Resonate
Resonate unlocks the other-worldly mystery, magic, and tension of orchestral percussion, unlocking new frontiers of texture, tone, and dimension
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.
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Percussion
4 mic signals
100 presets
Dedicated plugin
This library is about resonance, it’s about finding sounds that you wouldn’t necessarily think of. We’re delivering soundscapes that have such depth to them and stretching the sound world of what we thought would be possible...
Features
- 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.
The sounds [...] truly do resonate throughout the whole body and totally engulfs your very being! They are so unusual and present whereby there is no option but to listen to the whole resonance of each sound.
What's included
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
FAQs
Why do I need this product?
Resonate allows you to unlock the other-worldly mystery, magic, and tension of orchestral percussion. Dame Evelyn Glennie has used familiar instruments, such as the timpani, to create unique and distinctive sound by utilising them as resonators. The library can be used stand alone to create incomparable percussive textures, or it can be used with your existing percussion libraries to add intrigue, and textural detail to your productions.
What products does this work well with?
This library will work well with all Spitfire libraries — as a great base texture, or to add that missing atmosphere. Some libraries that we would recommend you use it with are LCO Strings, Hans Zimmer Strings, Olafur Arnalds Chamber Evolutions, Orchestral Swarm and Eric Whitacre Choir.
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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
32,229 audio files
23.05 GB compressed
Download size: 23.14 GB
Hard drive delivery available at checkout