Spitfire Audio have released Phoenix, available at the intro price of £199.00, increasong to £249.00 after the promotion. The offer ends October 25th.
Spitfire Audio and BT bring new dimensions to cinematic sound design with Phoenix
Deep hybrid synth combines visionary producer’s private sound archive and distinctive orchestral recordings with a stereo-from-the-ground-up architecture
Spitfire Audio has announced the release of Phoenix, a deep hybrid synthesiser created in collaboration with Grammy-nominated composer, producer and technologist BT.
The result of Spitfire Audio and BT’s third collaboration since 2017, Phoenix brings together unique sounds drawn from BT’s extensive musicmaking archive of vintage synthesiser, sampler, cassette, and vinyl sounds with distinctive orchestral recordings from Spitfire’s premium libraries. The resulting instrument offersproducers and sound designers a highly authored, cinematic palette for modern scoring, detailed sound design and spectral manipulation.
BT describes the approach behind Phoenix as ‘New Primitives’, a way of thinking about synthesis based on operations and architectures that go beyond conventional approaches and presets.
This is reflected in Phoenix’s stereo-from-the-ground-up design with two complete synthesis chains per voice, one for each channel. This allows the two sides of a sound to be shaped independently, creating movement, detuning, spectral modulation,phase warps and spatial detail in parallel, as part of the synthesis process itself.
Phoenix is built with six powerful synthesis engines, including spectral wavetables, hyper-modern FM and deep sampling, alongside 2OP FM transients, subharmonic generation, and a complex noise oscillator. These can be combined and modulatedacross the instrument, giving composers extensive scope to transform source material and create sounds that evolve over time.
“This is true cross-synthesis,” says BT. “I’ve spent my entire life exploring synthesis modalities, built on the back of giants, to be sure, and combined and augmented this way, none of this existed before, not even in a related form. This is a dream inspiration engine fully realized.”
BT’s private collection sits alongside a curated selection of the most iconic and unique detailed sample instruments from Spitfire Audio’s libraries, including fifty instruments spanning strings, brass, woodwind, choirs, guitars, pianos, and tuned percussion. The selection complements BT’s diverse archive and reaches far from the familiar centre of the orchestral palette, including frozen strings, quarter-tone clusters and bowed textures at the edge of pitch. The recordings are designed to be resynthesized and re-engineered through Phoenix’s synthesis, modulation and effects architecture into something completely unique by composers looking to create evolving, screen-ready soundscapes.
Movement is central to Phoenix. Eight multi-segment MetaSequencers, four random generators with 636 handmade rhythm patterns and a probability arpeggiator derived from therhythmic language of BT’s patented StutterEdit give composers multiple ways to introduce variation and evolution. “One patch, one note, and an entire track or score cue starts to unveil itself,” says BT.
Features include:
- Six synthesis engines per voice: spectral wavetables, FM, sampler, 2OP FM transients, sub and noise, all cross-modulating
- Stereo from the ground up: two independent synthesis chains per voice, one per channel
- Six-operator FM engine with 34 algorithms; eight-voice unison stacks up to 48 operator-oscillators into a single note
- Stereo wavetable engine with deep spectral warping and modal resynthesis
- Modulation matrix with no slot limit; eight meta sequencers;probability arpeggiator built on StutterEdit’s rhythmic language
- 37 studio quality bespoke effects, each with its own interface, from spectral smearing to shimmering granular reverbs, low fidelity vinyl emulation to vast shimmer reverbs.
- Real-time 3D renderer that draws the actual waveform being synthesised: after every warp, after every spectral stage, as an object you can take hold of and turn
- 16-voice full MPE
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