93 Home About Us Services Musical Selections Multimedia FAQs Contact Us Grace your occasion with music from the heart. It's a riser, and you can appreciate how it seems to be changing its pitch 3 times. East West Strings - String Musicians for Events in Atlanta, Georgia. I've exported it to a WAV file, you can see how bad it is. I also tried increasing the Cache Level to maximum, so RAM will be used instead of disk. This isn't limited to Play (tho it is so much worse with this plugin) as I have had the same problem with MusicLab real guitar and even Kontakt instruments. You need an SSD or SSHD for East West it will speed up your workflow. Hollywood libraries load super fast and save RAM. I just got a SSHD (solid state hybrid drive) and installed all my East West libraries on it.
Play doesn't seem to deal well with streaming samples from disk and this can be a real problem when you render a track that sounded perfect when producing but suddenly has notes cutting short or not playing at all when rendering. They are great.I use Berlin Woodwinds for my winds much better than East West. Just check in the Play engine options, Streaming TAB that "Max Voices" is set to the highest setting to force it to load as much as it can into RAM. One case where the subscription service would have been a benefit, I could have ditched that before loosing so much on it. No idea if these issues are fixed, I only use the vocals now, I don't bother with the string or horn libraries. I've had the same issues testing in Maschine too where sometimes notes just don't play at all. I think at the time I had to add an external instrument device and set it to receive input from my audio card as a "dummy" device to force Live into rendering at real time. I've had other issues like that where you render out and on playback some of the sustained notes get cut or some of the velocity settings appear to be completely different which is a real issue when you hear a very distinct difference between certain points of a bot or something and work hard to make sure it doesn't hit too hard then it sounds like a mess on render.
In the same vein, it offers over 175 articulations comprising of 59 shorts, 94 longs, and five extraordinary performance legato patches. I found some problems with some clicking in some of their looped samples years ago along with some other issues and wasn't greeted very well about it at the time and that was the exact point I decided to switch to anything else from EW especially after $1600 of instruments, the lack of customer care at the time was terrible. At the top of its impressive feature list are 60-star players, 16 1st violins, 14 2nd violins, 12 violas, ten cellos, and eight super deep-sampled basses. I have had so many issues and gripes with the play VST, it's just so.