Monthly Archives: February 2016

Spitfire Audio – BML Low Brass (KONTAKT)

By | February 21, 2016

After the delights of enormous brass libraries and ensembles, providing broad brush stroke approaches to writing, which have characterised recent film, gaming and TV music to some extent, Spitfire are at last proud to present some of the greatest brass players in the world to provide you with the tools you need to write detailed and focussed orchestral… Read More »

Spitfire Audio – Producer Portfolio: Gwilym Simcock Felt Piano (KONTAKT)

By | February 21, 2016

If you like the Labs “Soft Piano”, you’re going to love this hand-crafted German piano played with the ‘Celeste’ pedal engaged by a living jazz legend and Mercury Music Prize nominee. There’s just something about that practice pedal. It draws you up to the very inner workings of the piano itself, quiet and difficult to play, but for… Read More »

Spitfire Audio – Producer Portfolio: Andy Findon Kit Bag (KONTAKT)

By | February 21, 2016

Andy’s Kit Bag is an introduction to the marvelous world of Andy and his amazing collection of ethnic flutes and other woodwinds. 5 new deep sampled esoteric instruments IN ONE PACK. Recorded “The Spitfire Way” in our new facility in King’s Cross central London, with mixable selection of the finest valve, ribbon and perspective mics, via world-class Neve… Read More »

Spitfire Audio – Frank Ricotti Glockenspiel (KONTAKT)

By | February 21, 2016

Engineered by Toby Warren at Air-Edel Studios, a classic and infamous studio in central London used by an extraordinary mix of people from Nick Cave (Proposition) to Beyonce, to Tinie Tempah. Spitfire has recorded a pristinely maintained Glockenspiel deeply with a number of beaters, techniques and from a number of perspectives. With the recent folk renaissance, the glock… Read More »

Spitfire Audio – BML BONES Vol.1 (KONTAKT)

By | February 21, 2016

BRITISH TROMBONES, THE CREAM OF THE CROP. TENOR AND BASS SECTIONS ASSEMBLED TO CREATE THE BACKBONE OF THE NEW GOLD (OR RATHER BRASS) STANDARD IN THE WORLD’S FINEST ORCHESTRAL VI LIBRARY. ESSENTIAL ARTICULATIONS Bass & Tenor Bones (a2) • Legato • Longs • Longs Cuivre • Marcato • Tenuto • Shorts Staccatissimo • Multi Tongue • Rips &… Read More »

Spitfire Audio – Albion I (KONTAKT)

By | February 20, 2016

  Albion is the newest orchestral brainchild from Spitfire Audio, headquartered in Great Britain. It follows the path of Symphobia 1, Hollywoodwinds, and Symphobia 2 by being a problem/solution orchestral module that does not compete directly with full fledged orchestral libraries from EastWest, SONiVOX, or the Vienna Symphonic Library. EPIC CINEMATIC TOOLS Made from a totally new set… Read More »

Spitfire Audio – Skaila Kanga Harp Redux (KONTAKT)

By | February 20, 2016

Recorded at Air Studios, Lyndhurst Hall, one of the greatest scoring stages in the world and showcasing the extraordinary talent of legendary harpist Skaila Kanga, Spitfire Harp is a new benchmark in expressiveness and sound for commercially available orchestral instruments. The delicate sound blossoms beautifully in the Hall, and the loudest layers ring the walls of Lyndhurst with… Read More »

Spitfire Audio – Mandolin (KONTAKT)

By | February 20, 2016

  With this library, we tried to repeat the success of our free Charango, but with a slightly less esoteric tool. It will be useful not only for small guitar lines, but for grand orchestral parts where tools could subtly and harmoniously blend with the rest of the sounds and add shine.  

Spitfire Audio LLP – Albion II Loegria (KONTAKT)

By | February 20, 2016

CINEMATIC DETAIL & BEAUTY Following in the huge success of the thundering Albion I – Epic Cinematic Tools – Spitfire are delighted to announce Albion II – Loegria. Ablion II is designed as a stand-alone tool, and everything you would need to write beautiful and esoteric film scores out-of-the-box. We are excited to present an incredible Chamber sized… Read More »

Spitfire Audio – LLP SOLO STRINGS LIBRARY FULL (KONTAKT)

By | February 20, 2016

  A collection of virtuoso performers, playing soloistically in the Hall at Air Lyndhurst. This library is great for providing the soaring lines above the orchestra, cutting through, or for providing detail and extra humanity in your tracks by blending in with your other string libraries. The short articulations are incredibly punchy and tight, and the mic mixing… Read More »

Spitfire Audio – Albion III ICENI (KONTAKT)

By | February 20, 2016

ALBION 3 – APOCALYPTIC LOW END, CONSISTING OF THE LARGEST EVER CELLI, BASS, BRASS AND WOODWIND SECTIONS FOR A COMMERCIAL LIBRARY. AS WITH ALL ALBIONS IT DOESN’T STOP THERE, ICENI IS AN ATHOLOGY THAT CELEBRATES LOW END. IF HYBRID ORCHESTRAL IS YOUR THING, MIXING IT UP WITH DUBSTEP AND DRUM AND BASS, YOU NEED TO PUT THE KEYS… Read More »

Spitfire Audio – HZ01 Hans Zimmer Percussion London Ensembles (KONTAKT)

By | February 20, 2016

Spitfire Audio Hans Zimmer HZ01 – London Ensembles Hans Zimmer Symphonic Percussion Library with Mixable Mic Perspectives Four percussion legends and long term collaborators with Hans play the definitive anthology of percussion instruments and styles developed over ten years of blockbuster score making. Volume 1 includes his classic selection of drum ensembles and key solo instruments: Low Booms,… Read More »

Spitfire Audio – Enigma (KONTAKT)

By | February 20, 2016

“ENIGMA” is a collection of awe inspiring sounds and tools created exclusively by Leo in conjunction with Spitfire Audio. As composers ourselves we have been itching to get our hands on what we know will become essential DNA for future compositions and productions. Created largely on a rusty Trussart guitar plugged into Leo’s infamous pedal array, with over… Read More »

Soundiron – Sick 6: 666 The Sickening (KONTAKT)

By | February 13, 2016

Sick 6: 666 – The sickening is a horror-themed cinematic and trailer sound effects library for professional composers, sound designers, re-recording mixers, animators, film makers and game developers. It includes over 4GB of sound designed content, with over 1000 stingers, boomers, impacts, stabs, hits, swells, falls, risers, playable pads, drones and ambiences and more. We carefully crafted each… Read More »

Soundiron – Snow Drums (KONTAKT)

By | February 13, 2016

The Wintery pond instruments were created by recording a variety of stones, ice chunks and pebbles skittering over the surface of a large frozen pond in a narrow canyon, high in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. The results are quite surprising, as the sound waves travel over the ice and off of the canyon walls in very unusual… Read More »

Soundiron – Voice of Rapture: The Soprano (KONTAKT)

By | February 13, 2016

Voice Of Rapture: The Soprano by Soundiron is an advanced solo operatic soprano vocal library for Kontakt that features both multi-sampled chromatic content and tempo-synching live performance phrases in a full range of keys. Recorded with vocal artist Nichole Dechaine in a dry studio environment, this library offers True Legato vowel sustains for Ah and Oo vowels, with… Read More »

Soundiron – Olympus Elements (KONTAKT)

By | February 13, 2016

  Olympus Elements contains just the wide close stage blend microphone position for all 8 core vowel articulations: Ah, Ee, Eh, Ei, Ih, Mm, Oh and Oo. The choir is completely configurable, with independent control over male and female divisi sections. You’ll find sustains, staccatos and marcatos, with pp-ff dynamic layering and intelligent round robin. This choir packs… Read More »

Pettinhouse – DirectBass (Kontakt)

By | February 12, 2016

DirectBass is a 5 string bass sample library for NI Kontakt 2.2 that includes all the bass pickups. The library is intended for use with amp simulators to allow users to create an infinite number of bass sounds. There are 4 Gb of sounds recorded at 24 bit 96 Khz directly to the sound card without any amplifiers… Read More »

Pettinhouse- FunkyGuitar (Kontakt)

By | February 12, 2016

FunkyGuitar is an innovative Stratocaster guitar sample library for Kontakt 3 and 4 (no Kontakt player ) available for download. It is made of 3 patches: Strum, Muted and Fingered Guitar and it has a built-in Amp simulator with Wah, Distortion, EQ, Reverb, Delay and Phaser. You can also play it DRY with your favorite amp simulator. Strum… Read More »

Pettinhouse – WarmJazz Guitar (KONTAKT)

By | February 12, 2016

Pettinhouse Warmjazz Guitar KONTAKT WarmJazz is an innovative 2Gb hollow-body electric guitar sample library dedicated to jazz but also for Bossanova, smooth jazz and old funk available for NI Kontakt 3 and 4 (No Kontakt Player). The guitar has been recorded at 24bit 96Khz dry without any effects directly to the audio interface exactly like when you plug… Read More »