EDNA01 EARTH COLOSSAL HYBRID SYNTH A once in a lifetime collection of electronic sounds derived, warped and re-birthed from Spitfire's enormous and highly valued collection of orchestral sample recordings... the first phase in our e.D.N.A. (ELECTRONIC DNA) project, creating the next generation of sound-ware for the next generation of electronic sound-smiths. OVERVIEW Phase #1 ‘EARTH’ is a collection of 1900+ basic instruments mangled into 1001 custom patches by our award winning team of composers, sound-smiths, producers and engineers into a collection of play-out-of-the-box “cartridges”. Load up eDNA, with an award winning interface, slam in a cartridge and play play play. Such is the depth of content here that if you were to play each sound for 30 seconds, it would take you exactly 24 hours to listen to every instrument and patch... And that’s without fag and loo breaks. We’re not ambulance chasing here, this is not about the music of now, of yesterday, this is a new chapter, a new sonic arsenal. BACKGROUND Included with the EARTH pack are 1900+ and 1001 custom patches that spring out of the box and bite. DEVELOPMENT STEP 1 - ORE We have been recording the finest orchestral players for seven years now. We have been practising our craft in the creation of the finest strings, brass, woodwinds and percussion libraries. But throughout this period, we have also been harbouring a darker ambition. As many of us here at Spitfire come from the first wave of UK EDM in the 90's we have hungered to get our hands on these awesome sounds for our own ill gotten gains. For the last seven years there has been a secret hard drive, a depository of the best of these orchestral recordings saved to create the ultimate raw material, the ultimate ore, a set of polished diamonds waiting to be roughed up all over again. STEP 2 - WARP STAGE For the last 5 years we have been experimenting with orchestral warping and many of these early attempts have been enjoyed by a large group of users using the beautiful and sometimes downright dirty "Stephenson's Steam Band" sections of our Albion range. In these early years we set about finding the most rarefied analogue outboard equipment, synths, filters, gates, verbs, and also commissioned and created a rare set of bespoke digital signal paths. At regular points over the last few years we have taken our secret drive out of it's secret cupboard, pulled the sounds up and fed them through these multi stage signal paths. We often left it simmering overnight, creating the most delicious and sometimes just 'wrong' set of sounds. STEP 3 - SOUND SETS to SOUND BANKS During the warp stage we created well over a terabyte of data. Needing to cut this down to a reasonable size, the Spitfire team of multi award winning composers, producers, techs and engineers set about pairing this down to the very best of the best. From this we created a set of multi-sampled Sound-Sets. The very building blocks of 'Earth' itself. These were then organised by sound-type into manageable Sound-Banks. STEP 4 - THE e.D.N.A. ENGINE Over the last seven years Spitfire - in partnership with Blake Robinson - have been creating intuitive and ingenious scripts, simple to use GUIs and attractive front ends. A year ago, we wiped the script clean and set about creating a monster of a new script engine. This we call eDNA. With more details to follow, we will show how the sound sets and banks of 'Earth' can be used in conjunction with the eDNA engine to quickly, dramatically and awesomely customise sounds beyond recognition. STEP 5 - SADISTIC SOUNDSMITHS Once the sound banks were implanted into eDNA, we distributed 'Earth - Beta' around our state-of-the-art complex in Central London, UK. Spitfire is a team of award winning composers, producers, track makers, and engineers. Using this pedigree, we have created a jaw dropping number of the original, haunting, beautiful, epic, angry, fat and down-right unpleasant sounds. We ignored the zeitgeist, we ignored what's been before and just set about creating something new. With eDNA's delightful GUI, this uncharted territory of new sonic experimentation is one knob or slider away from making it your own. Or simply start from the "vanilla" sound-banks, roll your sleeves up and give eDNA a tickle. FEATURES 1900+ Factory instruments and 1001 custom patches designed by our award winning team. Organised into virtual cartridges, slam one in and play play play! Imagine the eDNA engine as a set of two turntables and a massively complex DJ mixer. It contains two sound bays with individual and independent modulators, control of trim, bend, glide, cloning, tuning, ADSR and lpfs and hpfs and wobbles that modulate pitch, volume and filters. There is an onboard gate sequencer that allows independent gating between these two bays and unified control of amount, and shape, speed and length of sequence. These two signals are then at last unified with a DJ style x-fader. Move between the sounds with the mouse or the factory-default assigned modulation wheel. But it doesn't stop there. We've designed a custom script that oscillates the x-fader automatically with control over speed and phase. Last but not least is eDNA's five stage FX path with 34 custom plugins (including a bunch of bespoke IRs) pre-loaded. There are two "layer fx" stages that effect sound A or B. A "motorised" FX stage that can either effect A, B or both. A master FX stage that effects the entire output. Finally an auxilliary FX stage that can be sent via the layers or master FX stage. Any parameter of these can be assigned for automation or assignment to your controller. See this diagram to understand eDNA's signal patch more fully: WELCOME TO THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF THE eDNA 'CARTRIDGE' "Earth" is an anthology of 1900+ vanilla instruments and 1001 custom patches in our 'artist' collections. If you were to spend no more than 30 second listening to every sound on Earth (excuse pun) it would take you 24 hours of solid listening, without fag or loo breaks. To make sense of this awesome arsenal of sonic weaponry we've organise everything into cartridges. With the artists we have briefed them on a sonic "style" with our factory cartridges we have largely organised by type of sound and have released our first "best of" compiled by Christian Henson the chief curator on the Earth project. Here's a quick guide to the thinking behind each cartridge to give you further guidance. ARTIST COLLECTIONS (BUNDLED WITH EARTH) Our award winning team of composers, engineers and producers have spent the last 6 months tasked with wrestling Earth's 1900+ vanilla patches into an awesome array of eDNA patches. From beautifully refined dynamic MW x-fades to turbo charged tempo sync'd gated and phased wonders. Here's the first 8 of many more to come! Dyztopia Link APOCALYPZ - Sounds from the edge of reasonable. - Urban stalwart Jefferson Chambers presents a series of sounds that bite, easily the edgiest cartridge in the Earth collection. Featuring many searing leads, senseless chaotic frenzied hell, super fat basses, spluttering and gurgling vowels and atmospheric pads that give you no hope. A truly dystopian vision delivered by a truly disturbed individual. Suitable not only for the rougher end of EDM this set of sounds would also fit well in with hybrid blockbuster and trailer work. Whoever you're playing out to, they're never going to have heard these sounds before! 综合混合综合征 曾经在一生中收集电子声音,从Spitfire的庞大和高价值的管弦乐作品录制集合中扭曲出来,并重新开始...我们的e.D.N.A.的第一阶段。 (电子DNA)项目,为下一代电子声音仪器创造下一代声音产品。 概述 第一阶段'EARTH'是由屡获殊荣的作曲家,制作人,制片人和工程师团队的1900多种基本乐器的集合,将其打入1001个定制音色,并将其集成到一个播放的即时盒式“ 。加载eDNA,获得屡获殊荣的界面,在盒式磁带中砰击,玩游戏。这是这里的深度内容,如果你要播放每个声音30秒,它将需要你24小时听每个乐器和补丁...这没有fag和loo休息。我们不是在这里追赶救护车,这不是现在的音乐,昨天这是一个新的一个新的声波武库。 背景 EARTH包包括1900+和1001个自定义补丁,弹出盒子并咬住。 发展 步骤1 - ORE 我们已经录制了最好的管弦乐队演员七年了。我们一直在创造最好的弦乐,铜管乐器,木管乐器和打击乐图书馆。但是在这个时期,我们也一直藏着一个黑暗的野心。我们在这里的很多人都是来自英国EDM在90年代的第一波浪潮,我们已经饿死了,为了我们自己的病得到了收获,我们已经停下了脚步。在过去七年中,已经有一个秘密的硬盘驱动器,这些管弦乐录音中最好的存储器被保存以创造最终的原材料,最终的矿石,一批抛光钻石等待被重新整理。 步骤2 - WARP舞台 在过去的5年中,我们一直在尝试管弦乐扭曲,许多早期的尝试已经被一大批用户使用,这些用户使用了美丽而有时甚至是“斯蒂芬森蒸汽乐队”的Albion系列。在这些初期,我们设法找到最稀有的模拟外置设备,合成器,滤波器,门,动词,并且还委托并创建了一组罕见的定制数字信号路径。在过去几年的常规点上,我们把秘密推出了它的秘密橱柜,拉起声音,并通过这些多级信号路径喂饱。我们经常让它熬夜,创造出最美味,有时甚至是“错误”的声音。 步骤3 - 声音到声音银行 在翘曲阶段,我们创造了超过一兆字节的数据。需要将其缩小到合理的大小,多名获奖作曲家,制片人,技术人员和工程师的Spitfire团队将这一配置归功于最好的。从此我们创建了一组多采样声音集。 “地球”本身的构建块。然后,这些声音组合成可管理的声银行。 第4步 - e.D.N.A.发动机 在过去七年中,与Blake Robinson合作,Spitfire一直在创建直观而巧妙的脚本,简单易用的GUI和有吸引力的前端。一年前,我们擦去脚本干净,并设置了一个新的脚本引擎的怪物。我们称之为eDNA。随着更多的细节,我们将展示如何将“Earth”的声音设置和银行与eDNA引擎结合使用,以快速,显着和真实地自定义声音而不是识别。 第5步 - SADISTIC SOUNDSMITHS 一旦将声音银行植入eDNA,我们就会在英国伦敦市中心的最先进的综合体中分发“Earth-Beta”。喷火是一个获奖作曲家,制片人,追踪者和工程师团队。使用这种血统,我们创造了一个下降的数量的原始,困扰,美丽,史诗般,愤怒,肥胖和低调的不愉快的声音。我们忽视了时代精神,忽视了以前的事情,只是想创造新的东西。使用eDNA令人愉快的GUI,这个未知的新音域实验领域是一个旋钮或滑块,使其成为您自己的。或者简单地从“香草”音箱开始,将袖子卷起来,给eDNA一个痒。 特征 1900+工厂仪器和我们获奖团队设计的1001个自定义补丁。组织成虚拟弹药筒,砰击一个玩,并播放玩! 想象一下eDNA引擎作为一组两个转盘和一个复杂的DJ混音器。它包含两个具有独立和独立调制器的音箱,控制修剪,弯曲,滑动,克隆,调谐,ADSR和lpfs以及调制音高,音量和滤波器的hpfs和摆动。 有一个板载门排序器,允许这两个间隔之间的独立门控,并统一控制数量,形状,速度和序列长度。 最后,这两个信号与DJ风格的x推子统一。在声音之间移动 |