EastWest Hollywood Strings 2 Walkthrough

Watch the Official Walkthrough for Hollywood Strings 2, our most detailed string library yet. 1st Violins, 2nd Violins, Violas, Celli, Basses – composer Ryan Thomas will demo all the new instrument sections and show you how Hollywood Strings 2 was used to score two movie scenes.

Produced by NAMM TEC Award winners Doug Rogers and Nick Phoenix and sound engineered by Academy Award winner Shawn Murphy, Hollywood Strings 2 was recorded in our legendary EastWest Studio 2 and is exactly what you need for those emotional, intimate and raw moments in your track.

Chapters:

0:00 Introduction
1:22 Overview and Features
3:39 Violin 1
5:52 Violin 2
7:10 Violas
8:45 Contextual Demo 1
10:17 Demo Breakdown
13:25 Celli
15:22 Basses
18:27 Contextual Demo 2
19:59 Demo Breakdown
22:43 Outtro

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[sebazvideo]

They sound great, just two comments: 1) Owners of the Hollywood Orchestra Opus Edition should have $100 off, and 2) All these projects that Ryan composes for Eastwest should be posted in a repository so owners or subscribers to Composer Cloud can download them and see how he did all the MIDI programming and learn from them.

[stephenpower]

I've been a Composer Cloud subscriber for a few months now. A couple of weeks ago, I signed my first library deal, to write an album of TV cues ('Human Stories'). The library director advised me to find good strings samples and I told him, over the phone that HS2 was coming soon. I was crossing my fingers that it would be a good as I hoped. It doesn't sound good from this demo. IT SOUNDS AMAZING! Thank you. :)

[Met_Ethio]

I love the fact that it's more dry and intimate. Allows for greater flexibility for crafting the tones and spaces we want.

[petesperring]

sounds incredible. composer cloud really is the gift that just keeps giving. love it
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[MartinZalba]

As always, eastwest is fantastic. My main library for composing my orchestral music. Thanks for this tutorial!

[TrevorEnrightMusic]

"This strings library is so good! 🎶👌 Got it, well done! 👏🎉"

[kondrashov_music]

Guys, this is torture for us :) Let us already get our hands on Hollywood Strings 2, we can't wait another week for the release. You guys are great as always!

[DaneBryantFrazier]

Finally something for more intimate settings! Good stuff. In the word of Dooku, I've been looking forward to this.

[DopaLink]

Really, just a fantastic sounding library.

[chaimedia]

Holy mother of pearl this sounds SO FLIPPIN GOOD WHAT.

[Melantos]

Looks super amazing! Great job, can't wait to use them! 🎶

[CJCalvertMusic]

Great job here Ryan, as always! I particularly enjoyed the music with the nature video - sounded fantastic

[DanTremblayMusic]

Brand new to East West Libraries so just getting acquainted with Composer Cloud. The library itself sounds incredible, but I really wanted to mention how stunning these compositions are. Thank you for sharing.

[shane_taylor]

I absolutely LOVE the format of this particular walk-through, where you go through each articulation for each instrument on its own to give us a feel for the sounds, followed by a piece of all in context. This video seems more concise and detailed than previous, perhaps because it is a smaller set of instruments. Either way, just wanted to say that I found it very informative and enjoyable to watch. This looks (and sounds) like a most excellent library! Thanks Ryan!

[redalcatel]

Sounds amazing!!!! Beautiful!!! You outdid yourself with this library. Love at first sight!

[erikjohnson]

Absolutely superb overview. Thanks, Ryan. I am so stoked to begin using this library. It really does have that intimacy that is not present in the other libraries, and it sounds sublime.

[sejtaridiss]

I've been looking for a great sounding, close miked chamber strings for YEARS. One of your competitor's famous chamber library was unusable for me for all that time, as it was too wet. HS2 sounds just perfect. What a sound!

[RobertDemetz]

Incredible sounds. Thank you so much for this video.

[benwaveproducer]

Sounds really inspiring, glad that I'm a composer cloud member since a while and gonna have the oppurtunity to use them

[Spacetar]

Always a pleasure to watch these Ryan. Can't wait to try them. Sounds so good!