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Forbidden Planet
Morphing Synthesizer Debuting today is Forbidden Planet.  Geared towards film, TV and game composers as well as hard-driving electronica, gothic punk, industrial and ambient composers, Forbidden Planet has the sonic quality of EASTWEST/QUANTUM LEAP SYMPHONIC ORCHESTRA and usability that will quickly make it an industry favorite. Forbidden Planet gives users the best of both the analog and digital worlds. The collection offers hundreds of programs that are based on sampled analog waves, modulators and sampled filters recorded through a Neve console and Fairchild compressors. For added variety and flexibility, Forbidden Planet offers parallel programs using the unprocessed analog waves and all of the digital filters, modulators and fx.
VisionDAW
EASTWEST has partnered with VisionDAW, a custom builder of performance computer systems, to introduce the world’s largest sample playback system — the VisionDAW 8-Core Xeon Server-Class Workstation. With the help of this powerful machine, the entire new PLAY-Powered EASTWEST/QUANTUM LEAP SYMPHONIC ORCHESTRA collection will be able, for the first time, to be loaded on one computer. The PLAY-Powered EASTWEST/QUANTUM LEAP SYMPHONIC ORCHESTRA-loaded Vision DAW Workstation will on exhibit at NAMM 2008 (Booth # 6630, Hall A) includes 48GB of RAM, but the system supports 128GB.
New Releases
	Goliath MSRP $595.00, NAMM 2008 SPECIAL $476.00 Shipping January 31, 2008 Quantum Leap Goliath encompasses the entire Colossus collection plus 8 Gigabytes of new content. With Goliath, users will now have more than 180 high-quality instruments and more than 600 patches including drums and percussion, guitars, basses, acoustic and electric pianos, keyboards and mallets, pop brass, orchestral instruments, choirs and vocals, ethnic instruments, new age ensembles, morphing atmospheres, synth basses, synth leads, and synth pads — all at their disposal. As part of the additional content, Goliath features the full collections of sounds from the EW/PMI Bösendorfer 290 Piano collection.
	EASTWEST / Quantum Leap Complete Composers Collection MSRP $1,195.00, NAMM 2008 SPECIAL $956.00 Shipping January 21, 2008 The EASTWEST/QUANTUM LEAP Complete Composers Collection features seven of the company’s most popular virtual instrument collections along with Native Instruments’ Kompakt player (Kontakt 2.2 or higher is required for Intel Macs, not included). Virtual instrument libraries featured in Complete Composers Collection include: EASTWEST/QUANTUM LEAP Symphonic Orchestra Gold Complete EASTWEST/QUANTUM LEAP Symphonic Choirs QUANTUM LEAP Colossus QUANTUM LEAP RA QUANTUM LEAP Stormdrum EASTWEST Percussive Adventures 2 EASTWEST/PMI Bösendorfer 290
	EASTWEST / Quantum Leap Pianos MSRP $495.00 Shipping January 31, 2008 The most detailed collection of the world’s finest grand pianos is in stock and ready for shipping.  More than half a million dollars’ worth of pianos are included in this collection, all meticulously recorded by EASTWEST/QUANTUM LEAP producers Doug Rogers and Nick Phoenix. These include a $225,000 Bechstein D-280 Concert Grand, the same kind of piano engineer/producer Ken Scott used to record Elton John, David Bowie, and Supertramp. EASTWEST invited Scott to engineer the Bechstein’s close-miced recordings to provide users with a cutting, dynamic pop/rock piano sound, in addition to the variety of other piano sounds included in the collection.
	Stormdrum 2 MSRP $495.00 Shipping January 31, 2008 Packed with over 12 GBs of percussion, SD2 – The Next Generation draws from the secret collections of three world-class percussionists, offering some of the most amazing multi-sampled percussion imaginable. For the maximum customization without sound degradation, SD2 – The Next Generation delivers MIDI performances created with Roland V-Drums and Zendrum percussion controllers. This allows the user to change anything, with absolutely no effect to sound quality. MIDI performances are pre-mixed, panned and produced for quick use.
Symphonic Orchestra Upgraded to PLAY EASTWEST has given one of its most popular collections, the EASTWEST/QUANTUM LEAP SYMPHONIC ORCHESTRA, a turbo boost by upgrading the Platinum and Gold editions to the company’s PLAY 64-bit sampling engine.