Sample Libraries

Spitfire Audio join forces with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the celebrated Maida Vale Studios. Is this the best of British?

Rating: **** 4/5 Stars. British Drama Toolkit consists of eight solo string and woodwind instruments separately recorded from two mic positions in a purpose-built dry stage at Spitfire's HQ.

Spitfire's Ambient Guitars takes the humble six-string into new and uncharted sonic territory.

Spitfire Audio get intimate with their new studio-recorded orchestral sample libraries.

Rating: **** 5/5 Stars. Spitfire have taken a series of common instruments (such as strings, percussion and classical singers) and combined them in ethereal fashion with less commonly encountered sound sources...

A chance meeting with a leading choral composer sparked a major new Spitfire library.

This large hammered dulcimer library runs on the full version of Kontakt 4.2.4 and higher (though not on the free Kontakt player), occupies 2.6GB of disk space and costs less than 50 quid.

In a departure from their normal orchestral agenda, Spitfire Audio have released North 7 Vintage Keys, a collection of four classic instruments from the 1960s and 1970s.

All-round percussionist and jazz vibraphonist Frank Ricotti has enjoyed a stellar career as a composer, arranger, band-leader and session player, appearing on countless records and film scores. Spitfire Audio’s Ricotti Mallets features our man playing straight hits, rolls and glisses on marimba, glockenspiel, crotales and xylophone.

Spitfire consolidate their symphonic brass into a single bumper package.

Spitfire Audio delve deep into a legendary film composer’s favourite piano.

Spitfire build on the Albion legacy with a new orchestral library.

Spitfire Audio’s BML range packages a full orchestral library into 20 individual modules.

One of rock music’s most celebrated recording venues wasn’t a studio but a house in Hampshire, and no music has been recorded there for almost 40 years — until now...

Spitfire Audio enter deep symphonic waters with their latest string library.

The cinematic supremo enlists the best of British in a grand percussive collaboration.

Spitfire celebrate this sceptred isle with a suitably grand orchestral library.

The British are back! Spitfire Audio's orchestral percussion library flies the flag for the UK.