Angular String Evolutions
Tense, spine-tingling evolutions
Tense, spine-tingling evolutions
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Spitfire Audio App required
14 string players
48 evolutions / 22 presets
6 mic signals
Dedicated plugin
Listen to Angular String Evolutions
Features other Spitfire Audio libraries
Features other Spitfire Audio libraries

What is an Evo?

The Grid
What's included
Instruments
String Chamber Ensemble (4,3,3,3,1)
Articulations
Simple
- Tender — lyrical
- Tender — emotive
- Simple — shimmer
- Soft simple — searing
- Gossamer bright waves
- Tender — shudder
- Plainsong — patina
- Bright — lense flare
- Beauty — patina
- Baroque — textured
- Timed — confident
- Uncertain — more certain
- Innocent — grandiose
- Tender — plucked layer
- Searing — lense flare
- Shimmer — grandiose
Scary
- Soft simple — operatic
- Gossamer — floating
- Bold — floating
- Simple — insects
- Beauty — operatic
- Searing — operatic
- Shimmering — upwards
- Bright — diving bright
- Warm — siren song
- Bright — descent/ascent
- Tender — collapse/reform
- Diving birds — en masse
- Plucks — ascending
- Bright — ascent (with pedal)
- Searing — ascent (with pedal)
- Soft simple — ascent (with pedal)
- Warm — descent (with pedal)
- Simple pedal — diving birds (with pedal)
- Tender — ascending plucks (with pedal)
- Searing — ascending plucks (with pedal)
Tense
- Tender — grind
- Simple — plucks
- Bold — lense flair
- Plucks — en masse
- Soft — accelerating siren
- Soft — beautiful siren
- Bright shimmer — choral
- Sticks — en masse
- Still — patina
- Shimmer — building
- Tender pedal — sticks (with pedal)
- Uncertain — sticks patina (with pedal)
Curated presets
Simple
- A rather nice start — bright
- Bent unease — dark
- Close to home — bright
- Scary strings — dark
- Warm wobble — bright
- A good start — bright
- Angular beauty — bright
- Plucked tension — dark
- Reflex pads — bright
- Soft waves — dark
- Subtle dirt — dark / distorted
Intense
- Find the pitch — dark
- Go pluck yourself — dark
- Moderate reflex — dark
- Outer space strings — bright
- Pitch this — dark
- Is it broken — dark / distorted
- Is it more broken — dark / distorted
- Maddening bends — dark
- Obtuse distortion — dark / distorted
- Reversed hits — bright
Mics & mixes
Close
- A tight, dry mix
Tweaked
- A compressed version of Close with occasional glitches
Ambient
- Reverberant and atmospheric
Distorted
- A full-on, gritty signal, useful for adding some dirt into the mix
Stretch X2
- The Close mix stretched to be twice the length, giving the sounds a more ethereal quality
Stretch X8
- The Close mix stretched to eight times the length, to slow down busy evolutions
FAQs
What software do I need to run the Spitfire Evolution libraries?
For Angular String Evolutions, Fragile String Evolutions and Woodwind Evolutions we provide an AU, VST2, VST3 and AAX, so as long as your chosen DAW supports one of those plugin formats, you’re good to go.
What are Evolutions, and what is an Evo Grid?
Evolutions are long notes that change over time then loop seamlessly back to the beginning. In our “Evo Grid”, you can select different evolutions based on the range of the note you are playing.
Read more FAQs for this productTech specs
Mac system requirements
Mac OS 11, 12 or 13
Minimum: 2.8GHz i5 minimum (quad-core), 8GB RAM
Recommended: 2.8GHz I7 (six-core), 16GB RAM
32-bit systems are not supported.
Intel-based Apple computers only - Apple Silicon/ARM beta can be installed here
PC system requirements
Windows 10 or Windows 11 - (Latest Service Pack, 64-bit)
Minimum: Intel 2.8 GHz i5 (quad-core) or AMD Ryzen 5, 8GB RAM
Recommended: Intel Core i7 6th gen and later or AMD Ryzen 7, 16GB RAM
32-bit systems are not supported.
File size
33.00 GB disk space required during install
32.70 GB download size
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