A new dawn for epic scoring
A new era in blockbuster scoring is upon us. Our most epic library yet, this gargantuan, all-in-one toolkit pushes contrast, dynamism and intensity to eleven — elevating your scores to breathtaking new heights.
Action films are nothing without suspense. This feat of musical engineering offers every element needed to seamlessly transport your scores from quiet suspense and tension, through to the most dramatic and epic of soundworlds — featuring two complete orchestras, chamber and symphonic, heavy chugging guitars, a diverse, hard-hitting set of percussion and drum kits, and epic, widescreen synths — expertly crafted for ultra-modern scoring. Discover all-new features including Scale, Depth and Hype – expressive controls to help you build intensity and push sounds even further.
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Listen to Albion Colossus
Albion Colossus - Snakes Of Russia
Unruled Territory - Oliver Patrice Weder
Colossal Dreams - Alessandro Mastroianni
Catalytic Consequence - Dan Keen
Last Chance Rescue - Homay Schmitz and Dan Keen
First Look
I need sounds to inspire and to drive creativity, Colossus does that and more! I love the Hype and Depth faders, game-changing!
Pinar Toprak
Captain Marvel, The Lost City, Fortnite
The calm and the storm
There is no impact without suspense and tension. We have built Albion Colossus with this principle at its core — moving from a delicate moment to powerful rage in a single patch.
Build calm
Explore close and small ensembles, flautando chamber strings, tense dark synths, and brooding guitars.
Create the storm
Feel the force of a full symphonic orchestra, hard-hitting percussion, epic synths and six guitars re-amped through six stacks in a concert hall.
Need more rage?
Go to eleven with the new Hype function: epic production levels added to each sound pushing your intensity to new exciting heights.
Two orchestras
Take control of a chamber orchestra (42 players) and a symphony orchestra (111 players) across strings, brass and woodwind and percussion, seamlessly blending between the two to create new dynamism and intensity.
The two orchestras were captured at Scotland's Studios, based in the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall — the chamber orchestra in the New Auditorium, and the symphony orchestra in the Royal Concert Hall. Recorded using the same recording equipment and the same musicians.
Heavy guitars
Crafted brooding guitar tones, re-amped in a concert hall. Perfect for backing up the orchestra whilst also holding their own in heavier scoring moments.
Percussion & drums
Create impact with an ultra-modern and diverse selection of percussion from the traditional orchestra, tuned and untuned, to junkyard smashing and heavy-hitting acoustic and synth drum kits.
Doom synths
Masterminded synths that move from clean to dirty, from light to dark. Discover subversive drones, powerful shorts, doom-like basses and much more, created in collaboration with sound artist Snakes of Russia.
Twice the expression
Breaking the formula in this Albion, the Colossus plugin allows us to add much more dynamism to this sample library than previous instalments - delivering four dimensions of control, rather than the usual two.
Accompanying the standard dynamics (volume) and expression (timbre) faders are the brand new Hype, Scale and Depth controls. With these unique features, you now have more dynamic and intensity control than ever before: simple to use and incredibly effective.
Hype
Enhancing each preset differently, adding a selection of professional production knowledge to your sounds, push from loud to louder.
Scale
Expand the size of your ensemble seamlessly — from chamber to symphony!
Depth
Move from an extreme close signal to a far and ambient mix in one movement.
Albions
The original Albion concept was simple — everything you need to create breathtaking scores for TV, film, games, and trailers, as well as giving you the edge when adding cinematic, hybrid orchestral elements to pop, electronic music, and beyond in one product.
Trusted by media composers around the world for over 10 years, Albion virtual Instruments are centred around an orchestra of varying sizes, performing a huge range of classic and progressive techniques — with their own individual twist. Whether you’re looking for the classic, cinematic sound of Albion One, intense lows of Albion Uist, Albion Tundra's "edge of silence" textures, the delicate modernity of Albion Neo, the organic folk noir Albion Solstice or the brand new action packed Albion Colossus — this range is designed for those who want an instant cinematic sound.
What's included
Update
New eDNA content
Providing 995 techniques and enhanced by 5 distorting, carnage-provoking warps, take your compositions to the next level.
The Evo Grid Mode
With 10 string, 4 brass, 4 woodwinds, 8 granular evolutions the possibilities are endlessly inspiring.
Albion Colossus - Individual Techniques
Combinations
- Anthology*
- Low Strings
- High Strings
- Brass
- French Horns
- Woodwinds
- Flutes
- Piccolos
- Percussion
- Acoustic Drum Kit
- Electric Guitars
- Drum Machines
- Synthesisers
*A selection of techniques from across the library to demonstrate the sonic possibilities of Albion Colossus.
Features
- Hype - Enhancing each preset differently, adding a selection of professional production knowledge to your sounds, from tape saturation, depth to distortion widening - push from loud to louder.
- Scale - Expand the size of your band, from chamber to symphony. Recorded in the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, the Chamber was captured in the New Auditorium, the Symphony was captured in the Main Concert Hall. Both captured using the same gear and players.
- Depth - Mixes which move from super close signal, perfect for manipulation, to two more tree-based mixes, to a super wide and ambient mix.
Low Strings
- Chamber 0-0-0-4-3
- Symphony 0-0-0-12-10
Longs
- Long
- Legato
Shorts
- Spiccato
- Staccato
- Marcato
Hairpins
- Hairpin Short
- Hairpin Medium
- Hairpin Long
- Crescendo
Additional Longs
- Flautando
- Sul Tasto
- Sul Pont
- Tremolo
Additional Shorts
- Pizzicato
- Bartok Pizzicato
- Col Legno
- Jetē
High Strings
- Chamber (8-6-4-0-0)
- Symphony (16-14-12-0-0)
Longs
- Long
- Legato
Shorts
- Spiccato
- Staccato
- Marcato
Hairpins
- Hairpin Short
- Hairpin Medium
- Hairpin Long
- Crescendo
Additional Longs
- Flautando
- Sul Tasto
- Sul Pont
- Tremolo
Additional Shorts
- Pizzicato
- Bartok Pizzicato
- Col Legno
- Jetē
Brass
- Chamber (1x Tuba, 2x Euphonium)
- Symphony (6x Trombone, 2x Bass Trombone, 1x CB Trombone, 2x Tuba, 3x Cimbasso)
Longs
- Long
- Legato
Shorts
- Staccatissimo
- Staccato
- Marcato
Hairpins
- Hairpin Short
- Hairpin Medium
- Hairpin Long
- Crescendo
Horns
- Chamber (3x French Horns)
- Symphony (8x French Horns)
Longs
- Long
- Legato
Shorts
- Staccatissimo
- Staccato
- Marcato
Hairpins
- Hairpin Short
- Hairpin Medium
- Hairpin Long
- Crescendo
Woodwinds
- Chamber (1x Oboe, 1x Bass Clarinet, 1x CB Clarinet, 1x ContraBassoon)
- Symphony (3x Oboe, 2x Bass Clarinet, 2x CB Clarinet, 1x ContraBassoon, 1x Tenor Sax, 1x ContraBass Sax)
Longs
- Long
- Legato
Shorts
- Staccatissimo
- Staccato
- Marcato
Hairpins
- Hairpin Short
- Hairpin Medium
- Hairpin Long
- Crescendo
Flutes
- Chamber (1x Flute, 1x Alto Flute, 1x Bass Flute)
- Symphony (6x Flute, 3x Alto Flute, 1x Bass Flute)
Longs
- Long
- Legato
Shorts
- Staccatissimo
- Staccato
- Marcato
Hairpins
- Hairpin Short
- Hairpin Medium
- Hairpin Long
- Crescendo
Piccolos
- Chamber (2x Piccolos)
- Symphony (3x Piccolos)
Longs
- Long
- Legato
Shorts
- Staccatissimo
- Staccato
- Marcato
Hairpins
- Hairpin Short
- Hairpin Medium
- Hairpin Long
- Crescendo
Percussion
- Concert
- Chamber (x2 Players)
- Symphony (x3 Players)
Concert Kit
- Gran Casa
- Toms Large
- Toms Small
- Snares Large
- Snares Piccolo
- Tam Tam
- Piatti Cymbals
Timpani
- Timpani Large
- Timpani Small
Traditional
- Traditional Kit
- Taikos
Junkyard
- Junkyard Kit
Tuned
- Crotales
- Glockenspiel
- Vibraphone Staccato
- Vibraphone
Drum
- Acoustic Drumkit
- Scale alters the drum mix and processing to add a greater sense of space with added saturation.
Drumkit
- Kick
- Snare
- Snare Side Stick
- Snare Ruff
- Tom 1
- Tom 2
- Floor Tom
- Hi-Hats Closed
- Hi-Hats Semi-Closed
- Hi-Hats Open
- Hi-Hat Pedal
- Crash 1
- Crash 2
- Crash 3
- Crash 1 Choke
- Crash 2 Choke
- Crash 3 Choke
- China Choke
- Splash Choke
- Stack 1
- Stack 2
- Splash
- China
- Ride
- Ride Bell
- Hi Hat Chokes
- Stick Count-In)
Altered Drumkits
- Designed by Snakes Of Russia.
- Scale cross-fades between pure synthesis with subtle processing (“Chamber”) to aggressive hard-hitting sound design (“Symphony”).
- Basement Kit
- Destroy Kit
- Final Kit
- Future Hybrid Kit
- Fuzz Room Kit
- Granular Glass Kit
- Granular Metals Kit
- Shadow Kit
- Spacewerk Kit
- Wrath Kit
Guitars
- “Chamber” 3x amps in New Auditorium
- “Symphony” 6x amps in Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
Longs
- Long
- Long Harmonic
Shorts
- Staccatissimo
- Staccato
- Marcato
FX
- Marcato Bend
- Dive Bombs
- Dead Notes
Synths
- Designed by Snakes Of Russia.
- Scale cross-fades between pure synthesis with subtle processing (“Chamber”) to aggressive hard-hitting sound design (“Symphony”).
Bass
- Bald Teeth
- Bass For Cutie
- Black Panels
- Cages
- Creeper Bass
- Diggers
- The Rogue
Drones
- Dust Deluxe
- Glass Whispers
- Summon
- Yesferatu
Keys
- Cave Plucks
- Echo Plucks
- Little Fangs
- Red Lines
- Spin Plucks
- Trash Talk
- Trick Bones
- Unsteady
- Wraith
Leads
- Brut Brass
- Crest Fallen
- Dwade
- Dynadirt
- Half Moon
- Kill Room
- Neck Razor
- On Lions
- Skin Crawler
Pads
- Barrow Sun
- Casual Cloaks
- Danger Beach
- Desolation
- Dirty Chips
- Rue Morgue
- Spectre
- Tethered
- The Gate
- Vaultbane
- Zzyxz
Reviews
FAQs
Why do I need this product?
Albion Colossus is not just our first Albion hosted in our dedicated plugin, it’s also the biggest and boldest one by far. An Orchestral library that breaks up the rule book, barges past the conventions and redefines what an Action library really should sound like. It is not only MASSIVE and LOUD but also ARTICULATE and AGILE.
Spitfire Audio’s most epic library yet, this gargantuan, all-in-one toolkit pushes contrast, dynamism and intensity to eleven — elevating your scores to breathtaking new heights. Action films are nothing without suspense. This feat of musical engineering offers every element needed to seamlessly transport your scores from quiet suspense and tension, through to the most dramatic and epic of soundworlds — with two complete orchestras, Chamber and Symphonic, heavy chugging guitars, a diverse, hard-hitting set of percussion and drum kits, and epic, widescreen synths — expertly crafted for ultra-modern scoring. Discover all-new features including Scale, Depth and Hype – expressive controls to help you build intensity and push sounds even further.
What products does this work well with?
This library is brilliant as a standalone library as it features both small and large orchestras, which is perfect for anyone starting out. But it will also propel libraries like Albion ONE and Albion NEO thanks to the new features like Hype, pushing the sounds further.
Pair with libraries like Eric Whitacre Choir for the ultimate orchestra.
We also think Polaris would be a great addition to Albion Colossus, with opportunities to really place around with the acoustic/orchestral sounds.