Put on your finest digital tuxedo and tell the string section to take their seats. After the everyday utility of the Standards volumes, E-MU went full Carnegie Hall. This sample CD is your chance to compose a sweeping cinematic masterpiece, provided your masterpiece can fit neatly inside the RAM of a late-90s rackmount box.

Solo Strings & Brass: Forget hiring actual session musicians with their “union breaks” and “sheet music.” Here are the meticulously looped, solitary violin and trumpet patches you need to properly score a dramatic soap opera betrayal.

Woodwinds: Flutes, oboes, and clarinets ready to frolic gracefully through the digital meadows of your quantized MIDI sequences.

Grand Piano: The crown jewel. A luxurious, multi-sampled grand piano aggressively crammed into an archaic digital format so you can play Chopin while staring at a tiny, glowing green LCD screen.

Orchestral Percussion: Massive timpani strikes, crash cymbals, and snare rolls. Perfect for when you need to drop a majestic crescendo, but you only have two fingers and a plastic keyboard.

As always, this disc is fluent in the ancient dialect of E4 Ultras, EOS, and ESI samplers.