Abbey Road Orchestra: Flutes Core
Advanced legatos for ultimate expression
Advanced legatos for ultimate expression
The stunning sound of a world-class Flutes a2 section - captured at Abbey Road Studios. This virtual instrument offers key articulations and playing styles: lyrical and performance legatos, a wide selection of longs and shorts, and control over a variety of articulations allowing you to create both intimate and epic soundscapes.
Recorded in the timeless acoustics of Abbey Road Studio One, this library includes a hand-crafted mix signal by GRAMMY® award winner Simon Rhodes.
Realism at the highest degree.
For the ultimate virtual orchestra, combine Flutes with Abbey Road Orchestra: Symphonic Strings, as well as Low, High & Metal percussion.
Are you after the pinnacle in expression for your compositions? Want extended articulations and complete sonic control with custom mic mixes? Check out Professional.
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Abbey Road Orchestra: Flutes captures the essence of a Flautist’s seamless transitions, meticulously recorded for smooth and expressive note changes. This virtual instrument is crafted to enhance playability and responsiveness, allowing you to bring your orchestral vision to life with incredible realism and to inspire new compositions with unmatched nuance and expression.
Featuring state-of-the-art legato programming, multiple dynamic legato intervals and flexible interval types triggered by playing speed, Abbey Road Orchestra: Flutes ensures you have the ultimate tool for your creative compositional needs.
Professional
8 legato articulations — including extended patches — 196,000 samples, alternative attacks and 16 signal options for the ultimate nuanced expression.
What's included
Legato Techniques
Performance Legato
A hugely detailed and highly playable legato patch which reacts in realtime to playing speed.
Lyrical Legato
A relaxed legato patch for slower moving melody lines.
Legato Runs
A very agile legato patch specifically for very fast passages and flourishes up to a minor 3rd (Legato intervals greater than a minor 3rd will not sound)
Legato Slurred
A legato patch with slurred intervals performed with a 'moderate tempo' feel for sweeping melody lines.
Legato Allegro
A legato patch with slurred intervals performed with a sprightly 'uptempo' feel, ideal for quicker or arpeggiated ostinato material
Long Techniques
Long
A polyphonic sustained longs patch for pads and chordal writing.
Long (sfz)
An overblown and strong attack followed by an immediate sustained softer dynamic.
Long Flutter
A sustained flutter technique, characterised by a delicate airy sound, achieved by fast articulation close to the embouchure.
Trills (Major & Minor 2nds & 3rds)
Rapid alternating between two notes.
Tremolo (Measured - 150 & 180 BPM)
Tremolo performed with a specified number of repeated notes which may be sync’d to the host DAW's tempo.
Short Techniques
Staccatissimo
A polyphonic sustained longs patch - this extended Pro version features additional soft and marcato styles for note entries triggered by key velocity
Staccato
A general purpose short note length, sounding clearly detached with a slight accent.
Staccato (alt)
An alternative take on a general purpose short note length, sounding clearly detached with a slight accent.
Marcato
A technique performed with a strong accented front to the note - presented as a longer note length than 'staccato' with the option of Timed Release triggers.
Tenuto
A technique performed with a small accented front to the note - presented as a shorter note length than 'marcato'.
Signals
Mix 1
A full-sounding room mix by Simon Rhodes, formed from Tree 1, Overheads, Outriggers 1, and a curated blend of spots.
FAQs
ARE THERE FURTHER DISCOUNTS AND CROSS GRADES?
Abbey Road Orchestra - Flutes Core and Professional will be on an introductory promotional price of 20% off until the 5th of December.
The owners of Flutes Core will be able to upgrade to Flutes Professional at any time, only ever paying the difference between the two products at time of purchase.
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FLUTES CORE AND PROFESSIONAL?
The Core and Professional versions share many of the same techniques and the sampling depth across many of the common techniques is the same.
Core has a single signal option (Simon Rhodes’ ‘Mix 1) whereas Pro includes additional signal options (16 in total),
Professional also contains ‘Extended’ techniques and additional legato content.
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Mac system requirements
Mac OS 11 to OS14
Minimum: 2.8GHz i5 (quad-core), 8GB RAM
Recommended: 2.6GHz i7 (six-core, 2019), 16GB RAM, Apple Silicon
SSD drive for installs advised!
PC system requirements
Windows 10 and Windows 11 (latest Service Pack, 64-bit)
Minimum: Intel 2.8 GHz i5 (quad-core) or AMD Ryzen 5. 8GB RAM
Recommended: Intel 2.6 GHz i7 (six-core, 2019) or AMD R7 2700. 16GB RAM
SSD drive for installs advised! (32 bit DAWs not supported)
File size
Download size 2.81GB