Spitfire Abbey Road One - Is it THAT good? [REVIEW] 

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I always have trouble watching the whole video in one sitting - Guy is just too inspirational! I want to go write something!

I just want to tell you how much I appreciate that you don't edit out your mistakes or your process. I think alot of us often find ourselves in the trap of looking at well edited seamless videos of people composing with minimal error and compare it to our own process of bungling every phrase 10 times over till it's right and feel inferior but seeing someone consistently screw things up until a piece sounds excellent gives us hope.

Quick tip for you Guy, when you're renaming a track in Cubase and hit Shift+Enter, it will also rename all the MIDI parts on that track to the same name :)

When I grow up I want to be like this Guy.

Guy, I found your videos about a month ago and can't stop watching them. I'm learning music/music theory in general and I'm just beginning compositions/orchestrations of my own. You're a great inspiration!

I love how you added in bathrobe man! You're video is great just with the writing but you make it a joy to watch start to finish with your added extras!

Who else is as excited for this video to come, as we were yesterday, before discovering Spitfire´s Last Mystery? 😃

I love listening to you compose!!! I know this is an old video but you are amazing and very inspiring!!!

The infectious enthusiasm of the sheer excitement in creating a score is worth the watching alone. I am not a composer, but do play the horn as a hobby, have a keen taste for music, love the gesture movie soundtracks and always wondered how it was done. Now I know. I'm captivated. thank you.

I got Abbey Road One last weekend and it is absolutely amazing. The sound & Mic positions are amazing. I would tell new users of Spitfire products to probably start with this if they are not going with Albion One first. This Fits in nicely with my other Spitfire products. I have to take my hat off to Spitfire for this one.....Cheers. I do hope there will be updates or some additions to the library. Also thanks for the review of this product. I was on the fence but after watching your walk through I started to get the Spitfire shakes and brought it right after watching. Worth every penny especially getting it on sale.

You have such an amazing and humorous personality on camera, it makes watching you in this video seem like me embarking on a musical safari trip with you as the guide rather than watching a tutorial/review! Thank you for making 40 minutes of my usually boring day feel like an adventure.

‘Push another little button and you do the uh that thingy’ -Guy Michelmore, 2020 16:26

Thanks for making such great videos Guy! I don’t know how you make me laugh every time while also helping me learn a ton about both life and music

You've really taken your editing to the next level on this one! Also looks like Spitfire nailed it as usual.

Really delightful master session to enjoy!! I just purchased the Abby Road One and am soaking ideas up like a sponge

These videos are just incredible Guy. Very inspiring... your enthusiasm is infectious and makes me want to get up and write some music!!! Thanks so much for the great vids!

Having worked in the studio for years I can appreciate the ambiance of these samples. Since I’m just beginning to study music again after a few decades away from it, my only confusion is which symphonic sample libraries to get, since you’ve previously stated that Albion One is a great general purpose library. Yet, from this video it would seem that Abbey Road One and BBC SO are an equally good combination. Also... how about reviewing Omnisphere for use in composition, or at least commenting on it in a video. Thanks again, Guy... a stellar and spot on video.

I had just about decided on A1, but after seeing this review, I think I’ll be switching to AR1. Thanks, as always, for a great, information packed video!

Quite simply brilliant stuff. Great review, super creative, passionate and clever. Thanks Guy

Great preview. Thanks. Really inspired now to pick this up.

Thanks for the run-through Guy very useful as always.

wow that was so fun to watch AND informative!! I just love your energy Guy :D

Just Love The Sounds Mate And Good Job Putting It All Togther Love It

Keep up the good work Guy. Your recommendations on libraries that fit well together could maybe become a new thing when reviewing new libraries? All the best!

it seems to have that little je-ne-sais-quoi, that Albion had, a magical patina that inspires as you play. One for the collection I suspect. ... and great content as always Guy, love your spirit, all the best!

I know this is awesome thanks for the up take! I was looking forward to this coming for time . Guy you are lucky have a great day

One thing that constantly amazes me in Guy's videos: his (nearly) complete mastery of Cubase shortcuts. This forty minute musical arrangement would take me an entire day to do.

Great review!! Excited to try this out.

What a gorgeous sound out of the box! Always so good to watch you work. I have BBCSO Core and was blown away with that, so it's good to know that this is the perfect compliment. Unfortunately, or fortunately, I have zero money at the moment so this kid-in-a-sweet-shop will have to wait, but it's definitely my next addition. Well done, Spitfire Audio!

I look forward to Guy's videos more so than the Spitfire videos. I love your reviews and you haven't steered me wrong yet. I am getting the Spitfire sweats. This seems to be Spitfires new instant Orchestra. I need to get the BBCSO upgrade first before jumping on this.

Excellent video as you always do, and great piece of music! Cheers man

You are an amazing teacher, great composer and inspiring personality. Please keep doing this :) Greetings from the Netherlands.

Fantastic Guy ! Those are Grade A sounds. Thank you. Yuma, Arizona

This is great! After got kids to bed, stayed myself at bed and started your stream, after you start playing the woods in about 5min I was inspired enough so left the bed, grabbed a beer, and played some woods for an hour (and did not spend time looking for new library haha) Lovely, thanks for inspiration

Mr Michelmore, you are a treasure. Absolutely love your vibe and knowledge! Cheers!

DEFINITELY gonna get this! Absolutely nuts for a sample library

Got it pre-ordered. Thanks Guy!!

Thanks for the review Guy! :)

So love this library, its has a lovely warmth to it. Plus the tune you wrote is really epic,

For sure I’m getting this library. Another great video sir. Information, funny and real.

It’s such a pleasure watching you work on this. I am currently building my own little home studio. I really REALLY need to start taking keyboard lessons. I feel dumb because this probably should have been the first thing I should have done many years ago. :P

high quality samples - what more can one ask for? Great sounding samples. Quite realistic without having to add any reverb. Sampling as really come a long way. Spitfire - congratulations.

It seems Abbey road has its fair share of painters as well as musicians.

Guy, you are awesome. What I really like in your teachings, is how you always emphasize feeling. A lot of musicians today concentrate on robot like accuracy. Many producers today take all life out of a performance, by correcting everything to the point of destroying all of the human performance. You are such an inspiration. Thank you. I have learned a lot from you.

goddamn guy I LOVE you. seriously, you would think this is just a random comment passing by, but I am really inspired by you and your content and i could watch you make music all day.

Wow! New to the channel, but loving your work. Love your passion and work. Thanks for sharing.

when you played the first chord of the library. I got massive goose bumps omg so good

the sounds are amazing... but the quick composition is just as amazing.. master at work

This is a great video, thanks for making great content!! 👏

You make any sample library sound amazing which makes me spend money! hahaha Thanks for your videos.

this library sounds absolutely fricking amazing. i neeeeeeeeed

WOW! Amazed at how my instincts of what to write next, parralelled yours (not same notes but general feel of what to write next). You are right, this library inspires composition. This library sounds great even on my internal speakers on my IMAC 27. If I wasn't broke from the Covid crap, I'd buy it immediately. Love your vids. Thanks for sharing your talent and experience with the libraries.

This sounds so good. Another library to add to my scoring arsenal.

Excellent and Inspirational video, Guy. You are the most cheerful happiest composer I have ever witnessed during the compositional process.

I just bought the software:) Thanks for this video!

You are the homiest person ever! It feels like I’m right there with you in the room!

When you accidentally write Batman music

I'm thinking of creating a direct-deposit from my checking account to Spitfire. It would save a lot of time.

Thank you. I bought it. Downloading now.

You always make me laugh with your cup of tea ☕️😁

looking forward to this video 👍👍

I like this sound better than the bbc orchestra ensembles. Was this live - I wonder why I'm not getting notifications. Love this. I always learn something from your videos. Thanks, Guy!

Thanks ever so much for the review Guy! Another great piece of music in just 40 minutes, my goodness. But here's a little hint: The stereo image of your RU-vid videos is flipped 180°, we have the 1st Violins to the right, Basses to the left etc... not exactly bad, but it needs getting used to. 😁 Cheers Guy! 👏

That giant horn swell heres what I'd do. Bounce it to a track, then *reverse it*, throw a really heavy reverb on it, bounce it again, and then re-reverse it. That'll give you a super dramatic and trippy swell, but also saw off a bit of the nastynesss at the peak.

I love anything in your review Guy

I really like this library. Sounds very cohesive! I'm getting it 100%.

Thank you so much your video helped me make up my mind! Love your enthusiasm :)

Thank you for the video. Also: Wonderful template color. Would you mind saying something about this in the near future? All the best and thanks again!

I would imagine, Guy, that there are several types of folks that watch your videos. The ones that spend hours watching cat videos will most likely click the 35 minute mark to start watching anyway. They are like window shoppers, they look in the shop window, lick their lips peering at the assortment of cakes and confections, and then hurry away to go look at the puppy in the pet store window. They are mostly interested in the end product. There are many other types, I assume, but then there are those of us who are the creative types. We watch the entire video (especially) with all the "faffing about" because it's the creative process that interests us the most. For me, the most helpful parts of your videos is watching (and listening to) you working your way through a stumbling block. If all your videos were cut and dry, add part B to part A, here's part C and part D goes precisely here, and BOOM there's your piece in under three minutes, ... well I never would have subscribed to your channel. So ... *Faff on, Guy. It's why we enjoy spending time with you.*

Just pre-ordered mine this morning but glad to see a run through from your point of view. Have a lot of trust in spitfire as I've been using them as my main libaries professionally now for 2 years. This is my first big purchase (above the €29 range) and it was a tie between this and Albion one or BBC but I believe I've made the right choice. The others can wait! Exciting stuff

Hi Sir ! :D wonderful video and music and i like how you introduce this library :) and it laugh because i'm not alone to make same mistakes on edit MIDI on DAW ^^

Guy is the most entertaining person to watch on RU-vid. Love it 😅👌

This is wonderful, Guy.

thank you so much. what this has taught me more than anything is that the instruments have to be used in the way they are in the orchestra - it might seem obvious to some - but I just remade this peice, pretty much note for note, and it's the most realistic thing i've ever done, which means it's not the software it's me. I can' t fix the software, but i can learn to fix my approach. thank you again! also i'm on a 6 year old macbook pro with 16 gig of ram and there's no glitching.

As a German, my English is not that good. So I clicked on your previous videos relatively quickly. Since I had already pre-ordered Abbey Road One, I watched your video again yesterday and today. Abbey Road is probably ideal for me, as it will allow me to get results relatively quickly through the instrument groups and not have to record every single part. I was even more fascinated by your looseness and your humor. Still you are very efficient and I noticed some workflows. In any case, I'll watch your other videos now too! Many Thanks.

Terrific Vid, thanks for your insight. I think Abbey Rd One is a must now. Newly subscribed and loving it! More please :-)

This piece immediately put me in mind of the Kingdoms of Amalur music, which in my opinion is a big compliment!

Another great video. Love the library. But the thing I enjoyed most was what you did with it.

I love the way you present your video, humorous and informative. Of course we are listening to an Emmy nominated composer with mad skills but that is all the better. RU-vid should establish awards, you would be nominated. Looks like I need another library, Abby Road One sounds luscious. If I have the disk space, I would love to try my 5 keys and 25 triads with it (which is the extent of my skills). Nevertheless sometimes something musical flows out of my hands. Thanks.

Wonderful review Guy. Yes I have to agree that this will tie in nicely with the BBC SO. Best of both worlds really :-) The Abbey Road One sound is just stunning !!

Man… I started rapping and writing lyrics to your video…. It's good to have a library… it's great to have a fantastic player…. Salute

I can't believe this Guy is so hilarious, and on top of that all of his videos, no matter the topic, are just so inspiring!

Spitfire audio is awesome! It’s the best discovery of 2020 for me.

Just...THAT ROOM. It sounds absolutely magical.

Sir, you are a beautiful human being. Great video, I cannot wait to get home and install this!

What a wonderful library.

This library would be ideal for a bit of John Barry.... Love it!

Nobody: The princess in the Forrest: 🏃🏻‍♀️

I'm having so much fun listening to this. I've now got 2 fantastic ideas for how to get more inspiration for composing. ONE: watching videos of other people's composing sessions! TWO: Whoever said you literally need a video or film to compose to? We can just READ fairy stories etc over the top! Thanks ever so much! 😀

Exceptional sound to be sure! Still it would to appear to be another "Core plus more" series of libraries.

Loved this !!

Oh my goodness that step input feature is going to help so much 😭

I've been watching many of your videos this past few week and I loved it, your vids inspires me more to be a musician. But the thing is, I did not subscribe yet and I always wait for your vids. What a fool me, I'm so stupid!

Loving the "live to tape" thing guy!

This library is good. Good demonstration.

That's one of your best "off the top of your head" pieces. Also, love the shirt.

bought this today, taking advantage of the spring sale. Works really well with BBCSO, once I'd made an impulse response from the percussion section!

Spectacular product and made into superb music too. Color me impressed! Just last week though, I bought ALL the Spitfire Originals and now must be content with those. Sigh.

"Somewhere in the forest the princess is walking alone" - and here I am sitting in my bedroom, bobbing my head to the beat thinking - this princess is really walking for a long time. Oh! The sheer anticipation of what will happen next almost killed me in that moment 🤣🤣🤣