1.2.1 The Production Team

Hollywood Scoring Tools carries three producer credits: Doug Rogers and Blake Rogers at EastWest, and Tilman Sillescu at Sonuscore.

A Doug Rogers, Producer

With over three decades of experience in the audio industry, founder and producer Doug Rogers is the recipient of many industry awards including “Recording Engineer of the Year.” “The Art of Digital Music” named him one of “56 Visionary Artists & Insiders” in the book of the same name.

In 1988 he founded EastWest, the most critically acclaimed virtual (software) instrument developer in the world. Since then, EastWest has been the recipient of over 120 international industry awards. Rogers uncompromising approach to quality, and innovative ideas has enabled EastWest to lead the industry for over 30 years.

After forming EastWest, he produced the very first commercial drum samples collection, followed with a sequel co-produced with Bob Clearmountain, which was so successful a new industry was born. Rogers and Clearmountain produced subsequent releases that won many awards. In 1991, Rogers released the first collection to include MIDI driven drum loops, which enabled users to adjust each loop tempo in their sequencer without adjusting pitch or decreasing quality.

With sampling technology improving, Rogers released the Ultimate Piano Collection in 1995, the first multi-velocity sampled piano collection, which received many industry awards. In 1997 Rogers partnered with Nemesys to create the GigaSampler software and instrument collections, which pioneered the use of “streaming from hard drive technology”, a technical breakthrough without which, the high quality virtual instruments of today would not be possible.

In 2003 he co-produced with Nick Phoenix the first surround sound virtual orchestra, Symphonic Orchestra, engineered by 11-time Grammy nominated classical recording engineer Keith Johnson, and recorded in a ‘state of the art’ concert hall (awarded Keyboard Magazine “Key Buy Award,” EQ Magazine “Exceptional Quality Award,” Computer Music Magazine “Performance Award,” and G.A.N.G. [Game Audio Network Guild] “Best Sound Library Award”); and followed that release with Symphonic Choirs (awarded Electronic Musician “2006 Editor’s Choice Award,” G.A.N.G. “Best Sound Library Award,” and Keyboard Magazine “Key Buy Award”). Symphonic Choirs and it’s predecessor Voices of the Apocalypse were the first music software products to enable users to type in words for the choirs to sing in any key with a computer. This was followed in 2007 with EastWest/Quantum Leap Pianos, the most detailed virtual piano collection ever produced, also in surround sound.

In 2005 Rogers established a software development division for EastWest, and released the first 64-bit virtual instruments that became the new standard. Rogers most recent productions include Hollywood Scoring Tools; DrumX; Iconic; Hollywood Strings 2, Hollywood Fantasy Orchestra, Forbidden Planet, co-produced with Nick Phoenix; Hollywood Orchestra Opus Edition, co-produced with Nick Phoenix; Hollywood Orchestrator, co-produced with Sonuscore; Hollywood Backup Singers, co-produced with Nick Phoenix; Voices Of Opera featuring Larisa Martinez (Andrea Bocelli’s soprano) and Carlton Moe (Phantom of the Opera tenor), co-produced with Nick Phoenix; Voices Of Soul featuring C.C. White, co-produced with Nick Phoenix; Hollywood Choirs, co-produced with Nick Phoenix; Spaces II Reverb, co-produced with Nick Phoenix; Voices Of The Empire featuring Uyanga Bold, co-produced with Nick Phoenix; EastWest MIDI Guitar Series, co-produced with Nick Phoenix; ProDrummer 1, co-produced with Mark “Spike” Stent; ProDrummer 2, co-produced with Joe Chiccarelli; Ghostwriter, co-produced with Steven Wilson; Hollywood Solo Violin, Hollywood Solo Cello, and Hollywood Harp, co-produced with Nick Phoenix; Hollywood Strings, Hollywood Brass, Hollywood Orchestral Woodwinds, and Hollywood Orchestral Percussion, co-produced with Nick Phoenix and Thomas Bergersen. The Dark Side, co-produced with David Fridmann; and Fab Four with Beatle’s engineer Ken Scott, inspired by the sounds of the Beatles. Both Fab Four and The Dark Side won M.I.P.A Awards, judged by over 100 international music magazines. EastWest has won 3 out of the last 5 NAMM TEC Awards for Best Musical Instrument Software.

B Blake Rogers, Producer

Blake Rogers has been part of the EastWest production team for over a decade. He co-produced ICONIC, LO-FI and Jimmy Jam DrumX, and has served as Marketing Lead and Project Coordinator for Hollywood Choirs (NAMM TEC Award Winner), Voices of the Empire, Spaces II (SOS Award Nominee), Voices of Soul, Voices of Opera, Hollywood Pop Brass (NAMM TEC Award Nominee), Hollywood Backup Singers (NAMM TEC Award Nominee), Hollywood Orchestra Opus Edition (NAMM TEC Award and SOS Award Winner), Forbidden Planet (NAMM TEC Award Nominee), String Machine (SOS Award Nominee), Hollywood Fantasy Orchestra (NAMM TEC Award Winner), Hollywood Strings 2 (NAMM TEC Award Nominee), ICONIC (SOS Award Nominee), LO-FI, Ancient Kingdom and Jimmy Jam DrumX (NAMM TEC Award Nominee).

C Tilman Sillescu, Producer

Tilman Sillescu is a composer and the co-founder, with Pierre Langer, of Dynamedion, the Mainz studio that has scored games since 2000 and from which Sonuscore emerged in 2012. He studied classical music at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and jazz and popular music at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts, and taught at Mainz before founding the studio.

As Dynamedion’s lead composer and creative director he has written for the SpellForce, Anno, The Settlers and Total War series, for Crysis 2, and for the trailer to The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. His work has won a G.A.N.G. award, for Titan, his theme for Paraworld, and Best German Soundtrack at the German Game Developer Awards three times. At Sonuscore he led the design of The Score, the concept Hollywood Scoring Tools grew from. Doug Rogers and Blake Rogers took the concept to the next level, replacing most Sonuscore instruments with EastWest instruments, creating a new interface and adding new powerful software tools, and producing over 300 Scores and over 1000 Presets.