The Abbey Road Orchestra: Percussion Core series of sample libraries is carefully crafted for discerning musicians and composers seeking deep control, dynamic responsiveness and an expansive sonic palette performed and recorded in the timeless acoustics of the celebrated Studio One — a core-level accompaniment to the already available Low Percussion Professional, High Percussion Professional and Metal Percussion Professional products.

Now available as 33%-discounted bundle, where previously the Professional versions of High, Low and Metal libraries were only available separately, is the acclaimed Abbey Road Orchestra: Percussion Professional collection, now within reach of even more musicians and composers.

Both Core and Professional versions include a comprehensive suite of drums and percussion instruments all performed by one of Britain’s most diverse players in Joby Burgess (Black Panther, Mission Impossible) — including Bass Drum, Giant Taiko, Toms, Congas, Rototoms, Tam-Tams, Triangles, a myriad of Cymbals, Cowbells, Guira, Agogos and the Waterphone to name a few — all carefully captured in Studio One by GRAMMY® Award-winning engineer extraordinaire Simon Rhodes (Avatar, The Banshees of Inisherin) who used over 25 microphones per drum and mixed each sound to perfection.

These three ground breaking libraries collectively deliver everything from thunderous orchestral drums to shimmering metallic textures, offering orchestral staples and unique cinematic timbres to inspire instinctive and gratifying performances with exceptional realism.

On top of that, Low Percussion Core, High Percussion Core and Metal Percussion Core each include a free MIDI pack of creative workflow enhancing fundamental drum rudiments — building blocks of specifically-programmed percussion techniques that leverage their intuitive Right/Left mapping for authentic performance, in other words. When dragging and dropping these rudiments into compositions at any tempo, then freely editing them in the DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) being worked with, realistic drum techniques can be added with ease.

“Abbey Road Percussion was born during lockdown in the UK, when, for a period of time, you could only record a single musician in the glorious acoustic of Abbey Road Studio One. Maybe it’s partly because of this that, once we’d started, we really went to town and recorded these solo percussion libraries in unprecedented detail. They are so incredibly full of life and colour that I’m still finding new ways to use them — even now. The mix from Simon Rhodes gives you the absolute definitive sound of each instrument in the space, so I’m very happy that we’re now able to get these incredible performances by Joby Burgess into the hands of many more composers and producers in the new Core editions.” - Paul Thomson, Spitfire Audio cofounder

Explore Low Percussion Core, High Percussion Core, Metal Percussion Core and all the other libraries available at spitfireaudio.com