Walkthrough
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Refract, bloom, soar
From AIR Studios, to the edge of the world. We’ve collaborated with Hans Zimmer’s prestigious scoring collective Bleeding Fingers Music (Frozen Planet II, Planet Earth II, Blue Planet II) and London’s finest string players to create a new kind of small ensemble library — featured in BBC’s Frozen Planet II.
Fractured Strings introduces an innovative approach to articulations that offers inspirational surprises through intervallic performances and new modal colours, delivering unparalleled depth and realism. With these emotive musical gestures and our new Scale Mode technology, this library lends itself perfectly to cellular, ambient, and neoclassical composing — reflecting the intricacies, patterns and contrasts found in natural phenomena.
Featuring an eight-piece string ensemble and two soloists, these sounds have been brought to life in the unparalleled acoustics of AIR Lyndhurst Hall, complete with 15 signal paths. With infinite intervallic possibilities, you can take these strings anywhere — to places of warmth, grit, darkness or light.
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- Compatible with NKS
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Spitfire Audio App required
Listen to Fractured Strings
Cracks In The Foundations - Dan Keen
Young At Heart - Homay Schmitz
Opal - CAIROXVI.
Fractured Strings Trailer Music - Paul Thomson
Frugal - Oliver Patrice Weder
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In creating Fractured Strings, we worked closely with the Spitfire team and London’s best players to represent the natural phenomena of splintering ice and the individuality of snowflakes in musical performances — creating a toolkit that became the foundation of our score for the show.
James Everingham & Adam Lukas
Composers (Frozen Planet II)
A new force of nature
This is a new kind of chamber string library, designed to infuse warmth, colour, and humanity into the gestures, leaps, and cellular motifs that you compose — as well as to inspire you with surprising intervallic and modal possibilities. These strings refract, bloom and soar across 100+ seventh-reaches, two-note statements, swelling rotations, pizzicato strums, and soaring chord extensions.
Elevate your scores with Scale Mode
Introducing our new Scale Mode technology — select from any of the seven diatonic modes or build your own scale by simply clicking the notes you want included. From there, it intelligently selects the right samples that conform to the scale you’ve entered, split by velocity, developing their intervallic string techniques and triggering wider intervals at higher velocities for endless inspiration.
AIR Studios at its most spellbinding
To capture tiny, intimate moments unfolding across a vast, uncaring landscape, we brought a small section of London’s finest string players to the mammoth AIR Lyndhurst Hall, home of blockbuster scores. Together, these eight players, the Bleeding Fingers Music team, and our own collective of composers, conductors, and engineers collaborated to create a vast suite of short leaps, gestures and swells. The resulting sound makes for a sublime companion to other libraries recorded at AIR Studios, including other small string section libraries such as Albion Neo, Chamber Strings, and Olafur Arnalds Chamber Evolutions.
The vast space of the hall really reflected the extremes that we were scoring in the natural world…
James Everingham, Bleeding Fingers Music
Extreme scoring
For Frozen Planet II, Bleeding Fingers Music and the show’s composers Hans Zimmer, James Everingham and Adam Lukas were looking for a library that could score not only scenes of frozen silence, but also scenes of action, tension, crisis and drama. Rather than imitating the whispering textures of glacial rivers, Fractured Strings offers a spectrum of sounds and textures that reflect the planet’s fuller-voiced, more melodic moments, from microscopic to grand gestures. The result is a library with potential far beyond the world’s end.
Bleeding Fingers Music
Emmy-winning and BAFTA-nominated Bleeding Fingers is an exciting, diverse composer collective hand-selected and mentored by Hans Zimmer. They were awarded an Emmy for Outstanding Music Composition for BBC's Primates, Emmy nominations for BBC’s Planet Earth II and Nat Geo's Being the Queen, plus two Webby awards for the BBC’s groundbreaking 13 Minutes To The Moon.
Hailing from eight countries we embrace and nurture our deep musical heritage to deliver a sonic depth that is second to none. Housed in state-of-the-art studios on Hans Zimmer’s world-renowned Santa Monica campus and supported by a best-in-class production team, Bleeding Fingers is equipped to produce music at the very highest standard.
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What's Included
Instruments
- 4 Violin
- 4 Celli
- Solo Violin
- Solo Cello
Features
NEW — Scale Mode
Select from any of the seven diatonic modes or build your own scale by simply clicking the notes you want included
Evo Grid
Allows the user to map multiple instrument articulations and sounds across the keyboard for ease of use. Use classic evo grid features like ‘randomise’ to discover special accidents
Articulations
42 Violin Fractures
- Orchestral flourishes, covering 10 varieties of chords. Includes a 'Speed' parameter
54 Violin Techniques
- 15 Statements: Same note (7) short phrases which resolve to the same note they started with. Up / Down (7) short phrases moving up or down from the centre (played) note
- 10 Splinters (Up/Down): Natural harmonics played with up and down variations
- 14 Rotations (Up/Down): Seven slow trill articulations, extending up from the centre (played) note, tempo synced to 120 bpm
- 7 Dispersals: Loose ‘aleatoric’ trills with varying speed. Also features a scale mode option
- 3 Declamatory Shorts: Normale, Sul Pont, Harmonic
- 2 Pizzicato Strums: Three note chords extending up in 4ths from the played note
- 3 7th Reaches (tempo-synced): Three Articulations, reaching from root to 7th, with a passing note
51 Cello Techniques
- 15 Statements: Same note (7) short phrases which resolve to the same note they started with. Up / Down (7) short phrases moving up or down from the centre (played) note
- 10 Splinters (Up/Down): Natural harmonics played with up and down variations
- 14 Rotations (Up/Down): Seven slow trill articulations, extending up from the centre (played) note, tempo synced to 120 bpm
- 7 Dispersals: Loose ‘aleatoric’ trills with varying speed. Also features a scale mode option
- 3 Declamatory Shorts: Normale, Sul Pont, Harmonic
- 2 Pizzicato Strums: Three note chords extending up in 4ths from the played note
9 Solo Violin Arps
- Solo instruments only covering a wide range of chords - tempo synced to 120bpm
9 Solo Cello Arps
- Solo instruments only covering a wide range of chords - tempo synced to 120bpm
12 signal paths
- Tree
- Outriggers
- Ambient
- Stereo Mix
- Stereo Ribbon Mix
- Gallery
- Close Valve
- Close Ribbon
- Close Ultra
- Close Valve Wide Pan
- Close Ribbon Wide Pan
- Close Ultra Wide Pan
Mixes
- Big Mix
- Medium Mix
- Small Mix
FAQs
HOW DOES YOUR DEDICATED PLUGIN WORK?
Our dedicated plugin libraries work as standalone instruments in your DAW, meaning that no serial number is provided and the authorisation process happens during your download. We provide an AU, VST2, VST3 and an AAX, so as long as your chosen DAW supports one of those plugin formats, you’re good to go.
DOES THE LIBRARY TEMPO SYNC TO MY DAW?
Only specific articulations will sync to your DAW's tempo. This is because dispersals are loose and aleatoric, so aren’t suited to tempo syncing. Statements function more naturally when not tempo synced.
The following articulations will be tempo synced:
- Violins Rotations
- Violins 7th Reaches
- Celli Rotations
- Solo Violin Arps
- Solo Cello Arps