Fragile String Evolutions
Delicate & haunting evolving chamber strings
Delicate & haunting evolving chamber strings
A collection of long, intensely beautiful chamber evolutions, perfectly complementing our other evolutions libraries, while also thriving as its own compositional tool. Recorded in the dry, vintage craft acoustic of Air Edel Studios with the UK’s finest progressive string players, we have captured the more delicate, subtle aspects of each instrument by using a range of avant-garde techniques, giving you the tools to create the most realistic and spine-tingling string textures.
Presented in our own sophisticated GUI with an ingenious grid layout, you have an almost infinite number of configurations at your fingertips. The Spitfire team have also created a range of straight-out-of-the-box presets, offering you instant playability and inspiration.
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Our dedicated plugin
Spitfire Audio App required
14 strings
48 evolutions
Dedicated plugin
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Walkthrough
In Depth
What is an Evo?
What's included
Instruments
Traditional
- Fragile — delicate
- Gossamer — full bodied
- Fragile muted — delicate
- Gossamer muted — full bodied
- Delicate — full and light
- Gossamer — full
- Delicate muted — full
- Gossamer muted — full
- Delicate — beautiful siren
- Circular fragile — delicate
- Muted fragile — accelerating siren
- Fragile — beautiful siren
- Pure fragility — overtones
- Muted fragile — beautiful siren
- Fragile — errors
- Delicate — shimmer
- Gossamer — pulsing shimmer
- Delicate muted — shimmer
- Gossamer muted — strong shimmer
- Delicate — bow pulse
- Gossamer — bow pulse
- Delicate muted — bow pulse
- Gossamer muted — bow pulse
- Pure fragility — almost niente
Episodic
- Straight — harmonic wisps
- Straight — overtone wisps
- Straight muted — overtone wisps
- Warm — shudders
- Warm — overtone shudders
- Straight — semitone flickers
- Warm — tone flickers
- Warm — ricochet flickers
- Straight — ricochet flickers
Extreme
- Warm shimmer — heavy overtones
- Fragile — full overtones
- Warm siren — overtone siren
- Bend — gliss
- Light pulse — heavy pulse
- Straight — heavy ricochet
- Straight — strong madness
- Straight — strong madness (with pedal)
- Straight — reversed madness
- Straight — reversed madness (with pedal)
- Warm — heavy and wide
- Warm — heavy bending pulse
- Warm — heavy ricochet pulse
- Warm — siren — strong madness
- Warm — heavy ricochet — strong madness
Curated presets
Simple
- Ambient tratto — bright
- Building heavy bow — dark
- Elegant sordino spread — bright
- Harmonic whisps — bright
- Parallel pulses — dark
- Pure tone — bright
- Sharp jetes — bright
- Softening sul ponts — dark
- A fragile start — bright
- Pad waves — bright
- Fragile beauty — bright
- Stretched extremes — dark
- Stretched moments — dark
- Stretched pad — bright
- Tone flickers — dark
Intense
- To hell and back — dark
- Maddening trills — bright
- Continued madness — dark
- Distorted pans — dark — distorted
- Is it broken — dark — distorted
- Is it really broken — dark — distorted
- Radio stringsbright — distorted
- Ricochet flickers — bright
Mics & mixes
Close
- A tight, dry mix
Tweaked
- A compressed version of Close with occasional glitches
Ambient
- Reverberant and atmospheric
Distorted
- A full-on, gritty signal, useful for adding some dirt into the mix
Stretch x2
- The Close mix stretched to be twice the length, giving the sounds a more ethereal quality
Stretch x8
- The Close mix stretched to eight times the length, to slow down busy evolutions
FAQs
What software will I need to run the Spitfire Evolution libraries?
For Angular String Evolutions, Fragile String Evolutions and Woodwind Evolutions we provide an AU, VST2, VST3 and AAX, so as long as your chosen DAW supports one of those plugin formats, you’re good to go.
Evo Grid 3 needs Kontakt Full to run. For more information on Kontakt Full click here.
What are Evolutions, and what is an Evo grid?
Evolutions are long notes that change over time then loop seamlessly back to the beginning. In our “Evo Grid”, you can select different evolutions based on the range of the note you are playing.
Can I use this library on more than one computer?
Yes, this is a single user license, but our EULA allows for installation on up to two computers at a time.
Read more FAQs for this productTech specs
Mac system 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 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
27.00 GB disk space required during install
26.30 GB download size
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