Spitfire Audio London Contemporary Orchestra Textures (Digital Download)

Our second collaborative venture with the internationally-acclaimed London Contemporary Orchestra took us to an awe-inspiring aircraft hangar for a recording process like no other. Together we have created a completely unique, never-before-sampled sound palette — a sophisticated collection of constantly evolving organic textures, formed by layering unexpected combinations of instruments. In applying the signature workshopping, performance styles and innovative techniques that have made the LCO so sought after, we have produced textures made up of indefinable, fascinating sounds.

Our need for unparalleled acoustics led us to the most unconventional recording space in Spitfire’s eleven year sampling history — a cavernous hangar with a remarkably long reverb tail — adding incredible resonance to each note. Enhanced with our unique Evo Grid, we give you access to a cutting edge, inspiring collection of instantly playable, spellbinding textures which will add incredible depth and colour to your composition.

Behind the samples

Following the continued popularity of London Contemporary Orchestra Strings, our next collaboration with the LCO had to be something even more extraordinary. Our collective ambition was to achieve something that no one in the sampling world had done before — partly inspired by the orchestra’s recent studio collaborations, including Suspiria with Thom Yorke,The Innocentswith Carly Paradis, American Animals with Anne Nikitin and You Were Never Really Here with Jonny Greenwood. We took familiar, pre-existing organic instruments and combined them in unique ways to create indefinable, expressive and modern sounds and textures — much like an artist using an array of disparate colours to create a new, multi-tonal palette — marrying together the LCO’s world class performers and ten years of experience in contemporary classical music and the film world, and Spitfire’s sampling expertise and pioneering Evo Grid technology. Through the power of sampling, we have created new instruments you would never be able to recreate outside a sampler — making the impossible possible.