QUANTUM LEAP RA - RARE AND ETHNIC VIRTUAL INSTRUMENT
In ancient Egypt, RA was regarded as the creator of everything, the god of the sun.
RA is usually represented with the body of a man and the head of a hawk, holding an ankh & sceptre.
The chief location of RA worship was Heliopolis (a Greek word meaning city of the sun).
We thought RA would be an appropriate name for the largest, and most comprehensive rare and ethnic virtual instrument ever made.
RA was born a few years ago, as a sample library called “Rare Instruments” All of the sounds from Rare Instruments are included in RA,
but this only represents approximately one-tenth of the content. We recorded the other ninety percent of RA at Ocean Way studios in
Hollywood. Because of the size and complexity of the project, I brought in two talented producers, Pacemaker and Tony Austin to
co-produce RA with me. They have worked on other Quantum Leap projects and had some great ideas for RA. We spent time hunting down
the best ethnic artists on the West Coast. Los Angeles is so ethnically diverse and blessed with excellent institutions like Cal Arts,
it is actually the ideal place to record a rare and ethnic collection.
RA is a 14 Gigabyte virtual instrument that covers many typical, and some unusual instruments, from 6 areas of the World -
1. Africa
2. Americas and Australia
3. Europe
4. Far East
5. India
6. Middle East and Turkish Empire.
So what is so special about RA compared to other ethnic collections? For a start, I think you will
really love these sounds for the same reason that Rare Instruments was so popular.
Every instrument or ensemble was sampled extensively, so the character of the instrument was preserved.
Ethnic (or World) music is all about expression and how the instrument is played.
To sample a Turkish wind instrument and not capture the bending, swelling and wavering
of the notes is to miss the point completely. We made a big effort to keep things very
organized, consistent and intuitive, which is necessary with a collection of this size. Every
instrument has many articulations and fx that range from very controlled, to very expressive.
This allows you to actually “play” the instrument with authentic results. We also came up with
some innovative ideas for achieving realistic legato. We call this QLegato™.
EastWest Quantum Leap RA
Filelist:
EastWest Quantum Leap RA.txt
EWQL RA (Setup).zip
EWQL RA Manual.pdf
tracked_by_h33t_com.txt
Does not include the virtual instrument files! 14GB
