Spitfire Audio Kepler Orchestra
Orchestral Library for Kontakt Player
Explore A New Sonic Universe
Discover your new secret weapon for writing cutting-edge film, TV and game scores.
Kepler Orchestra makes it easy to evoke movement, speed and atmosphere by creating interlocking orchestral rhythms - from simple to massively complex.
The new Systems Grid does the hard work for you, with repeated notes, doppler effects, swells and shards.
Similarly, the Mercury Synth engine expands your sonic universe with warped and space-inspired sounds.
Recorded at AIR Studio One and featuring a chamber-sized orchestra, Kepler Orchestra is inspired by the great American systems composers of the late 20th century: Terry Riley, Philip Glass, Steve Reich and John Adams.
An Orchestral Odyssey
A full orchestra made up of 40 strings, 13 woodwinds and 19 brass, recorded as separate ensembles in the crisp, vibrant acoustic of Studio One at the legendary Air Lyndhurst, where we recorded our popular Bernard Herrmann and Studio Orchestra libraries.
All 54 of our unique articulations and playing styles, many never before sampled, have been orchestrated by Ben Foskett, produced by Harry Wilson and expertly recorded by renowned engineer Fiona Cruickshank through the famous custom Neve console via legendary Montserrat preamps.
With multiple microphone positions (Close, Ambient, Mid & Wide), a Full Mix option created by Fiona Cruickshank, the library is presented in our sophisticated Systems Grid, giving you ultimate controllability and endless inspiration.
Spitfire also created 259 Snapshots - a wide selection of starting points with pre-programmed rhythms and sounds that work instantly, for that extra element of surprise and inspiration.
Both detailed and epic, and designed to work perfectly alongside our existing orchestral ranges, Kepler Orchestra is for anyone exploring the cutting edge of modern orchestration, looking to create sophisticated scores for film, TV and games.
The Systems Grid
Together with a wide range of innovative and nuanced articulations (from repeated notes, to doppler effects, swells, shards and pulsing movements), the sophisticated Systems Grid, based on our hugely successful Evo Grid technology, has solved a common problem for composers - it allows you to create realistic sounding, complex interlocking polyrhythms - the simultaneous combination of contrasting rhythms - that are impossible to successfully produce using traditional samples.
Use the sounds dry for precise detail and to create the impression of vast movement and speed, or add your favourite reverb to create epic and atmospheric soundscapes.
Although similar to the Evo Grid, the highly interactive Systems Grid is much more of an articulation mapping tool.
Instead of using the pegs to create different textures, they are split by time divisions (duplet, triplet, quintuplet and septuplet time), tempo locked to your DAW and allowing you to quickly create sophisticated combinations of different rhythms.
Spitfire also solved the problem of rebowing, a secondary feature which is almost impossible to recreate with samples when writing complex orchestrations.
As with Spitfire's Evolutions libraries, you can pan and tweak each sound using the FX panel on the right hand side.
System Requirements
- Native Instruments Kontakt Player 5.6.8 and above OR Kontakt Full 5.6.8 and above
- MacOS 11 Big Sur and above
- Windows 10 and above (64-bit only)
- Intel, AMD, or Apple Silicon CPU
- 4GB RAM or more (6GB or more recommended)
- 76GB free storage space
- Includes 2 activations per license
User Manual