Spitfire Audio Aperture Cassette Symphony

Harnessing the Power of the Symphony Through Tape

Prepare for orchestral time travel - go from intimate solo players to a full symphony - in an instant - resampled through 200 cassette players, all in the same virtual instrument.

We've gone back to the early days of tape sampling and taken inspiration from the sound world of the mellotron, and then blown that out of proportion - capturing strings, brass, woodwind and percussion and resampling through a custom built symphony of cassette players.

Orchestral Time Travel

Delivered with the nostalgic warm tones that only cassette can deliver, featuring 100 articulations, Aperture Cassette Symphony allows you to control the dynamics and the number of players in an orchestra simultaneously, giving you incredible focus, texture, and magnitude allowing you to create all new and modern scores.

With tones that offer modern and beautiful tape warmth, through to the charming, warbling, worn sound of old cassettes, and the Aperture fader which spans size - from section leaders, to small orchestral sections, to full symphonic - Aperture Cassette Symphony is a library that not only takes your productions on a journey through time, but also space.

The Largest Tape Orchestra Ever Created

• Over 800 Tapes of organic orchestral material
• 200 Custom cassette players (Warpman) - organized and played back in classic orchestral positioning
• 10 Custom made performance controllers
• 15 Speakers
• Recorded with a full Orchestral Microphone Setup
• 7 sections - Hi strings, Low Strings, High Woods, Low Woods, High Brass, Low Brass and Percussion
• Captured in a beautiful converted church

The Aperture

At the bottom of the dynamic range, the library features single players recorded close, as you increase the dynamics, the size of the ensemble also increases, until you are playing a full symphonic orchestra.

Aperture Patches

Building from solo players through to symphonic.

Strings

High Strings

• Sustain
• Sustain (Mono)
• Tape Loop
• Reels
• Scattered
• Hairpin
• Marcato
• Staccato

Low Strings

• Sustain
• Sustain (Mono)
• Tape Loop
• Reels
• Scattered
• Hairpin
• Marcato
• Staccato

Brass

High Brass

• Sustain
• Sustain (Mono)
• Tape Loop
• Reels
• Scattered
• Hairpin
• Marcato
• Staccato

Low Brass

• Sustain
• Sustain (Mono)
• Tape Loop
• Reels
• Scattered
• Hairpin
• Marcato
• Staccato

Woodwinds

High Winds

• Sustain
• Sustain (Mono)
• Tape Loop
• Reels
• Scattered
• Hairpin
• Marcato
• Staccato

Low Winds

• Sustain
• Sustain (Mono)
• Tape Loop
• Reels
• Scattered
• Hairpin
• Marcato
• Staccato

Percussion

• Kit
• Timpani

Worn Patches

Building from solo players through to symphonic with beautiful and raw degraded tape artifacts, perfect for adding character.

Strings

High Strings (Worn)

• Sustain
• Sustain (Mono)
• Tape Loop
• Reels
• Scattered
• Hairpin
• Marcato
• Staccato

Low Strings (Worn)

• Sustain
• Sustain (Mono)
• Tape Loop
• Reels
• Scattered
• Hairpin
• Marcato
• Staccato

Brass

High Brass (Worn)

• Sustain
• Sustain (Mono)
• Tape Loop
• Reels
• Scattered
• Hairpin
• Marcato
• Staccato

Low Brass (Worn)

• Sustain
• Sustain (Mono)
• Tape Loop
• Reels
• Scattered
• Hairpin
• Marcato
• Staccato

Woodwinds

High Winds (Worn)

• Sustain
• Sustain (Mono)
• Tape Loop
• Reels
• Scattered
• Hairpin
• Marcato
• Staccato

Low Winds (Worn)

• Sustain
• Sustain (Mono)
• Tape Loop
• Reels
• Scattered
• Hairpin
• Marcato
• Staccato

Percussion (Worn)

• Kit
• Timpani