A once in a lifetime collection of electronic sounds derived, warped and re-birthed from Spitfire’s enormous and highly valued collection of orchestral sample records … the first phase in our eDNA (ELECTRONIC DNA) project, creating the next generation of sound-ware for the next generation of electronic sound-smiths.
Phase # 1 ‘EARTH’ is a collection of 1900+ basic instruments mangled into 1001 custom patches by our award winning team of composers, sound-smiths, producers and engineers into a collection of play-out-of-the-box cartridges . Load up eDNA, with an award winning interface, slam in a cartridge and play play play. Such is the depth of the content, that is, the sound of the music, and the sound of the music. We’re not ambulance chasing here, this is not about the music of now, of yesterday, this is a new chapter, a new sonic arsenal.
BACKGROUND
Included with the EARTH pack are the 1900+ and 1001 custom patches that spring out of the box and bite.
STEP 1 – ORE
We have been recording the finest orchestral players for seven years now. We have been practicing our craft in the creation of the finest strings, brass, woodwinds and percussion libraries. But throughout this period, we have also been harboring a darker ambition. As many of us here at Spitfire come from the first wave of UK EDM in the 90’s we have hungered to get our hands on these awesome sounds for our own ill gotten gains. For the last seven years there has been a secret hard drive, a depository of the best of these orchestral recordings saved to create the ultimate raw material, the ultimate ore, the set of polished diamonds.
STEP 2 – WARP STAGE
For the last 5 years we have been experimenting with orchestral warping and many of these early attempts. Stephenson’s Steam Band “sections of our Albion range. In these early years, we found out about the most rarefied analogue outboard equipment, synths, filters, gates, verbs, and also. At regular points in the last few years, we have taken out our secret cupboard. We often left it simmering overnight, creating the most delicious and sometimes just ‘wrong’ set of sounds.
STEP 3 – SOUND SETS to SOUND BANKS
During the warp stage we created well over a terabyte of data. Needing to cut this down to a reasonable size, the Spitfire team of multi award winning composers, producers, techs and engineers. From this we created a set of multi-sampled Sound-Sets. The very building blocks of ‘Earth’ itself. These were then organized by sound-type into manageable Sound-Banks.
STEP 4 – THE eDNA ENGINE
Over the last seven years Spitfire – in partnership with Blake Robinson – have been creating intuitive and ingenious scripts, simple to use GUIs and attractive front ends. A year ago, we wiped the script clean and set about creating a new script engine. This we call eDNA. With more details to follow, we will show how the sound sets and banks of ‘Earth’ can be used in conjunction with the eDNA engine to quickly, dramatically and awesomely customize sounds beyond recognition.
STEP 5 – SADISTIC SOUNDSMITHS
Once the sound banks were implanted into eDNA, we distributed ‘Earth-Beta’ around our state-of-the-art complex in Central London, UK. Spitfire is a team of award winning composers, producers, track makers, and engineers. Using this pedigree, we have created a jaw dropping number of the original, haunting, beautiful, epic, angry, fat and down-right unpleasant sounds. We ignored the zeitgeist, we ignored what’s been before and just set about creating something new. With eDNA’s delightful GUI, this uncharted territory of new sonic experimentation is one of your knobs or sliders. Or simply start from the “vanilla” sound banks, roll your sleeves up and give eDNA a tickle.
FEATURES
1900+ Factory instruments and 1001 custom patches designed by our award winning team. Organized into virtual cartridges, slam one in and play play play!
Imagine the eDNA engine as a set of two turntables and a massively complex DJ mixer. It contains two sound bays with individual and independent modulators, control of trim, bend, glide, cloning, tuning, ADSR and lpfs and hpfs and wobbles that modulate pitch, volume and filters.
There is an onboard gate sequencer that allows for independent gating between these two bays and unified control of amount, and shape, speed and length of sequence.
These two signals are then at last unified with a DJ style x-fader. Move between the sounds with the mouse or the factory-default assigned modulation wheel. But it does not stop there. We’ve designed a custom script that oscillates the x-fader automatically with control over speed and phase.
Last but not least is eDNA’s five stage. FX path with 34 custom plugins (including a bunch of bespoke IRs) pre-loaded. There are two “layer fx” stages that effect sound A or B. A “motorized” FX stage that can either effect A, B or both. A master FX stage that effects the entire output. Finally an auxilliary FX stage that can be sent through the layers or master FX stage. Any parameter of these can be assigned to your controller. See this diagram to understand eDNA’s signal patch more fully:
WELCOME TO THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF THE eDNA ‘CARTRIDGE’
“Earth” is an anthology of 1900+ vanilla instruments and 1001 custom patches in our ‘artist’ collections. Earth (excuse pun) it would take you 24 hours of solid listening, without fag or loo breaks. To make sense of this awesome arsenal of sonic weaponry. With the artists we have briefed them on the sonic “style” with our factory cartridges.
Publisher : Spitfire Audio
Format : KONTAKT 5.5.1 +
Quality : 24 bit 48 kHz stereo
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