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SPITFIRE AUDIO BBC Symphony Orchestra

Deep sampling of orchestral instruments has now become the norm, with some worthy products already adorning company catalogues, including Spitfire’s very own celebrated line-up. But where this new package goes even further is with the sample capture of a world-renowned orchestra, one of the busiest in the industry, sampled in an environment which is equally as prestigious.

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It makes an incredible amount of sense to use an existing orchestra for sample capture; the BBC SO is a very hard-working band of musicians who literally spend their entire time rehearsing and performing next to each other. Couple this with acoustic capture at Maida Vale studios, which oozes history and prestige and you’re going to find something very different from the usual Spitfire default of AIR Lyndhurst, as heard on the company’s larger symphonic

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