Spitfire Audio Fractured Strings

Strings Virtual Instrument

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  • Regular price $299.00 35% off
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Refract, Bloom, Soar

From AIR Studios, to the edge of the world.

We've collaborated with Hans Zimmer's prestigious scoring collective Bleeding Fingers Music (Frozen Planet II, Planet Earth II, Blue Planet II) and London's finest string players to create a new kind of small ensemble library - featured in BBC's Frozen Planet II.

Fractured Strings introduces an innovative approach to articulations that offers inspirational surprises through intervallic performances and new modal colors, delivering unparalleled depth and realism.

With these emotive musical gestures and our new Scale Mode technology, this library lends itself perfectly to cellular, ambient, and neoclassical composing - reflecting the intricacies, patterns and contrasts found in natural phenomena.

Featuring an eight-piece string ensemble and two soloists, these sounds have been brought to life in the unparalleled acoustics of AIR Lyndhurst Hall, complete with 15 signal paths.

With infinite intervallic possibilities, you can take these strings anywhere - to places of warmth, grit, darkness or light.


A New Force of Nature

This is a new kind of chamber string library, designed to infuse warmth, color, and humanity into the gestures, leaps, and cellular motifs that you compose - as well as to inspire you with surprising intervallic and modal possibilities.

These strings refract, bloom and soar across 100+ seventh-reaches, two-note statements, swelling rotations, pizzicato strums, and soaring chord extensions.


Elevate Your scores with Scale Mode

Spitfire's new Scale Mode technology lets you - select from any of the seven diatonic modes or build your own scale by simply clicking the notes you want included.

From there, it intelligently selects the right samples that conform to the scale you've entered, split by velocity, developing their intervallic string techniques and triggering wider intervals at higher velocities for endless inspiration.


AIR Studios At Its Most Spellbinding

To capture tiny, intimate moments unfolding across a vast, uncaring landscape, we brought a small section of London's finest string players to the mammoth AIR Lyndhurst Hall, home of blockbuster scores.

Together, these eight players, the Bleeding Fingers Music team, and our own collective of composers, conductors, and engineers collaborated to create a vast suite of short leaps, gestures and swells.

The resulting sound makes for a sublime companion to other libraries recorded at AIR Studios, including other small string section libraries such as Albion Neo, Chamber Strings, and Olafur Arnalds Chamber Evolutions.


Extreme Scoring

For Frozen Planet II, Bleeding Fingers Music and the show's composers Hans Zimmer, James Everingham and Adam Lukas were looking for a library that could score not only scenes of frozen silence, but also scenes of action, tension, crisis and drama.

Rather than imitating the whispering textures of glacial rivers, Fractured Strings offers a spectrum of sounds and textures that reflect the planet's fuller-voiced, more melodic moments, from microscopic to grand gestures.

The result is a library with potential far beyond the world's end.


System Requirements

  • MacOS 10.15 Catalina and above
  • Officially supported up to MacOS 13 Ventura
  • Windows 10 and above (64-bit only)
  • Intel, AMD, or Apple Silicon CPU
  • 8GB RAM or more (16GB or more recommended)
  • 88GB free storage space
  • Includes 2 activations per license

Plugin Formats

AAX Native, AU, VST2, and VST3


User Manual

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