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East West The Dark Side

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40GB Virtual Instrument Collection on DVD - RTAS, AU, VST, and Standalone (Mac/PC)

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40GB of Dark, Eerie Instruments!

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After suggesting that a young indie band make their sound "darker" and "tougher," award-winning East West producer Doug Rogers realized there wasn't anything in the vast East West virtual instrument offering that did just that. So, Doug got together with acclaimed indie producer David Fridmann (The Flaming Lips, Sparklehorse, OK Go, Weezer, MGMT, and more). Together, the two brainstormed their vision of the ultimate "dark" virtual instrument that was loaded with a little bit of everything, but all dark - drums, percussion, basses, keyboards, strings, FX, guitars, and more. Meet their creation: The Dark Side.

Call up The Dark Side, and you've got 40GB of dark and eerie instruments, all really easily organized so you can find what you want. You'll find the instruments you know and love, but morphed to their spookiest selves. Many instruments, in fact, were processed through five or six effects units to really give them serious flavor. If you're after the ultimate in mangled instruments, in the flavor of Radiohead, Muse, Nine Inch Nails, etc... The Dark Side is for you.

East West The Dark Side Virtual Instrument Plug-in Features at a Glance:
  • 40GB virtual instrument plug-in
  • Features skillfully distorted, mangled, and effected instrument sounds for a dark, eerie sonic flavor
  • Includes drums, percussion, basses, guitars, ethnic, keyboard, strings, FX, and more
  • All sounds are easily organized in instrumental groups
  • Includes PLAY 2 32-bit and 64-bit sample player - plug-in and standalone
  • AU, VST, RTAS, and Standalone compatible

Take your sounds to The Dark Side with East West!
Specification Detail
Software Type Multi-instrument Sample Player
Supported Computer Format Mac, PC
Supported Plug-In Formats Standalone, RTAS, VST, AU
Hardware Requirements - Mac Intel Core 2 Duo 2.1GHz CPU or faster, 2GB RAM
Hardware Requirements - PC Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Dual Core 2.1GHz CPU or faster, 2GB RAM
OS Requirements - Mac Mac OS X 10.5 or later
OS Requirements - PC Windows XP or later
Notes iLok required, not included
Manufacturer Part Number EW-198

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Not for me

by Mattsynth from Phila. PA
May 24, 2011
Music Background: Professional
When I purchased the EW TeraPack this is one plugin I did not buy. All the samples were done nicely but I felt no use for such distorted instruments. Some of the drum kits sounded usable but the rest... read more [+] were just not for me. When you listen to the demo tracks on EW website they sound great so you can draw some great tracks out of this plugin. Maybe later I will find a use for this plugin, but for now my hands are full with the rest of the great libraries from EW. close [-]

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