Hollywood Epic

Return to Troy examines the Director’s Cut of Troy: portrayals of gods, heroes, and the fall of Troy; supposed errors; cinematic epic technique; and the Iliad in twentieth-century culture.

If you're a serious composer, EastWest/Quantum Leap Hollywood Orchestral Percussion Diamond Edition is a must-have compositional tool. Utilizing unique repetition sim techniques and sophisticated 8-way round-robin implementation for an ultra-realistic performance, this phenomenal orchestral sample library will breathe new life into your arrangements. Do your compositions lack impact? Well, Hollywood Orchestral Percussion's meticulously recorded timpani and bass drums - including the Epic Bass Drum Ensemble and Mahler Hammer - give this library serious punch, while its massive array of snare drums, cymbals, chimes, celesta, and vintage field drums add those elusive accents that will glue your arrangements together.

Produced by industry titans Doug Rogers and Nick Phoenix, Hollywood Choirs is the best-selling and most awarded virtual choir product ever made. You have absolute control over a full choir with dramatic dynamics - soft and lyrical, to epic and overwhelming. No matter how grand the story you need to tell, Hollywood Choirs provides you with the tools to express it fully. Hollywood Choirs gives you an excellent way to transform the quality of your cinematic compositions or simply give you another powerful resource to build outstanding productions - and you can type in any word into the WordBuilder engine and hear it performed in real time.

From the Beach Boys and Jan & Dean to the Byrds and the Mamas & the Papas, acclaimed music journalist Joel Selvin tells the story of a group of young artists and musicians who came together at the dawn of the 1960s to create the lasting myth of the California dream.