SPITFIRE ANNOUNCE ALBION II - LOEGRIA



Spitfire are delighted to announce our new addition to the Albion product line - we are in the early alpha stage with this product and expect to complete production and NI encoding in approximately 2 months.

Here is a Strings only demo from maestro Andy Blaney using some of the Alpha patches:

Albion II Strings Demo mp3

CINEMATIC DETAIL & BEAUTY

Following in the huge success of the thundering Albion I - Epic Cinematic Tools - Spitfire are delighted to announce Albion II - Loegria. Designed as a stand-alone tool, everything you would need to write beautiful and esoteric film scores out-of-the-box. We are excited to present an incredible Chamber sized String group of the first call session players in the UK, again designed as High and Low Ensembles. At last this intimate sound is available with Spitfire's mic mixing ability, and with strings that concentrate also on an array of additional techniques not found in Albion I, and woods and brass that centre more on "choral" use of such sections. Loegria is a must buy for Albion users wishing to expand on the possibilities of that broad & thumping tool-set, but also stands alone as a superb tool for creating intimate scores.

ALBION ORCHESTRA - As with Albion I, everything is recorded at Air Studios Lyndhurst Hall through the finest and rarest vintage valve and ribbon mics onto 2" tape. Every patch is available with four way mic control and all shorts patches work with the newly enriched "Ostinatum" v3 gadget. We have a mixture of true-legato, longs, and shorts patches, the latter of which are recorded with 4 round robins.

The strings sound-set features a comprehensive selection of additional techniques; the much called for tremolando patches, trills, harmonics, flautando, light col legno and a variety of shorts patches. In addition to this we have duplicated full longs, & legatos with a smaller 'half section' sized band, and we feel we have created most successful sounding chamber strings package commercially available today. With the 4-way mic control the sound is very adaptable and we feel the smaller section is better suited to independent scores, period pieces, romance and comedy, not to mention vocal accompaniment - pop tracks and alike.

The brass range concentrates on the true beauty of British brass sections, their heart wrenching choral qualities. We have two ensembles recorded, a bank of Euphonia and Horns, and the more ancient but no less beautiful Sackbut choir.

The wind section concentrates on the beautiful simplistic qualities of traditional wooden recorders. Played by a group of the finest players of this instrument in the world. We also have included a selection of cheeky Crumhorns for those needing something truly medieval!

BYRON BEATS - Not only will Loegria be great to provide a single stop solution for beautiful romantic, period scores, finer sounding strings for pop tracks, or detail to your thundering Albion I mockups, it will also give you everything you need to come up with esoteric independent style film scores. Byron beats is an inspiring place to start any new indy cue. Here will be a comprehensive selection of rhythms loops inspired by a popular keyboard instrument from the 60s and 70s (you know the one, it used real tape). As there were only a few of these rhythms recorded on the original classic they have been subject to massive over-use. Loegria provides an entirely new comprehensive bank of these style of rhythms. Recorded vintage style through a rare Cadac desk, these loops will feature both the original full bandwidth analogue recordings and also "vintage" versions whose signal path includes a line mixer owned and used by Jimi Hendrix.

DARWIN PERCUSSION - A selection of higher pitched and more detailed cinematic ensemble percussion with another selection of Sub & Easter Island Hits to refresh your Albion library.

FENTON REVERSALS - Any media composer knows that a tricky cut or a suddenly revised edit can make a mess of the musicality of a cue. And the way to blur a jump in music, a sudden 3/4 bar or a cut that runs in the middle of a beat is to use some form of reversed material. Fenton Reversals are a selection of super cool reverses derived from the Albion range and locked into your host tempo so you don't need to line them up. A lot of these are also mod wheel dynamic cross fade control.

As successful composers Paul Thomson, Christian Henson and the rest of the Spitfire team understand the tools that we all need to deliver inspiration in times of creative drought, speed of use when up against the clock and scaleability on a number of systems when composition on your laptop on the red-eye from NY to LA is required. Loegria is the second instalment in the Albion range that delivers all this to you and at a price which is simply irresistible. We're loving alpha testing this and many of its fine features are already making their way to dubbing theatres. We can't wait for you guys to get your hands on this too.

We will be emailing all Spitfire Users the minute we have pricing and release details. We'll also keep you folks on SOS updated as well.


Current Patch List as at 18th May 2012 (subject to revision as production is completed)

ALBION ORCHESTRA

HIGH STRINGS
Col Legno
Flautando
Artificial Harmonics
Longs
Longs Con Sord
Longs Half Section
Pizzicato
Shorts
Shorts Con Sord
Trills Maj/Min
Unmeas Trems
Legato
Legato Half Section

LOW STRINGS
Col Legno
Flautando
Longs
Longs Con Sord
Longs Half Section
L Staccs
Pizzicato
Shorts
Shorts Con Sord
Unmeas Trems
Legato
Legato Half Section

EUPHONIA/HORN CHOIR
Longs
Shorts
Legato

SACKBUTTS LOW
Longs
Shorts
Legato

SACKBUTTS HIGH
Longs
Shorts
Legato

RECORDERS HIGH
Longs
Shorts
Legato

RECORDERS LOW
Longs
Shorts
Legato

CRUMHORNS HIGH
Longs
Shorts
Legato

CRUMHORNS LOW
Longs
Shorts
Legato

DARWIN PERCUSSION

3 New Epic Patches
Subs 2
Easter Island Hits 2

BYRON BEATS

A bank of exciting new esoteric loops.

STEPHENSON’S STEAM BAND

A new array of exciting new pads, drones, and atmos based on Loegria’s new orchestral content.

FENTON REVERSALS

Menu of 50+ Timestamped reversals.