Out Now: Abbey Road Soaring High Strings 

You'll never please everyone, but it's very good that you completed the ARO with such a grandiose and basically unexpected for many. Sounds great. Thanks.

I think these strings sound superb..thanks for releasing them.🙏🏿🙏👍🎶👏👏

Thank you Spitfire & Paul for finally giving us the long awaited legato high strings: these sound gorgeous! Have already ordered them and can't wait adding to my template. Also thank you for giving us more then just one or two octaves as sadly done for some other selections. The violin legato works also really well based on this video. Very much look forward playing them :) Greetings from Sweden!

hopefully it'll be the high string selections! Finally get to complete the set 🤞

Thanks for the CPU optimization update, it was sorely needed. I can really feel the difference on my laptop! :)

Exciting stuff! Looking forward to it. It’s such a great library already

Lovely sound!

The simple fact that you folks continue to release affordable, high quality, versatile, customizable libraries that aren't too resource intensive is why I keep coming back for more. $50 is an absolute steal for this. For those of us who are composing on a budget, with budget computers, you are offering genuine options and it's greatly appreciated. Excellently done as always, and I can't wait to see what's next.

Awesome!!!🌟🌟💯💯

Would still love a biting brass library.

FINALLY!

Ordered. My ARO is complete!

At 4:05 you've said this before and it's mostly magical thinking. Having more players playing together has negligible intermodulation differences (intermodulation also happens in post) or resonance effects on the room and "other instruments vibrating the instruments being played"...not much you'd actually notice. Just like all things with music, everything you notice as good in the final product is almost entirely creditable to the humans involved, not the instruments or gear or spaces (much as you like marketing recording spaces). In this case the human players are effectively mixing and tuning themselves, in relation to the whole that they are hearing as they play. This is exactly why the foldback mix is so critical during tracking: we 100% cannot replicate in post the adjustments a player will make in realtime while they are playing the part in a given context. A foldback mix should be edited (tuned and retimed as needed) and mixed well enough to let the player know the context they are trying to fit into. You also often burn in any effects they are hearing because that is also the context they think they are playing into (comfort reverbs can be excusable not burning in, but a creative effect they are hearing should be printed at least in parallel). And the same applies in an orchestral setting, and many of the halls have installed reflectors specifically to help the musicians hear themselves and each other so they can fit into the whole context better. Adjusting effectively to that context is exactly what makes a musician good enough to be called into a recording session. Even so, this isn't absolutely necessary and all sorts of things can work together, perhaps not as well. If the musicians needed to hear the entire piece while they were playing it, sample libraries couldn't work at all then. I would say it's nice to have samples of whole sections when available, but again, with enough human skill in post, you can blend things from entirely different libraries into a coherent enough section...note the current emphasis on layering redundant samples from different libraries.

I'm so glad they listened to the customers' frustration and finally did this. However, the upgrade to the app should be free for all customers, not just people who buy this addon - and I can hardly believe that there's still no Staccato of all things. Legendary Low Strings has Staccato but there are none in Foundations or this addon.

nice!

Thank you Spitfire for listening to the user feedback and releasing this library. Legendary Low Strings started things off with the film scoring selection line and Soaring High Strings closes things off.

Thank you so much for all of the effort that you put into the Abbey Road Series! ! Keep it going! Can't wait for the next Abbey Road Orchestra Release ! ! :)

These sit beautifully in my horror score. Along with the Frozen Strings. Great work guys.

I hope this is the High Strings of Abbey Road Collection 🤞

The sound brings to mind John Barry's string themes.

Have you moved studios? Love the colour. Lovely samples as well.

I really wish they would stop with the libraries and fix their awful desktop app. If you try to use it on 2 different computers, the app cannot tell the difference between which is which. You could be fully updated on one computer, but not the other, and on both it'll say "Update" because the app has no clue where it is. It wouldn't take them that long to add it.

Ha! This time I've got it. Abbey Road One Something Violins, right?

Abbey Road One: Soaring High Strings!

Honestly it’s super affordable too

Ordered this! Thanks so much for the walkthrough. Sorta related...what are you using for a trackpad and pen? I have a VERY similar setup to you. Thanks Paul!

I am euphoric about the sound of this library! But unfortunately, I can't afford to buy it. Spitfire are the best!

Another strings library.

Isn't the Dynamic just a volume slider?

Have you key switches ?

What keyboard is being used?

Harmonica?

I wish the other film scoring selection libraries had used single notes instead of octaves like this library. Also, I think the updated engine should have been a free update for abbey road one. It's not fair to ask users to pay you money for fixing your mistakes. I really like this library, but it feels like there were a lot of missed opportunities.

Would be nice to have solo strings for BBCSO Core owners but I know the Abbey Road Series is their focus right now.

Quick question for those who has a bunch of Spitfire libries - do you use an external SSD to store the libries - and how do you set it up so that I don't get any "hickups" while playing the samples?

Is LABS dead? i miss them so much, they where the reason why i started to buy spitfire products ://

Honestly I am sooooo bored with all these string libraries. Nothing new under the sun.why cannot they just get it right with one library which does it all and charge the right price for it. You have to have a 100 string libraries????

What is the difference to appassionata ?

anyone know the controller they use in these demo's?????? Is it in the korg family?

I wish they complete the Percussion before releasing a bit here and there and leave everything incomplete. What a messy strategy

Spitfire are so anemic these days. And I really do wish they would record their libraries louder. I always have to gun single instances. I appreciate that when there are many tracks with SA stuff on you end up with more volume but sometimes you just want to use SA stuff on a few tracks as said you have to faff with volume.

No discounts for anyone that bought The Collection. Snakey bastards

I can’t use you anymore I have the new mac OS Sonoma in my mac. I hope you soon will get ready!

why do you rush to sell this library before making sure it is very consistent ???!!!

What's this one going to have, mic positions on their hands?

Always always always the same sound with a little little difference for money It’s not innovative

So it's like I assumed, an enough watered down version of ARO that ARO users won't be upset. Ok I guess.

We need something different than another strings, epic etc. We need spicy ethnic and creative stuff.

Now a low string legato lol 😂 in all seriousness, I think the community have been hounding you guys for this and you've finally delivered so thank you. Though a low string selection would round it up for sure 😅

Sounds objectively worse than hollywood strings from 10+ years ago

Prices of Software instruments is just way too high . You can buy a quality Ibanez Strat copy for £250…. That’s a real instrument; that exists; that you can touch; Not just string of numbers.

super fake sounding.