2009. I can hardly believe it. How the time does fly. Busy, busy, busy. Well, after taking advantage of the 2-for-1 sale, I’ve now installed EastWest/QuantumLeap Goliath, SD2, and Symphonic Orchestra Gold. Since it took a few hours to install these three (the DVD reading part), I haven’t been in a hurry to install the 230 GB Pianos collection. All-in-all I’m very impressed with the quality of these samples, and the pre-configured, key-switched instruments that they comprise.

The browser UI for Goliath can be a bit hard to read, but the responsive support staff at EWQL assures me that that will be addressed as well as a few unloadable samples (in 40 GB) in an imminent update. Fortunately, although each of the PLAY-powered products have their own UI, they all play the same EWI file format. Additionally, when using the PLAY engine as a VST plug-in, you can choose the UI for any one from the products to play the EWQL samples - for me that’s the Symphonic Orchestra (EWQLSO) UI.

So far, I’ve been browsing the sample collections, playing a bit of this, a bit of that - still having not explored even the half of Goliath’s offerings (let alone each of the articulations in EWQLSO). That said, I have managed to compose a short piece using the three aforementioned products. I’ll post that piece later, as well as a bit more about each of the products in separate posts.