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Spitfire Audio GAIKA — War Island (Digital Download)


Expansive industrial soundscapes

A timely collaboration with innovative producer and composer GAIKA, War Island offers multidimensional, evolving sounds from the beating heart of London’s industrial underground. Featuring harsh bassy synth drones, tape-processed drums, pads, leads and warped vocal effects, these expansive sounds are abundantly complex by virtue of GAIKA’s unique and sophisticated processing techniques — made accessible, intuitive and interactive through Spitfire Audio’s dynamic, award-winning plug-in.

Inspired by the sounds of GAIKA’s youth and developed over a number of years, these visceral, abstract environments are inundated with the distinctive buzz of an ever-changing and perceptibly dystopian London, offering a fresh creative lens not only for experimental producers, but composers looking for cutting edge sounds to enhance their scores.

Features - 42 presets, split into 6 sections

  • Pads (5) 

Moody, metallic, and heavy darkwave synth drones made from a range of analog synths including Matrix 6, Matrix 12, JP 8000, Lyra 6 and countless others

  • Basses (7) 

Known for massive, jaw-dropping, villainous bass, GAIKA provides a crunchy low-end to complement the nuance of this idiosyncratic sound domain

  • Leads (12)

Manipulated and processed tones conjure a dystopian backdrop whilst providing infinite capabilities for layering your unique sonic footprint

  • Atmosphere (7) 

Capturing a unique air of disquiet and metropolitan malaise, these blissfully discordant offerings set up an unsettling atmosphere

  • Drums (6) 

Punchy, layered drums made from old school drum machines with extensive processing, to create dance, rap and techno sensibilities within a classical framework to achieve vast rhythmic possibilities

  • Vocals (5) 

Inspired by jungle music, these glitchy and melodic vocal samples capture the dystopian sound of a retro yet modern urban landscape

  • Presented in Spitfire Audio’s award-winning, dedicated plugin — compatible with any DAW
  • 8 controls, providing a wealth of complex sonic possibilities : Expression, Dynamics (processed signal), Reverb, Attack, Release, Chorus, Flanger and Phaser— engineered to offer a wide range of detailed sound-sculpting possibilities within a single patch, so it sounds like you
  • The dynamics slider controls an in-built processed signal, curated by GAIKA, starting with the space of the processed signal, and fading to the intensity of the original dry recording as you push the fader up
  • Seven bespoke IR reverbs, from Kiln to Church Balcony
  • Velocity sensitive for varying tones
  • 2.1 GB

What's Included

Pads (5)

  • Big Smoke
  • Clairvoyance
  • Creepy Seventh
  • Malevolence
  • Opium

Basses (7)

  • Chrome Bass
  • Cyber Horn
  • Degenerated
  • Drill Head
  • Gritty Bass 7th
  • Maud
  • Smog

Leads (12)

  • Badmon
  • Chaos Mission
  • Granular Steel
  • Mr Majestic
  • Planet
  • Lambo Smoke
  • Saw Hearts
  • Space Odd 2021
  • Stretch
  • Tape Stab
  • Scum Rain
  • Smiley Face

Atmosphere (7)

  • 0101
  • Mystical Malaise
  • Smooth Hospital
  • Reborn
  • Sus Punished
  • Sus Soft
  • Taped Saturday

Drums (6)

  • Filter Snares
  • FX
  • Lethal Chops
  • Machine Snares
  • Vim Kicks
  • Vim Noise

Vocals (5)

  • Drone
  • Glitch
  • Vocal Arp 1
  • Vocal Arp 2
  • Uh FX

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

Windows 10 or Windows 11 - (Latest Service Pack, 64-bit)Minimum: Intel 2.8 GHz i5 (quad-core) or AMD Ryzen 5, 8GB RAM

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

32-bit systems are not supported.

File size

2.1 GB download size

2.1 GB disk space required during install

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