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STRINGS • 18 violins. • 11 violins. • Ten violas. • Ten cellos.

• Nine double basses. • Solo violin. • Solo cello.

WOODWINDS • Three flutes. • Three clarinets. • Three oboes. • Alto flute.

• English horn. • Bass clarinet.

• Contrabassoon. BRASS • Four trumpets. • Four tenor & bass trombones. • Six French horns. • Three Wagner tubas.

• Trombone & bass trombone. • French horn. DRUMS & CYMBALS • Bass drum. • Snare drum.

• Snare drum ensemble. • Field drum. • Field drum ensemble. • Tenor drum. • Funeral drum.

• Crash cymbals (piatti). • Suspended cymbals. TUNED PERCUSSION • Timpani. • Tubular bells.

• Glockenspiel. • Vibraphone. UNPITCHED PERCUSSION • Tam-tams. • Metal rail. • Wood block. • Slide whistle. • Tambourine.

INDIVIDUAL VOLUME SIZES • Strings: 27.9GB. • Woodwinds: 16.5GB.

• Brass: 17.4GB. • Percussion: 5.41GB. • Entire library: 67.21GB. Maintaining a convention established by Miroslav Vitous in 1992, the EWQLSO producers recorded woodwind ensembles of three players, providing unison samples of three flutes, three clarinets and three oboes. Solo woodwinds consist of the standard orchestral fare: piccolo, flute, alto flute, oboe, English horn, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon and contrabassoon.

There are no exotic extras, but more crucially, no important instruments are missing. All the ensemble and solo woodwinds play sustained notes (most with a choice of vibrato or no vibrato), staccatos and trimmed legato samples like those supplied for the strings, and most have an 'expressive' sustain option.

Long notes are generally looped, the only exceptions being the solo clarinet and contrabassoon. Beyond that, a variety of extra performance styles appear sporadically, among them tone and semitone trills, upward semitone grace notes, glissandi (the term here used to indicate an upward run of two or three semitones leading to a short note) and 'falls' (descending octave runs, some chromatic). These auxiliary performances are implemented differently (and rather unpredictably) from one instrument to the next. * WOODWIND ENSEMBLES The three unison flutes have a lovely breathy texture, and impart a great soothing atmosphere (use for your next new age Healing Moods album — do not use in kung fu film fight scenes). The straight sustains and legato samples work very well for pads, the latter producing a lovely mellow tone. The players' vibrato is quite subtle, but you certainly notice its absence in the 'no vib' preset.

Cartoon soundtrack composers will be pleased with the perky grace notes, slurs and looped trills. Unison notes on three clarinets can sound unpleasantly synth-like, but these samples are very easy on the ear, their success stemming from good ensemble tuning, fine timbral control and Professor Johnson's canny miking strategies. Although they play in only three basic styles, each one sounds great! Composers may prefer to avoid writing chords for the library's three oboes, but their naturally angular, slightly piercing timbre sounds very evocative in tandem with the subtle dynamic motion of the 'expressive vibrato' performances. Semitone grace notes played by the three oboes are also a colourful sound source. * THE FLUTE FAMILY The piccolo may be the smallest of the orchestral woodwinds, but its piercing falsetto shriek can cut through the densest orchestral chords.