Spitfire Audio’s new Spitfire Swarms assortment brings collectively three of its standalone libraries – Harp Swarm, Marimba Swarm, and Mandolin Swarm – right into a unified assortment for Kontakt Participant.
The Swarms assortment is suited to composers and producers seeking to craft cinematic soundscapes, recreation scores or different intricate orchestral compositions. It creates choirs from not often grouped devices, organized round AIR Studios, Lyndhurst Corridor – providing 9 harps, a marimba orchestra, plus 18 mandolins, charangos and ukuleles.
In response to a press launch shared with MusicTech, the ‘Swarms’ idea is impressed by Pointillism – a way of neo-impressionist effective artwork developed in 1886 by artist Georges Seurat, “whereby using discrete tiny dots of pure color turn into blended within the eye of the viewer with the intention of manufacturing a larger diploma of luminosity and brilliance of color”. Musically, Swarms mirrors the approach to create a fuller vary of tones, achieved as small discrete quick notes that coalesce within the ear of the listener.
Customers can experiment with a spread of articulations (lengthy tremolo, quick tremolo, lengthy pluck, quick pluck, or harmonic pluck, for instance), and may toy with user-mixable Shut, Tree, AMB. (Ambient), and OUT. (Outriggers) microphone positioning.
Every thing has been initially recorded by an array of classic microphones through Neve ‘Montserrat’ pre-amps to a Studer two-inch tape machine and onwards into the digital area (at 96K through Prism AD converters) by engineer Jake Jackson, one of many UK’s largest names in film-score engineering and mixing.
Paul Thomson, Spitfire Audio’s co-founder and composer, feedback, “These ‘Swarms’ are extremely helpful, each while you need to play longer, slow-moving chords which have an inside motion and effervescent sound as a substitute of utilizing pads or conventional orchestral longs, and likewise while you need a percussive sound not like something you’ve ever heard earlier than.” He provides, “Having 9 harps or 9 marimbas is such a singular texture to have as one other invaluable instrument to make your music stand out and sound completely different.”
Discover out extra about Swarms over at Spitfire Audio.
