Spitfire Audio – Orchestral Swarm (KONTAKT)

A new innovative standard in the sample orchestral library, which will greatly expand your existing orchestral palette to include a huge variety of completely unique textures. As an alternative to the simple use of simple long notes, this library relies on the point effect of several players playing short notes at random intervals to create a wavy sound that can be executed in real-time to produce impressive results. Adopting the “Swarm” approach but adapted for orchestra, it gives access to even more detail, using a huge variety of articulations and styles of orchestral instruments and giving your compositions a liquid dynamic that will dance next to the imagining. This library was created exclusively in collaboration with Bleeding Fingers and featured in Blue Planet ii and Hans Zimmer/Radiohead in collaboration with “(ocean) bloom”.
New Orchestral Sound: This library is an innovative collaboration with Bleeding Fingers (Planet Earth II, Sons Of Liberty, Roman Empire: Reign Of Blood), who wanted to create this library for use in the BBC’s flagship series: Blue Planet II. The effect will be a granular “cloud” of notes – beautiful long sound textures created from layers of micro-moments that will be used instead of the more traditional long notes. Now we at Spitfire are well aware of this approach – this is the method we use for our Swarm libraries, and this opportunity has pushed us to conquer new territory – to use the power of the orchestra with this technique. We quickly delivered the original library for the team from Bleeding Fingers to use exclusively for the show. Hans Zimmer and Radiohead even continued to use it as part of their “(ocean) bloom” collaboration. We then returned to the studio to record even more with the orchestra, including short notes and extended techniques and layers to create the most complete instrument for media composers. This new textural approach to orchestral samples will add life to your arrangements. Join the pioneers of contemporary concert music.
Ocean of Possibilities:The library consists of various ensembles of string, brass and woodwind instruments, recorded individually and using the Swarm point approach, using the most idiomatic methods for these instruments. Many of these sounds have never been sampled before. We used a wide range of techniques and combined them using the “Swarm” approach (where players each randomly play short notes to create a beautifully random cloud of sound) to give a vastly increased sound palette to your existing orchestra. The included individual ensemble shots also expand your possibilities, allowing you to add a rhythmic element to your work. In addition, the two reverberations provided on board – the hard “studio” sound and the longer “hall” sound – give a breeze when mixed with your orchestral libraries.