Hollywood Pop Brass Explained
Hollywood Pop Brass from EastWest brings authentic, realistic brass sounds to the masses like never before. In this course, virtual instrument guru Eli Krantzberg will show you everything you need to know to start incorporating Hollywood Pop Brass in your tracks quickly and easily. With succinct, informative explanations and telling musical examples and demonstrations, you'll both see and hear the impressive potential of this plugin and gain a thorough command of its features and functions in the process. These videos are for new users of Hollywood Pop Brass.
Videos
• Opus Pocus (05:38) - Take a brief tour of the parts of the Opus interface necessary for use with Hollywood Pop Brass and hear a few examples of some of the horn section parts created later in this series.
• Naming Conventions (02:45) - Learn about the different abbreviations used in the instrument names and the affect they have on how the instruments respond to incoming MIDI messages.
• Sustains (09:36) - Become familiar with the sustain-based instrument variations in this folder through musical examples that incorporate either velocity- or mod wheel-based dynamics, along with a variety of performance gestures associated with sustained brass section parts.
• Shorts (06:23) - Explore the variety of short articulations available with Hollywood Pop Brass and how they interact with tempo sync.
• Effects (07:12) - Hear how this category of special articulations are used as a ?spice? for ornamentation and effect at the beginning or ends of phrases.
• Legatos (06:41) - Hear how the Legato section of instruments generates natural sounding pitch transitions between notes in monophonic lines with overlapping note durations.
• Mod Combos (09:32) - Explore this folder of instruments that switch between different combinations of articulation variations based on modulation values.
• Phrases & Licks (06:11) - Discover the timing and voicing variations available with the instruments in the phrases and licks categories.
• Keyswitches (05:39) - This category contains instruments that use keyswitches - a range of MIDI notes that appear Blue on the Virtual Keyboard. They're used to select which articulation, lick, or phrase is active within a set at a given time.
• Custom Keyswitch Setups (03:15) - See how to create and save a set of Hollywood Pop Brass Instruments, each triggered with their own custom keyswitch assignment, using the Opus Performance page.
• Managing Instruments (07:46) - Learn how to manage the memory for large instruments and how to edit amp envelope parameters, velocity sensitivity, legato and portamento scripts, and other functions that control the playback response of the loaded instruments.
• Mixing Overview (05:28) - Get an overview of the mixing functions the Opus Player provides for Hollywood Pop Brass.