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Edirol Orchestral HQ

The Orchestral Plug-In Software Synthesizer Orchestral provides premium acoustic sounds, focusing on Strings, Wood winds, and Brass winds, as well as Percussion and Keyboards. These high quality samples include realistic articulations such as vibrato, spiccato, pizzicato, and tremolo. Using ample wave memory, Strings/Brass winds tones are selectable from solo, part section, and full section, making this ideal for the composition of contemporary music, sound tracks, and marching bands. The premium sounds in this synthesizer are perfectly combined for lush soundtracks and beautiful orchestral arrangements.





                
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Edirol Orchestral HQ Features:

Main Features

  • Plug-In Software Synthesizers: DXi and VST Instruments (Win/Mac)

  • Premium acoustic sounds, focusing on Strings, Woodwinds, Brass, Percussion and Keyboards

  • Realistic articulations such as vibrato, tremolo, pizzicato, and spiccato

  • Up to 16-part and 128-voice polyphony

  • Up to 24-bit/96kHz sampling resolution

  • Multiple output (compatible with DXi 2.0 and VST 2.0)

  • Fully assignable MIDI control

  • Cakewalk "MusicCreator2002" full version included


Other Key Specifications

  • Preset patches: 141 tones + 3 drum sets

  • User patches: 216 tones + 36 drum sets

  • High quality reverb and chorus/delay

  • 32-bit floating point processing precision

  • Real-time access to various parameters via hardware controller

  • High-speed response and processing optimized using Intel's SSE, AMD's Enhanced 3D Now! Technology, FSB 100MHz or higher, and Motorola's AltiVec on PowerPC G4 native coding


Tone variation

Strings/Section (34 types):
Violin, Viola, Cello, and Contrabass (Full section/Part section), including playing variation: spiccato, pizzicato, and tremolo.

Strings/Solo (30 types):
Violin, Viola, Cello, and Contrabass, including playing variation: vibrato, spiccato, pizzicato, and harmonics. Vibrato can be controlled by velocity and modulation lever/wheel (V-switch/M-switch), Harp.

Brass Winds/Section (20 types):
Trumpet, Trombone and French horn (Full section/Part section), including playing variation: Slide of Trombone, Stop of Horn, and Lip Sound. Also features variety of combination tones.

Brass Winds/Solo (17 types):
Trumpet, Trombone (tenor/alto/bass), French horn, Tuba, Cornet, Mute Trumpet, and Mute Trombone. Includes Flugelhorn and Euphonium for Brass Band or Marching.

Wood Winds (27 types):
Piccolo, Flute (soprano/alto/bass), Oboe, Clarinet, English horn, and Bassoon, including vibrato for Flute and Oboe (M switch)

Percussions (11 types +3 drum sets):
Marimba, Celesta, Xylophone, Glockenspiel, and Tubular bells, Timpani, Concert Bass drum, Cymbals, Snare drum, Wind chime, Bell tree, Wood block, and Triangle, including playing variation: Timpani roll, Bass drum roll, Snare drum roll and Triangle tremolo. 3 drum sets: Orchestra set/Timpani set/Marching kit

Keyboards (2 types):
Concert Grand Piano, Harpsichord

*Music sequencing software that can host DXi or VST Instruments plug-in


Recommended System Requirements:

Windows
Microsoft Windows Me/98/2000 Professional/XP, 128 MB RAM or more, 100 MB of free hard disk space, Windows-compatible audio interface (24/16-bit stereo, 96/48/44.1kHz sampling rate), CD-ROM drive.

Macintosh
MacOS 8.6.1, 9.x, 256 MB of RAM or more, 100 MB of free hard drive space, Macintosh-compatible audio interface (24/16-bit stereo, 96/48/44.1 kHz sampling rate), CD-ROM drive.


Recommended Book:

edirol orchestral book Although I've played classical piano for a long time, I'm a beginner in this aspect of music. This book provides a fantastic, detailed survey of the entire symphony orchestra for those who don't know an English horn from an oboe; however, it seems like it's one of those handy books you will refer back to for a very long time:




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