Spitfire Symphonic Strings Professional

"Spitfire Audio’s beautiful-sounding orchestral palette will lead you to new worlds of colour and texture."

– John Powell (Solo: A Star Wars Story, The Bourne quadrilogy)

DEFINITIVE STRING SAMPLING

Spitfire Symphonic Strings Professional has been created with 60 of the world's finest strings players — 16 1st Violins, 14 2nd Violins, 12 Violas, 10 Cellos & 8 Basses — performing over 175 articulations including 59 shorts, 94 longs, and 5 legato patches programmed by Andrew Blaney and presented with essential and versatile microphone positions. In addition to each individual section, Spitfire Audio also offers a comprehensive selection of articulations and techniques presented in the specially curated Ensemble tool, offering instant playability and designed for quick writing. This definitive compendium contains everything from classic and elegant vibrato and expression controlled dolce samples, to the cutting-edge techniques designed by Spitfire Audio’s award-winning team of composers and producers, including the hugely popular flautando and super sul tasto articulations.

"AIR Studios is one of the most unique and inspiring acoustic environments in the world."

– Trevor Morris (Vikings, The Tutors, Immortals)

OUR HOME AWAY FROM HOME

The Crown, Wonder Woman 1984, The Trial of The Chicago 7, James Bond, Interstellar, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Dark Knight, Harry Potter, Gladiator—all were recorded in Lyndhurst Hall at London’s AIR Studios, Spitfire Audio’s spiritual home and a room where blockbuster scores are born. Architecturally unique, the acoustic properties of the interior of Lyndhurst Hall are renowned globally, loved by composers and musicians alike. There is a gentle reverberation in the room that adds beauty to anything played there. The sound produced by a soloist, chamber ensemble or indeed a full symphonic orchestra expands and blooms inside the space, a truly versatile palette giving access to a range of textures from delicate and intimate to thunderous and epic.

"Their libraries are beautifully recorded at AIR and full of character."

– Simon Rhodes (1917, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Skyfall)

CONTROL WITH PURPOSE

Building on the core Spitfire Symphonic Strings, this new Professional library is packed with 152GB of extra content and features three curated mixes–Fine, Medium, and Broad—by the award-winning engineer, Jake Jackson, offering you an immediate and recognisable blockbuster sound. These mix perspectives, crafted using single voices per note for low CPU/RAM usage, prove to be indispensable for creating ready-made mixes that work across the entire orchestra.

Need more control to bring your score to life? Look no further than the 11 signals featuring 8 classic microphone positions to create your own custom mixes, giving you a diverse range of palettes from a single room. Included are 4 alternative (ALT) microphones: a microphone placed close to the leader of each section (L), warm Close Ribbon (Cr), close Stereo Pair (St) and spacious Gallery (G) signals, as well as the addition of Outrigger signals to the common Close Tree Ambient (known as CTA), creating CTAO for the classic Spitfire Audio setup.

"I haven't heard anything to compare with their realism.”

– Nicholas Hooper (Harry Potter, Land of the Tiger and Andes to Amazon)

FEATURES

Spitfire Symphonic Strings Professional offers you every articulation for every section, plus ensembles in a single, encyclopedic compendium:

— 60 top London string players

— 175 articulations, including 59 shorts, 94 longs, & 45 legatos

— 11 professional signals, featuring 8 mic positions and 3 expertly engineered mixes by Jake Jackson

— Mic positions: C(lose), T(ree), A(mbient), O(utriggers), L(eader), Cr(Close Ribbon), St(ereo Pair), G(allery)

— Recorded in situ using priceless valve and ribbon mics

— Neve Montserrat Pre-amps into a Neve 88R desk

— Recorded digitally at 96k via 2" Studer tape

— Multiple dynamic layers and round robins

— Diverse and detailed with essential, additional and some totally unique articulations

— Legatos designed by Andy Blaney

— Individual sections and ensembles

— Kontakt Player included

— NKS-ready

— New intuitive GUI with inline help system

— As used by A-list composers and producers around the globe