Entertaining films and shows like Lord of the Rings and The Witcher and video games such as The Pathless and Hades make one thing clear: the fantasy genre is more popular than ever. Now, with the Hollywood Fantasy Strings library from EastWest Sounds, you can compose music that evokes those same epic, fantastical themes. As the first product in the Hollywood Fantasy Orchestra series, Sweetwater composers concur that EastWest set the bar high! Featuring 72GB of medieval, Baroque, and Renaissance fare, Hollywood Fantasy Strings was recorded on the same stage with the same mic placements as the EastWest Hollywood Orchestra, which means perfect blending with your current EastWest libraries. Each instrument in Hollywood Fantasy Strings has been programmed with three moods — Classic, Soft, and Epic — that range from authentic to cinematic. Four microphone mixes with level and pan controls let you further tailor your ideal soundscape, and EastWest’s Opus sample engine makes configuring multi-instrument setups a breeze. With loads of articulation sets like legatos, trills, and crescendos, plus a Quickstart category to help your journey begin, EastWest Hollywood Fantasy Strings will bring your fantastic music to reality.

Who doesn’t love some good old-fashioned escapism? Sweetwater musos certainly do, and high fantasy is among the best (and most popular) varieties. With the Hollywood Fantasy Brass library from EastWest Sounds, you can create your own heroic motifs for chivalrous knights, roaring battle calls for approaching cavalry, a soft pastoral theme for an emerald-green countryside, and much more. Instead of contemporary trumpets or French horns, the Hollywood Fantasy Brass library gives you instruments that truly set the medieval mood, such as Wagner tubas, Alpenhorns, flugelhorns, cimbassos, and more. And, since Hollywood Fantasy Brass was recorded on the same stage with the same mic placements as the EastWest Hollywood Orchestra, it will blend perfectly with your modern-day EastWest orchestral libraries. Every instrument in Hollywood Fantasy Brass has been programmed with a Classic, Soft, and Epic mood (ranging from authentic to cinematic), so you can easily find the sound you’re looking for. Plus, four microphone mixes — Close, Mid, Main, and Surround — with pan and level controls let you dial in your perfect sonic landscape. A wide variety of articulations round out this fantastic brass library.

When it comes to music, nothing can stimulate an imagination back to the times and places of yesteryear quite like hearing era-appropriate instruments. With Hollywood Fantasy Winds from EastWest, you’ll get an incredible array of woodwinds that will immediately transport your listeners to medieval faires, taverns, and woodland settings. This lively library features 11 instruments in five ensembles, spanning two Irish whistles, two Renaissance flutes, three Uilleann Pipes, and four ocarinas. Each instrument in Hollywood Fantasy Winds has three moods to choose from, so you can access the perfect sound for a gentle pastoral setting or a dramatic battle scene. Four different mic mixes also let you sculpt the precise sound you’re looking for, with Close, Mid, Main, and Surround options complete with pan and level controls. Finally, this fantastic woodwinds library includes a wealth of articulations, including flutter tongues, glissandos, legato slurs, and much more. Sweetwater composers really appreciate how Hollywood Fantasy Winds mixes perfectly with their other EastWest libraries, given it was recorded on the same stage and using the same mic placements as the Hollywood Orchestra library.

EastWest’s Hollywood Fantasy Series has drummed up excitement since its launch. Naturally, many Sweetwater composers have been eager to get their hands on the Hollywood Fantasy Percussion library. Popular and esoteric percussive gems combine to create a comprehensive percussion library that can handle any scoring task, whether you need a rousing battle march, an elegant pavane, or the clang of a smithy’s hammer. Hollywood Fantasy Percussion features a whopping 18 instruments with five dedicated ensembles, and each instrument also features three selectable moods and four distinct mix mixes so you can easily craft your ideal sound. Lastly, this mythical library includes a colossal range of beaters, striking materials, articulations, and playing techniques such as rolls and flams.

Fantasy fanatics at Sweetwater are ecstatic over this Hollywood Fantasy Voices Library from EastWest. Not only does it contain words from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Elvish language, but it also has them sung by a professional vocalist! EastWest partnered with singer Merethe Soltvedt to capture 60 Elvish words across a wide range of phrases, moods, mic positions, and sustains. The result is fantastic — in every sense of the word. Hollywood Fantasy Voices contains Merethe’s solo voicings in Lyrical and Vibrato sustains, as well as full men’s, women’s, and mixed choirs to back her up. Cycling between them is easy thanks to convenient key switches instead of clunky drop-down menus. Finally, Hollywood Fantasy Voices contains authentic legato passages that sound beautiful in any of the library’s three moods (Soft, Classic, and Epic).

Orchestration is something of an esoteric art and one that certainly can entail a lifetime of study. That’s why EastWest’s Hollywood Fantasy Orchestrator was greatly impressed By our team with how quickly and easily it arranges stylistically appropriate orchestrations that sound straight out of the conservatory. Created in collaboration with Sonuscore, the Hollywood Fantasy Orchestrator uses other sound libraries in conjunction with its four preset categories to generate instant orchestrations for films, games, TV shows, and more. And, with Hollywood Fantasy Orchestrator’s Mixer section, you can adjust volume, panning, and much more, along with adding reverb to give your orchestra depth and dimension.