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Film scoring selections
The Collection brings together Abbey Road One: Orchestral Foundations and all Film Scoring Selections, everything you need to create world-class cinematic scores. All recorded in the world’s most celebrated recording location Abbey Road's Studio One — from Star Wars and Lord of the Rings, to Harry Potter and Avengers: Endgame — the sound of cinema.
This series delivers a complete 90–piece symphonic orchestra captured in the same way your favourite composer would: unmistakable acoustics, exceptional players, award-winning sound engineers and priceless microphones. Offering strings, brass and woodwinds grouped into ensembles for instant playability, and completed by an exciting cinematic percussion section, all housed in our award-winning dedicated plug-in.
What's included
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There is magic in the air at Abbey Road Studios – the essence of countless incredible film scores that have been recorded there. While Abbey Road is best known for legendary recordings by The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Kanye West, Florence + The Machine and many others, Abbey Road Studio One has been at the forefront of film music for decades – providing the emotion, mood and magic for many of the most successful films ever made.
This unique room has played host to numerous notable film scores, spanning Star Wars: Episode VI — Return of the Jedi, Raiders of the Lost Ark (John Williams), Hollow Man (Jerry Goldsmith), and Aliens (James Horner), The Lord of the Rings trilogy (Howard Shore), several Harry Potter scores, King Arthur (Hans Zimmer), and Gravity (Steven Price) through to more recent game and films releases such as the multi-award-winning The Shape of Water (Alexandre Desplat), Black Panther (Ludwig Göransson), 1917 (Thomas Newman), Avengers: Endgame (Alan Silvestri), Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (Gordy Haab & Stephen Barton), Uncharted 3 (Greg Edmonson), Halo 4 (Neil Davidge), and Final Fantasy XV (Yoko Shimomura).
The film scoring orchestra
At Spitfire Audio, our approach is to always record sample libraries in the same way that film scores are recorded, and this release is no exception. Abbey Road One puts the same first-call musicians used on globally-successful movies at your fingertips – a 90-piece symphonic orchestra playing priceless instruments, all recorded by multi GRAMMY® Award-winning engineer Simon Rhodes (Avatar, Hugo, Harry Potter) and the legendary Abbey Road equipment.
Perfect for writing orchestral film, TV and game scores, Abbey Road One gives you all access to the whole orchestra – strings, brass, woodwinds and percussion — capturing the key set of orchestral sounds that composers use the most. The stunningly orchestrated pairings of instruments, found in the small Selections libraries, take inspiration from classic scores captured in Abbey Road's Studio One. These are delivered in easy-to-use patches of incredible quality, also featured are the Legatos which have been produced by Spitfire's in house development team using all-new technology. Watch the walkthroughs to hear these sounds in action.
There’s a magic in the air, it’s the essence of composers who’ve recorded here.
Paul Thomson
Co-Founder of Spitfire Audio
Instant movie magic
Abbey Road One: Orchestral Foundations is the core of this package, comprised of strings (16, 14, 12, 10, 8), brass (four horns, four trumpets, three trombones, two bass trombones, one contrabass trombone, one tuba, and one contrabass tuba); and woodwinds (piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, one cor anglais, two clarinets, one bass clarinet, two bassoons, and one contrabass bassoon); and percussion, performed by three players on a stunning selection of instruments.
Organised into ensembles (sections of instruments), Abbey Road One springs out of the box, pre-orchestrated – helping you sketch your musical ideas quickly and easily. You do not need to understand the detailed inner workings of the orchestra to create stunning compositions.
Strings are split into Low and High, brass into Low, Horns and Trumpets and woodwind into Low and High. There is a stunning and unique selection of percussion, as well as a stirring full symphonic orchestral patch – all recorded together in the room at the same time. All these patches are intuitive to use and instantly effective, helping you just let your creativity flow.
With a beautiful, modern design, Abbey Road One is 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.
The Collection brings together Orchestral Foundations and all Film Scoring Selections, providing you with even more articulations, legato patches and mic positions. Deep, powerful cello and bass sections. Fast, flowing, flute and piccolo. Tuba, horns, glockenspiel and more. Everything you need to create cinematic scores, inspired by your favourite blockbuster movies.
FAQs
What is a bundle?
A bundle is a cost-effective way to purchase a curated selection of libraries at a discounted rate.
Tell me more about the Abbey Road One: Orchestral Foundations and the other Selections available.
Abbey Road One: Orchestral Foundations is the first in a series of Film Scoring Selections, all recorded in Studio One. Abbey Road One: Sparkling Woodwinds, Abbey Road One: Legendary Low Strings, Abbey Road One: Wondrous Flutes, Abbey Road One: Grand Brass, and Abbey Road One: Vibrant Reeds are smaller and more focused libraries inspired by classic films offering pre-orchestrated instrument pairings.
Each of these Selections is designed to help you accomplish a simple task phenomenally well – such as creating achingly beautiful melodic low string lines with just one simple legato patch. They will work seamlessly alongside Orchestral Foundations as well as on their own. Priced at £49 $49 49€ you can pick and choose from these Selections to build your own palette of Abbey Road One instruments.
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.nts.