I don't think it is nice to start a thread and then disappear out of town, so I thought I'd give some general comments as opposed to addressing all points one-by-one.
A lot of people seem to not have gotten the points I was making. I never said the product was not great (I even wondered whether I'd use it). I never said the product was not expeditious (actually the opposite was part of my argument). I also never said that this would make a great composer out of anyone - I never even hinted that HOLLYWOODWINDS was an enemy.....!!
What I did say (paraphrased here), is that we are somewhere on the road - not the end of it - that eventually could lead to complete fraudulence. Because there actually exist rules about composition, and one of them concerns fraudulence. A director or producer may not care whether a composer stays up all night or does the job in 10 minutes; they don't even care if half or more of the material is not by the composer they are PAYING to produce original music (so long as there is no lawsuit). My point is, that at some time in the future they also won't care about hiring a composer, since they will be able to get these derivative, impersonal results themselves with minimal training, or with the help of an amateur...
I agree that this tool is great for a composer that could ALSO notate what is provided here, and there is not much need for engineering which saves valuable time, and is great for absolute ignorami in engineering such as myself. Yes, there are good things about this super library; I was focusing on the negatives which, in my opinion, are considerable. And please don't compare the VSL generic string runs to this software featuring all the rhythmic march-variations that Williams ever came up with (yes, he was influenced himself, but the musical context he has created in his works is almost totally his). This software is more like Sibelius' Ideas feature, and really... how many of you ever use it?... Or would you use it if it featured Williams and Elfman stencils?...
I insist that besides this being a great time-saving tool (which I first acknowledged in my original post), it - and others like it in the future, allow for people that had never had any business trying to work in the industry, to literally p i l f e r musical material from the sweat of their betters, and pass it off as their own. This is awful by itself, but not nearly as bad as the way the composer's art (at least in film and the classier part of popular culture) will be grossly devalued, not right now with HOLLYWOODWINDS, but sometime in the future where more automated, streamlined emulators will afford the untalented, the unworthy, their own delusions of grandeur. Look ma! No hands......