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The world’s most popular piano plug-in — LABS Soft Piano — reborn
A felted upright Yamaha U3. Recorded in the reverberant acoustics of AIR Studios, London. From close and intimate, to reverberant and enveloping. Three signals. Five presets. Six controls. Available in our free plug-in.
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- Compatible with NKS
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Listen to Originals Cinematic Soft Piano
Standstill - Homay Schmitz
To further enhance your creative workflow, this product includes a free MIDI pack of essential drum rudiments. These building blocks of percussion technique are programmed specifically for Abbey Road Orchestra Percussion, leveraging the intuitive right/left hand mapping for authentic performance. Drag and drop these rudiments into your compositions at any tempo, and freely edit them within your DAW, adding realistic drum techniques with ease.
Up to 12 round robins and 10 velocity layers deliver unrivalled realism in this suite of orchestral and indigenous drums. Extremely responsive and highly tactile, High Percussion explores the timbral and textural range of 20 drums, with up to seven beater options
per drum, performing hits, rolls, swirls and sweeps sampled in incredible detail. All performed by virtuoso percussionist Joby Burgess.
This untuned percussion library will expand your percussive palette, with a range of highly tactile instruments — a true to life selection especially curated and performed by Joby Burgess that provides an immediate natural feel, sounding authentic and cinematic.
High Percussion re-emphasises the nuanced features of Low Percussion, demonstrating their dynamic responsiveness. Soft takeover, voice choking and two handed mapping all allow for an instinctive and gratifying performance. Expertly captured by Grammy-winning engineer Simon Rhodes (Skyfall, Avatar), High Percussion offers an agile, responsive and intuitive experience.
Dynamic precision
- Up to 11 dynamic layers
- Up to 16 round robins
- 391 articulations including discrete right and left hand performances
- A wide selection of materials (hammered steel, maple, CoB) and beaters (nylon brushes, hands, thin timbale sticks) even a 1924 Ludwig snare drum!
Natural feel
Key features to ease playability
- Soft Takeover triggers roll dynamics intuitively via key velocity whilst also retaining modwheel functionality
- Two Handed Layout which mirrors mapped keys further up the keyboard to enable flexibility and speed when playing
- Right/Left Mapping recalls left and right hand performances on adjacent keys for playing and programming true-to-life rudiments
- Voice Choking precisely controls the end of roll techniques when pressing the corresponding hit keys
Clarity and quality
Revitalise your rhythm section
- 62 percussive instruments, from orchestral drumming staples to contemporary hybrid scoring essentials
- Multiple beater options
Professional
Hear every strike in pristine detail with Abbey Road Orchestra: Percussion Professional. Take full control of your sound with 16 different microphone signals to sit perfectly in the mix in any professional recording.
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.
"The opportunity to perfect every strike and roll in the glorious acoustic of Studio One was not missed and we took time to make the best microphone choices and hone their positions."
- Simon Rhodes, Senior Engineer, Abbey Road Studios
Decades of Expertise
This library has been formed by some of the world’s best producers in music recording, created for professional composers of film, television, game and performance.
Joby Burgess
Black Panther, Mission: Impossible
One of Britain’s most diverse percussionists, Joby is equally at home performing with Peter Gabriel at Red Rocks Amphitheatre and The Who at Wembley Stadium as reimagining Blade Runner at Sydney Opera House and Ibiza Classics at the Royal Albert Hall. Joby’s playing can be heard on major film and TV scores, notably leading the percussion sections on the Black Panther and Ant-man franchises, Spirited, The Harder They Fall, Rocketman, Ad Astra, The Darkest Hour, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Doctor Who.
Simon Rhodes
Titanic, Skyfall
Simon joined the EMI Abbey Road Studios in 1987. He is now Senior Engineer and has a long standing association with various composers including the late James Horner with whom he worked for 18 years on over 40 projects including Avatar, one of the highest grossing films of all time.
What's Included
Presets (5)
- Intimate
- Upfront
- 50 50
- Afterglow
- Washed Out
Signals (3)
- Close — A trio of valve microphones placed close to the hammers for detail and intimacy.
- Mix — A mix of Tree and Ambient arrays, capturing the resonance of Lyndhurst Hall at Air Studios.
- Pad — The piano samples passed through magnetic tape and outboard effects to create an ethereal texture.
Testimonials
This new library is OUTSTANDING. The biggest compliment I can pay to ANY library is if any of it makes it into my main templates. Well I spent yesterday replacing ALL of my orchestral percussion libraries with a combo of the High/Low libraries.
Ty Unwin - Composer
While there are many other percussion sample libraries on the market, High Percussion provides a number of unique aspects. First and foremost it gives you access to the sound of Abbey Road Studio One. Second, it provides a level of detail that allows you to create realistic performances that (if programmed correctly) will be indistinguishable from the real thing.
Digifreq
I really feel like I'm in the control room of Abbey Road listening to a percussionist tracking in the live room. The playability is also first rate, with clear sample mapping, and the included mix presets are very handy for switching between a bigger, more open sound, and a smaller, more intimate one.
Dan Diaz - Composer
It's a great library! I was about to start using it on some mockups for a new project. Sounds very live and intuitive to work with.
Ruth Barrett - Composer (Bodyguard, The Terminal List)
I have indeed enjoyed the library and have to congrats the whole team for this development. I really haven't come across any issues or downsides so i can only say good things about the sound and production quality - perfect release!
Johannes Winkler - Composer (Dogs, Someone Like Me)
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.