ALBION ONE

SPITFIRE AUDIO

ALBION ONE

ALBION ONE TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION USER MANUAL

CONGRATULATIONS

Thank you for purchasing Albion ONE. This is everything you need to make film music in one box. At its heart is a 109 piece orchestra accompanied by a thunderous cinematic percussion section. Add to that warpable loops designed by award-winning music makers, plus an enormous steam synthesiser - it's no wonder Albion ONE is our most renowned orchestral sample library. Perfect for first-timers and established composers alike, this industry standard product is the perfect place to start your film scoring journey.

Quick Specs

? 47233 samples ? 87.3GB Uncompressed WAV ? 55.7 GB Disk space required ? 111.4GB Disk space required during install ? NKS Ready ? Compatible with Native Instruments hardware ? Free Kontakt Player Included ? New intuitive GUI with inline help ? Essential microphones (CTAO) ? Detailed sampling:

- Multiple Instruments - Multiple Articulations - Multiple dynamics - Multiple round robins - Release Triggers - True Legato

Table Of Contents

CONGRATULATIONS

2

PRECAUTIONS

2

WELCOME

3

DOWNLOADING & INSTALLING

4

REGISTERING WITH KONTAKT PLAYER

5

FOLDER STRUCTURE

6

A QUICK LOOK

9

THE `GENERAL OVERVIEW' PANEL

10

ARTICULATIONS

11

THE EXPERT VIEW

12

THE OSTINATUM

16

THE eDNA INTERFACE

17

THE KICKSTART INTERFACE

32

APPENDIX A - RECOMMENDED TECH SPECS35

APPENDIX B - KONTAKT vs KONTAKT PLAYER35

APPENDIX C1 - ARTICULATION LIST

36

APPENDIX C2 - eDNA EFFECTS

37

APPENDIX D - MIC & MIX ACRONYMS

38

APPENDIX E - UACC

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APPENDIX F - FAQS & TROUBLESHOOTING 40

PRECAUTIONS

If you've never used a Spitfire instrument before there are two very basic principles to grasp. Once you've got these, you'll be up and running and ready to go. By all means read on, but the first two rules are:

TOP TIP: The little `i's on your GUI are `inline' help. Click on these to find out stuff.

1.) Use these switches to change the articulations... they also correspond to keyswitches on the very bottom of your keyboard.

2.) On long notes make sure you always use your Modwheel

3.) If you don't know what something does and it has an next to it, click on it to get some help!

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WELCOME

109 PIECE ORCHESTRA

The original Albion concept was simple - it had to be everything you'd need to score a film in single product. At the heart of most films scores you'll find a large orchestra, and so it was natural that we'd do what we do best, and capture something big and special to go at the core of Albion ONE. We assembled 109 (!) of London's finest players, who feature regularly in Oscar-winning film score sessions and major global concert performances, and recorded them performing a range of techniques: long notes, short notes, tremolos, pizzicatos and so on. Each of these techniques are captured across a range of notes, and by section (Brass Low, Mid and High, Woods High and Low, and Strings), giving you the flexibility to program or perform your orchestral compositions with plenty of control.

Albion ONE features our infamous "legato articulations", which combine adjoining samples to give ultimate musicality, and also "runs" where a single note triggers the recording of a section playing phrases.

tions and some solo with a dash of blockbuster-style hyped percussion thrown in for good measure. Finally, Jake Jackson, our highly experienced Chief Engineer and Air Studios resident brings an added punch via his exceptional mixes.

All of these samples are accessed via our Kickstart engine - an interface which makes it easy to map and perform drums in your DAW.

BRUNEL LOOPS

As well as single hits in Air Studios, we've captured hundreds of raw and warped loops from original recordings made at our own studio, featuring percussion heavy hitter Paul Clarvis (Spectre, The Dark Knight, Harry Potter, Star Wars) playing a collection of unrecognisable relics. Brunel Loops is a module based on our powerful eDNA engine, which is the perfect tool for mangling your sounds. It allows two input sources to be warped, sequenced, effected and blended, all in sync - this means you've got endless possibilities for creating unique and distinctive loops.

There are four mic positions (close, tree, outriggers & ambient) to load and mix to suit the type of music you're writing and the scale you want to achieve. Spitfire also provides a popular "ostinatum" designer that allows you to instantly create exciting, tense or action packed rhythmic passages.

RECORDED BY THE BEST AT THE HOME OF FILM SCORES

We were convinced that in order to create a great film scoring tool we should go to where the best film scores are recorded. Air Studios in London was founded by Sir George Martin, the legendary producer behind The Beatles. Its Hall has been the choice of Hollywood directors for decades, with countless blockbuster scores being recorded there (Justice League, Interstellar, Harry Potter, Pirates Of The Caribbean, Lord Of The Rings - the list goes on). Our Albion ONE orchestra was recorded by award-winning engineers via world-class equipment: priceless ribbon and valve mics through Neve Montserrat preamps, the largest 88R Neve console in the world and onto pristine 2" tape before being converted with the top-of-their-class Prism AD converters at 96k. No expense has been spared in order to capture as it would be for the movies.

MOVIE DRUMS WITH DARWIN PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE

Let's talk drums. Most scores will benefit from rhythmic accompaniment - from gentle undertones to full scale mega hits, we've captured everything you'll need to build a backbone to your score. Also recorded in The Hall at Air Studios we've gathered some of the largest drums in London. From hi sticks to low taikos and toms, plus our recently added, supercharged Easter Island hits, we recorded some in sec-

STEPHENSON'S STEAM BAND

We've also taken the recorded orchestral material and done everything imaginable with it: pushed, pulled, stretched and squished; we've processed it using everything from priceless vintage outboard to cheap guitar pedals. As with Brunel Loops, this library is housed within our fully tweakable eDNA engine making Stephenson's Steam Synth a unique and dynamic orchestral-synth engine. It's easy to use and the go-to tool for creating pads and effects that perfectly bridge the electronic and orchestral.

BUILT FOR KONTAKT

Albion ONE is a sample library built to work with Native Instrument's Kontakt Player, a sampler which is free to download here. It's also NKS-ready which means it works great with your Native Instruments hardware - it'll be pre-mapped and ready to play, with light guides for visual key switches, splits and mapping feedback, plus in-hardware library browsing.

WHAT'S NEW IN THIS EDITION?

New UI design and NKS-ready integration Orchestral: 15 new combination patches, combining different techniques and instrument groups in exciting ways Percussion: Additional Easter Island hits plus new mixes by Jake Jackson Stephenson's Steam Synth: 63 new sounds and 67 presets, all by Spitfire Co-Founder Christian Henson Brunel Loops: 78 new recordings across 8th, 16th and 12th rhythmic patterns, plus 90 new presets, including 51 from Christian Henson

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DOWNLOADING & INSTALLING

Thank you for buying this Spitfire product. If you are a total newbie to this kind of thing you can get up to speed here:

First though, grab our `Library Manager' app from this link: This app will enable you to download the library

When you launch the app you will be prompted to login using the same details you use at our site. Then you'll see your available downloads:

Once you've selected the location you can proceed with the download. NOTE THAT THE DOWNLOADER WILL CREATE A SUB-FOLDER FOR YOUR LIBRARY IN THE LOCATION SELECTED. This is important: if you have an update, it means that the Library Manager app will look INSIDE the selected location for your library folder. If it's not there, it will create a new library folder. So, if you mistakenly select the actual library folder itself, when adding content or doing an update, instead of the location (one folder level up) that CONTAINS this library folder, you'll end up with a nested mess!!

TOP TIP: You will need approx TWICE the amount of hard drive space as the library uses (see the product page on our site for this info) to download: this is because the zip files are all downloaded, and then unzipped. This process takes a while so don't panic if it looks like it's frozen!

TOP TIP 2: If you get in a total mess you can reset the download of either the whole library or just the latest update from the `Library' menu of the app. This is limited to a couple of downloads so please only do this if you actually need to.

Once you have selected what you wish to download on the left pane and clicked the `download' button you will have the option to select a location.

A default location will be generated but you'll most likely want to change this. Here's how! Click on the two little vertical arrowheads to the right of the default location. You will be presented with the following options, and you'll want to click `CHOOSE'.

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REGISTERING WITH KONTAKT PLAYER

If you've never used one of our libraries before and you don't own a copy of Native Instruments Kontakt, you'll need to download the free "Kontakt Player" here:

If you'd like to find out more about the differences between Kontakt and Kontakt Player (we know, very confusing!) go to Appendix B.

If you'd also like to know what we recommend as an optimal set up please go to Appendix A.

1. Install Kontakt Player (skip this step if you already have it)

2. Open the player (or Kontakt 5 full version if you have that) and click on `Manage libraries' in the library browser window:

5. Enter the serial number in this format: xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx This can be found in your `Ready to Download' e-mail or in your Orders page when logged into our website.

6. When prompted with the window below, click on Browse and navigate to and select the library folder, for example: the `Spitfire ... ... Library' folder that contains your library's instruments and samples folders, and also contains the `nicnt' file.

3. Clicking this button will launch Native Access. If you are not logged in with your NI account you will be prompted to log in, please take care that you use the correct NI account as the library will be connected with this account permanently.

4. If you are running Kontakt 5.7 you will need to click the Add a serial button pictured below once Native Access launches:

If you have never used Kontakt before we wholeheartedly recommend that you familiarise yourself with the basics of patch (or instrument) loading, multi management, outputting and midi routing detailed in the Kontakt user manual and native instruments website:



This will be done automatically in previous versions of Kontakt, and you will be presented with this:

If you are an established Kontakt user please make sure you absolutely have the latest version of it downloaded via the Native Access app. Our libraries are frequently updated and often simply won't work on any previous versions. We cannot describe the multitude of painful symptoms you will experience if you don't do this!

NKS COMPATIBILITY

For more information about NKS and integration with Native Instruments hardware controllers and keyboards please checkout their online instructions:



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