East West Symphonic Orchestra with Notion

[mrarnesen]

I wonder if anyone here use East West SO with Notion, and how it works?

As you might know East West has a big sale in December with a 50% discount. So you can get Symphonic Orchestra Platinum Complete Plus for only $497.50.

I guess I could ask this on their forum, but I like this forum and there's a lot of helpful and skilled users here. On one page I read that to use the Platinum version you should have "four or more high-end computers". And: "Where Silver can often run on a typical up-to-date home computer, even a laptop, Gold benefits from a high-end computer, or even a pair of computers to share the processing load."

This come from this site:
http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/article/2 ... ilver.html

Is this really true? Or would an iMAC 2,8 GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 with 16MB RAM do the job?

Am I right if this is much better than the orchestral sounds that comes with Kontakt 5?

[Tatu]

I wonder how old those requirements are for EWQLSO.. About anything with enough RAM (8-16Gb) can run that baby these days. That iMac should have no problem at all with it (especially if you have them on an external FW/ThunderBolt drive) and if it does gets heavy for some reason, one can always switch to 16bit samples, which require about 50% less RAM compared to 24bit samples.

Even though EWQLSO is old, it's still a lot better and varied collection of samples compared to those Kontakt's VSL samples. just IMO.

[Eftwyrd]

Well I use EWQLSO Gold and I only have 4GB RAM . But it works very well and I always have all the strings, brass and woodwinds loaded + Addictive Drums etc. and since Notion 4 and 64 Bit support it works very well.

[GaryExo]

Well I use EWQLSO Gold and I only have 4GB RAM . But it works very well and I always have all the strings, brass and woodwinds loaded + Addictive Drums etc. and since Notion 4 and 64 Bit support it works very well.

That's good to know as I only have 4GB RAM at the moment and am considering EWQLSO Gold due to the current discount offer. Do you happen to have any works I could hear which were created with EWQLSO Gold? Also, is the whole installation/authorisation procedure the nightmare that I've read about elsewhere?

Many thanks.

[Eftwyrd]

well, the installation was really not the easiest. it's a shame that the installer doesn't work well with win 7 and to get it working with notion you have to do a lot of copying an renaming. (as mentioned in a post about this, you have to create the same folder structure as you would have with the platinum version)..but nevertheless, it works
I created for example this one with EWQLSO Gold -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVGbDe7p9-g
It's not a classical one but it's EWQLSO and the whole notation was done in notion.

[GaryExo]

Err, yes, it's certainly not classical.

Thanks.