Spitfire has released Resonate, a sampled percussion library by noted percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie. Here's what they're saying:
Resonate combines with traditional percussion libraries, but it also confronts them. It shakes them loose and sets them free. Rather than replicate common concert sounds or repeat overused trailer hits, Resonate explores and unlocks the boundless potential of orchestral percussion—from first strike to final reverberation.
The result is a treasury of sounds that bridges the gap between traditional and experimental scores. These instruments will help you bring your own brazen audacity to straight-ahead orchestral tracks, while simultaneously dialling up the epic on music that's already uniquely yours. Use these sounds to conjure the strange new rhythms of sci-fi worlds, the propulsive rush of relentless thrillers, and the surreal passion of lives lived with full hearts.
To do so, you need only channel Evelyn Glennie's ethic of percussion-without-preconceptions. Whereas other instrumental libraries help us realise the scores already in our heads, Resonate inspires us to discover those scores we could never dream up in silence. Rather than hit-then-hit, these instruments compel us to hit-then-listen—and make music out of the forgotten sounds left dancing on the air. Using traditional percussion instruments as resonators, we can discover new soundscapes beyond impact.
A barrel, a thundersheet, a water tank, and timpani—paired, stacked, struck, and bowed with many other co-resonating instruments to create an unparalleled collection of cinematic hits, scrapes, textures, and tones.
Launching these 49 techniques and pairings toward infinite layers of dimension, Resonate sends them down 14 possible signal paths—both organic and treated—and filters them through 6 possible after-effects. Its built-in Grid tool can then collaborate with you to discover and combine thousands of permutated sounds, creating a sonorous ensemble of endless inspiration.
In Resonate, no sound stays familiar for long. Warped signals and effects transform magical reverberations into haunting textures. Strategically-placed mics transport strikes to new depths—inside resonant chambers, beneath instruments, and underwater.
Meanwhile, the instruments themselves never stop surprising. The barrel's rumbles, rattles, and wails. The thundersheet's razor-sharp crescendos, hollow gongs, and quivering cries. The timpani's never-before-heard warbles, bells, and moans-from-the-deep. And the water tank, with its thin crashes, deep quakes, and organically pitch-shifting resonances. All recorded in the legendary cradle of Hollywood's greatest film scores, AIR Lyndhurst Hall.
Features:
- Featuring the following instruments as resonators; Water Tank, Thundersheet, Timpani—played like never before, and Barrell.
- Over 45 different instrumental articulations.
- 7 Unique mic perspectives such as placed underwater, contact mics attached to resonating chambers, boundary mics spread through the hall.
- Stretch feature: Available solely for long sustained sounds this feature allows you to choose the playback speed of the sample.
- Warp features: With 5 individual FX chains that add character to each sample, ranging from a gritty, textural, yet organic sound, to an endlessly resonating reverb.
Intro Price: $179 until June 30th, 2022 (Reg. $249).
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