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Spitfire Audio

Mercury

$165.00

Earn 435

Mercury
Mercury
Mercury

Unearthly sounds from Hollywood's secret weapon

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Plugin

Plugin Instruments

Spitfire Audio

Mercury

$165.00

Earn 435

Unearthly sounds from Hollywood's secret weapon

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Mercury samples fourteen one-of-a-kind acoustic sculptures, hand-crafted by Hollywood’s premier instrument designer, Chas Smith. These creations painted the unearthly soundscapes of Dune and Interstellar, sang heroic anthems for Man of Steel and The Hunger Games, and textured terrors throughout the Saw film franchise. All told, this collection delivers 600+ textures, tones, and pads—organic and synthesised in Solar, our new eDNA-powered plug-in.

Product Overview

Mercury samples fourteen one-of-a-kind acoustic sculptures, hand-crafted by Hollywood’s premier instrument designer, Chas Smith. These creations painted the unearthly soundscapes of Dune and Interstellar, sang heroic anthems for Man of Steel and The Hunger Games, and textured terrors throughout the Saw film franchise.

All told, this collection delivers 600+ textures, tones, and pads—organic and synthesised in Solar, our new eDNA-powered plug-in.

What's Included?

Instruments

Bertoia

Inconel rods with aluminium resonators on a turbine blade. Inspired by Harry Bertoia. 

  • Bowed 1
  • Bowed 2
  • Bowed 3
  • Bowed 4
  • Texture 1
  • Texture 2
  • Texture 3
  • Texture 4
  • Texture 5
  • Texture 6

Dado

Machined steel plates that can spin over pickups.

  • Bowed 1
  • Hits 1
  • Scrape 1
  • Spin 1
  • Spin 2
  • Spin 3
  • Texture 1
  • Texture 2

Towers

9 titanium rods, tuned to be “friendly" with each other, with titanium plates welded on each end.

  • Bells 1
  • Bells 2
  • Drone 1
  • Drone 2
  • Hits 1
  • Bowed 1
  • Ambience 1
  • Roll 1
  • Scrape 1
  • Spin 1

Lockheed

Titanium parts welded into a structure and a titanium sheet for the resonator.

  • Hits 1
  • Hits 2
  • Hits 3
  • Texture 1
  • Texture 2
  • Texture 3
  • Texture 4
  • Texture 5
  • Texture 6
  • Texture 7
  • Bowed 1
  • Bowed 2

Mantis

Titanium parts welded into a suspended structure that rotate.

  • Hits 1
  • Hits 2
  • Hits 3
  • Hits 4
  • Hits 5
  • Scrape 1
  • Scrape 2
  • Swells
  • Texture 1
  • Texture 2
  • Texture 3
  • Texture 4
  • Texture 5

Copper Box

Rods, plates and a folded horn resonator. Each rod is 36” long and the helix of rods continues under the resonator plates.

  • Bowed 1
  • Bowed 2
  • Bowed 3
  • Bowed 4
  • Ambience 1
  • Hits 1
  • Hits 2
  • Hits 3
  • Rolls
  • Texture 1
  • Texture 2

Paraboloid

A titanium sheet with added rods.

  • Fingernails
  • Bowed 1
  • Bowed 2
  • Bowed 3
  • Hits 1
  • Texture 1
  • Texture 2

The Pez Eater

Tuned steel rods and pickups.

  • Drone 1
  • Drone 2
  • Drone 3
  • Drone 4
  • Bowed 1
  • Hits 1

Sceptre

Saw blades, plates and things that can rotate.

  • Spin 1
  • Hits 1
  • Bowed 1
  • Bowed 2
  • Bowed 3
  • Bowed 4
  • Bowed 5

AD

Springs welded to the saw blades and stacked over pick-ups. 

  • Hits 1
  • Hits 2
  • Hits 3
  • Texture 1
  • Texture 2

Bass Tweed

Rods, a plate and strings, mounted over resonators.

  • Bend 1
  • Bend 2
  • Long 1
  • Long 2
  • Long 3
  • Texture 1

Que Lastas

Stainless steel sheet suspended by nylon chords combined with bass strings from a grand piano.

  • Bowed 1
  • Bowed 2
  • Bowed 3
  • Bowed 4
  • Bowed 5
  • Texture 1

 

Sonic experiments

Using various types of metals, such as Aluminium, Titanium and Stainless Steel.

Aluminium 

  • Hits 1
  • Hits 2
  • Hits 3
  • Texture 1
  • Texture 2

Ti & SS

  • Hits 1
  • Hits 2
  • Texture 1
  • Waves 1
  • Waves 2
  • Scrape 1

 

Warps

Core

The raw sounds as they were recorded

Awash

Layers of reverbs diffuse the sound and create lush atmospheres.

Cascade

Chains of delays create evolving textures with just a hint of rhythm.

Destruct

Eurorack and outboard units saturate and destroy.

Molecule

Granular effects completely rearrange and recombine the sound.

Weight

A series of sound design techniques and effects augment the low-end of the sounds

Cosmic textures

In order to build your own sonic world, and to score the awe-inspiring, you need to discover sounds and instruments that aren’t easily replicated. Mercury takes the exceptional acoustic sculptures hand-crafted by Hollywood's premier instrument designer Chas Smith, and allows you to experiment and go beyond the usual and familiar.

Mercury was built with the idea that truly unique instruments should sound organic, not artificial. A bespoke collection of the most amazing, transcendent, and haunting musical textures and tones that you will ever find.

Chas Smith has managed to create artistic evocative metallic sculptures that also happen to be the secret ingredient in the iconic scores of Hans Zimmer's Interstellar, Dune and Dunkirk, and in Charlie Clouser’s Saw

From the king of experimental instruments

Chas Smith is the KING of real-world acoustic sonic experimentation. He does things the hard way, and the results speak for themselves. His experience is unmatched, his imagination is boundless, and the combination of his diverse talents is superhuman. Due to his position in the timeline of history, it would simply not be possible for any living human to duplicate his journey or his results.  

Chas wasn’t always a hotshot Hollywood musician. He started out as a union welder and fabricator, metalworking for the film industry, and received an Academy Award for Technical Achievement for the structural engineering of the Bulldog Motion Control Camera Crane. From Cal Arts to Image G, from Subotnick to Budd, from pedal steel to welding steel, his talents, influences, and abilities are truly one-of-a-kind.

SOLAR ORBIT

This library combines two dynamic forces: Mercury and Solar. One, a collection of pure, organic sounds; the other, a tool for reinventing them. The most up-to-date iteration of our eDNA technology, Solar is the host to Mercury’s organic ethereal samples and the eDNAs extensive warp and preset library.

Within Solar, you will find the expansive soundscape Mercury, a world built around 14 unique handmade instruments like no other. The Bertoia, Sceptre, Pez Eater, and Que Lastas (just to name a few) have had lasting impressions on some of Hollywood's leading luminaries. The Que Lastas in particular has an entertaining story. Charlie Clouser upon hearing it for the first time was moved to tears.

Additional Information

Mac system requirements

Mac OS X 11 to OS 14

Minimum: 2.8GHz i5 minimum (quad-core), 8GB RAM

Recommended: 2.8GHz I7 (six-core), 16GB RAM

Both Intel and Apple Silicon/ARM are supported

32-bit systems are not supported.

PC system requirements

Windows 10 or Windows 11 - (Latest Service Pack, 64-bit)

Minimum: Intel 2.8 GHz i5 (quad-core) or AMD Ryzen 5, 8GB RAM

Recommended: Intel Core i7 6th gen and later or AMD Ryzen 7, 16GB RAM

32-bit systems are not supported.

File size

~762 samples

8.2 GB download size

8.29 GB disk space required during install

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Changelog

1.3.5

08/06/25

  • Fixed: White key range now moves correctly when using the Offset parameter.
  • Fixed: Reopening a session no longer requires reinstantiating the plugin for sound to play.
  • Fixed: Glide ****no longer cuts out after a few seconds.
  • Fixed: Convolution IRs now correctly match their labels—Dirac Long is long, and Dirac Short is short.
  • Fixed: Preset browser now loads properly and refreshes without delay.
  • Fixed: Deactivating Layer A or B no longer mutes the other layer.

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