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Resonate

Name: Spitfire Audio - Resonate
Brand: Spitfire Audio
SKU: LA-P-17073
Price: 199.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

$199.00

Earn 597

Cinematic percussion, impossible aftershocks.

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Spitfire Audio

Resonate

$199.00

Earn 597

Cinematic percussion, impossible aftershocks.

For years, half the magic of sound has been disregarded. Films and trailers have delivered gigantic hits in epic technicolour, but neglected the essence of percussion’s power: resonance. A real orchestral strike lives on long after the initial impact dies away—in reverberations that rumble, pierce, rattle, and sing. Those aftershocks have the power to thrill and terrify, lure and intrigue. And now they’re at your fingertips. Built in collaboration with the visionary Dame Evelyn Glennie—one of history’s most influential percussionists—Resonate unlocks the other-worldly mystery, magic, and tension of orchestral percussion. Tuned and untuned instruments collide across fourteen signals, then spin out toward new frontiers of texture, tone, and dimension. There, hits, strikes, and spine-tingling scrapes give way to essential cinematic reverberations, captured at Hollywood’s most celebrated recording hall—AIR Studios.

Built in collaboration with the visionary Dame Evelyn Glennie—one of history’s most influential percussionists—Resonate unlocks the other-worldly mystery, magic, and tension of orchestral percussion. Tuned and untuned instruments collide across fourteen signals, then spin out toward new frontiers of texture, tone, and dimension. There, hits, strikes, and spine-tingling scrapes give way to essential cinematic reverberations, captured at Hollywood’s most celebrated recording hall—AIR Studios.

Featuring the following instruments as resonators; Water Tank, Thundersheet, Timpani—played like never before, and Barrell
Over 45 different instrumental articulations
7 Unique mic perspectives such as placed underwater, contact mics attached to resonating chambers, boundary mics spread through the hall
Stretch feature: Available solely for long sustained sounds this feature allows you to choose the playback speed of the sample
Warp features: With 5 individual FX chains that add character to each sample, ranging from a gritty, textural, yet organic sound, to an endlessly resonating reverb.

In Resonate, no sound stays familiar for long. Warped signals and effects transform magical reverberations into haunting textures. Strategically-placed mics transport strikes to new depths—inside resonant chambers, beneath instruments, and underwater.

Meanwhile, the instruments themselves never stop surprising. The barrel’s rumbles, rattles, and wails. The thundersheet’s razor-sharp crescendos, hollow gongs, and quivering cries. The timpani’s never-before-heard warbles, bells, and moans-from-the-deep. And the water tank, with its thin crashes, deep quakes, and organically pitch-shifting resonances. All recorded in the legendary cradle of Hollywood’s greatest film scores, AIR Lyndhurst Hall.

Instruments

Barrel

Low Hits & Trines Kit
Metals Kit
Superball Kit
Snare
Hits
Tam Tam Hits
Superball
Superball Long
Trine
Cymbal Hits
Cymbal Superball
Waterphone
Cymbal - Menu (Bowed)
Cymbal - Maelstrom (Bowed Metal with separated repetitions)
Cymbal - Tempest (Bowed Metal with separated repetitions)
Cymbal - Refract (Bowed Metal with separated repetitions)
Cymbal - Element (Bowed Metal with separated repetitions)
Cymbal - Sphere (Bowed Metal with separated repetitions)
Cymbal - Voltaic (Bowed Metal with separated repetitions)
Cymbal Bow - Menu (Bowed with wood of bow)
Cymbal Bow - Spire
Cymbal Bow - Sentinel
Cymbal Bow - Beyond

Timpani

Paddle Kit
Barimbulum Kit
Paddle Drum
Barimbulum Hits
Barimbulum Bow
Cymbal Hits
Ektar
Reco Reco
Tibetan Bell
Cymbal Superball Flicks
Cymbal Rolls
Marimbula Pluck
Marimbula Mallet
Kalimba

Thundersheet

Thunder Sheet Kit
Hits A (Muted Hits)
Hits B (Open Hits)
Superball
Bowed

Watertank

Water Tank Kit
Mallet
Superball
Hard Sticks
Waterphone
Big Bell
Dips

Warp Feature

Warp 1 — A resonant, low-resolution effects chain resulting in harmonically rich aliasing artefacts
Warp 2 — A lush reverb chain with various time manipulation, dragging out each hit and blurring transients together
Warp 3 — Granular processing of each hit, pulling & sequencing glimpses of sound for brief transient moments
Warp 4 — A vintage mix, tracked to tape at multiple speeds, layered and re-recorded
Warp 5 — A custom mix, saturated, rectified and endlessly self modulated

Stretch Feature

Applies to longer held notes
Allows you to adjust the tempo of the particular sample without altering the pitch

Mics & mixes

Mics

Close — A selection of valve mics
Tree — Decca tree of three mics placed above the conductor's podium
Ambient — Placed at the back of the room, gives a great amount of the hall ambience
Stereo Mid — A great mid-distance pickup
Contact — 2 Contact microphones placed directly on each instrument's resonant chamber
Boundary — 2 Boundary layer microphones placed underneath the instrument
Water Tank — 2 microphones submerged in water tanks

Mixes

Mix 1 — A balanced Jake Jackson mix
Mix 2 — An exaggerated Hype mix

A barrel, a thundersheet, a water tank, and timpani—paired, stacked, struck, and bowed with many other co-resonating instruments to create an unparalleled collection of cinematic hits, scrapes, textures, and tones.

Launching these 49 techniques and pairings toward infinite layers of dimension, Resonate sends them down 14 possible signal paths—both organic and treated—and filters them through 6 possible after-effects. Its built-in Grid tool can then collaborate with you to discover and combine thousands of permutated sounds, creating a sonorous ensemble of endless inspiration.

Resonate combines with traditional percussion libraries, but it also confronts them. It shakes them loose and sets them free. Rather than replicate common concert sounds or repeat overused trailer hits, Resonate explores and unlocks the boundless potential of orchestral percussion—from first strike to final reverberation. The result is a treasury of sounds that bridges the gap between traditional and experimental scores. These instruments will help you bring your own brazen audacity to straight-ahead orchestral tracks, while simultaneously dialling up the epic on music that’s already uniquely yours.

Use these sounds to conjure the strange new rhythms of sci-fi worlds, the propulsive rush of relentless thrillers, and the surreal passion of lives lived with full heart. To do so, you need only channel Evelyn Glennie’s ethic of percussion-without-preconceptions. Whereas other instrumental libraries help us realise the scores already in our heads, Resonate inspires us to discover those scores we could never dream up in silence. Rather than hit-then-hit, these instruments compel us to hit-then-listen—and make music out of the forgotten sounds left dancing on the air. Using traditional percussion instruments as resonators, we can discover new soundscapes beyond impact.

macOS requirements

Mac OS X 10.15 to OS 13

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 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

32,229 audio files

23.05 GB compressed

Download size: 23.14 GB

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