@@PaulThomsonMusic hi Paul. I really love your libraries. But please make it possible to purge samples in your spitfire player. It’s very important. Like we were able to do in Kontakt. Thank you.
Thank you Paul .Sometimes you have to be reminded of the wonderful libraries we already have and this super video reminds you that you really have to take your time to experience what these great libraries can and should sound like. Thank you very much
My Desert island pick: This is quite a hard one. On one hand, Albion ONE was my first library and I know it well. Picked up BBC Core last year and it's just inspiring. Then I got Eric Whitaker 2 days ago and it's pure bliss, I didn't realize I needed a less dramatic choir than the usual ones. I'll have to go with BBCSO on this one, hoping to upgrade to pro some time in the near future.
This sale put me in debt. LOL. But I got everything I wanted, including Albion One, Solstice and Tundra. BBCSO Pro for $599 is a steal. And if you already have Discover like I did then it's only $570, so I added that too. Then bought the 4 Abbey Road's. Bought Hans Zimmer Strings, British Drama Toolkit, Contemporary Drama Toolkit, and Eric Whitacre Choirs. May go back and get Hammers but I already bought the Hans Zimmer Percussions during this sale so I haven't decided yet on Hammers. By the time all this stuff is installed, the sale will be over.
@@robertsimpson5801 LOL. No doubt. I ended up getting Hammers too. Now have all Albion's and all the Abbey Road One's. Look out, Alan Silvestri, John Williams, and James Horner. :D
If I went to a desert island, I would take Chamber Evolutions from the Ólafur Arnalds libraries with me. (If my bag was big, I would take the whole collection) This of course changes if you create a new upright felt piano library. A cinematic soft piano without mechanical sounds. I keep writing to you about this. I want a nicer piano in my Spitfire collection.
Usually I'm a very impatient person and skip through the majority of RU-vid to get the parts of the video I need, Currently i'm 28 minutes in, rewound a few times and I've closed Cubase down, This is such good content !! thank you ! Subscribed
Let‘s be honest here. The spitfire libraries are so good you kinda have to spend the money on them. I know that almost every producer has some torrented or „shared“ library from earlier days but those libraries just are worth it. Not that I can actually buy all of them, I would in a heart beat, but I‘ll buy them one for one!
Thanks for the sale, this opportunity is gonna totally change my template! I also appreciate how you shared your OWN sound design ideas and combos for scoring, basically that's what this all is about :).
BBCSO Pro is a gorgeous orchestra fit for anything if used well. But those Zimmer Strings- I finally couldn’t resist and I love them. The “con sordino sur ponticello tremolo waves” with I think 40 cellos is epicness. It’s also an amazing background pedal to give a clear “cinematic motion” feel.. Straight forward sustains need to be one or a couple note or you’re playing 160 cellos and that starts to blur into an uncanny valley vibe. Immensely support these as the best core composer (cinematic or art) tools. I think the Zimmer strings can be used well in artistic music because these are excellent ideas well executed and are the progression of how music is played. My teacher said that in composition, dealing with the public or doing films you always comfort them with an obvious cue they know as the foundation to get them on board for your personal take. Zimmer strings represent the experimental practices we’ve normalized and are as important as the orchestra (but yeah orchestra first 100%)
If I were on a Desert Island I would wanna take Albion Tundra with me I think. Not because this is the most usual orchestra, but because the amazing textures would immediately connect me with the earth
I use Olafur's Chamber Strings as texture on almost everything. I also use the Toolkit a lot. BBC Pro is stunning and cohesive. Abbey Road was a regret initially, but now that I've spent some time with it it's my fave sketching tool or for using Mix 2 on electronic tracks for accompaniment.
Thanks so much for sharing this Paul! Lots of great stuff here, especially since I already own all of these libraries. I always enjoy learning how you use them and also your take on which reverbs you like! Thanks!
To be honest, the only thing that spitfire audio is not the best for, is Choirs Library. I can't imagine how difficult it could be to record and program, but I think some of us dream of a choir and solo singer library, with a world builder, and the usual ease of use of the spitfire libraries :) The ultimate Voice Library
Awesome vid. Thanks! I would love to see an update for some of the older libraries, especially the evolution brand. They really are special. If they could all be M1 native and inside of Spitfire's player, you've got a buyer here. All of them!
Well, Spitfire Audio... I would like to be my influences for music for example: Jerry Goldsmith, Hans Zimmer, Shinji Miyazaki, Shirley Walker, Michael Kamen, James Horner, James Newton Howard, and John Williams! o_o That gives me a great for plan ideas.
BBC Orchestra Professional, It sounds amazing and it's a shame I haven't been able to purchase it yet... But It's on SALE for the price it costs in my country!
@@prasshanthvp1082 It has fantastic legatos, the legatos that are my favorite right now are the low strings, high brass, like french horn, and the woodwinds. The legatos are very lyrical. One thing I like about it is that there are solo strings, and my favorite is the cello, again very lyrical. There’s like a gazillion instruments. They all blend really well. Tons of microphone positions; my favorite combination right now is the Tree and Close mics, and maybe a bit of the outriggers. I like how it has rarer instruments like the bass flute, contabass clarinet; I’m definitely going to spending a lot of time playing around with it. It runs well, at least on my computer; I was able to load in the entire BBC SO in under 15GB of memory, which is great considering my computer has only 16 GB of ram. It is definitely worth the money, considering it is on sale right now, and even worth it for me, a 15 year old aspiring film composer who has a limited budget.
FYI for those considering buying anything Spitfire, the libraries are great, but good luck getting support when that awesome library randomly breaks, and there is no support phone number, and you’ve waited almost a week with no reply from email support. Just pray you don’t have any clients when that happens. You’ve been warned.
You guys have amazing videos. I purchased the Abbey Road One bundle... Love it... The sounds are amazing. I have some Kontakt Orchestral Tools.. But this stand alone is basic and doesn't eat at your computer. Is there a way to compress the libraries overall?
Obviously wish I could afford them all. That Everything bundle is damn enticing if it weren't the price of a car lol. Have wanted Albion One for years and years though and could never swing it. Finally have a little bit more money coming in so I was able to buy it. I already own Komplete Ultimate Collectors Edition 13 so I have some decent solo instruments from that. But I've been wanting a good sounding base orchestral library for awhile. Glad to finally have my hands on it and then hopefully if my wallet gets deeper I can start adding to the collection :]
Hey Paul, how do you get such a great video-quality in low light? That whole look is awesome! Every time I try to shoot in low light, it gets noisy as hell -.- Would you share your setup and settings? Btw: I love Studio Strings Pro combined with Solo Strings and British Drama Toolkit. Eyeing Albion Neo for my next purchase ^^
I never know whether to get the Abbey Road One packs (the new ones like the woodwind or grand brass) or just get Abbey Road One foundations? Or do I need the main AR1 foundations to use the smaller new packs? 🤔
You dont need Foundations to use the add-ons :) I would recommend getting foundations first , then build on it with the smaller packs. But they are also very useful without foundations!
OK, so we give a pass for the obvious bias, (Top 10 Spitfire, instead of Top 10 Audio Sample libraries), as these are definitely great titles. To be fair, I am curious, if we asked a statistically significant number of film composers what their top ten libraries were, would any of them list ten titles from just one company? I would say BBCSO is a solid candidate for placing on many composers' top ten list, though. I would be interested in how many score composers end up using the actual samples in the final mix.
I made the mistake of buying BBC, but since you cant purge the samples I cant have it in my template so it just sits there gathering dust. The Kontakt based libraries are excellent though.
Make sure you have the most recent update. Above and to the right of the articulations is a 'pencil' icon. Click on that and you can choose which articulations remain and which are purged.
@@zoommpro That just turns off articulations, it doesn't purge them. You still have to have at least one active, so this means they are all active just split out over multiple tracks. Its the same as just running a single multi-articulation instance. In Kontakt you can 100% purge the samples, meaning you only use what you need.
@@CybreSmee - you have to hit save (bottom right of the box you select and deselect articulations) in order for the samples to be purged. You can see the number in the MEM(ory) used box reflect this. Granted you cannot totally purge memory as you can in Kontakt (as you say, you have to leave one active) but you can significantly reduce the memory in use. In that case, maybe choose a really short articulation? Have you sent in a request for a total purge feature? In my experience Spitfire are good at responding to user requests and ideas. It seems a shame not to be able to use such an amazing collection that you have spent so much on. Hope some of this helps. Good luck.
Thanks for revealing your favorites libraries. It largely coincides with my expression. Except HZ Piano. I like the sound, but for pianists it is unusable to play because of the pedal. Why this "strategic decision"?
