how well Steinberg's new take on the virtual orchestra conducts itself.
