Spitfire Audio Skaila Kanga Harp Redux Virtual Instrument Library, Electronic Download

Spitfire have teamed up with leading virtuoso Skaila Kanga to create a beautiful and detailed Harp library recorded in the Hall at Air Studios. Skaila is the first call harpist in London, having played on numerous film scores and albums. Coupled with Spitfire's ability to produce and curate samples that sparkle with life, whilst being able assemble and script an instrument that just works "out of the box", Skaila's harp module is a must have for any respectable composer.

• 4041 Samples
• 12.8 GB Uncompressed .Wav
• 6.8 GB Disk Space Required
• 13.6 GB Disk Space Required During Install
• KONTAKT Full Required

Detail and Beauty
A detailed and beautiful harp library performed by the London's leading performer; Skaila Kanga. Recorded at Air Studios and ingeniously scripted to burst out of the "box". Once you lay your hands on this you'll never look for another.

Background

Spitfire Presents the Definitive Harp Library
Spitfire's Definitive Range aims to offer the world a one-stop shop for classic and esoteric instruments played by the greats. As all these instruments are recorded in situ, in the same room, they're designed to lock together sonically whether it be some timpani from the percussion range coupled with your Sable libraries. Or indeed a more curious band made up of the Hg20, a plucked piano and a harp, it is designed to sound like they're together in the same room. They provide a series of detailed mixing options that allow you to dry the sound up or make it more ambient, whilst preserving the acoustic integrity and perspective of a consistent microphone set up and room configuration.

The instruments are all sampled in great detail but designed to play easily out-of-the-box, with simple integration into larger arrangements and templates without risk of demanding too much from your system resources. Recorded by Jake Jackson at Lyndhurst Hall - Air Studios, on one of the finest scoring stages in the world, through an array of vintage microphones via Neve "Montserrat" pre-amps, to a beautifully serviced Studer 2" tape machine and then into digital at 96k via Prism AD converters: this is an unparalleled signal chain.

Functions
This is a detailed library with a selection of essential articulations curated by multi award winning composers and musicians. The library features multiple round robins, dynamic layers presented in an easy to use GUI. Harp pedalling is available to make it even easier to play your own sweeps and glisses right from the keyboard - you can now set the harp pedals graphically and then just play the white notes! Alongside the beautiful selection of single hit articulations, glisses are playable in every key, in the following scales: major, minor harmonic, minor melodic, pentatonic, diminished, whole tone.

Spitfire have recorded full sweeps up and down, fast and slow and split the harp into four registers, also fast and slow, up and down and then recorded a swirly gliss, up and down. All instruments have the ability to mix and/or mute mic positions from the front panel: Close mics, Decca tree and Ambient outriggers. Route the spots into your center channel, the tree in L&R and the ambients in Ls & Rs and you also have a perfect 5.0 perc instrument. Or simply keep in stereo and mix according to taste. All controls can be fully automated. In addition to this, they give you a wonderful set of 'Harpospheres' patches - beautiful pads and textures created from the organic original recordings.

Guis

The Overview Panel
Gives you a quick and easy way to access, view and load the different articulations, mic mixes and essential controller functions which you can then re-assign to suit your workflow.

General Controls Panel
A deeper but still simple UI panel that allows you to tweak the general settings. How many round robins you would like and how you would like them to behave. How would you like memory to be organized alongside pitch options and how velocity works.

The Ostinatum
Quite simply a little inspiration machine. Not quite an arpegiattor, not quite a sequencer. This intuitive device allows you to build up complex patterns that react to your playing to achieve wild systems results tantalising Zimmeresque tension beds or cheeky multi-tonguing effects!