EastWest Hollywood Fantasy Orchestrator turns simple chords into full fantasy scores using an innovative scoring engine and presets from the Hollywood Fantasy Orchestra series, designed for quick, expressive composition.
Purpose
Hollywood Fantasy Orchestrator is a scoring tool that transforms simple chord progressions into complete fantasy-style arrangements. Developed with Sonuscore, it leverages the instrument library of the Hollywood Fantasy Orchestra series to deliver immediate, playable results. It is not a standalone product and requires separate licenses for the underlying libraries.
Designed for both newcomers and professionals, it provides a fast workflow for creating cinematic music evocative of film, television, and game soundtracks. While fantasy is the core focus, presets can also suit action, suspense, and historical drama, making it a versatile compositional aid.
Key Capabilities
The instrument includes hundreds of presets organized into four categories: Ensemble, Ostinato, Score, and User. Ensemble presets combine instruments into string, brass, wind, percussion, choral, and full orchestra groups. For example, a legato strings-and-brass preset automatically loads flugelhorns, alpenhorns, Wagner tubas, hardanger fiddles, viola da gambas, and octave strings.
Ostinato presets build rhythmic patterns in various note values and time signatures, such as quarter notes or triplets, allowing for tension and movement with minimal note changes. Score presets offer thematic phrases with many variations, including alternative time signatures. The User section enables saving custom presets built by modifying existing ones or creating new ensembles from scratch.
Workflow
The scoring engine at the heart of the orchestrator generates arrangements from your MIDI input. You play simple chords with one hand and use the other to shape expression, making real-time performance intuitive. The step sequencer allows you to alter melodic patterns of any preset, and you can fully change instruments and voicings to refine your sound.
A dedicated mixer section lets you adjust volume, pan, equalization, and reverb settings for each instrument. This includes reverb sends, pre-delay, length, and filters, giving you control over the final mix without leaving the plugin. The included voices section adds a solo vocalist and choir, expanding the orchestral palette.
Practical Applications
This orchestrator is ideal for composing scoring cues quickly, whether for media projects, game trailers, or personal creative exploration. It supports a rapid sketching workflow, enabling composers to audition different orchestral textures and rhythms on the fly, which is particularly useful when working under deadline pressure.
The presets are designed to inspire, with thematic scores and ostinato patterns that can be dropped into a session and shaped further. For professionals, it offers a way to produce large amounts of material efficiently. For beginners, it provides a low-barrier entry into fantasy orchestral writing without needing deep orchestration knowledge.
Key features
- Hundreds of customizable presets across ensemble, ostinato, score, and user categories
- Scoring engine creates real-time arrangements from simple MIDI input
- Includes a dedicated voices section with solo vocalist and choir
- Step sequencer for editing melodic patterns in any preset
- Built-in mixer with per-instrument volume, pan, EQ, and reverb controls
- Presets organized by note duration, time signature, and mood
- Supports building custom ensembles from scratch
Best for
Best for composers needing quick fantasy or cinematic scores, from beginners seeking an accessible entry point to professionals producing high volumes of musical content. Ideal for sketching cue ideas, developing rhythmic ostinatos, and creating full orchestral arrangements from simple chords, especially in film, TV, and game contexts.