Hollywood Scoring Stages - Samplicity

[Linos]

Hollywood Scoring Stages is an algorithmic reverb and stage placement tool by Samplicity. It can be preordered for €169 (regular price €239). The release is estimated for early May 2026.

https://samplicity.com/hollywood-scoring-stages/

There is light and shadow in the demos for me. The brass sounds good. The reverb can create depth realistically. The harp does sound boomy to me, and on the guitar example, it does something weird to the midrange. I don't like the drums example at all.

Samplicity's approach of giving you back several mic signals, as you would have when recording live, speaks to me. It's more versatile than SPAT's one signal that you get.

I will keep an eye on Hollywood Scoring Stages. With the mixed results of the demos for me, I am not preordering now.

[capecomp]

gonna be watching it too. Have lots of Peters tools.

[mr anxiety]

A long time Spat user here (not Revolutions), so I'm very curious about this, especially the stage placement aspect.

[Linos]

It has been released. Anybody who can share their impressions? Adonijas demo on vi-control sounds convincing.

[Markus K]

I bought it during the presale because Peter Roos does a reliable job I find with his plugins.
So far it seems to be very good with dry recorded material. Especially the positioning mode which can be selected and shuts the tail down is very useful. I didn't have the time to compare it to SPAT but will do. I think it does similar things with less controllable parameters. And on a pretty big track I do right now it doesn't get in the way performance wise which is nice. No crashes till now- knocking on wood.
I think it's mainly for dry material modelled instruments and self recorded dry things like guitars, percussion and should be used as an insert as I understand it. It's probably not your typical send reverb. The default setting doesn't even use the wet dry knob. But it can be used for it. Similar to SPAT in that regard.
I'll post some examples later.

[Linos]

Thanks Markus. It would be great if you could post some demos.

I just realized that the installers on the website work as a fully functional demo for 14 days. I will test it against the plugins that are in my template.

[Markus K]

So here is a very little and unprofessional demo of two guitars recorded near miced with an A-B micro setting.
Right now I only show the positioning feature. In the track where I took the example I go with another send verb and I probably will continue to do so. Examples with the reverb turned on don't sound well imo. I have to check more how to set these up.

Two_guitars_dry_center_positioned

2_Guitars_dry.mp3

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Two_guitars_Scorestage_only_Positioning_left-right

2_Guitars_Positioning_only.mp3

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