Spitfire Audio continues its creative partnership with Abbey Road Studios
Spitfire Audio is excited to announce ABBEY ROAD ONE: VIBRANT REEDS, the next installment in its ABBEY ROAD series. This new library captures the sound of Abbey Road Studios’ world-famous Studio One with a vintage microphone collection and Spitfire’s award-winning virtual instrument technology. Enter the room most composers can only dream of—Abbey Road’s Studio One.
Vibrant Reeds offers a colorful selection of oboes and clarinets, including octave versions, which are enhanced by the evocative combination of oboes and cor anglais. This library includes London’s first-call session musicians, representing traditional cinematic combinations heard on countless scores, as pre-orchestrated patches for fast creative control and gorgeous realism. You have all you need to write scores for the big screen with essential and distinctive approaches such as brilliant longs, amiable staccatos, fascinating mordents, and Spitfire’s new easy-to-use legato patches.
ONE: VIBRANT REEDS is dedicated to the oboe and clarinet in octaves, but there are also a few patches with a cor anglais for added brightness. They continue to specialize in executing particular tasks exceptionally well.
ABBEY ROAD ONE: ORCHESTRAL FOUNDATIONS
Abbey Road Studios late last year, as ABBEY ROAD ONE: ORCHESTRAL FOUNDATIONS began its ABBEY ROAD ONE: FILM SCORING SELECTIONS series, which features the Studio One orchestra’s fundamental film score sound carefully recording a 90-piece symphonic orchestra inside the world’s biggest purpose-built.
ABBEY ROAD ONE: VIBRANT REEDS
The newest addition to Irregular Junes’ ever-developing orchestral series, which was meticulously recorded in the same venue as prior collections. Additional orchestrations include a dazzling combination of oboes and clarinets, performed in octaves, as well as an evocative pairing of oboes and cor anglais as classic cinematic pairings heard on numerous scores. These are presented as pre-orchestrated patches for immediate creative control and stunning realism, with additional orchestral textures.
Using its carefully chosen array of essential and distinctive skills, including glistening longs, lighthearted staccatos, tantalizing mordents, and Spitfire Audio’s newly-developed, easy-to-use legatos patches that provide all you need to create scores ready for the big screen.
STRIKING BRILLIANCE
With its newest ABBEY ROAD ONE: VIBRANT REEDS release, Spitfire Audio wonderfully captures emotional performances of two oboes and two clarinets as a pure and unsullied sound crafted in the traditional octave spacing.
The classic 19th-century orchestral repertoire is represented by an ideal array of instruments: flutes, oboes, clarinets (two or three), bassoons (two or four), horns (one to four), trumpets, and cornets. The first American composer and conductor John Williams began his illustrious career as a composer.
THE SOUND OF CINEMA
ABBEY ROAD ONE: VIBRANT REEDS includes a variety of approaches, including legato, long, staccatos, and major and minor mordents, to allow for focusing on writing expressive themes and melodies while simultaneously generating an instantly recognizable, high-quality cinematic sound.
While the Abbey Road One: Vibrant Reeds experience is, without a doubt, magnificent, realism abounds since any ABBEY ROAD ONE: VIBRANT REEDS user enters the room that most composers may only imagine of — Abbey Road Studios’ Studio One. Of course, Studio One is regarded as one of the world.
Abbey Road Studios – Studio One
Studio One was used to recording many of the world’s most popular films, including Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, and Avengers: Endgame. Studio One’s sound is widescreen and epic because of its deep tonal range and well-known reverb.
Realizes further enrichment of the already available offerings in its namesake orchestral range, ABBEY ROAD ONE: VIBRANT REEDS, which was recorded at Abbey Road Studios’ Studio One — to which it undoubtedly owes part of its instantly recognizable name: Sparkling Woodwinds | Abbey Road One, Sparkling Woodwinds & Legendary Low Strings | Abbey Road One, and, hitherto most recently, ABBEY ROAD ONE: GRAND BRASS
ABBEY ROAD ONE: VIBRANT REEDS or ABBEY ROAD ONE: FILM SCORING SELECTIONS
The fact that ABBEY ROAD ONE: VIBRANT REEDS—and, indeed, all of its ABBEY ROAD ONE: FILM SCORING SELECTIONS series siblings— offers the same first-call musicians who play on internationally renowned films at the touch of a button.
ONE: VIBRANT REEDS is a fully-fledged standalone library, recorded the same way as its users’ favorite film composers.
With amazing sound engineers, exceptional players, award-winning sound engineers, and priceless microphones that nonetheless allow them to quickly and simply produce film scores by using stunning microphone placement and mixes that are identical across all of Spitfire Audio’s ABBEY ROAD ONE: FILM SCORING SELECTIONS series — as well as all without leaving their computer chair
What is the ABBEY ROAD ONE: THE COLLECTION
Alongside ABBEY ROAD ONE: VIBRANT REEDS, Spitfire Audio is also proud to announce the availability of ABBEY ROAD ONE: THE COLLECTION, comprising all six ABBEY ROAD ONE: FILM SCORING SELECTIONS series sample libraries to date, including the aforesaid ABBEY ROAD ONE: ORCHESTRAL FOUNDATIONS that successfully cemented Spitfire Audio’s continuing creative partnership with the world-famous Abbey Road Studios late last year, to thereby allowing anyone accesses to the classic sounds of cinema — and all at an attractive price to boot. “All of these sounds really lock together absolutely perfectly and give you the sound of Studio One in Abbey Road, which, again, is such a familiar sound from film scoring.” So says the justifiably proud Paul Thomson, perfectly ending on a high note himself.
Pricing and Availability
ABBEY ROAD ONE: VIBRANT REEDS is available as an AAX-, AU-, VST2-, and VST3-compatible, NKS (Native Kontrol Standard)-a ready plug-in that loads directly into a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) at an attractive RRP (Recommended Retail Price) of only £49.00 GBP (inc. VAT)/$49.00 USD/€49.00 EUR (inc. VAT) from here:
