EastWest String Machine

Believe the Hype

Within minutes of firing up this incredible offering from EastWest, I was putting together my own highly usable patches. The interface is is simple, intuitive and organic. I was reminded of my old vocoder/string machine and Logan string machine. The standout for me is the choral section - when you need big, simple choirs to put majesty and presence into your production, these tabs have everything you need without having to pay through the nose for a sample pack. Thoroughly enjoying String Machine and Thoroughly recommend.

Just take my money lol

Very good one, just watch the demos on YouTube, you'll see if it is for you. Hard to see any similar engine that is that good.

So incredibly easy to generate beautiful sounds even for beginners, plus there's magic under the hood

I am NOT a sound designer. I almost always stick to using presets in plug-ins and at most might tweak a few parameters. But EastWest's String Machine has changed all that. It is SO easy to make entirely new sounds simply by pressing a few buttons and mixing and matching sounds. It reminds me so much of the Hammond organs I used to play and is just as easy to operate. But that's only half the story. String Machine sits on top of EastWest's incredible Opus engine, which IMHO is hands down the best sample playback platform currently available (way better than Kontakt). While the parameters in the String Machine UI are deliberately limited in scope to prioritize ease-of-use, the Opus Engine - which can be called up at the click of a button - contains an impressively large library of modulation options, from EQs to reverbs to filters of all sorts. And they are all incredibly easy to apply. Taken together with the samples built into String Machine, they make it easy to develop an extraordinarily wide variety of beautiful hybrid acoustic and synthetic sounds. But frankly, as easy and gratifying as using the Opus UI turned out to be, I never would have been motivated to use it if it weren't for being gently introduced into designing my own sounds via the simpler String Machine UI overlay. If anyone here is in a similar situation, I would suggest checking out the Youtube video "EastWest String Machine : an underrated beast !!" authored by the YouTube vlogger ZozillaThaGreat. That's where I learned about the hidden power of the Opus engine underlying String Machine. All in all, I can't speak any more highly of String Machine!