The iconic sound of cinema
Add brilliance and colour to your themes with this set of masterful performances captured in Abbey Road’s legendary Studio One.
Featuring London’s first-call session players, Vibrant Reeds offers dazzling oboes and clarinets as well as the evocative pairing of oboes and cor anglais, a classic cinematic sound heard on countless scores. With essential and unique techniques such as longs, staccatos, mordents, and Spitfire’s new easy-to-use legato patches, you have everything you need to create scores ready for the big screen.
Vibrant Reeds is available to purchase as a stand-alone library or as a powerful addition to Abbey Road One: Orchestral Foundations.
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- Compatible with NKS
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Spitfire Audio App required
Listen to Abbey Road One: Vibrant Reeds
Paul Thomson - Moonlit Forest Pursuit
Dan Keen - First Steps On New Land
Midnight, at the Gates - Lucie Treacher
Striking brilliance
Vibrant Reeds beautifully captures expressive performances of two oboes and two clarinets, a pure and pristine sound orchestrated in the traditional octave spacing, along with an additional pairing of two oboes with cor anglais for a truly evocative sound heard throughout Hollywood film scores such as E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial, Harry Potter, and Total Recall. As a commonly heard orchestral blend of woodwinds, Vibrant Reeds includes an array of techniques, including legato, long, staccato, as well as major and minor mordents, allowing you to focus on writing expressive themes and melodies while quickly creating an instantly recognisable and cinematic sound in high quality.
Performed in the unmistakable acoustics of Abbey Road’s Studio One, Vibrant Reeds further enriches the available offerings in the Abbey Road One orchestral range.
The iconic sound of cinema
Enter the room most composers can only dream of—Abbey Road’s Studio One. Considered one of the finest acoustical spaces in the world, Studio One’s history has an indelible connection with the scores recorded there, providing emotion, mood, and magic for many of the most renowned and successful films ever made. Such classics as Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, and Avengers: Endgame, all were recorded in Studio One. With its rich tonality and famed reverb, Studio One’s sound is widescreen and epic. Truly, it is the iconic sound of cinema.
Vibrant Reeds, and indeed all of the Abbey Road One Selections, puts the same first-call musicians that play on globally successful movies at your fingertips, all recorded by multi GRAMMY® Award-winning engineer Simon Rhodes (Avatar, Hugo, Harry Potter) and featuring the legendary Abbey Road microphones and outboard gear.
The four flavours of mordents available in Vibrant Reeds are ridiculously good fun to play. These sound palettes could easily take creators into an unexpected and exciting musical direction that give tracks a fresh edge.
Mirek Stiles - Head of Audio Products, Abbey Road Studios
Building on Orchestral Foundations
Expanding on Abbey Road One: Orchestral Foundations, a 90-piece symphonic orchestra that was our first partnership with Abbey Road Studios, Vibrant Reeds is a fully-fledged, stand-alone library. Recorded the same way your favourite composer would: the unmistakable acoustics of Abbey Road Studio One, exceptional players, award-winning sound engineers and priceless microphones, all allowing you to quickly and easily create film scores. Elevate your existing symphonic orchestra toolkit or pair with Orchestral Foundations to create soaring, heroic themes.
With a beautiful, modern design, Vibrant Reeds and all of the Abbey Road One Selections are housed in our award-winning plug-in, which loads directly into all major DAWs (VST2, VST3, AU, AAX & NKS-compatible) without the need for any additional software. Easy to use, intuitive and inspiring, our plug-in has been designed by composers, for composers.
Amongst the best I've heard over the last 20 years
Sound on Sound
What's Included
Articulations
- Legato (8ve)
- Long (8ve)
- Staccato (8ve)
- Vibrant Legato (8ve)
- Vibrant Long (8ve)
- Vibrant Staccato (8ve)
- Mordent Min 2nd(8ve)
- Mordent Maj 2nd (8ve)
- Mordent Min 3rd (8ve)
- Mordent Maj 3rd (8ve)
Mixes
- Mix 1
- Mix 2
Microphones
- Vintage 1
- Vintage 2
- Pop Close
- Pop Room
- Close
- Tree 1
- Tree 2
- Ambient
- Outriggers
- Spill
FAQs
Do I need to own Abbey Road One Orchestral Foundations to buy this library?
No, this library will act as a stand alone library, opening up inside the Abbey Road One plug-in. But if you were to own Abbey Road One Orchestral Foundations, it will work seamlessly together.
How does your dedicated plug-in work?
Our dedicated plug-in 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 plug-in formats, you’re good to go. This library is also NKS compatible.
I own Orchestral Foundations, how do I install a Selection?
From our Spitfire Audio App, you install the selections into your pre existing Spitfire Audio - Abbey Road One folder. For those that do not own orchestral foundations, a selection is installed to your samples drive like any other product. Should you then install Orchestral Foundations or another selection later, these get installed to your now pre existing Spitfire Audio - Abbey Road One folder.