Spitfire Audio Heinbach - Landfill Totems

One-of-a-Kind Electronics from a Sonic Innovator

Made in collaboration with Berlin-based composer, producer, and pioneer in experimental electronics, Hainbach, these one-of-a-kind, complex sounds have been expertly created from vintage test equipment collected from nuclear research labs and scrap heaps - given a new lease of life and transformed into instruments by the artist.

Developed further and presented in Spitfire's award-winning plug-in, discover eerie morse code bleeps, comms signals and flickering bass pulses; deep drones, ominous pads and grainy textural rhythms; industrial drum hits and loops; electromagnetic noise and heavenly humanoid 'voices'.

Create high-contrast atmospheres of suspense, tension and beauty, whether you're writing techno, ambient music, or a cutting-edge film score.

It's a library you can really get lost in, and it's a ton of fun.

The Landfill Totems project started life as a performance installation at PNDT Gallery, expanding exponentially into a full album and an accompanying sound library recorded at Patch Point Studios, Berlin.

When observing these anthropomorphic figures, a deep appreciation and affection for the engineering technology of the past is apparent; totally unique vintage machines, assembled for one final swan song (one of the presets captures the sound of a machine dying).

Stacked into three monolithic towers resembling totem poles, each piece of equipment was chosen for its distinctive tone generation and modulation abilities - wired together much like a modular synthesizer.

Upcycled and redesigned, these totems act as a commentary on the environmental cost of progress; what was once the pinnacle of technology quickly becomes unviable and destined for the scrapheap, if not for the intervention of Hainbach - creating beauty from that which is thought to be obsolete.

Among his collection are once high-end medical, telecommunication and scientific research equipment, vintage sound-testing devices, a Nuclear Instrumentation Modular, an outmoded medical signal generator, a mixer previously used by the Stasi, the state security service in former East Germany, and a Brüel & Kjaer 1613 Bandpass filter creating hi-hat, bass drum and watery sounds.

Meticulously recorded by Hainbach and processed further by Spitfire Audio, these dystopian sounds are impossible to recreate.

The sample library offers a world of sonic possibilities far beyond its original analog state, with many of the sounds morphing and evolving as you play, as well as a wide range of in-built controls and effects to drastically manipulate each of the presets.

Features

• In-built effects and controls providing a wealth of complex sonic possibilities to drastically control and manipulate each of the presets - including Attack, Release, Reverb, Delay, Stretch and Distort
• Dynamics fader controls the processed signal, offering a spectrum of sounds within each preset
• Each sound is velocity sensitive for varying tones
• Available in Spitfire's award-winning, dedicated plug-in
• One-of-a-kind sounds that are impossible to recreate - made from rare, obsolete test equipment which has been expertly curated and manipulated
• A library of stark sonic contrasts - from harsh, futuristic and dystopian to beautiful and emotive sounds from another world
• Designed for creating tension, suspense, beauty, for any setting - from electronic tracks to hybrid film scoring or abstract sound design

Presets

Kling

• Distance
• Blip
• Tension
• Third Place
• Spacewalk
• Noise & Beauty
• Deep Space
• Malfunctions
• Penultimate Boss
• Resonate
• Conway's Game

Klang

• Data Drone
• Raw Beauty
• Beauty Oscillator
• Broken Oscillator Keys
• Test Equipment Organ
• Analog Motion
• Machine Drift
• Dark Motor Drones 1
• Dark Motor Drones 2
• Analog Shorts
• Analog Bends

Knarz

• Bug Zapper
• UFO
• Heat-Ray
• Flicker
• Pocket Dialing
• Water
• Noise Machine
• Circuit
• Light Bloom
• Doppelgänger

Krach

• Drum Hits 1
• Drum Hits 2
• Drum Hits 3
• Drum Loops 1
• Drum Loops 2
• Drums Hits & Loops
• Motors
• Machine

Controls

• Expression
• Dynamics (controlling Processed signal)
• Attack
• Release
• Reverb
• Delay
• Stretch
• Distort