Purpose built tools for writing for Quartets performed by an award winning and much talked about British quartet in arguably the best chamber acoustic in the world.

OVERVIEW
When you convince, cajole and caress the proprieters of one of the most favoured chamber music venues in the world to open their doors to a sampling project and they say "yes you can have it for one day in August" what do you do? You wait. You wait for that day to come and you plan and you put together a crack team of engineers and you prepare your band and you get as much as you can. And then you wait, you wait until that day comes around the next August, you repeat the operation.... and then you wait, you wait until the next August!

Sacconi strings is a four year long project to create a definitive set of writing-for-quartet tools, a game changing set of solo strings recorded at Wigmore Hall and performed by one of the most talked about young quartets to be formed in London for many years.

When writing for quartets composers naturally have to settle with using solo strings VIs to mockup their intentions. The difficulty here is they tend to be very 'neck up' soloistic and when combined into a foursome can be jarringly expressive and difficult to sell to clients.

Spitfire's Christian Henson has worked with Sacconi for many years and thanks them for helping him understand what works for a quartet and what makes a quartet gel. Christian took this relationship alongside the searing talents and understanding of virtuality of Andy Blaney into the Wigmore to commit a very different approach to sampling to the digital sphere. Combining modern techniques and exploratory approaches to vibrato alongside stunning traditional articulations blooming this extraordinary acoustic Sacconi has been everyone's pet project at Spitfire.

FEATURES
In what can only be described as a 'coup de grace' Stanley Gabriel massaged some family connections and cajoled the proprieters of the Wigmore Hall into letting us in. He put together a crack team of operatives, researched various famous recordings made there and built us a remote recording facility in but two hours of them letting us in. The minute though that Spitfire engineers started scratching mics and listening back to sound checks via monitors in the hastily put together control room stationed in the green room behind the stage, did the magic really start to happen.

Volume One features the searing talents of Ben Hancox as 1st violin. Playing a rarefide antique article Ben's abilities are very much the talk of the town. Not only performing with Sacconi Ben can often be seen amongst the front desks of many of the top film scoring sessions in London.

The library contains 6 different microphone perspectives, including the main stereo position which gives you the classic sound of the hall. Other positions include two close mics, decca tree, outriggers and ambients. 15 different articulations are included with the library from tight spiccatos to longs with complete vibrato control and a whole host of others in between. Check out our presets list below to see the full collection contain in the library.

KEY STATS

• 17512 SAMPLES
• 40.0 GB UNCOMPRESSED .WAV
• 20.5 GB DISK SPACE REQUIRED
• 41 GB DISK SPACE REQUIRED DURING INSTALL
• KONTAKT FULL REQUIRED

Sacconi Strings Vol 1 is available for £75 ($113 / €106 approx) Regular £99
Available at a launch promo price of £75, (roughly $112 / €103) until midnight GMT on the 4th January where it will return to its RRP of £99

More INFO: Spitfire Audio | Sacconi Strings Vol 1

 

Last edited: Dec 18, 2015

Wow!!! This one is going to be really expensive in the long run if you want the whole quartet... should we say: 400 pounds or like!

 

Oh, This is actually very, very good..