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Abbey Road One Selections/Foundation Info

$240 for all 7 expansions if you only have the base AR1. $554 total including Orchestral Foundations.

Once all 9 expansions are released, it will be $308 for all of them, and $623 for the whole package.

How awesome would it be if after all the expansions are released, Spitfire surprises us and puts out basic legatos for all the ensemble sections? Even if it's a $99 add-on which requires the base Orchestral Foundations. Then we would have the (mostly) pre-ochestrated combo legatos in the expansions, plus regular legatos for each ensemble.

This would make AR1 pretty much the ultimate ensemble library IMO. Essential articulations, the amazing room, many pre-orchestrated combos, and enough mic signals to give a large range of control without being overwhelming like BBCSO Pro.
 
Correct me if I'm wrong, but they didn't show the crossfades between the high and low dynamics did they? Did anyone already pick this expansion up and can comment on how well the crossfading works or even post an example?
 
jbuhler said:
It's not going to be anything other than pairings in these supplements to AROOF. You'll have to wait for the main modular AR orchestra for that.
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Has Spitfire ever officially confirmed that they’re working on a modular AR orchestra, or did we all just misunderstand what they meant by Selections?
 
Zamenhof said:
Has Spitfire ever officially confirmed that they’re working on a modular AR orchestra, or did we all just misunderstand what they meant by Selections?
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Per Christian, in October 2020:

we've recorded the foundation library along with 9 additional selections already. Abbey 2 is fully recorded and we have just finished our first chapter of the modular library.
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https://vi-control.net/community/threads/available-now-—-abbey-road-one-orchestral-foundations.99671/post-4664567
 
Zamenhof said:
Has Spitfire ever officially confirmed that they’re working on a modular AR orchestra, or did we all just misunderstand what they meant by Selections?
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No, the modular orchestra was distinguished from the selections at the original announcement.

Personally I don’t expect to see anything from the modular orchestra to start appearing until the fall at the earliest. But I was also wrong about none of the selections being a straight up patch without some kind of doubling and then they offered this unison trumpet instrument. So I wouldn’t put a lot of faith in my predictions.
 
dunamisstudio said:
What's suppose to be the difference between Selections and Modular?
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Selections are mostly doublings, octaves or otherwise. The modular will be in sections with solos like SSO or BBCSO. So solo trumpet, trumpets a2 or a3. Maybe trumpet 1, trumpet 2, trumpet 3, etc. whereas AROOF is trumpets a4. Thematic Trumpets is a4 as well. And that will be the case across the orchestra. We also don’t know yet how modular the modular orchestra will be.
 
jbuhler said:
Selections are mostly doublings, octaves or otherwise. The modular will be in sections with solos like SSO or BBCSO. So solo trumpet, trumpets a2 or a3. Maybe trumpet 1, trumpet 2, trumpet 3, etc. whereas AROOF is trumpets a4. Thematic Trumpets is a4 as well. And that will be the case across the orchestra. We also don’t know yet how modular the modular orchestra will be.
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I'm more curious about the number of dynamic layers. If I understand correctly (please correct me, if I'm wrong), AROOF has up to 5 dynamic layers but most of the expansion have 3. They still sound great, of course. But for the flagship modular orchestra I would be hoping for 5 dynamic layers (of course we can't expect that for every articulation, that's clear).
 
mussnig said:
I'm more curious about the number of dynamic layers. If I understand correctly (please correct me, if I'm wrong), AROOF has up to 5 dynamic layers but most of the expansion have 3. They still sound great, of course. But for the flagship modular orchestra I would be hoping for 5 dynamic layers (of course we can't expect that for every articulation, that's clear).
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I can’t imagine that the modular won’t be primarily 5 dynamic layers or even more. The selections are $49 supplements to AROOF. The cost of any section in the modular will almost certainly be much higher. And I can’t see a world where the modular doesn’t have more dynamic layers and round robins than SSO. That’s like 90% of the reason of doing AR modular, the other 10% being the hall.
 
jbuhler said:
I can’t imagine that the modular won’t be primarily 5 dynamic layers or even more. The selections are $49 supplements to AROOF. The cost of any section in the modular will almost certainly be much higher. And I can’t see a world where the modular doesn’t have more dynamic layers and round robins than SSO. That’s like 90% of the reason of doing AR modular, the other 10% being the hall.
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Plus new recording / sampling techniques - like Appassionata
 
mussnig said:
I'm more curious about the number of dynamic layers. If I understand correctly (please correct me, if I'm wrong), AROOF has up to 5 dynamic layers but most of the expansion have 3. They still sound great, of course. But for the flagship modular orchestra I would be hoping for 5 dynamic layers (of course we can't expect that for every articulation, that's clear).
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I'd love to add the number of dynamics to the original post, if anyone knows.

My impression, from using AROOF, is that the dynamic range is superb, with the exception being that the horns don't reach the same brawny f-fff territory that OT and CS series does.
 
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