USER MANUAL ABBEY ROAD ONE ORCHESTRAL FOUNDATIONS CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 3 WELCOME 4 DOWNLOADING & INSTALLING 6 THE SPITFIRE APP PREFERENCES 7 THE DEDICATED PLUGIN 8 HAVE A LOOK AROUND 9 MAIN CONTROLS 13 SIGNAL MIXER 14 TECHNIQUE SELECTOR 16 EFFECTS 18 TECHNIQUE EDITOR 19 TOP MENU 20 MICROPHONE SIGNALS 24 MICROPHONE GROUPING 25 TECHNIQUES 26 APPENDIX A — FAQS AND TROUBLESHOOTING 27 APPENDIX B — TECHNIQUES/MICS/MIXES 31 APPENDIX B — TECHNIQUES/MICS/MIXES 32 APPENDIX C — DEFAULT CC MAPPINGS 33 ABBEY ROAD ONE - ORCHESTRAL FOUNDATIONS 2 USER MANUAL INTRODUCTION Enter the room most composers can only dream of: Studio One at Abbey Road Studios. Unparalleled and exclusive access to the world’s most celebrated recording location for movie music — from Star Wars and Lord of the Rings, to Harry Potter and Avengers: Endgame — it doesn’t get more iconic. In our first collaboration with Abbey Road Studios, we recorded a complete 90–piece symphonic orchestra the same way your favourite composer would: unmistakable acoustics, exceptional players, award-winning engineers and priceless microphones. Strings, brass and woodwinds are grouped into ensembles for instant playability, completed by an exciting cinematic percussion section, all housed in our award-winning dedicated plug-in. QUICK SPECS MAC SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS Mac OS X 10.10 or later Minimum: 2.8GHz i5 (quad-core), 8GB RAM Recommended: 2.8GHz i7 (six-core), 16GB RAM PC SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 10 (latest Service Pack, 64-bit) Minimum: Intel Core 2.8GHz i5 (quad-core) or AMD Ryzen 5, 8GB RAM Recommended: Intel 2.8GHz i7 (six-core) or AMD R7 2700, 16GB RAM • Download Size 69.6 GB • Disk space required during install: 69.6 GB • Dedicated plugin (AU, VST2, VST3, AAX) • Deep sampled: multiple instruments, techniques, dynamics, round robins and release triggers. ABBEY ROAD ONE - ORCHESTRAL FOUNDATIONS 3 USER MANUAL WELCOME Capturing an Icon There is magic in the air at Abbey Road Perfect for writing orchestral film, TV and Studios – the essence of countless game scores, Abbey Road One gives incredible film scores that have been you all four sections of the orchestra in a recorded there. While Abbey Road is best single library – strings, brass, woodwinds known for legendary recordings by the and percussion — capturing the key set of Beatles, Pink Floyd, Kanye West, Oasis, orchestral sounds that composers use the Florence + The Machine, Abbey Road Studio most. One has been at the forefront of film music for decades – providing the emotion, mood The library comprises strings (16, 14, 12, and magic for many of the most successful 10, 8), brass (four horns, four trumpets, films ever made. three trombones, two bass trombones, one contrabass trombone, one tuba, and Countless A-list composers have been one contrabass tuba); and woodwinds attracted to the beautiful acoustics of (piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, one cor Studio One – the world’s largest purpose- anglais, two clarinets, one bass clarinet, two built recording studio. This unique room bassoons, and one contrabass bassoon); and has played host to numerous notable film percussion, performed by three players on a scores, spanning Star Wars: Episode VI stunning selection of instruments. — Return of the Jedi, Raiders of the Lost Ark (John Williams), Hollow Man (Jerry Instant Movie Magic Goldsmith), and Aliens (James Horner), The Lord of the Rings trilogy (Howard Shore), Organised into ensembles (combinations of multiple Harry Potter scores, King Arthur instruments), Abbey Road One springs out (Hans Zimmer), and Gravity (Steven Price) of the box, pre-orchestrated, helping you through to more recent game and films sketch your musical ideas quickly and easily. releases such as the multi-award-winning You do not need to understand the detailed The Shape of Water (Alexandre Desplat), inner workings of the orchestra to create Black Panther (Ludwig Göransson), 1917 stunning compositions. (Thomas Newman), Avengers: Endgame (Alan Silvestri), Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (Gordy Strings are split into Low and High, brass into Haab & Stephen Barton), Uncharted 3 (Greg Low, Horns and Trumpets and woodwind into Edmonson), Halo 4 (Neil Davidge), and Final Low and High, there is a stunning and unique Fantasy XV (Yoko Shimomura). selection of percussion, as well as a stirring all-in-one full symphonic orchestral patch, all The Film Scoring Orchestra recorded together in the room at the same time. All these patches are intuitive to use At Spitfire Audio, our approach is to always and instantly effective, helping you just let record sample libraries the same way we your creativity flow. record film scores, and this release is no exception. Abbey Road One puts the With a beautiful, modern design, Abbey Road same first-call musicians used on globally- One is housed in our award-winning plug- successful movies at your fingertips – a in, which loads directly into all major DAWs 90-piece symphonic orchestra playing (VST2, VST3, AU, AAX & NKS-compatible) priceless instruments, all recorded by multi without the need for any additional software. GRAMMY® Award-winning engineer Simon Easy to use, intuitive and inspiring, our plug- Rhodes (Avatar, Hugo, Harry Potter) and the in has been designed by composers, for legendary Abbey Road equipment. composers. ABBEY ROAD ONE - ORCHESTRAL FOUNDATIONS 4 USER MANUAL Access all Areas Although easy to use, Abbey Road One is our most expressive library to date, and offers a wealth of options for musical expression. 69 articulations, each more detailed than any produced for a Spitfire Audio ensemble library, with up to 5 dynamic layers. Explore Abbey Road’s legendary microphone cupboard to customise your sound, with up to 10 individual mic and 2 mix signals, giving you creative control to find the sound you are looking for. Discover rare and unique mics, including a pair of RM1B microphones combined with classic ribbons, recorded through the vintage TG Desk (TG12345 MK3) to form that vintage scoring stage sound, and stunning professional mixes from four- time GRAMMY® Award-winning engineer Simon Rhodes (Avatar, Hugo, Harry Potter) giving you a cinematic level of quality – instantly. One for All Abbey Road One: Orchestral Foundations is the first in a series of pre-orchestrated Film Scoring Selections recorded in Studio One. The next titles in this symphonic series will arrive early 2021. These will be smaller and more focused libraries inspired by classic films offering pre-orchestrated instrument pairings and themes. Each of these Selections is designed to help you accomplish a simple task phenomenally well – such as creating achingly beautiful melodic low string lines with just one simple legato patch. They will work seamlessly alongside Orchestral Foundations as well as on their own. Priced at £49 $49 49€ you can pick and choose from these Selections to build your own palette of Abbey Road One instruments. Pre order Orchestral Foundations to recieve your first Film Scoring Selections for free. ABBEY ROAD ONE - ORCHESTRAL FOUNDATIONS 5 USER MANUAL DOWNLOADING & INSTALLING Thank you for buying Abbey Road One. If you are a total newbie to this kind of thing you can get up to speed here: https://www.spitfireaudio.com/about/ First though, grab the ‘Spitfire Audio App’ from this link, this app will enable you to download the library: http://www.spitfireaudio.com/info/library-manager/ THE SPITFIRE AUDIO APP 2. FILTERS Clicking these filters will quickly display products you’ve yet to install, those When you launch the app you will be already installed, and any available updates. prompted to login using the same details Clicking again will remove the filter. you use at our site. Then you’ll see the page pictured below: 3. LIBRARY All libraries and plugins in your collection will appear with their artwork on the My Products tab. Clicking this artwork will open the product page. This is a great place to find information such as system requirements and instructions as well as Reset and Repair options. 4. INSTALL/UPDATE buttons allow you to quickly start a download directly from the My Products tab, instead of clicking through to the Library. Next to the button the size of the download is shown. 1. TABS the default tab is My Products, which shows all of the libraries on your Spitfire Account. Downloads will show currently downloading products. 1 2 2 3 4 ABBEY ROAD ONE - ORCHESTRAL FOUNDATIONS 6 USER MANUAL THE SPITFIRE APP PREFERENCES If this is your first time using the Spitfire Audio App for a download you may wish to first navigate to the Settings tab. Here you can set the Default Content location for where you wish to download your libraries. You can also you can set the default VST2 install location to the folder where your DAW expects to find VST files. Here you can also enable Auto Login to save time in future. Once you are happy with your preferences, simply click the Install button for the library. This is either directly on My Products tab under the library artwork, or it can be found by clicking on the library image and clicking the install button on the page that appears. Clicking either of these will prompt you for a location, the default content location in your preferences will be suggested but you can select any suitable location. If installing from a hard drive, ensure that you choose the drive as the location. Once you are happy with the location click Download. After clicking install you will be directed to the Downloads tab where you can watch the progress if you like. You can of course leave the Downloads tab and start other downloads but at this point you should leave the Spitfire App open until the download completes. ABBEY ROAD ONE - ORCHESTRAL FOUNDATIONS 7 USER MANUAL THE DEDICATED PLUGIN Unlike many Spitfire libraries, you don’t need Kontakt Player or the full Kontakt to run this library.