Eastwest Colossus
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- Online Price: £319.00 GBP (inc VAT)
- Euro Price: €403.36 EUR (1 GBP = 1.26444 EUR)
- Availability : 2 In Stock, usually dispatched within 24 hours.
- Manufacturer SKU: EW-164 Dolphin ID: 5631
- Postage will be £6.99 per order.
Eastwest 20th Anniversary 2 For 1 Promotion!
Colossus is a massive 32 Gigabyte (not Megabyte) Virtual Instrument, that includes 160 instruments, and covers all of the basic musical genres, the way a keyboard workstation attempts to, except Colossus offers much higher quality instruments and dynamics than any keyboard available today.
Colossus is the only High Quality complete sound set in one package ever created, and includes 160 instruments! Every instrument and sound in the diverse range of demos above comes from Colossus.
Colossus is a massive 32 Gigabyte (not Megabyte) Virtual Instrument that covers all of the basic musical genres, the way akeyboard workstation attempts to, except Colossus offers much higher quality instruments and dynamics than any keyboard available today.
Colossus is an indispensable tool that you will reach for time and time again when nothing else works, it will become your Swiss army knife of composing, plus it’s GM compatible! You can expect the usual Quantum Leap exceptional quality in Colossus. Even if you own some of these instruments, you will love this collection. A good example is the Fender Rhodes. Despite the fact the Rhodes has been sampled many times, Colossus includes a unique vintage sounding Rhodes you won’t find anywhere else. Colossus includes 15 Gigs of new sounds recorded at Ocean Way Studio B (24-bit), a new 2 Gig piano recorded in Europe, and 15 Gigs from the award-winning range of Quantum Leap and Eastwest titles (EW/QL Symphonic Orchestra, EW Steinway B Piano, QL Stormdrum, QL Guitar and Bass, QL 56 Strat, QL Hardcore Bass, QL RA, QL Brass, QL Voices of the Apocalypse), all newly programmed with superior sound quality.
Programming is kept very simple, and programs that utilize the mod-wheel are labeled appropriately. All programs have CC11 asan additional volume control. Many programs utilize auto sample alternation for added realism.
For touring musicians, this is the ultimate instrument to have on the road or in a club. Colossus has incredible instruments of every type (check out the complete list at the bottom of this page), for song-writing, filmscoring, multi-media production, in the studio, or on stage, Colossus is an indespensible production tool that has you completely covered.
- Drums/percussion Country drumkits, electronic drumkits, ethnic percussion, funk drumkits, hip hop kits, jazz drumkits, rock drumkits, standardpercussion, studio drumkits, taiko drums.
- Guitar family Guitars, 66 silvertone bass, 72 rickenbacker bass, acoustic guitars, banjo, blues guitars, distorted guitars, electric sitar,fender bass, fender guitars, fretless bass, hawaiian guitar, jazz guitars, lakland rock bass, lapsteel, mandolin, nylon guitar,prs guitars, rockabilly guitar, slap bass, stingray bass, surf guitar, ukelele, upright basses.
- Pianos/electric pianos Clavinet, cp-80, dx-7, fazioli f308 grand piano, gs-1 programs, honky tonk, rhodes mkv, chuck monte, steinway b grand piano.
- Vintage organs B3 organs, farfisa organs, vox continental organs.
- Pop brass 3 trumpets, alto saxes, bari saxes, flugel horn, pop/jazztrumpets, salsa trumpets, soprano saxes, tenor saxes, trombones, tubas.
- Ethnic instruments Agogo bells, bagpipes, cora, didjeridoo, duduk, dulcimer, erhu, fiddle, irish low whistle, kalimba, koto, mid-east strings, neyflute, ocarina, pan flute, sarangi, shakuhachi, shamisen, shehnai, sitar, thai gong, uilleann pipes.
- Keyboard/mallet instruments Accordian, celeste, church organs, concertina, glockenspiel, harpsichord, marimba, music box, reed organ, tango accordian,vibraphone, xylophone.
- Orchestral Bassoon, brass section, cello, clarinet, concert harp, contrabass, english horn, flute, french horn, oboe, orchestrahits, orchestral strings, piccolo, pizzicato strings, string ensembles, timpani, tremelo strings, trombone, trumpet, tuba,tubular bells, viola, violin.
- Choirs (Extensive vowels with crossfading) men’s choir, women’s choir.
- New age ensembles (Inspiring ethno ethereal soundscapes).
- Stormdrones (3 gigs of dark atmospheres with morphing).
- Synth basses (With morphing).
- Synth leads (With morphing).
- Synth pads (With morphing).
System Requirements
- Minimum Requirements (for Native Instruments software)
- Windows XP, Pentium III/Athlon 1 GHz, 512 MB RAM, DVD drive, 32 GB Free Hard Disc Space
- Mac OS X 10.2.6, G4 800 MHz, 512 MB RAM, DVD drive, 32 GB Free Hard Disc Space
- Recommended SYSTEM (for Sound Library)
- Windows XP, Pentium IV/Athlon 3 GHz, 1 GB RAM, DVD drive
- Mac OS X 10.3 or higher, G5 1.8 GHz, 1 GB RAM, DVD drive
- Supported Interfaces
- Windows: VST™, RTAS™, DXi™, ASIO™, DirectSound™
- Mac: VST™, Audio Units™, Core Audio™, Core MIDI™, RTAS™
- Direct from Disk extension from soundsonline.com is required.
- Registration is required within 14 days (by web, fax or mail).
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