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Oliver Patrice Weder — OPW

An emotive & intimate composing toolkit

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  • An emotive & intimate composing toolkit

    Step into the sound world of composer Oliver Patrice Weder with OPW, a beautifully intimate composing toolkit made up of a unique blend of melodic and percussive elements, giving you both organic, emotive instruments and shimmering electronic manipulations. Released in conjunction with the composer’s debut album of the same name, these 59 presets have been carefully recorded and curated by Oliver himself, specifically with composers and music makers in mind.

    Inspired by Oliver’s extensive travels, this distinctive collection will add character, texture and beauty to your scores. Featuring his own characterful prepared piano and a Wurlitzer 200A enhanced with effects pedals, discover atmospheric delays, tempo-synced electronics, dreamy pads, swells and textures. Add rhythm and movement with raw and treated percussive one shots and loops, or for a hint of nostalgia, choose the smoky, romantic tones of the flugelhorn.

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    Oliver Patrice Weder's unique musicality has been heavily inspired and shaped by living and travelling through different places and cultures including Brazil, Africa and the USA, as well as his experiences making a home in various European countries.

    Oliver discovered his love of keyboards after hearing the sound of Ray Manzarek (The Doors), and spent his formative years playing classical and jazz piano in the rainy foothills of the Alps. After recording and touring across Europe with various bands including psychedelic rock band Time for T, he studied at Valencia’s Berklee College of Music where he established his passion for film music. As well as composing for the BBC, Oliver is lead composer at Spitfire Audio in London. In 2017, Oliver co-scored the feature film ‘The Haunted’ and made a vlog style series Inside the Score with Spitfire Audio, documenting the entire process — from meeting the director, to seeing the film shown at various international film festivals.

    Oliver’s deeply personal debut LP, ‘OPW’, took shape across Europe, between Switzerland, UK, Spain and Holland, where he lived and spent time writing and recording this intimate and powerful musical journey. It fuses a rich and unique blend of acoustic instruments and rhythms with electronic elements — from piano, Wurlitzer, experimental strings from the London Contemporary Orchestra, flugelhorn and drum machines through to spoon solos, occasional gritty synths and percussion found in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro — adding flavour and colour throughout.

    Oliver playing piano

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    What's included

    Oliver's piano

    • Oliver's Piano
    • Oliver's Soft Piano
    • Ice Piano
    • Endless Glacier Piano
    • Glacier Ice Piano
    • Gorner Glacier Piano
    • Aletsch Glacier Piano
    • Glacier Piano
    • Piano Rolls

    Flugelhorn

    • Marcato Vibrato
    • Muted Marcato Vibrato
    • Longs
    • Muted Wide Vibrato FX

    Pads

    • Endless Glacier
    • Glacier

    Electronics tempo synced

    • Peace of Mind
    • The Night Sparks
    • In the Deep Galaxy
    • In the Galaxy
    • Shooting Stars
    • Sprungfeder
    • Hypnotic Reverser
    • Nostalgia Howler
    • Dreamy Slapback
    • Melancholia
    • Underwater Bubbles
    • The Night Loop

    One shots

    • Fade Away
    • OPW's Dry Wurli
    • OPW's 80s Wurli
    • OPW's Wurli
    • OPW's Mooger Wurli
    • OPW's Reverb Wurli
    • The Bells

    Swells

    • The Traveller
    • Beauty Sweller
    • Beauty Special Sweller
    • Simple Swell
    • Glacier Terminus
    • Remembrance
    • Falling Stars
    • Shooting Stars
    • Shooting Sparkling Stars
    • Soothing Touch
    • Soft Swells
    • Undercurrent

    Percussion

    • Percussion Hits
    • Treated Hits
    • Castanets Hits
    • Claps
    • Favela Percussion Hits
    • Goat Nail Hits
    • Kenian Hammer Hits
    • Rain Stick Singles
    • Rim Hits
    • Goat Drum Loops
    • OPW Special Loops
    • Rain Stick Loops
    • Shaker Loops

    FAQs

    How do I add this library into Kontakt?

    You don’t! OPW is a dedicated, free to use plugin available as VST2, VST3, AAX and AU, so it can be used directly in your favourite DAW.


    What software will I need to install?

    You will only need the Spitfire Audio App which you can download here.

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    Tech specs

    Mac system requirements

    Mac OS X 10.15 to OS 13

    Minimum: 2.8GHz i5 minimum (quad-core), 8GB RAM

    Recommended: 2.8GHz I7 (six-core), 16GB RAM

    Both Intel and Apple Silicon/ARM are supported

    32-bit systems are not supported.

    PC system requirements

    Windows 10 or Windows 11 - (Latest Service Pack, 64-bit)

    Minimum: Intel 2.8 GHz i5 (quad-core) or AMD Ryzen 5, 8GB RAM

    Recommended: Intel Core i7 6th gen and later or AMD Ryzen 7, 16GB RAM

    32-bit systems are not supported.

    File size

    ~771 samples

    1.6 GB download size

    1.60 GB disk space required during install

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