Blockbuster sounding strings
What do you do when you want your samples to sound like the real deal? Go to the place where they actually record the scores and use the same players and people.
Recorded during the same session as for Spitfire Symphonic Strings, this features 60 star players: 16 1st violins, 14 2nd violins, 12 violas, 10 cellos & 8 basses; all handpicked from the best orchestras in London. Performing 48 Evos orchestrated by established contemporary concert composer Ben Foskett, this library is rich with both beautiful and tense symphonic string parts; all performed in situ as they would be in a score session. With each of the Evos playable across multiple ranges, an almost infinite amount of symphonic string combinations and textural layers are available for composition.
Captured in the revered acoustic of The Hall at Air Studios, using the same equipment used for the major scores, the result is emotive and musical. Digitally recorded at 96kHz via a 2” Studer tape machine, with priceless valve and ribbon mics, Neve Montserrat pre-amps into a Neve 88R desk; no expense has been spared here.
The Evo process
- Orchestrate a series of Evos (very long notes that change over time)
- Record these from low in the register to high up
- Repeat this for the different Evos
- Each Evo is placed in one column of the Evo Grid, with each row representing a pitch range (i.e. x = Evo, y = Pitch Range)
- Select which Evo sits in which range by activating ‘pegs’ on the Evo Grid (when a note is performed or programmed, it triggers the Evos pegged into that range)
- You needn’t select pegs yourself - randomise with the dice function that gives you several criteria to play with
- Make sure you save as there are a near infinite number of possible combinations
What's Included
Main Evo Grid
- Symphonic Strings Evolutions
Individual Evolutions
Traditional
- Vibrato Movement
- Ordinare to Dolce Trem
- Ordinare to Dolce Pulse
- Static Tasto to Pont
- Pulse to Sul Pont Trem
- Static Timbre Harmonics
- Ordinare to Fast Light Bow
- Pont Trem to Pulsing Bow
- Ordinare to Heavy Bow
- Tasto to Semitone Trill
- Tasto to Wholetone Trill
- Ordinare to Sul Tasto Trem
- Pont to Pont Semitone Trill
- Pont to Pont Wholetone Trill
- Tasto to Pont
- Tasto Light Bow to Dolce
- Pulse Trem to Harmonics
- Static Harmonics with Pedal
- Tasto to Semitone Trill and Pedal
- Tasto to Wholetone Trill and Pedal
Episodic
- Light Bow to Pont Overtones
- Harmonic Whisps
- Harmonic Whisps Sul Pont
- Note Phasing
- Note Phasing Sul Pont Trem
- Trem Shudders Tasto
- Trem Shudders Pont
- Pont Attacks
- Harmonic Pulse 1
- Harmonic Pulse 2
- Light Bow to Pont Overtones with Pedal
- Harmonic Pulse with Vib
- Harmonic and Ordinare Pulse
- Ordinare to Heavy Bow Harmonic Whisps
- Pont Attacks with Sul Tasto Trem
- Pont Trill with Trem Shudders
Modestly extreme
- Accented Lilting Pulse
- Pulsing downbows CS
- Cross String CS
- Bending Trem Cloud
- Heavy Bow with Pulsing Bends Up
- Heavy Bow with Pulsing Bends Down
- Harmonic Whisps with Overtones Bent Up
- Harmonic Whisps with Overtones Bent Down
- Static Harmonics with Overtones Bent Up
- Static Harmonics with Overtones Bent Down
- Trem to Shudders to Pont Attacks with Cross Strings
- Tasto to Phasing to Shudders to Pulsing Downbows
Curated presets
- 1-12 Step Down Diagonal
- 1-12 Step Up Diagonal
- 13-24 Step Down Diagonal
- 13-24 Step Up Diagonal
- 25-36 Step Down Diagonal
- 25-36 Step Up Diagonal
- 37-48 Step Down Diagonal
- 37-48 Step Up Diagonal
- A Beautiful Start
- All The Harmonics
- Bends Down
- Bends Up
- Bow Changes
- Episodic Bow Changes
- Episodic Whispers
- Shuddering Tremulations
- Soft Tremulations
- Tense Tasto
