RELEASED AND READY TO DOWNLOAD
AVAILABLE TO NEW USERS TODAY FOR £319
EXISTING OWNERS OF ALBION 'LEGACY' GET IT FOR £149
(APPROX $229, OFFER MUST END 1st NOVEMBER)
 
ALBION ORCHESTRA:
109 piece orchestra featuring top flight London session-meisters, recorded via the finest microphones and pre-amps to tape at Air Studios. 

• Hi, Low, Mid and Ensemble Sections
• All new extended and enhanced articulation list
• Highly usable, expertly implemented 'true' legato
• All new control of strings vibrato
• 4 mic positions to adjust scale and perspective to your liking
• Massive string 'runs' selection
• 'Ostinatum' rhythmic phrase builder
• Classic aleatoric effects and techniques

includes
-Darwin Percussion Ensemble
-Brunnel Loops
-Stephenson's Steam Band
 
http://www.spitfireaudio.com/category/news
http://www.spitfireaudio.com/albion-one
 
vids-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bHymBJviBE

I started my download of Albion One before heading to bed last night. I woke up an hour early this morning (at 5AM!) so that I could play around for a little while before heading to work. I was able to sample all of the orchestral patches and they sound absolutely fantastic. The low woodwinds at high velocity make me smile. So good! The legato is much improved over the original too. I have to say though, if you load up all four microphones on the legato strings patch, you're looking at using over 3GB of RAM! Good thing it sounds fine using only a couple of mics. I also had a chance to very briefly play with the Darwin Percussion. Those Easter Island Hits are enormously powerful! Wow! I have a feeling that if I'm going to want to use those to their full potential in a mix, I'm going to have to mix everything around those, because there's not going to be a lot of room left if I bring one of those bad boys in later. After work today I'm going to check out the Brunel Loops and Stephenson's Steam Band synths. So far, I'm very happy with the upgrade and very glad that I purchased the original so that I could upgrade at such a low price. Great work, Spitfire!
 

So far pleased although I ran into a few quirks. A few patches are blank or aren't loading correctly, there's some funky level differences between articulations.
Future updates should take care of these minor issues.
Sounds great overall, ready to start working with it in projects.

carl
So far pleased although I ran into a few quirks. A few patches are blank or aren't loading correctly, there's some funky level differences between articulations.
Future updates should take care of these minor issues.
Sounds great overall, ready to start working with it in projects.

Be sure to report any problems to Spitfire so that they're aware of them. They are usually really good about getting patches out quickly. It's a great sounding library, isn't it!? :D

my oh my... and my day continues to get better!   Just logged on after an awesome day buying a Pathfinder to replace my decrepit, ancient, beat up, piece of crap nissan 4 banger...that was no longer helping me effectively create gardens... I'm already in blissville, having never owned anything so amazing... and here I find you all jizzing (at least, over at vic) about the early release...
 
Don't know how much more I can take... Downloading and enjoying the excitement...
 2 weeks early.... nice!  Glad I bought in before finding my path!  
PS... early bird buyin is now ticking... looks like end of this month, now that loads of vids and the wiggle ist amongst us...

OK, people... watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei-f_T1Us9A
 
it's a quick discussion of the hugely POWERFUL eDNA engine, bringing in samples, tweaking them into awesome loops.... you'll  freak out... this is way beyond an "orchestral" library...

And if you want to get "Steamed".... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcCVZXjjts4
 
Just exquisite orchestral pads eDNAed into oblivion... Take THAT... Heavyocity!!! We Can load any sample we want and wank it into endless realms!!! All that plus 40+ gigs of orchestral nirvana... for 200 bucks!!! oh man... they are "spitting" on the greedy with this one...
 
 

Daniel James is in a full on wank... he'll be blathering his hilariously instructive wit and wisdom NEXT week, for any of you shy guys and gals... you won't be able to resist...
 

skitch_84
Be sure to report any problems to Spitfire so that they're aware of them. They are usually really good about getting patches out quickly. It's a great sounding library, isn't it!? :D

I contacted support, there's an issue with missing ostinatum presets.
It should be in the first update but in the meantime you can dl these from them.
this forum won't post the full link, make sure to copy/paste the entire url
http://audio-transfer.s3.amazonaws.com/Support Fixes/Ostinatum presets.zip
 

I also asked them to include ensembles patches. They weren't in the original Albion either until they had requests for it. Do the same if you'd like them added.
Could be just an oversight like the osti's.