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EastWest The Dark Side

The first of its kind: an unconventional, hip and exciting collection of virtual instruments!

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Description

 

Rogers partnered with Grammy Award-Winning record producer David Fridmann. Fridmann's "no rules" style of production was exactly what Rogers was looking for to help produce THE DARK SIDE instruments.

Once they got started, they were like bulls in a china shop: mass aural destruction was the name of the game. They turned traditional instruments into highly processed drums, percussion, basses, guitars, ethnic, keyboards, strings, and FX, all organized into instrument groups for easy audition and recall.

Rogers and Fridmann not only tapped into a wealth of recording and producing experience for THE DARK SIDE, but had the gear to match. Many individual instruments were processed through 5 or 6 effects units, some of the vintage and esoteric tube variety owned by the pair.

THE DARK SIDE distorted and mangled instruments are designed to stand out in a mix, or to disturb the senses. With today's brick-wall limiting, distorted instruments may be the only production trick left to highlight instruments, a successful technique used often by Radiohead, Muse, Nine Inch Nails, etc.

Features

  • Produced by multiple Award-Winning producer DOUG ROGERS and Grammy Award-Winning producer DAVID FRIDMANN (MGMT, Flaming Lips etc.)
  • Many instruments have been purposely"and skillfully!"mangled, distorted, or effected out of all recognition (plus a selection of dark and eerie instruments).
  • Easy to use browser displays all of your instruments. Interface automatically changes to display current instrument.
  • Included are 40GBs of highly processed drums and percussion, basses, guitars, ethnic, keyboard, strings, and FX instruments and sounds, all organized into instrumental groups

Tech Specs

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

  • 40 GB Free Hard Disc Space

MAC MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

  • Intel Core 2 Duo Processor 2.1GHz or higher (PPC not supported)
  • 8GB RAM
  • Mac OSX 10.7 or later
  • 7200 RPM or faster (non energy saving) hard drive for sample streaming

PC MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

  • Intel Core 2 Duo, or AMD Dual Core 2.1GHz or higher
  • 8GB RAM
  • Windows 7 or later
  • Sound card with ASIO drivers
  • 7200 RPM or faster (non energy saving) hard drive for sample streaming

Reviews

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    Nick R.
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    I recommend this product
    Rated 4 out of 5 stars
    Dec 9, 2025
    See you on the Darkside

    This review is more about age than use. Darkside delivers engaging melodic and distorted sound while remaining nimble through its customizable FX racks and spaces reverb. The precision is deep, heavy and bridging while the strings gives over the top chaos while staying at mixable level. The biggest drawback is the age of the library. Most of the sound can be achieved with basic plugins and above average post fx. There's nothing "new"about this library but there's nothing thats "old". It just is. The saving grace about a library like this is that its extremely well sampled and at a marginally reasonable price for something that can be achieved by similar products at lower costs.

    Best for dark brooding rock/cinema at garage style bands looking to add fuel without having the equipment.