Spitfire Audio Harp Swarm [KONTAKT]

A nine harp adventure Nine harps playing simultaneously spread out around the Hall at Air Studios. From hauntingly slow and fast tremolandi, to long and short plucks, harmonics, and what has to be the most extraordinary selection of cascading glissandi we've ever heard. The second instalment in the Swarm story offers instant inspiration and a broad variety of uses. Overview The obvious use of nine beautifully maintained harps, playing both on the scoring stage and in the galleries at Air studios, would be to engulf your listener in a cascade of sweeping glissandi. If you're a blockbuster composer working on fantasy and magical material, once you've had nine, you're unlikely to go back! Swarm 2 delivers some staggering epic glissandi resonating around this world renowned hall. But this is only the beginning! The plucks and plucked harmonics offer a hauntingly epic melodic universe that will happily straddle larger strident orchestral arrangements at all dynamics. However, the Spitfire team feel the real magic of this library lies in the slow, fast and granular tremolandi, ranging from a soft choral sea of calm to a ferocious rain storm. Great for anything other-worldly, science fiction, mystery and horror. The long strings, with full speed and dynamic control, have an inherent kinetic movement and energy, even when playing simple and slow chords. This is a magical tool, providing you with new pastures of inspiration. Features 6 Harps on the main scoring stage, 3 in the galleries recorded in unison Long, Short & Harmonic plucks with Numerous Round Robins Haunting slow and fast trems with speed control and dynamic crossfading via mod wheel Exhaustive epic glissandi selection including release trigger and different speed options Recorded to tape via the finest microphones and pre-amps Selection of mic perspectives and Jake Jackson mixed from up front and personal to epic widescreen Easy to use, this one springs out of the box. GUI The Overview panel This is the main interface for melodic instruments. Its default view displays all available playing techniques, has a simple microphone mixer and includes the main feature controllers. General Controls panel This view allows further in-depth control of the instrument, showing all available signals and feature controllers, as well as the ability to purge techniques from memory to reduce system usage. The Ostinatum In this view you can add notes to a pattern sequencer, select which key it triggers on and then play for instant ostinato creation. It's like an arpeggiator on a synthesiser. What's included Articulations Trems - slow and fast Harmonics - pluck Longs - pluck Short - pluck Glisses - blues Glisses - chromatic clusters Glisses - dom 7th - Hollywood Glisses - dom 7th - long Glisses - dom 7th - medium down Glisses - dom 7th - medium up Glisses - dom 7th - short down Glisses - dom 7th - short up Glisses - dom 7th - shorter down Glisses - dom 7th - shorter up Glisses - maj 69 - Hollywood Glisses - maj 69 - long Glisses - maj 69 - medium down Glisses - maj 69 - medium up Glisses - maj 69 - short down Glisses - maj 69 - short up Glisses - maj 69 - shorter down Glisses - maj 69 - shorter up Glisses - major - Hollywood Glisses - major - long Glisses - major - medium down Glisses - major - medium up Glisses - major - short down Glisses - major - short up Glisses - major - shorter down Glisses - major - shorter up Glisses - melodic minor - Hollywood Glisses - melodic minor - long Glisses - melodic minor - medium down Glisses - melodic minor - medium up Glisses - melodic minor - short down Glisses - melodic minor - short up Glisses - melodic minor - shorter down Glisses - melodic minor - Shorter up Glisses - whole tone - Hollywood Glisses - whole tone - long Glisses - whole tone - medium down Glisses - whole tone - medium up Glisses - whole tone - short down Glisses - whole tone - short up Glisses - whole tone - shorter down Glisses - whole tone - shorter up Mics C - Close T - Tree A - Ambient O - Outriggers T2 - Surround Tree G - Gallery Mixes F - Fine M - Medium B - Broad Tech specs Mac system requirements Mac OS 11, 12 or 13 Both Intel and Apple Silicon/ARM are supported Minimum: 2.8GHz i5 minimum (quad-core), 8GB RAM Recommended: 2.8GHz I7 (six-core), 16GB RAM 32-bit systems are not supported. PC system requirements Windows 10 or Windows 11 - (Latest Service Pack, 64-bit) Minimum: Intel 2.8 GHz i5 (quad-core) or AMD Ryzen 5, 8GB RAM Recommended: Intel Core i7 6th gen and later or AMD Ryzen 7, 16GB RAM 32-bit systems are not supported. File size 21.00 GB disk space required during install 10.50 GB download size Kontakt player Kontakt Full 5.6.8 or higher required