Spitfire Audio – Olafur Arnalds Composer Toolkit

Designed for composers, songwriters and producers, that is an intimate and deeply private set of instruments, curated by BAFTA-profitable composer Ólafur Arnalds, recorded at his studio in Reykjavik, Iceland. It centres round a characterful ‘felted’ grand piano, in addition to a complete set of inspiring sonic manipulations and progressive synth sounds, designed with the author in thoughts.

AN INTIMATE FELTED PIANO

Our second Spitfire collaboration with BAFTA-profitable, multi-instrumentalist producer and composer Ólafur Arnalds, who mixes natural devices with loops and edgy beats to create textural tracks and scores, from ambient to digital.

So many digital instrument libraries are targeted on the artwork of manufacturing, whereas the nuanced and delightful Ólafur Arnalds Composer Toolkit was designed with the author in thoughts. Ólafur conceived what can be his staple set of sounds that may allow him to proceed to supply unique, inspiring and transferring music, wherever he was on the earth. Spitfire’s knowledgeable workforce of technicians, musicians and engineers descended on Ólafur’s studio in Reykjavik, working intently with the composer to seize the essence of Ólafur’s strategy and to harness the spirit of his environment.

BEHIND THE SAMPLES

Ólafur Composer Toolkit is centred round a ‘felted’ vintage 1904 Bechstein grand which was customised by Ólafur after a number of assessments utilizing varied strips of felt. This was sampled in meticulous element over a number of days to seize the delicate nuances of the softest layers. Fed via Ólafur’s classic outboard, it was recorded extremely quiet — the degrees of recording had been so hyped that everybody within the room needed to maintain their breaths during each sound.

The felt piano is offered with 4 distinctive indicators; KM84, Coles, Processed and Spaced. The KM84 sign is the pure sound of the small condensers, supplying you with a good crisp sound. The Coles is a mono sign under the soundboard, processed via a Roland House Echo as a LoFi tape simulation for a gritty low finish. The processed sign is a mixture of the KM84s with a pair of C12s, blended by Ólafur right into a pair of Pultec EQs, then slammed via a 1178 stereo compressor to provide the distinctive Arnalds sound. This processed sound has been paired with a ‘Spaced’ sound in a ‘Mixed’ patch that Ólafur has additional processed creating a singular tackle his signature piano.

To accompany and complement the felt piano, Ólafur has programmed and created varied sonic manipulations of the unique piano and different devices, for fast inspiration. With almost 100 presets, offered by kind in Spitfire’s refined Mercury synth engine, this library will allow your musical creativity to circulation.

This product is a Kontakt free participant library and has NKS capabilities.

ÓLAFUR ARNALDS

Ólafur Arnalds is a BAFTA-profitable Icelandic composer and producer (Broadchurch, Kiasmos, Erased Tapes), recognized for his distinctive ambient digital sound. He takes strings and pianos to a brand new place, treating them with results and mixing them with loops and beats. His most up-to-date albums embody For Now I Am Winter, and The Chopin Undertaking, a collaboration with classical pianist Alice Sara Ott. Based mostly in Reykjavík, Iceland, Ólafur’s strategy to sound and composition has impressed a brand new era to take pleasure in and create fashionable orchestral music. He gained big notoriety with a brand new viewers for his BAFTA-profitable rating that includes haunting strings, pianos and electronics for the British crime drama, Broadchurch. He has drawn closely on the methods he explored for that undertaking for this number of samples.

GUIs
The Overview Panel
That is the principle interface for melodic devices. Its default view shows all obtainable taking part in methods, has a easy microphone mixer and consists of the principle function controllers.
Basic Controls Panel
This view permits additional in-depth management of the instrument, displaying all obtainable indicators and have controllers, in addition to the flexibility to purge methods from reminiscence to cut back system utilization.
Mercury Synth
This ingenious person interface contains a vary of natural sounds and specifically curated warped sounds. All the controls are assignable to your management floor, supplying you with the flexibility to immediately make our sounds your personal.

What’s included