The electronic world of Eric Whitacre: lush, delicate, collapsing
Eternity expands the universe of Grammy-award winning composer and choirmaster Eric Whitacre into the realm of warm, ambient, degraded electronics, piano and warped choir. Made together with his new album, Eternity in an Hour, the library was recorded and produced by Spitfire Audio’s Principal Producer Harry Wilson across sessions at AIR Lyndhurst Hall, Evergreen Studios (LA) and Studio Helsinki (Antwerp). The result is a palette built for the space around orchestral writing. A modular rig built for blissful pads, shimmering drones, washed-out electronics and for frozen, disintegrating voices and felt piano.
At the heart of the setup is a modular rig centred around a Soma Lyra-8 and suite of tactile analogue synthesizers, his grandmother’s 125-year-old felt piano, and choir recordings, granularised until the words dissolve. Explore over 200 presets, designed by Spitfire Audio and six artists whose reworks form the album’s second disc, including dual-layer patches that let you morph between two sounds with a gesture.
On introductory offer until 8th December.
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- Uses the INSTRUMENT plugin
- Requires free Splice account
Listen to Eric Whitacre Eternity
Trailer Music - Paul Thomson
- Felt Piano
- Photon Dust Pad
- Galaxy Shift (Unreleased)
- Healing Flame
- Pareidolia
- Cresting
- Hold One Note
- Ruined Piano
- Rising Sun Wave (Very Long)
- Lestrata
- Ebullience
- Pulsar
- Quaver (Unreleased)
- Mm Wave (Short)
- Ooh
- Nz
- Erupting Hum
- Ah Wave
- Ooh
Aster - Tom Earl
- Whistle Mm
- Felt Piano
- Photon Wave (2s)
- Bass Wave (2s)
- Sublow LDN 4
- Drum Kit
Lens Flare - Daniel Almeida-Linke
All Things Unexpected - BlankFor.ms
Interview: The sound of Eric Whitacre
Eric Whitacre Eternity: Trailer
Key Features
His grandmother’s piano
An upright Ludwig & Co, in the Whitacre family since 1903 and still on its original felt, it holds a special place in Eric’s heart, and inspired much of his style of composition. Sampled in 4 dynamic layers with 3 round robins, pedal up and down, and presented as a close mix, a mid mix and the five signal chains.
Every sound is either born from the choir, or built to lift and to halo the choir.
ERIC WHITACRE
Play it in INSTRUMENT
Eternity plays inside INSTRUMENT, the free plugin built by Splice and Spitfire Audio. The best instruments, players and recording rooms, sampled and ready to be made your own. It’s a growing hub that already holds Spitfire’s Originals series, LABS and more.
Unleash the power of INSTRUMENT
The new home of Originals is Splice INSTRUMENT, a powerhouse engine that grows and develops with you.
- Free download INSTRUMENT is free to download and use.
- Requires Splice account You'll need a free Splice account to run INSTRUMENT - no subscription is required.
- In your DAW or standalone Loads as VST3, AU or AAX, or runs on its own as a standalone app.
- Shape every phrase Ride the volume for natural swells with Expression, or slide the Dynamics fader to shift between recorded performance layers.
- Control the space From dry and intimate to lush and spacious, blend in as much of the recording space as your track needs.
- Design your sound Sculpt your sound with additional parameters.
- Dial in your perspective Blend close and distant mics to move the listener from the player's breath to the room's outskirts.
- Your personal library Instant access to your personal INSTRUMENT library containing all your individually downloaded presets.
- Layer A One of two sounds in this preset. Transpose, tune, pan, filter and set its level without touching Layer B.
- Layer B Each layer keeps its original preset’s dials under Controls and its signal mix under Signals, so layering doesn’t strip anything out.
- XY pad Drag left and right to crossfade between the layers, and up and down for dynamics. Reassign either axis from the menus below.
- Effects Shape both layers as one sound: darken or thin them out, warm them with tape, add stereo echoes or put them in a space.
Collaborators
BlankFor.ms
New York composer weaving tape loops, synths and piano.
Lesjamusic
Textural ambience from tape, samplers and granular synths.
IDRA
Italian ambient sound artist and performer.
Luca Longobardi
Rome-based composer of immersive, architectural ambient sound.
Matt Lowery
Multi-genre composer, performer, film director and cinematographer.
Elin Piel
Crafts dreamy synth landscapes out of Gothenburg.
Eric Whitacre - the collection
Choir is an organic full moon, Contrast is a hybrid half moon, Eternity is an electronic total eclipse. Together the three hold Eric Whitacre's complete sound world.
FAQs
What is Eric Whitacre Eternity?
Eric Whitacre Eternity is Eric's new sound world in a library: the piano, processed choir and synths behind his album Eternity in an Hour. It is played in the free INSTRUMENT plugin.
Eternity includes over 200 presets, among them single and dual-layer presets built by six of Eric's artist collaborators from the album, including IDRA and BlankFor.ms.
How do I access Eternity?
Eternity plays in INSTRUMENT, the free plugin for Spitfire Audio and Splice instruments. Its dual-layer presets and XY pad are built on INSTRUMENT’s layering engine, so you can blend two sounds from Eric’s world and shape them in real time. It’s also the first Spitfire Audio flagship library in INSTRUMENT.
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Trailer Music
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