Spitfire Audio Spitfire Symphony Orchestra v1.1.0 Update ONLY KONTAKT

Are world-class musicians
Revered by the world's best composers, Spitfire Symphony Orchestra features a full symphonic string, symphonic brass and symphonic woodwind sections including solo instruments, plus harp, piano and all core elements of percussion needed to complete the band - giving your music the professional sounds that stand out.

Recorded in Lyndhurst Hall, at AIR Studios, London, performed by a gold generation of musicians who have featured on some of the top film scores of the last decade. This definitive selection of blockbuster sounds are some of the best, most classic recordings by Spitfire Audio, a set of flagship virtual instruments which are already used by the worlds top composers and music-makers, and have already played a part in the productions of the hundreds of AAA film, game and TV scores over the past decade.

Symphonic Strings
60 of the worlds best

The strings in this library captured 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 9 legato patches programmed by Andrew Blaney, and presented with four versatile microphone positions.

- 60 top London string players
- 175 articulations, including 59 shorts, 94 longs, & 9 legatos
- Multiple dynamic layers and round robins
- Diverse and detailed with essential, additional and some totally unique articulations for individual sections
- Legatos designed by Andy Blaney
- A comprehensive selection of specially curated 'Ensemble' patches, over 100 unique players layered to give up to 300+ musicians in a single patch.
- Ostinatum mode
- Four mic positions: C(lose), T(ree), A(mbient) & O(utriggers)

Symphonic Brass
Bold, detailed and powerful

- The world's finest brass players
- A broad band covering solo, chamber, symphonic and cinematic instrument groups
- The full range of brass instruments, from classic to lesser known
- Multiple dynamic layers and round robins
- Diverse and detailed with essential and unique articulations, including performance legato
- Ostinatum mode
- Four mic positions: C(lose), T(ree), A(mbient) & O(utriggers)

Symphonic Woodwind
Timeless, melodic and expressive

- World class woodwind players
- From traditional piccolos, flutes, oboes, clarinets and bassoons to a contemporary selection of instruments, from alto, bass flutes, bass clarinets, contrabass clarinets and a thunderous contrabassoon
- A broad band covering both solo and a2 sections - combine both to create your a3 sections.
- Expertly sampled with the most comprehensive selection of articulations, dynamic layers and round robins available in any woodwinds library, including performance legato
- Ostinatum mode
- Four mic positions: C(lose), T(ree), A(mbient) & O(utriggers)

Percussion, Piano and Harp
The definitive orchestral extras

- This comprehensive orchestral percussion library performed by award-winning percussionist Joby Burgess
- This vast array of percussion instruments features, 9 tuned, 13 drums, 12 'toys', from agogo to shakers, 14 unpitched metal instruments, and 3 unpitched wood instruments
- Harp performed by London's leading harpist Skaila Kanga, featuring a comprehensive range of articulations and pedalling, with glisses in every key
- Orchestral Grand Piano is a very realistic “contextual” piano designed specifically to fit proudly within your full orchestral arrangements
- Percussion, piano and harp mic positions include C(lose), T(ree) & A(mbient), with piano also featuring O(utriggers)

AIR Lyndhurst Hall
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.

What is in Spitfire Symphony Orchestra?
Spitfire Symphony Orchestra features a full symphonic string, symphonic brass and symphonic woodwind sections including solo instruments, plus harp, piano and all core elements of percussion needed to complete the band - giving your music the professional sounds that stand out.

Is this library from new or existing content?
We are relaunching our cornerstone libraries, with updated UI, reviewed content and providing in a single more user friendly package.

These libraries include Spitfire Symphonic Strings, Spitfire Symphonic Brass, Spitfire Symphonic Woodwinds, Spitfire Percussion, Spitfire Harp, Orchestral Grand and Masse.

If Spitfire Symphony Orchestra is content from existing libraries, what's new?
With this relaunch you can now explore the stunning performances of these incredible musicians, in one place with a new UI, a review of all sample content, all-new legatos created by Andrew Blaney, and all presented in Native Instrument's Kontakt 7.

This new library is also NKS-ready.

The consolidation of our Symphonic range, Spitfire Percussion, Harp and Orchestral Grand also means that you can have everything from the six recording blocks at Air Studios in one place.

CHANGELOG
v1.1.0 (July 2024)

Fixes:

- Solo Horn All techniques had duplicate articulations for rip/fall/flutter
- Fixed UACC issues in various patches
- Some percussion playing rolls at high velocity with option turned off
- Bass Trombones a2 inconsistent mapping of rip/fall speed to CC16. Now on mod wheel.
- Contrabass Solo Tuba - Tenuto B0 & C1 short releases are a semitone above the note
- UACC description for "Generic Legato" fixed
- Missing variation and release sliders on various percussive patches
- UI issue with stereo panner fixed
- UACC help text underneath articulation icon updates on keyswitching option change
- Sul C/G now shows articulation icon instead of guide text
- 'Now active' when overlaying multiple articulations updates correctly
- Performance legato issues fixed

Changes:

- Tweak to UI layout for UACC labeling (underneath articulation name)
- Various Performance legatos tweaked or improved

Additions/New content:

- Tenor Trombone Total Performance patch added with playing guide
- NEW Oboe Solo Principal Total Performance patch added with playing guide

Patches with important/major changes:

- Tenor Trombone Solo - Total Performance.nki (New Total performance)
- Oboe Principal - Total Performance.nki (New Total performance)
- Tuned - Marimba.nki (Release issue with rolls fix)

Patches with less important changes:

- Drums - High.nki (Rolls on high velocity fix)
- Drums - Low.nki (Rolls on high velocity fix)
- Ensembles - Contemporary.nki (Rolls on high velocity fix)
- Ensembles - Low Ensemble.nki (Rolls on high velocity fix)
- Ensembles - Traditional Orchestra.nki (Rolls on high velocity fix)
- Other - Toys.nki (Rolls on high velocity fix)
- Percussion - Other - Toys - Tambourines.nki (Rolls on high velocity fix)
- Bass Trombones a2 - All techniques (Rip and Fall speed moved to mod wheel)
- Brass - Bass Trombones a2 - Fall.nki (change length now with mod wheel)
- Brass - Bass Trombones a2 - Rip.nki (change length now with mod wheel)
- Horn Solo - All techniques.nki (duplicate Rip/Fall/Flutter removed)
- Contrabass Solo Tuba (Tenuto tuning fix)
- Brass Contrabass Solo Tuba - Short Tenuto (Tenuto tuning fix)
- Bass Trombones a2 - Performance.nki (UACC set to 20)
- Horns a2 - Performance.nki (UACC set to 20)
- Tenor Trombones a2 - Performance.nki (UACC set to 20)
- Trumpets a2 - Performance.nki (UACC set to 20)
- Tuba Solo - Performance.nki (UACC set to 20)
- Celli - Sul C - Performance.nki (UACC set to 37)
- Violas - Sul C - Performance.nki (UACC set to 37)
- Violins 1 - Sul G - Performance.nki (UACC set to 37)
- Violins 2 - Sul G - Performance.nki (UACC set to 37)






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