We chaps at Spitfire are delighted to announce SOLO STRINGS – our forthcoming library of three extraordinary soloists recorded in the wonderful Air Studios in London.

The library will be released on Nov 14th. You will need the full version of Kontakt 4 to use the library, which will be watermarked to protect your investment.

The ethos of this library is to provide a tool for sketching out Soloist lines, for adding detail to your existing libs, and with an absolute minimum of fuss, to get a superb sound out of the box.

To that end, we have carefully selected the most useful articulations, and recorded them in two ways, the legato patches have a single mixed mic balance, with a control to allow you to vary the size of the Hall reverb tails. The reason for this is that solo strings legato with multiple mics in our experience, is not with our current technology controllable enough for us to guarantee a perfect sound whatever mix you choose.

However, outside of legato, we have multimic patches with three user controllable mic positions, so that you can still have a lot of control over the sound you want.

In short, a very useful addition to any composer’s toolkit, with the sound and passion of world class players in a great studio.

The price is £179 RRP (plus VAT @20% if you are in Europe.)

Demos will come over the next few weeks, for now we are still busy refining and making things perfect, but we wanted to give plenty of time for our clients to plan their preorder purchase.

To purchase click here:

Here are some more details about the articulations. We have enough material to construct separate Violin 2 patches as well, which we will be working on prior to release.

V1.0 will include:

Violin: (Andrew Haveron)

3x True legato: Slurred, Bowed & Portamento
Longs MV (molto vibrato)
Longs V (vibrato)
Longs NV (senza vibrato or no vib’)
Spiccato RR (round robin) x4
Staccato RR x4
Pizzicato RRx4
Harmonics long
Harmonics short RR x4

Viola: (Bruce White)

2x True legato: Slurred & Portamento
Longs MV
Longs NV
Spiccato RR x4
Staccato RR x4

‘Cello: (Caroline Dale)

3x True legato: Slurred, Bowed & Portamento
Longs MV
Longs V
Longs NV
Spiccato RR x4
Pizzicato RRx4
Harmonics long
Harmonics short RR x4

We will be going back into the hall in the new-year to pick up some missing articulations but wanted to get you guys a working V1.0 so we can get feedback before completing production.

THIS WILL BE A WATERMARKED LIBRARY AVAILABLE FROM US DIRECT AND REQUIRES A FULL VERSION OF NATIVE INSTRUMENTS KONTAKT TO RUN.

FOR WIP TECHNICAL DEMOS GO HERE.