Spitfire Audio Abbey Road Orchestra: Metal Percussion Core (Digital Download)

Inject a metallic edge into your orchestral compositions. This library not only delivers traditional metals from the orchestral palette, but includes the resonant clang of anvils, the shimmering brilliance of bowed cymbals, the otherworldly textures of waterphones, and of course a range of cowbells, agogos, guira and more. Meticulously recorded with a variety of beaters and techniques, Metal Percussion captures the unique character and full dynamic range of each instrument. Dive into the gritty world of oil drums, trash cans, and scaffold poles, or explore the delicate shimmer of temple bowls and wind chimes. Whether you're crafting cinematic soundscapes, industrial sound design, or adding a unique rhythmic layer to your music, this library provides a wealth of metallic textures and articulations to create everything from sharp, percussive hits to lush, atmospheric textures.

With a microphone mix masterfully engineered by GRAMMY® -Award-winner Simon Rhodes in the legendary space of Abbey Road Studio One, and performed by world-renowned percussionist Joby Burgess, Metal Percussion Core elevates your rhythms with a gorgeous room sound and exceptionally detailed sampling. 

To further enhance your creative workflow, this product includes a free MIDI pack of essential drum rudiments. These building blocks of percussion technique are programmed specifically for Abbey Road Orchestra Percussion, leveraging the intuitive right/left hand mapping for authentic performance. 

Drag and drop these rudiments into your compositions at any tempo, and freely edit them within your DAW, adding realistic drum techniques with ease.

HEAVY METALS

Expertly captured by Simon Rhodes (Avatar, The Banshees of Inisherin), Metal Percussion encapsulates a thoughtfully curated collection of versatile and diverse percussive instruments. Inclusive of both classic orchestral staples, such as a variety of cymbals and crashes, and more eclectic cinematic sounds and texture, such as the Oil Drum, Waterphone and Giant Crasher, this library truly inspires organic composition. 

Hand selected by world renowned percussionist Joby Burgess the majority of these instruments come from his personal collection — which has been used extensively on major Hollywood productions — and offers true diversity. Whether you're looking for the delicacy of Bells and Chimes, the roaring sounds of the Thundersheet or something more abstract like the variety of textural elements played on the Oil Drum, this library layers and combines beautifully to spark your imagination and inspire your own patches and creations.

Orchestral staples

An expertly curated selection of 58 percussive instruments, including but not limited to a myriad of cymbals, tam-tams, and 3 triangles

• Up to 10 dynamic layers 
• Up to 10 round robins
• 409 articulations including discrete right and left hand performances
• Boundless creativity

Inspirational instrumentation

• A Joby Burgess hand-selected range of unique elements and metallic tones including an oil drum, trash cans, a waterphone and many more to inspire your creativity
• A wealth of both standard and alternative beaters and techniques, including mallets, brushes, sticks, hammers, bowed cymbals, scrapes and superball drags
• A huge sonic pallet, from trashy scrap metals to meditative temple bowls which excite the glorious acoustic of Studio One

Realism at play 

Key features to heighten playability 

• Voice Choking precisely controls the end of roll techniques when pressing the corresponding hit keys
• Two Handed Layout which mirrors mapped keys further up the keyboard to enable flexibility and speed when playing
• Right/Left Mapping recalls left and right hand performances on adjacent keys for playing and programming true-to-life rudiments
• Presented in the same plug-in as Low and High percussion, with the same intuitive layout and mapping. 

Tech specs

macOS requirements

Mac OS X 10.15 to OS 13

Minimum: 2.8GHz i5 minimum (quad-core), 8GB RAM

Recommended: 2.8GHz I7 (six-core), 16GB RAM

Both Intel and Apple Silicon/ARM are supported

32-bit systems are not supported.

PC requirements

Minimum: Intel 2.8 GHz i5 (quad-core) or AMD Ryzen 5, 8GB

RAMWindows 10 or Windows 11 - (Latest Service Pack, 64-bit)

Recommended: Intel Core i7 6th gen and later or AMD Ryzen 7, 16GB RAM

32-bit systems are not supported.

File size

~8.90 GB Download size

9 GB disk space required during install