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Multidimensional synth textures
Unleash your narrative by delving into a world of colour. Spectrum has been created in collaboration with composer, producer and DJ, Henrietta Smith-Rolla, also known as AFRODEUTSCHE — an innovator known both for her techno house productions and piano-based scores. This toolkit of manipulated, multi-dimensional synth textures and tempo-synced loops provides you with cutting-edge sounds to inspire and enrich your own sound world — from the dance floor to your next score.
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Listen to Henrietta Smith-Rolla — Spectrum
Night Time - Afrodeutsche
Panorama - Leo Wyatt
Trailer music - Louis Rugg
Ultraviolet - Mark Summerell
Story telling with sound
Playthrough - Power Wave
Spectrum is designed to be a useful tool for everyone, including people like me who don’t read music, or don’t have that sort of language.
Henrietta Smith-Rolla
Features
- 50 presets of multi-dimensional synth sounds — from pads to tempo-synced loops and percussion
- Made by warping and manipulating sounds made using Smith-Rolla's unique synth collection, including the Kyma, a visual programming language for sound design, famously used in films such as Wall-E and The Dark Knight
- A wide range of controls: Stereo Spread, Attack, Release, Reverb, Delay, Stretch, Distort
- 7 reverb options
- Available in our free and easy-to-use dedicated plug-in
- Instant access to a wide variety of inspiring sounds, designed for creating expressive music and unique soundscapes
- From contemporary electronic music to hybrid, modern film composition
Four sections
- Spectral Phases
- Spectral Rhythms
- Spectral Reflections
- Spectral Percussion
Spectrum
The Spectrum sample library has been released in conjunction with Henrietta Smith-Rolla's score for the documentary film Kamali. This concept is an invitation for musicians and producers to reimagine, recreate or completely pull apart the sound world of an artist to facilitate their own vision.
One rule I gave myself in the sampling process was whatever sound I had at the beginning, it could sound nothing like that by the end.
Henrietta Smith-Rolla
Kamali
This powerful BAFTA-nominated documentary film, directed by Sasha Rainbow, centers on a seven-year-old skateboarder challenging gender roles in India. Across six minimalist sketches, Smith-Rolla uses recurrent themes and motifs to craft gentle melancholia in unconventional forms, and in reducing her setup to just the piano, we are given a glimpse into a different side of her musicality. Using a simple arrangement of sparse harmonies and delicate melodies, Kamali distills moments of serenity into a series of introspective wanderings.
Henrietta Smith-Rolla
Henrietta Smith-Rolla, aka AFRODEUTSCHE, is a British-born Ghanaian/Russian/German artist, composer, producer, and DJ based in Manchester, UK. Her polyrhythmic compositions integrate a wide array of musical genres, including Afrofuturistic electro and techno, classical solo piano and Detroit legacy house; all memorable journeys into deep, abstracted sound. Known for her NTS Radio residency, her recent catalog includes an EP, RR001, followed by her 2019 debut album, Break Before Make, released on Skam. Smith-Rolla has written and performed scores for films and documentaries including the BAFTA-nominated ‘Kamali’ and renowned Earth documentary ‘Baraka’.
Not classically trained, Henrietta used colour and number systems to learn pieces of music. Her aim with Spectrum is to make composition accessible to all, offering producers and composers of all levels an inspiring tool for storytelling.
What's Included
Spectral phases
- Sands
- Organ Donar
- Diverse Solar
- Open Mind
- Spectral Leakage
- Space Foxtrot
- Chamber Trill
- Kinetic Fibre
- Rapid Shores
- Soft Joy
- Watts The Story
- Vail
- Mane
- Blipper
- Kriegspiel
- Center-fire
- Buzzer On
Spectral reflection
- Horrid Lead
- Wonky Strobe
- The Doctor
- Atmosphere
- Bright Spark
- Solidly Tangible
- Dial M for Mars
- Harmonic Atmos
- Insect Noise
- Blades
- Ragged Boom
- Savage
- Velvet Light
- Resonant Chaos
- Raymond Scott
- Through Smoke
- Airy Fizz
- Impedance Day
- Ruy Lopez
- Phane
- Valiant
- Distance
- Pure Temporal
Spectral rhythms
- Hack
- Atomic Touch
- Rhythmic Chords
- Power Wave
- Wild Spark
Spectral percussion
- Soap
- Drum Set
- Square Tuesday
- Popper
- Pound Cake
Videos
Playthrough - Wonky Strobe
FAQs
How do I add this library into Kontakt?
You don’t! Spectrum is a dedicated, free to use plugin available as VST2, VST3, AAX and AU, so it can be used directly in your favourite DAW.
What software will I need to install it?
You will only need the Spitfire Audio App which you can download here.