Spitfire Audio Olafur Arnalds Cells - composing cinematic music using only this library
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
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A brief look at this lovely new library from Spitfire and Olafur. My thoughts on who the library is for, along with a track written using only these sounds.
1:13 the interface
2:47 trying a few patches
5:07 patches chosen for track
8:28 who is this for?
9:16 track play through
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Beautiful.
I’m glad you liked it!
Interesting presentation, I just bought it! I have all of Olafur's packages with Spitfire audio. I will daydrem for a couple of hours trying the sounds!
Excellent! Be prepared to be lost in glorious sound!
Christian was the creative heart and soul of Spitfire Audio. You can see this with what The Crow Hill Company has been outputting over the past year! Looking forward to seeing how this library feels and sounds!
Exactly, Crow Hill Company sound library and tools has been on fire!
Hi Dan! Thank you for your video and in particular your song displaying the stunning Cells. I own probably all of Olafsur‘s liabraries and they are all top of the list inspiration tools. You made me visit your Albums and I am very impressed by your very tasteful music. Will be a great day playing Cells (together with Keyscape my fav piano) and having coffee listening to your albums! 🎉
Thanks very much! This is my first Olafur purchase and I can imagine all of them are top notch! I recently picked up keyscape as well, perfect match for cells. Happy composing!
Thanks Dan for your take on cells, excellent. the atmosphere that it creates with a minimal of tracks and notes is astounding. As soon as I heard Paul’s demo of the first Cells patch and Olafur’s idea behind Cells I was hooked. I must admit I have all of Olafur’s libraries and this of course fits perfectly in the suite and is the best yet. Can understand why it took so long to develop. After just playing with it and seeing where it was taking me was mind blowing. Im working on a short film using the Eric Whitacre libraries and will now add Cells to give an added dimension with its random string fluctuations.
@ glad you enjoyed it. It really is quite beautiful and will go wonderfully with your other Olafur libraries. Happy composing!
Love the ending!
@@driiver4199 thank you!
Wow.
Keep up the good work!
Sample libraries have gotten so good! I remember when it was just a single instrument and there were zero dynamics and now it's like a full orchestra.
Crazy, right? And the realism is just insane!
Olafur Arnalds plays in Sandrayati concerts essentialy in England and in her songs, a very fine singer from Indonesia with delicate wonderful songs. Listen to it, you will feel its particular touch which melt with Sandrayati guitar and voice. A discovery of a gorgeous woman.
Funny note: Back in 2007, before I spent $30,000 on Spitfire libraries, out of the blue one day I got a call from Paul Thompson, he was working for a British music copyright collection agency, and to my surprise, he proposed that I might receive $3000 in payment for track I produced. I did receive the money, so at least I have that to thank him for. As far as the money I spent on Spitfire libraries, even as much fun as it was, I never made nearly any of that money back licensing trailer tracks.
Wow, thanks for sharing! Yes, I’ve often thought the libraries should come with a guarantee that we’ll make money from them! Lol. But it’s a brutally competitive market, and music as a career is kind of like playing the lottery.
@@DanTremblayMusic for me it’s a hobby and I guess it ever will be this way 🤷♂️
wut up Dan... thank you for encouraging the dent that's going to be on my wallet soon
Kensters! Sorry buddy! 😂 I guess that’s why most composers end up dying broke!
Really lovely isn't it. So is Crow Hills glass strings.... both very similar. I feel like these libraries have been evolving since fractured strings and the evolutions series before that i guess. Do you ever find you hear repeated things coming up that you used in the last project?
Yeah, I thought it was interesting the timing of Glass Strings coming out just before this one, especially as this project began in 2018. I haven’t spent enough time with this one yet to notice if things repeated or continued to evolve.
What they did to Christian was unforgivable.
What did they do.
As a prank, they put a whoopi cushion on his studio chair during the recording session for, I believe, Albion Solstice. It frightened him, he shot up out of his chair, knocking over the entire mixing console and injuring his leg. He was on crutches for weeks.
Even though he admits it was an accident, I think he honestly never got over it. The damage to their relationship was done.
I Also think Spitfire is quiet! as a composer i bilieve more and more on kind of real caracter instruments and tecniques, thats what most composers look for! there is already many librarys of the same... so in a way its time to get the musicians tecniques and resgestrys on to the librarys ... i feel Cells is good but is kind of the gestures side! the problem is now there are to many composers usin it already! so i drive to find, lets put it this way "John Patitucci Bass" or " jOE Zawinull kind of synt sounds with caracter" dont really no if you understand what i m trying to find as a library!?
I completely get what you're saying. The trick will be using the gestures carefully. I think there is enough flexibility in the GUI to not overuse them (playing at lower velocity levels for instance). That, and programming the expression and dynamics in a delicate and subtle way. I think less is always more, especially when it comes to cinematic music.
I feel you. All of these texture libraries sound like the soundtrack to a 3 hour Terrence Malick movie.
Hi Dan! Thank you for your video and in particular your song displaying the stunning Cells. I own probably all of Olafsur‘s liabraries and they are all top of the list inspiration tools. You made me visit your Albums and I am very impressed by your very tasteful music. Will be a great day playing Cells (together with Keyscape my fav piano) and having coffee listening to your albums! 🎉