Advanced legatos for ultimate expression
The stunning sound of a Cello section captured at Abbey Road Studios. This VST, offers an extensive range of articulations and playing styles — lyrical and performance legatos, a wide selection of longs and shorts, and control over a variety of articulations to allow you to create both intimate and epic soundscapes.
Recorded in the timeless acoustics of Abbey Road Studio One, this library also includes a hand-crafted mix signal by GRAMMY® award winner Simon Rhodes.
Expressive to the highest degree.
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Also available in Professional.
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Listen to Abbey Road Orchestra: Cellos Core
A New World - George Soulas
Desert Dance - Jo Paterson
Trailer Music - Paul Thomson
Mists of Atlantis - Paul Thomson
This is the closest we have ever got to the ‘perfect’ string sound in my head. Full of vibrancy, passion and musicality, it is a joy to play!
Paul Thomson, Spitfire Audio Co-Founder
Where performance meets precision
Meticulously recorded to allow for smooth and expressive transitions between notes, emulating the natural way a violinist shifts from one note to another without breaks. All aspects of the legato programming has been improved in both Pro and Core versions, with multiple dynamic legato intervals, and flexible interval types triggered by playing speed and/or velocity.
Professional
Expressive to the highest degree.
8 legato articulations — including extended patches — 196,000 samples, alternative attacks and 16 signal options for the ultimate nuanced expression.
Studio one: Icon of the past, innovator for the future
A host to celebrated classical recordings from Elgar to Prokofiev, as well as iconic film scores fromThe Lord Of The RingsTrilogy, The Empire Strikes Back, and more recent releasesAvengers: End GameandBlack Panther, Studio One is one of the most in-demand recording studios in the film scoring landscape. Home to one of the greatest in-house collections of vintage and modern microphones, and a control room fitted with a 72-channel Neve 88 RS console with a unique and comprehensive surround monitor section, Studio One was the perfect setting for our recording sessions, meticulously curated, recorded and programmed to deliver you the world's most detailed sampling orchestra.
What's Included
Legato Techniques
Performance Legato
A hugely detailed and highly playable legato patch which reacts in realtime to playing speed
Lyrical Legato
A relaxed legato patch for slower moving melody lines.
Long Techniques
Long
A polyphonic sustained longs patch for pads and chordal writing.
Flautando
A sustained note performed with a fast bow speed playing close to the fingerboard (sul tasto) creating a delicate and airy flute-like sound
Tremolo
A technique performed with rapid continuous bowing, creating delicate flurrying textures at lower dynamics with increasing intensity at louder volumes
Harmonics
Sustained notes produced from the overtones of the string (artificial harmonics) sounding higher than the fundamental to create glassy, suspenseful textures
Trills (Major & Minor 2nds & 3rds)
Rapid alternating between two notes.
Tremolo (Measured - 150 & 180 BPM)
Tremolo performed with a specified number of repeated notes which may be sync’d to the host DAW's tempo.
Short Techniques
Spiccatissimo
An extremely short note length performed by quickly bouncing the bow on the string - an agile technique for very fast, articulate material
Spiccato
A very short and crisp note length performed by bouncing the bow on the string creating a sprightly 'all-purpose' short articulation
Staccato
A short note length performed with the bow starting on the string, sounding clearly detached with a slight accent
Marcato
A technique performed with a strong accented front to the note - presented as a longer note length than 'staccato' with the option of Timed Release triggers
Pizzicato
A short note produced by plucking the strings with the fingers. ‘Bartok pizzicato is recorded at the very highest dynamic.
Col Legno
A technique performed by tapping the string with the back of the bow or a pencil, producing a light and woody sound
Signals
Mix 1
A full-sounding room mix by Simon Rhodes, formed from Tree 1, Overheads, Outriggers 1, and a curated blend of spots.
Testimonials
The best sounding strings I’ve ever heard.
Simon Franglen - Composer
I am blow away! Such a beautiful instrument. The most musical and playable Cello I have ever owned, the sound is so rich and lush the higher octaves bring a new magic to what I thought was possible from a sampled Cello. Epic!
Andy Gray - Composer
FAQs
What is the difference between Cellos Core and Professional?
Core and Pro share many of the same techniques and the sampling depth across many of the common techniques is the same.
Core has a single signal option (Simon Rhodes’ ‘Mix 1) whereas Pro includes additional signal options (16 in total), Professional also contains ‘Extended’ techniques and additional legato content. The 'Extended' techniques in the Pro version are the most advanced string patches we have ever created. With additional portamento and Detaché legato styles plus accented Marcato and 'soft swell' attacks for single long notes.
If I purchase Cellos Professional, do I also get Core?
Yes! If you buy the Cellos Professional library, you also get Core as an install option.