Spitfire Audio Abbey Road Orchestra: Bassoons Core
Bassoon Virtual Instrument
Rich Low-End Completes the Woodwinds
Adding a rich, velvety sweetness to the bass and tenor ranges, the Abbey Road Orchestra Woodwinds section is completed by a world-class Bassoons a2 section.
Meticulously captured in the legendary Abbey Road Studio One, the Core version delivers the essential sound and key expressive articulations of this beautiful woodwind instrument with all the character of a legendary recording studio, engineered by GRAMMY Award-winner Simon Rhodes.
From its rich, warm tone in the lowest registers, to its sweet, piercing sound in higher passages, the bassoon is an immensely versatile instrument with a profound emotional range.
Its unique timbre provides a foundational bass voice, supporting the entire orchestra with its resonant presence, executing playful, punchy staccatos, or weaving expressive, lyrical melodic lines with remarkable human-like warmth, akin to a resonant baritone singer.
The Iconic Sound of Cinema
Recorded in the world-renowned acoustics of Abbey Road Studio One, the very room where countless iconic film scores have been brought to life, the Abbey Road Orchestra range inherits a legacy of blockbuster sound.
With the masterful engineering of GRAMMY Award-winning Simon Rhodes, hand-crafted mixes provide an immediate, cinematic sound right out of the box, ensuring your bassoon lines resonate with authentic orchestral nuance and the iconic sound of cinema.
Features
- 2 instruments
- 7,700+ samples
- 12 articulations - including two Legatos, Longs, Sforzando Longs, Spiccato, Staccatissimo, Marcato, Tenuto, Flutter, and Trills
- 1 mix signal - a full-sounding room mix by Simon Rhodes
Studio One: Icon of the Past, Innovator for the Future
A host to celebrated classical recordings from Elgar to Prokofiev, as well as iconic film scores from The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, The Empire Strikes Back, and more recent releases Avengers: End Game and Black Panther, Studio One is one of the most in-demand recording studios in the film scoring landscape.
Home to one of the greatest in-house collections of vintage and modern microphones and a control room fitted with a 72-channel Neve 88 RS console with a unique and comprehensive surround monitor section, Studio One was the perfect setting for our recording sessions, meticulously curated, recorded and programmed to deliver you the world's most detailed sampling orchestra.
System Requirements
- MacOS 11 Big Sur and above
- Officially supported up to MacOS 14 Sonoma
- Windows 10 and above (64-bit only)
- Intel, AMD, or Apple Silicon CPU
- 8GB RAM or more (16GB or more recommended)
- 3GB free storage space
- Includes 2 activations per license
Plugin Formats
AAX Native, AU, VST2, and VST3
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