HYBRID TWO Project Chaos
£216
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It’s fair to say that TV drama and cinematic composers can pick and choose from a vast array of sample collections and instruments to help them out these days. There seems to be something for any kind of music you could care to make: from the orchestral offerings from Spitfire and Sonokinetic, to the more electronic and atmospheric titles from Output, to the impressively out-there packages from Gothic Instruments – a fantastic variation in sonics. Which begs the question: why does every bloody cinema trailer have the same ‘boom, shake the room, smash and grab’ soundtrack, not to mention the same guy doing the voiceover? Well, that’s partly because the producers have only a small, fixed amount of time to grab your attention – so even the soundtrack to a trailer for a 17th-century costume drama sounds like a Terminator is going to appear any minute – and it’s partly down to so
