Elevate your scores with Scale Mode
Introducing our new Scale Mode technology — select from any of the seven diatonic modes or build your own scale by simply clicking the notes you want included. From there, it intelligently selects the right samples that conform to the scale you’ve entered, split by velocity, developing their intervallic string techniques and triggering wider intervals at higher velocities for endless inspiration.
AIR Studios at its most spellbinding
To capture tiny, intimate moments unfolding across a vast, uncaring landscape, we brought a small section of London’s finest string players to the mammoth AIR Lyndhurst Hall, home of blockbuster scores. Together, these eight players, the Bleeding Fingers Music team, and our own collective of composers, conductors, and engineers collaborated to create a vast suite of short leaps, gestures and swells. The resulting sound makes for a sublime companion to other libraries recorded at AIR Studios, including other small string section libraries such as Albion Neo, Chamber Strings, and Olafur Arnalds Chamber Evolutions.
For Frozen Planet II, Bleeding Fingers Music and the show’s composers Hans Zimmer, James Everingham and Adam Lukas were looking for a library that could score not only scenes of frozen silence, but also scenes of action, tension, crisis and drama. Rather than imitating the whispering textures of glacial rivers, Fractured Strings offers a spectrum of sounds and textures that reflect the planet’s fuller-voiced, more melodic moments, from microscopic to grand gestures. The result is a library with potential far beyond the world’s end.
Emmy-winning and BAFTA-nominated Bleeding Fingers is an exciting, diverse composer collective hand-selected and mentored by Hans Zimmer. They were awarded an Emmy for Outstanding Music Composition for BBC's Primates, Emmy nominations for BBC’s Planet Earth II and Nat Geo's Being the Queen, plus two Webby awards for the BBC’s groundbreaking 13 Minutes To The Moon.
Hailing from eight countries we embrace and nurture our deep musical heritage to deliver a sonic depth that is second to none. Housed in state-of-the-art studios on Hans Zimmer’s world-renowned Santa Monica campus and supported by a best-in-class production team, Bleeding Fingers is equipped to produce music at the very highest standard.
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
88.1 GB download size
88.1 GB disk space required during install
What's Included
Instruments
- 4 Violin
- 4 Celli
- Solo Violin
- Solo Cello
Features
NEW — Scale Mode
Select from any of the seven diatonic modes or build your own scale by simply clicking the notes you want included
Evo Grid
Allows the user to map multiple instrument articulations and sounds across the keyboard for ease of use. Use classic evo grid features like ‘randomise’ to discover special accidents
Articulations
42 Violin Fractures
- Orchestral flourishes, covering 10 varieties of chords. Includes a 'Speed' parameter
54 Violin Techniques
- 15 Statements: Same note (7) short phrases which resolve to the same note they started with. Up / Down (7) short phrases moving up or down from the centre (played) note
- 10 Splinters (Up/Down): Natural harmonics played with up and down variations
- 14 Rotations (Up/Down): Seven slow trill articulations, extending up from the centre (played) note, tempo synced to 120 bpm
- 7 Dispersals: Loose ‘aleatoric’ trills with varying speed. Also features a scale mode option
- 3 Declamatory Shorts: Normale, Sul Pont, Harmonic
- 2 Pizzicato Strums: Three note chords extending up in 4ths from the played note
- 3 7th Reaches (tempo-synced): Three Articulations, reaching from root to 7th, with a passing note
51 Cello Techniques
- 15 Statements: Same note (7) short phrases which resolve to the same note they started with. Up / Down (7) short phrases moving up or down from the centre (played) note
- 10 Splinters (Up/Down): Natural harmonics played with up and down variations
- 14 Rotations (Up/Down): Seven slow trill articulations, extending up from the centre (played) note, tempo synced to 120 bpm
- 7 Dispersals: Loose ‘aleatoric’ trills with varying speed. Also features a scale mode option
- 3 Declamatory Shorts: Normale, Sul Pont, Harmonic
- 2 Pizzicato Strums: Three note chords extending up in 4ths from the played note
9 Solo Violin Arps
- Solo instruments only covering a wide range of chords - tempo synced to 120bpm
9 Solo Cello Arps
- Solo instruments only covering a wide range of chords - tempo synced to 120bpm
12 signal paths
- Tree
- Outriggers
- Ambient
- Stereo Mix
- Stereo Ribbon Mix
- Gallery
- Close Valve
- Close Ribbon
- Close Ultra
- Close Valve Wide Pan
- Close Ribbon Wide Pan
- Close Ultra Wide Pan
Mixes
- Big Mix
- Medium Mix
- Small Mix
