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Spitfire Audio has announced the release of Sable Volume 2, a string library for Native Instruments Kontakt.

Spitfire are delighted to release the hotly anticipated second volume in our detailed new String library. Volume 2 contains the Violin 2 section (providing you with a smaller totally different group of violinists, sat in a different position to give you a true orchestral spread), Viola and Bass sections, and between volumes 1 and 2 you have an incredibly beautiful and dynamic, responsive collection of players.

Each section is fully controllable individually, and is recorded with 7 mic positions, through rare and classic mics in one of the greatest recording studios in the world, through Neve ‘Montserrat’ mic pres and then on through the Neve 88R onto tape, and finally through Prism converters into Protools at 96k. We present the library in Kontakt 4.2.4 and higher format (FULL VERSION OF KONTAKT REQUIRED) at 48k, 24bit.

The sample library is available to purchase for the introductory price of £299 GBP until May 14th, 2013 (regular £399 GBP). Prices ex VAT.

More information: Spitfire Audio / Sable Volume 2

Spitfire Audio has announced the release of Hg2O, a new sample library for Native Instruments Kontakt.

Hg2O is a set of samples performed by Paul Clarvis of a metallic atonal acoustic musical instrument consisting of a stainless steel resonator bowl or pan with a cylindrical neck and bronze rods of different lengths and diameters around the rim of the bowl. The resonator may contain a small amount of water giving the waterphone a vibrant ethereal sound that has appeared in countless movie soundtracks, record albums, and live performances.

Recorded by Jake Jackson at Lyndhurst Hall – Air Studios, one of the finest scoring stages in the world, through a huge array of priceless vintage microphones via Neve “monserrat” pre-amps to a Studer 2″ tape machine and then into digital at 96k via the best Prism AD converters.

They’ve sampled deeply both bowed or drummed with movements to affect the water inside. This creates the resonant characteristics of the bowl and rods in combination with the movement of the water. The sound of the waterphone is often used to evoke mystery and suspense.

The Hg2O library is available to purchase for the introductory price of £33 GBP (RRP £44) for the next 10 days. Requires Kontakt full version.

More information: Spitfire Audio / Hg2O

Spitfire Audio has released version 4 of the first volume of Albion, a sound library for Native Instruments Kontakt.

The finest orchestral sessions musicians playing the finest, rarest instruments, recorded at Air Studios – Lyndhurst Hall, London, through the finest vintage, valve, and ribbon mics to 2″ tape. The only tape based orchestral library in the world. This is all you need to write epic sounding, widescreen cinematic orchestral music straight out of the box. Recorded in sections, this library features rich aggressive and lyrical strings, punchy, growling brass and some seriously malevolent woodwinds.

Albion features

• Unified patches to bring all articulations of an instrument into a single NKI with keyswitching.
• New ‘Combined’ patches to merge Lo/Hi sections instead of cumbersome MULTIS.
• New ‘Time Machine’ patches to stretch/squash the short samples time-wise.
• New ‘Overlay’ patches to easily blend Albion with Loegria/Iceni/Sable/Solo Strings.
• New ‘The Cog’ patches to tweak the instrument on a granular level to your preference.
• The latest version of Spitfire’s Ostinatum machine (configurable keyswitches, multiple tracks, etc.).
• Highly configurable articulation mapping (assign and group articulations to notes, CCs, velocities and MIDI channels).
• Customisable CC can be used to quickly change articulation (defaults to CC32).
• Expression control added to all patches.
• ADSR control added to the Stephenson/Brunel patches.
• Route a microphone’s output by clicking the mic title.
• Improved Round Robin reset options such as ‘Reset from’ and ‘Reset on transport’.
• ‘Presets’ allows you to quickly purge/unpurge articulations defined for various situations.
• Holding alt when dragging a mic slider prevents purge/unpurge.
• And many many more tweaks and fixes.

Albion is available to purchase for £349 GBP ex. VAT. The v4 update is free to Albion users.

More information: Spitfire Audio / Albion

Spitfire Audio has announced Grand Cimbalom, a concert hammered dulcimer sample library for Native Instruments Kontakt.

Spitfire are delighted to present Greg Knowles playing his Grand Cimbalom in the hall at Air Studios, London, one of the greatest recording studios in the world. Sampled with 4 round robins and 2 dynamics as single hits, and of course the characteristic tremolando.

Recorded through the finest mics via Neve “Montserrat” pre-amps and Prism AD converters. The Spitfire Cimbalom joins our Harpsichord and Harp as the definitive VI in its class. The Cimbalom is presented with 4 mic positions (Close, Tree, Ambient, Outriggers) and is designed to be used in conjunction with a full version of Kontakt 4.2.4 or Kontakt 5. (This will not work with the free Kontakt Player.)

The Grand Cimbalom library is available at a 25% discount for a limited time, priced at £41 GBP (regular £55 GBP).

Spitfire has also announced Sable, a new series of strings sound libraries featuring 1st and 2nd violins, violas, cellos and contrabasses.

After many years of development experienced Spitfire will present this library with a user interface and set of features unprecedented in any library to date. With 7 mic positions, recorded at 96k through vintage valve and ribbon mics to tape through Neve premaps and Prism convertors, and presented at 48k, 24bit in Kontakt format, and additionally three extremely useful ‘mixed’ versions presented in Stereo and 5.1 Surround.

Sable is presented in modular volumes and consists of the finest players London has to offer, playing in the hall at Air Studios, regarded as one of the greatest scoring stages in the world.

Sable Volume 1 is due for release in February 2013, for an introductory price of £299 GBP (RRP £399 GBP).

More information: Spitfire Audio

Spitfire Audio has announced the release of Albion III – Iceni, a sample library for Native Instruments Kontakt.

Albion III – Iceni for Native Instruments Kontakt.

In true Christmas spirit, Paul & Christian have created the Christmas present we all deserve to give ourselves! Low End Armageddon!

The largest low end orchestra recorded for a commercial library. A collection of over 300 super fat loops created by some exciting emerging UK production and programming talent. An amazingly super chunky rhythm, pattern, pad and massively bassy synth with sounds derived from the orchestral content and a thundering collection of the lowest and largest drums available in London played by the leader and members of the Olympic opening ceremony drum-corps. Your sub woofer is never going to forgive you for this purchase.

Albion III is being launched at a 25% discount off the retail price of £339 GBP. This offer is available until January 3rd, 2013. It also includes a 15% off discount for future purchases.

Spitfire Audio has also announced the release of 4 new free Labs instruments.

In thanks for your labs support in 2012 (we are currently the 5th largest donator to Unicef via the JustGiving site) we would like to gift you a fantastic freebie. Ollie’s Drums is a fantastically versatile and playable kit featuring the talents of exciting new drumming talent Ollie Waton and engineer Stanley Gabriel who recorded and mixed them.

Until the 6pm GMT on the 3rd of January 2013 this is a true freebie available to all labs members with NO Unicef donation required.

We are also happy to announce our 2012 xmas Unicef campaign with the release of a further 3 labs instruments. A quirky Indian Banjo, the moody Frame Drum, and The Colonel – Christian’s battered old Wurlitzer stage piano, multisampled with round robins and dynamic layers. All available today at a £2 minimum donation each.

More information: Spitfire Audio / Albion III

Spitfire Audio has updated its Albion II – Loegria orchestral cinematic composing sample library for Native Instruments Kontakt to version 1.1.

We thank the VI community for their endless enthusiasm regarding this extraordinary set of tools and are proud to announce an update that offers some MAJOR new functionality to a module that is not even two months old!

We look forward to retroactively adding all this and much of Albion II’s feature-set and style-of-use back to the original volume of thundering cinematic delights in ALBION I soon. But for now, here’s the new stuff.

Changes in Albion II – Loegria v1.1

• Support in all patches for polyphonic legato sequencing using velocity splitting.
• Ability to move the articulation keyswitches around by dragging the slider underneath the articulation name.
• Time Machine patches for the shorts of every instrument in ‘_Time Machine patches_’ folder (user the ‘Time M’ slider in the UI).
• Extended legato range for Strings Hi Legato/Half Legato..
• String sustains and legato articulations have a stronger attack when using high velocity (in polylegato mode the Speed slider controls this)..
• OSTINATUM : ‘Enable keyswitch control’ allows you to toggle Ostinatum mode with configurable keyswitches.
• OSTINATUM : ‘Enable keyswitch soloing’ allows you to solo specific Ostinatum patterns via configurable keyswitches.
• OSTINATUM : ‘Mute this pattern’ available in pattern config to mute/unmute specific patterns..
• Major Sandbox Engine optimisations to improve performance on low end machines..
• Various minor bug fixes and tweaks.

The Kontakt Player powered Albion II library is available to purchase for £329 GBP ex. VAT. The version 1.1 update is free for Albion II users.

More information: Spitfire Audio / Albion II – Loegria