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| UK & Europe | EU Standard | Gear4music Standard | Gear4music Optional |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return Period | 14 days | 30 days | up to 180 days |
| Standard delivery charges refunded? | Yes | Yes | Yes, up to 30 days |
| Upgraded delivery charges refunded? | Standard costs only | Standard costs only | Standard costs only |
| Free collection on cancellation | No | No | Yes, up to 30 days |
| Free collection if defective, delivered damaged or incorrect item | Yes, within 14 days | Yes, within 14 days | Yes, within 30 days |
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Key Features
The Spitfire Audio Albion Solstice is a virtual instrument for composing film, TV, and game music, designed for composers seeking modern cinematic ambience with heritage-inspired character. Built around curated folk, classical, and contemporary sources, Solstice brings together orchestral ensembles, alternative techniques, processed textures, and evolving drones in a single scoring toolkit. It runs in Kontakt Player, supports NKS-compatible keyboards, and uses Spitfire’s eDNA engine to shape and combine sounds quickly while writing.
At its core are three creative pillars: The Solstice Orchestra, The Cassette Orchestra, and The Drone Grid. Together, they provide playable ensembles, tape-processed variations, and long-form textures designed to spark ideas and maintain momentum. Three microphone signals let you balance intimacy and space, while the broadcast-ready mix helps parts sit naturally alongside other orchestral libraries. Rather than recreating traditional folk music, Albion Solstice gives you a focused set of tools for writing cinematic music today, informed by older musical traditions and modern production techniques.
Product Ref: 332674
Recorded at Castlesound Studios in Edinburgh, Albion Solstice is an intimate and highly detailed cinematic sample library built around carefully workshopped ensembles. Specialist performers from classical, folk, Celtic, Gaelic, and related traditions are paired with modern tools including analogue synthesisers, Eurorack modular systems, electric guitar textures, tuned percussion, and bespoke processing. The result is a focused scoring toolkit that blends heritage instruments with contemporary production, creating characterful sound palettes suited to modern film, TV, and game music.
This NKS-compatible library is organised into three clear sections: The Solstice Orchestra, which forms the organic core with 10 curated ensembles and a solo instrument; The Cassette Orchestra, offering 750 tape-processed sound sources shaped through the eDNA engine; and The Drone Grid, a vast collection of evolving textures designed for long-form scoring. As with all Albion libraries, Solstice is designed to remove creative friction, helping you sketch, develop, and finish cues quickly. Curated over two years by Christian Henson, Albion Solstice reframes traditional sounds for contemporary cinematic writing.
The Solstice Orchestra features 10 ensembles, one soloist, and 235 articulations, including 78 string articulations with detailed legato options. These folk and contemporary instrument groups are presented with clarity and restraint, placing performance nuance at the centre. Hand-selected and curated by Christian Henson alongside traditional musicians from across Scotland and the wider UK, the Orchestra delivers intimate, expressive tones that feel direct and emotionally grounded.
Instrumentation spans strings, brass, woodwinds, choir, percussion, whistles, synths, and guitars, all arranged into pre-orchestrated ensembles to speed up the writing process. You’ll find single hits, standard and extended techniques, tempo-synced motors, evolutions, drones, and textures. Distinctive sections include The Callers, a characterful brass and woodwind ensemble; The Generator Trio, blending electric guitars and bass for rhythmic movement; The Blaggards, built from folk instruments reimagined for cinematic use; and The Elders, pairing classic and traditional string sections. Every ensemble is structured to let you focus on composition, not setup.
Albion Solstice includes a ready-to-use mix created by film, TV, and game scoring engineer Jake Jackson, allowing you to load sounds and start writing immediately. For deeper control, the intuitive interface provides access to three microphone positions, making it easy to shape perspective and space. A bespoke cinematic impulse response reverb, developed specifically for Solstice, lets you balance the tight, controlled sound of Castlesound with wider orchestral mixes. This flexible setup helps Solstice integrate smoothly alongside other orchestral libraries in professional scoring sessions.
The Cassette Orchestra expands the Solstice sound set with 150 presets built from 750 source recordings taken from The Solstice Orchestra. These sounds are intentionally imperfect, processed and reshaped by Christian Henson using vintage cassette decks, analogue tape delays, Eurorack modular systems, and a wide range of guitar effects pedals. Designed for creative exploration, this section encourages you to twist, layer, and transform organic performances into new textures using the eDNA engine.
Included within this section is The Visitor, a collection of 100 synthesiser-based sounds drawn from Christian’s personal collection. Classic and modern synths such as the Lyra 8, Juno 6, Jupiter series, MS-20, and Moog Prodigy are recorded in doubled configurations and processed with analogue effects to create wide, characterful stereo textures.
The Drone Grid presents long, evolving textures derived from The Solstice Orchestra within Spitfire Audio’s Evo grid interface. Designed for sustained scoring work, these drones provide gradual movement and tonal depth that can underpin entire cues. Each performance is rich in character and responds dynamically to expression and dynamics controls, encouraging hands-on shaping over time. Curated by Christian Henson, The Drone Grid is built to support exploration and experimentation, making it particularly useful for atmospheric scoring, tension beds, and transitional moments.
