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(COMING SUMMER 2010)

VOXOS: Coming Late Summer 2010

We are pleased to tease you with the announcement of our Ultra Top Secret Library VOXOS. Buckle your seat belt and check back soon!

We’re rolling out a new series of orchestral percussion libraries this month, all done in the cinesamples fashion.

Features include:
• 12 Dynamic Layers, 12 Round Robin
• 3 mixable microphones, close, stage, far
• Recorded in the same hall as Drums of War using over 16 microphones.
• Tempo synced crescendo rolls! No more shifting your cresc rolls around your DAW to get it to land on the downbeat. Huge timesaver. Works great with the Suspended Cymbals and Snares.
• Custom Kontakt scripting.

Screencast videos, and mp3 demos coming soon. Check back in a bit.

We’ve had a heartwarming response since our announcement to give our total sales (1/13-1/15) away to the American Red Cross International Response Fund. We want to thank YOU for your incredible support. Because of you, we were able to raise $9,951.03 in three days. We have just sent this amount to the Red Cross, which will hopefully send some hope to the people of Haiti. Thank you, faithful customers.

-Mike and Mike @ cinesamples

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The devastating earthquake in Haiti has caused a catastrophe beyond measure. Let’s help.
From Wednesday the 13th through Friday the 15th, 100% of money from sales here at cinesamples will be sent directly to the American Red Cross International Response Fund.
Every penny you spend on this site during that time will be sent directly to this fund.

Let’s do this!

Best,
Mike & Mike @ cinesamples

Cinesamples’ Drums of War is used extensively throughout James Horner’s score for AVATAR. We’re always excited to hear how our customers use our libraries. Please keep us posted on how YOU are using cinesamples’ libraries and we’ll post it here!

Introducing CineSnares and CineCrash

Some exciting Pre-NAMM show announcements from cinesamples!  Introducing two exciting new libraries- CineSnares and CineCrash – two projects we have been wanting to produce for a long while.  You can also look forward to HollyWoodWinds Update 1.1 and some updates to other cinesamples products (including new scripting, time engine syncing and new recorded materials!)

CINESNARES

Epic snare drum library with 3 microphone perspectives.  Round Robin Galore : up to 16 velocity layers   with 12 RR.  Different  types of snares – ensembles, organic mixes, enhanced mixes, solo instruments,       etc…    Tempo syncing rolls and more!!! Recorded at the same hall as Drums of War and featuring the organic cinesamples mix.  All the snares you would ever need.

CINECRASH

Huge piatti and Suspended Cymbal library, featuring lots of round robin and tempo synced rolls – as well as a bunch of other features.  New levels of details never before captured in other samples of these instruments.  Dark and wonderfully spacious and warm sounding delightfulness.  Treated with the normal TLC of other cinesamples libraries.   Featuring a few other goodies to be announced.  Played with mallets and sticks.

We’re having a sale! 15% off everything. Just enter the coupon code “HOLIDAY2009” in the shopping cart! Sale ends January 1st, 2010

Happy holidays,
Mike and Mike

Our friend, and beta-tester for HWW,  John M. Davis recently pieced together one of the finest synthetic mock-ups ever  heard – a stunning representation of John Williams’ Trip To Earth from Superman.

John Williams – Trip To Earth From Superman (Mock Up)

You can immediately hear HWW and Cineharp featured very prominently  in the arrangement and the stunning amount of realism they bring.  The old trick of adding 1 live player on a synthetic track to make it come alive  seems to work just as well by instead adding Cineharp and HWW.  Although we must be sure to point out that not all of the winds in this cue are HWW, all are excluding the 3 solo wind instruments, it is easy to pick them out and how well they mix and function in context with other libraries.

You can browse through some of the images here to get an idea of how John assembled this piece.  Note that the majority of the woodwind writing is done with the Tutti patch (that nice balanced ensemble sound) with help from the octaves patch where Williams had orchestrated woodwind octaves and then runs where needed (etc..) .  John used a thoughtful combination/alernation of most of the non texture patches to lay the ground work for the woodwind section.

This is exactly how HWW can be used most effectively, instead of doing all the lifting with one patch (say tutti or Major Scales) alternate back and forth between different patches as needed, sometimes combining them for extra emphasis. You can also get an idea of the power of the uniform ensemble sound provided by HWW.  Using the tutti voicing will yield much better results then by trying to combine separate woodwinds from another library.

Try listening once while watching this screen grab of just the HWW.

You can see here John’s use of Custom Stage/Close Mic mixing, even having slight differences to compensate for different levels of ensemble saturation during the mix.