Spitfire Audio Mercury
Hybrid Virtual Instrument
Unearthly Sounds from Hollywood's Secret Weapon
Mercury samples fourteen one-of-a-kind acoustic sculptures, hand-crafted by Hollywood’s premier instrument designer, Chas Smith.
These creations painted the unearthly soundscapes of Dune and Interstellar, sang heroic anthems for Man of Steel and The Hunger Games, and textured terrors throughout the Saw film franchise.
All told, this collection delivers 600+ textures, tones, and pads - organic and synthesized in Solar, Spitfire's new eDNA-powered plug-in.
Cosmic Textures, Tones, and Soundscapes
In order to build your own sonic world, and to score the awe-inspiring, you need to discover sounds and instruments that aren’t easily replicated.
Mercury takes the exceptional acoustic sculptures hand-crafted by Hollywood's premier instrument designer Chas Smith, and allows you to experiment and go beyond the usual and familiar.
Mercury was built with the idea that truly unique instruments should sound organic, not artificial.
A bespoke collection of the most amazing, transcendent, and haunting musical textures and tones that you will ever find.
Chas Smith has managed to create artistic evocative metallic sculptures that also happen to be the secret ingredient in the iconic scores of Hans Zimmer's Interstellar, Dune and Dunkirk, and in Charlie Clouser's Saw.
Mercury's Solar Orbit
This library combines two dynamic forces: Mercury and Solar.
One, a collection of pure, organic sounds; the other, a tool for reinventing them.
The most up-to-date iteration of our eDNA technology, Solar is the host to Mercury's organic ethereal samples and the eDNAs extensive warp and preset library.
Within Solar, you will find the expansive soundscape Mercury, a world built around 14 unique handmade instruments like no other.
The Bertoia, Sceptre, Pez Eater, and Que Lastas (just to name a few) have had lasting impressions on some of Hollywood's leading luminaries.
The Que Lastas in particular has an entertaining story.
Charlie Clouser was moved to tears upon hearing it for the first time.
From The King of Experimental Instruments
Chas Smith is the KING of real-world acoustic sonic experimentation.
He does things the hard way, and the results speak for themselves.
His experience is unmatched, his imagination is boundless, and the combination of his diverse talents is superhuman.
Due to his position in the timeline of history, it would simply not be possible for any living human to duplicate his journey or his results.
Chas wasn't always a hotshot Hollywood musician.
He started out as a union welder and fabricator, metalworking for the film industry, and received an Academy Award for Technical Achievement for the structural engineering of the Bulldog Motion Control Camera Crane.
From Cal Arts to Image G, from Subotnick to Budd, from pedal steel to welding steel, his talents, influences, and abilities are truly one-of-a-kind.
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)
- 9GB free storage space
- Includes 2 activations per license
Plugin Formats
AAX Native, AU, VST2, and VST3
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