Sacconi Strings Quartet
The ultimate quartet writing toolkit
The ultimate quartet writing toolkit
Four years in the making, Sacconi Strings Quartet gives you the finest tools for writing string quartet music. Performed by the award-winning Sacconi Quartet — a group renowned for their sympathetic performance style and incredible blend — and expertly sampled at one of the finest chamber acoustics in the world: London's famous Wigmore Hall.
We offer you six microphone positions and two mixes for ultimate control, with easy-to-use playable patches, and four types of true legato.
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Requires Kontakt (full license)
Spitfire Audio App required
String quartet
6 mics / 2 mixes
Kontakt Full
Listen to Sacconi Strings Quartet
The Luthier — Andy Blaney
Quartet
Tundra — Oliver Patrice Weder
Violin II and Viola
Sweet Little Moment — Homay Schmitz
Quartet
Features Originals Felt Piano
Everlasting Pursuit — Harnek Mudhar
Quartet
Politics of the Drawing Room — Andy Blaney
Violin
Features Sacconi Orchestral Grand
Lament — Andy Blaney
Solo Cello
Beyond — Oliver Patrice Weder
Violin
Walkthrough
In Action
Spitfire Interviews — Sacconi Quartet
The award-winning Sacconi Quartet is known throughout the world for its their consistently fresh and imaginative approach, performing with style and commitment. Formed in 2001 at the Royal College of Music, the Quartet features the searing talents of Ben Hancox, Hannah Dawson, Robin Ashwell and Cara Berridge, who also perform on many of the top film scoring sessions in London.
They have enjoyed a highly successful international career, performing regularly throughout Europe, at London’s major venues, in recordings and on radio broadcasts, and are Quartet in Association at the Royal College of Music, and Associate Artist at the Bristol Old Vic. To date, the Quartet has given twenty-one world premières and four British premières, and they performed as the solo string quartet on Paul McCartney’s hit song, Come Home.
In Summer 2015 the quartet launched HEARTFELT, their most innovative project to date, praised by critics including The Guardian and The Independent. A radical re-interpretation of Beethoven’s iconic String Quartet in A minor, Opus 132, HEARTFELT pushed the boundaries of chamber music through combining sound, light and touch, for a truly unique performance in which audience members connected with each performer’s heartbeat through holding robotic ‘hearts’.
The overview panel
This is the main interface for melodic instruments. Its default view displays all available playing techniques, has a simple microphone mixer and includes the main feature controllers.
General controls panel
This view allows further in-depth control of the instrument, showing all available signals and feature controllers, as well as the ability to purge techniques from memory to reduce system usage.
The Ostinatum
In this view you can add notes to a pattern sequencer, select which key it triggers on and then play for instant ostinato creation. It’s like an arpeggiator on a synthesiser.
What's included
Instruments
Individual and playable patches
- Violin 1 - Individual
- Violin 1 - Playable - True Legato
- Violin 2 - Individual
- Violin 2 - Playable - True Legato
- Viola - Individual
- Viola - Playable - True Legato
- Cello - Individual
- Cello - Playable - True Legato
Individual brushes
- Violin 1 - Long Flautando
- Violin 1 - Long Harmonics
- Violin 1 - Long
- Violin 1 - Marcato Attack
- Violin 1 - Measured Tremolo (150bpm)
- Violin 1 - Playable
- Violin 1 - Short Bartok Pizz
- Violin 1 - Short Col Legno
- Violin 1 - Short Harmonics
- Violin 1 - Short Pizzicato
- Violin 1 - Short Spiccato
- Violin 1 - Short Staccato
- Violin 1 - Trill Major 2nd
- Violin 1 - Trill Minor 2nd
- Violin 1 - Unmeasured Tremolo
- Violin 2 - Long Flautando
- Violin 2 - Long Harmonics
- Violin 2 - Long Measured Trems 150bpm
- Violin 2 - Long
- Violin 2 - Marcato Attack
- Violin 2 - Short Bartok Pizz
- Violin 2 - Short Col Legno
- Violin 2 - Short Harmonics
- Violin 2 - Short Pizzicato
- Violin 2 - Short Spiccato
- Violin 2 - Short Staccato
- Violin 2 - Trill Major 2nd
- Violin 2 - Trill Minor 2nd
- Violin 2 - Unmeasured Tremolo
- Viola - Long Flautando
- Viola - Long Harmonics
- Viola - Long Measured Trems 150bpm
- Viola - Long
- Viola - Marcato Attack
- Viola - Short Bartok Pizz
- Viola - Short Col Legno
- Viola - Short Harmonics
- Viola - Short Pizzicato
- Viola - Short Spiccato
- Viola - Short Staccato
- Viola - Unmeasured Tremolo
- Cello - Long Flautando
- Cello - Long Harmonics
- Cello - Long Measured Trems 150bpm
- Cello - Long
- Cello - Marcato Attack
- Cello - Short Bartok Pizz
- Cello - Short Col Legno
- Cello - Short Harmonics
- Cello - Short Pizzicato
- Cello - Short Spiccato
- Cello - Short Staccato
- Cello - Trill Major 2nd
- Cello - Trill Minor 2nd
- Cello - Unmeasured Tremolo
Other brushes
- Violin 1 - Individual COG
- Violin 1 - Individual TM
- Violin 2 - Individual COG
- Violin 2 - Individual TM
- Viola - Individual COG
- Viola - Individual TM
- Cello - Individual COG
- Cello - Individual TM
Mics & mixes
Microphones
- C - Close
- Cr - Close Ribbon
- St - Main Stereo
- T - Decca Tree
- A - Ambients
- O - Outriggers
Mixes
- Close Mix
- Full Mix
Tech specs
Mac system requirements
Mac OS 11, 12 or 13
Both Intel and Apple Silicon/ARM are supported
Minimum: 2.8GHz i5 minimum (quad-core), 8GB RAM
Recommended: 2.8GHz I7 (six-core), 16GB RAM
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
~46768 samples
70.7 GB download size
141.40 GB disk space required during install
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Kontakt player
Kontakt Full 5.6.8 or higher required
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