EastWest’s new Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra features the company’s new “Play” sample engine. 
 
Play Features:
 

64-bit* with 32-bit compatibility for PC (*see system specifications).
Full memory access with MAC (requires 64-bit MAC).
The software is now Mac Intel compatible.
An intuitive custom interface.
Intelligent performance section including portamento, repetition, legato
Features round robin reset.
Offers improved articulation window and controls.
On-screen Mic position mixing [...]

East West has announced a new contest - Score This Movie
The company is providing a 2-minute downloadable movie for you to score using Eastwest or Eastwest/Quantum Leap instruments. The winer will receive all PLAY products released before April 30, 2008. For each PLAY product the winner already has, they can substitute another EW produced product [...]

The 2008 NAMM Show wasn’t a great year for new synth and electronic music gear……but it was a good year.
We’ve already mentioned tons of great new gear that we saw at NAMM in the last couple of weeks, but, following in the footsteps of last year’s modular analog synthgasm, here are our picks for 2008’s [...]

2008 Winter NAMM Show Update: EastWest introduced Chris Hein Bass - 12.7 GB of bass sounds, some of which feature the powerful tones of a Music Man StingRay electric-bass-both picked and slapped; a LeFay fretless bass as well as the sounds of a unique upright bass.
For variety, the upright bass is played with three [...]

NAMM Show Update: EastWest introduced a new 130 Gigabyte sound library aimed towards music, TV, film and game composers using Native Instruments’ Kompakt/Kontakt software - the Complete Composers Collection.
It’s pretty massive - bringing together seven of the company’s most popular virtual instrument collections:
EASTWEST/QUANTUM LEAP Symphonic Orchestra Gold Complete
: (Gold Edition and Gold Pro Expansion (Gold [...]

NAMM Show Update: EASTWEST expanded upon its Quantum Leap Colossus collection by introducing Quantum Leap Goliath.
Designed for composers and songwriters, Quantum Leap Goliath is a complete collection of quality instruments and sounds, spanning various genres and musical styles).
Quantum Leap Goliath encompasses the entire Colossus collection plus 8 Gigabytes of new content. With Goliath, users have [...]

EastWest intro’d Quantum Leap Pianos, a detailed collection of some of the world’s finest grand pianos.
Description: 
More than half a million dollars’ worth of pianos are included in this collection, all meticulously recorded by EastWest/Quantum Leap producers Doug Rogers and Nick Phoenix. These include a $225,000 Bechstein D-280 Concert Grand. Other pianos featured in the library [...]

EastWest has introduced three new sample collections; Hardstyle Samples Vol. 2, Blazin’ RnB & HipHop Collection Vol. 2 and Synthation Producer’s Collection (produced by Synthation).
Here’s the scoop on these new libraries:
Hardstyle Samples Vol. 2
Hardstyle Samples Vol. 2, sequel to the popular Blutonium Hardstyle Sample CD, will add punch to users’ hardstyle, hardtrance, hardcore or jumpstyle [...]

EASTWEST has announced the debut of Zero-G’s Carnival Drums — over 2,000 samples and 1.4GB of the exciting sounds of the Brazilian carnival.
The library features the main drums of the Brazilian Samba Baterias (samba percussion ensembles), which perform every summer at the Rio Carnival. For this project, 10 professional Brazilian percussionists, who perform annually at [...]

Eastwest has announced the debut of Zero-G and Xfonic’s SoundSense Series. The series features four sample libraries: Ambiosis, Trance Inducer, Technomatik, and Chilled Grooves.
Descriptions:

Ambiosis is a great resource for producers who need to apply texture, mood, and ambience across a wide variety of genres. Ambiosis was created by highly acclaimed electronic musician and samplist Ian [...]

MusikMesse: EastWest introduced Quantum Leap Gypsy, a collection of detailed virtual instruments aimed at film, TV and game composers. The nylon string guitar, violin and trombone can play in both gypsy and classical styles.
“All of the guitars were sampled with up and down strokes, many velocities and picking styles, various picking angles, release trails, chords [...]

EastWest introduces Quantum Leap SD2 - The Next Generation virtual instrument, the sequel to Stormdrum.
Packed with approximately 10GB of percussion, SD2 - The Next Generation draws from the secret collections of three world-class percussionists, offering some of the most amazing multi-sampled percussion imaginable.
SD2 - The Next Generation does not offer loops. Instead, the collection delivers [...]

EastWest has introduced Quantum Leap Ministry of Rock, a huge 18 gigabyte collection of rock drums, basses and guitars recorded in EASTWEST Studio 2, featured on countless platinum and gold records.
Ministry of Rock was created with one goal in mind: to create a virtual instrument capable of producing sounds that can actually produce a hit [...]

Winter NAMM Show: EASTWEST introduced six new virtual instrument collections, as well as a new 64-bit, fully networked, advanced sample engine, PLAY.
PLAY Advanced Sample Engine
At the heart of EASTWEST’s new virtual instruments is PLAY. The PLAY system is a professional, fully integrated solution for those with the most demanding production requirements. The PLAY sample engine [...]

NAMM Show: EASTWEST introduces Quantum Leap Pianos, the most detailed collection of the world’s finest grand pianos.
More than half a million dollars’ worth of pianos are included in this collection, all meticulously recorded. These include a $225,000 Bechstein D-280 Concert Grand, the same kind of piano engineer/producer Ken Scott used to record Elton John, David [...]