
The hard drive houses all EastWest/Quantum Leap virtual instrument collections and is used to test drive the 10-day trial versions. The TeraPack is supplied on a Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0 Gb/3.5" internal hard drive with a 5-year manufacturers warranty for optimum performance.

TeraPack customers can buy full licenses of most of the included products for 50% off the suggested retail price until September 30, 2010. The TeraPack is designed to allow users to demo the entire EastWest/Quantum Leap product line quickly and easily on their own systems without having to install any samples. While not as editable as, say, something like Kontakt (an issue EastWest plans to address with the upcoming release of Play Pro, the Play editor), those who want excellent plug-and-play sounds will be delighted.EastWest has announced the TeraPack, the company's entire collection on a terabyte hard drive with free 10-day trial versions of all products. For this one, you’ll find performance options, envelopes, miking, doubling and reverb effects, velocity response, and the like. Its interface also adapts to different libraries. Play is a sophisticated 32/64-bit engine with VST/AU/RTAS/standalone compatibility but is easy to navigate (Figure 4).

And while the library doesn’t have the variety of Independence Free, that in no way detracts from the quality of the included sounds-they’re truly representative of EastWest’s libraries, and that’s a very good thing. There’s also no copy protection and no time limitations however, the sample set is limited in that it doesn’t include surround or close miking, just stage miking. But the 1.71GB sample library and great-sounding instruments are well worth this minimal effort. The best VST plugins 2020: the finest synth, drum machine, sampler and effect plugins you can buy right nowĪctually, the program isn’t totally free you need to answer a simple online survey (hint: tell ’em you read EQ).
