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RA Black Friday pricing is 60% off, which puts this EastWest Sounds world-instrument collection at $59 until Jan 17, 2027.
RA, listed as EastWest/Quantum Leap RA, is a virtual instrument library of rare and culturally significant sounds. It gives composers access to instruments from Africa, Europe, India, the Americas and Australia, the Far East, and the Middle East and Turkish Empires.
The maker says RA has an amazing sound quality, and that the articulation of each instrument covers a wide range, from controlled to expressive.
Every instrument and ensemble in the collection was sampled extensively. The aim, according to the maker, was to keep the true character and expression of each one.
You also get more control over the sounds than before, and the ability to load more instruments at once than ever before.
RA also gives you a reworked articulation window with updated controls, a one pole filter built to keep cross-fades sounding natural, and channel sourcing that lets you shape the stereo image. Portamento covers the slides between notes, legato covers the joins, and repetition covers fast re-triggers.
Round robin reset lets you return the sample rotation to its starting point. If you want a phrase to play back the same way each time you bounce it, that is the control to look at.
The micro-tuning improvements matter for this kind of library. Many of the instruments come from traditions that do not sit on the standard tuning grid, so fine pitch control is part of the job.
The convolution reverb has pre-delay, so you can set the space inside the instrument itself. The one pole filter is there for cross-fades, and the maker says it keeps them natural.
Stereo image editing through channel sourcing means you can shape the width of an instrument without leaving the plugin.
The instruments in the OPUS Editions were newly programmed for OPUS. They are built from the original RA recordings, so the source material is the same.
If you already work with EastWest libraries in OPUS, that is the version to know about when you pick a RA edition for your signal chain.
Yes. The RA Black Friday deal takes 60% off this EastWest Sounds virtual instrument collection, bringing it to $59. The offer runs until Jan 17, 2027.
RA is a collection of rare and culturally significant instruments and ensembles from Africa, Europe, India, the Americas and Australia, the Far East, and the Middle East and Turkish Empires. All were sampled extensively to keep each instrument's true character.
RA has an intelligent performance section with portamento, repetition and legato, round robin reset, an improved articulation window, convolution reverb with pre-delay, improved micro-tuning, a high-resolution audio engine, a one pole filter for cross-fades, and stereo image editing.
The instruments in the OPUS Editions were newly programmed for OPUS, working from the original RA recordings. The samples are the same, but the programming was redone for the OPUS platform.
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