Creating a definitive set of writing-for-quartet tools with a game-changing set of solo strings recorded at Wigmore Hall - London’s leading international recital venue for chamber music that is now approaching its 115th birthday, boasting near-perfect acoustics - and performed by the sought-after Sacconi Quartet was Spitfire Audio’s savvy solution. Insofar as results go, this technique tends to be very ‘neck up’ from a soloing standpoint, and, still worse, when combined into a four-piece performance can sound jarringly expressive, so something of a hard sell to clients. Trouble is - or, strictly speaking, was - when writing for quartets contemporary composers have hitherto had to settle for using solo strings virtual instruments to mock up their intentions. The way that the sound blends is very, very interesting and unique.” Translating that uniqueness to pique the interest of those investing in virtual instruments is no easy task. “SACCONI STRINGS – QUARTET is a project that we’ve been working on for a long time, and something that’s very close to our hearts, having worked with quartets many times - especially at the beginning of our careers as composers, when the budget for players wasn’t quite so large.” So states Spiffire Audio co-founder Paul Thomson, adding, “You get used to the amazing kind of crosstalk and the amazing way that quartets who’ve been playing together for a long time are able to modulate their performances to match. LONDON, UK: Spitfire Audio, purveyors of the finest virtual instruments from the finest musical samples in the world, is proud to announce availability of an updated version of SACCONI STRINGS – QUARTET - perfectly-produced, purpose-built tools for writing string quartets, performed by the namesake Sacconi Quartet in arguably the best-sounding chamber acoustic in the world before being released into the world as another superlative sample-based virtual instrument for Native Instruments’ industry-standard KONTAKT platform that sounds literally like no other - as of August 5…
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