Advanced legatos for ultimate expression
The stunning sound of a world-class Clarinets a2 section - captured at Abbey Road Studios. This virtual instrument offers key articulations and playing styles: lyrical and performance legatos, a wide selection of longs and shorts, and control over a variety of articulations allowing you to create both intimate and epic soundscapes.
Recorded in the timeless acoustics of Abbey Road Studio One, this library includes two hand-crafted mix signals by GRAMMY® award winner Simon Rhodes.
Realism at the highest degree.
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For the ultimate virtual orchestra, combine Clarinets with Abbey Road Orchestra: Flutes Core, Symphonic Strings Core, as well as Low, High & Metal percussion.
Are you after the pinnacle in expression for your compositions? Want extended articulations and complete sonic control with custom mic mixes? Check out Professional.
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Listen to Abbey Road Orchestra: Clarinets Core
The Talking Blackbird - Enrico M.R. Fallea
Mangroves at Dusk - Emma Greenhill
Where performance meets precision
Abbey Road Orchestra: Clarinets captures the essence of a Clarinetist’s seamless transitions, meticulously recorded for smooth and expressive note changes. This virtual instrument is crafted to enhance playability and responsiveness, allowing you to bring your orchestral vision to life with incredible realism and to inspire new compositions with unmatched nuance and expression.
Featuring state-of-the-art legato programming, multiple dynamic legato intervals and flexible interval types triggered by playing speed, Abbey Road Orchestra: Clarinets ensures you have the ultimate tool for your creative compositional needs.
Professional
7 legato articulations — including extended patches — 122,000+ 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 from The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy*, The Empire Strikes Back*, and more recent releases Avengers: End Game and Black 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
An agile and dynamic Performance Legato patch for writing statement melodic lines and passages
Lyrical Legato
An alternative legato patch with a measured, more songlike or 'cantabile' feel - ideal for slower moving melodies.
Long Techniques
Long
A sustained note on the instrument to create lengthy single note lines or long 'pads' and chordal parts.
Long SFZ
An overblown and strong attack followed by an immediate sustained softer dynamic.
Short Techniques
Staccato
A general purpose short note length, sounding clearly detached with a slight accent.
Staccato ALT
An alternative take on a general purpose short note length, sounding clearly detached with a slight accent.
Staccatissimo
A short and crisp note length, creating a sprightly 'all-purpose' short articulation.
Marcato
A technique performed with a strong accented front to the note - presented as a longer note length than 'Tenuto' with the option of Timed Release triggers.
Tenuto
A technique performed with a small accented front to the note - presented as a shorter note length than 'Marcato'.
Long Flutter
A sustained flutter technique, characterised by a delicate airy sound, achieved by fast articulation close to the embouchure.
Trills (Major 2nds, Minor 2nds, Minor 3rds)
Rapid alternating between two notes.
Signals
Mix 1
A full-sounding room mix by Simon Rhodes, formed from Tree 1, Overheads, Outriggers 1, and a curated blend of spots.
FAQs
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CLARINETS 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) for microscopic control over your mix.
Professional also contains ‘Extended’ techniques and additional short articulations.
The 'Extended' techniques in the Pro version are the most advanced Woodwinds patches we have ever created, featuring accented Marcato and 'soft swell' attacks for single long notes.
FAQs
What is the difference between Abbey Road Orchestra and Abbey Road One?
Abbey Road Orchestra - Low Percussion is part of the Abbey Road Orchestra product line. Crafted for professional composers, producers, sound designers and music editors, Abbey Road Orchestra brings you every section of the orchestra in breathtaking detail. It’s the culmination of over 20 years of sampling experience and innovation.
Abbey Road One is a range of ensemble libraries captured in Studio One at Abbey Road, created by Spitfire Audio in partnership with Abbey Road Studios. This is made up of a core library called Abbey Road One: Orchestral Foundations, and then smaller libraries called Abbey Road One: Film Scoring Selections series.
The Selections are smaller and more focused libraries inspired by classic films, offering pre-orchestrated instrument pairings and themes. Featuring pre-arranged ensembles of classic orchestral pairings, each Selection is designed to help you accomplish a simple task phenomenally well.
What makes Abbey Road Orchestra modular?
Over the coming years, Spitfire will release each section of the orchestra, bit by bit in huge detail. Similar to that of the BML / Sable range in Spitfire's history, each section can be purchased separately to suit your needs. The practical difference is that each Abbey Road Orchestra release will install into the same plugin, ensuring you don't need to load multiple different libraries as it will all be housed in one plugin.