LASS Vs Hollywood Strings Part1 (General Comparison)

Here is my first of a few planned videos comparing Audiobro's La Scoring Strings with East West's Hollywood Strings.

This video takes a look at the loading times, memory use and general overview about what comes with each.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• LASS
• audiobro
• east
• west
• eastwest
• hollywood
• strings
• hollywoodstrings
• daniel
• james
• hybrid
• two
• hybridtwo
• vs
• comparison

[gabomedellin2]

The reason ewql play engine works not as good as kontakt is because they decided to do ther own engine because all kontakt instruments can be cracked. Play has been imposible, so they have to spend money on the engine while a lot of people that does libraries like audiobro use kontakt because its easier i think cheaper so the price will be the same because of that reason.

[dazexus]

@gabomedellin2 If you are going to develop your own engine it will be compared to the competition, regardless of whether or not the choice was forced by piracy. If your engine is not as good as the competition then it puts you at a disadvantage.

[joshvelazquez]

In the transition from note 3 -5 in that line you recorded LASS sounds so much better and real than Hollywood Strings.

[Goldfishclown]

@TheNossinator My car brakes work fine too. Mostly.

[Ken1Nickels1]

Thanks for your generous effort in this comparison. What sequencer did you use and why?

[Ken1Nickels1]

@stihltoe I use EW Symphonic Orchestra as opposed to the more expensive Hollywood Strings, because my feet are still wet in the VI area. But to my ears, LASS strings sounded more real because of divisi, which Hollywood strings uses too but in a slightly different way. Their support needs improvement, that's true. Regarding Play, i hope that they know their weak points and are working on them.

[Autumn6]

LASS sounded better.

[HELLSPAWN1973]

symphobia sounds like punch right in your face - love it

[HELLSPAWN1973]

LA sounds amazing! HOLLYWOOD sounds thinner and cheaper, but needs more ram and got a buggy interface

[ArtemiHophekenen]

Excellent video! When we will see a second part?

[Plowking2]

Hi - love your videos. Very informative and useful. I have a question:

You mention you prefer to generally use Symphobia - I notice you use the velocity patch for the string ensemble. Do you prefer this to the dynamic (modwheel) patch, or is it just a case by case basis? I usually only use modwheel patches - is there a good case for velocity (and perhaps using expression cc11) instead of a mod wheel patch?

Thanks

[TheNossinator]

I object to your statement of "It's such a shame that [the PLAY engine] doesn't work."

PLAY works perfectly for most of the EW product line - it's just in HS and HB that I've seen problems, and that's because it's been such a huge undertaking. PLAY isn't perfect, but 98% of the time it works fine.

I find it a little suspicious that you just "happened" to choose a patch that has a problem for your video and then proceeded to make wild claims about the engine "not working". It does. Mostly.

[sudocoda]

Are you using a Mac Pro for both the samples and sequencer? Would the latest MacBook Pro be sufficient to run Symphobia and LASS, but not Hollywood Strings? Or would anything less than server grade PC or Mac be a waste of time?