**This sale has now ended** Your Guide to the Thunderbolt Sale

Spitfire Audio

With so many incredible libraries on offer it can be hard to pick the right one for you; take a look at our buyer's guide to help you with your Thunderbolt choices. 

Thunderbolt: The Collection: Described by in-house composer Oliver Patrice Weder as the perfect collection for modern scores with traditional elements, bring innovation to your scores whilst still getting the basic block-buster staples.

Spitfire Solo Strings: Sometimes you need the intimacy and detail of a single voice to rise above the force of an orchestra. Featuring exceptional first-call London virtuosos, ideal for adding individuality and definition to your scores

Spitfire Chamber Strings: Your definitive chamber range – a versatile classic that will enhance your film, TV, and game scores! A must-have for those moments when you need the detail of a soloist but the texture of an ensemble! Spitfire Chamber String Professional features all of the above, plus four additional microphone positions and three CPU-friendly stereo mixes by award-winning engineer Jake Jackson, giving you a hugely diverse range of string sounds.

LCO Textures: For the composer looking to expand their sound palette with textures made up of indefinable, fascinating sounds, stand out and subvert the status-quo with this incredible library.

Ólafur Arnalds Stratus: Fusing the power of technology with the organic beauty and emotion of the piano, Stratus is a vast, dynamic new instrument that will add depth, movement, and colour to your music. A great remedy for writer's block too, play around with the evolutions for infinite inspiration. 

Symphonic Motions: An inspiring tool created by composers, for composers, offering the flexibility to design expressive shorts and intricate rhythmic patterns with ease, enhancing the realism of your scores and bringing them to life.

Albion NEO: Organic recordings taken to new dimensions to create an encyclopedic range of hybrid synths, inspiring loops, and textures, including over 300 curated presets to take your scores into the new decade; perfect for the modern composer looking to push the envelope.

You can save 40% on all these libraries and over 50% when you buy them in the Thunderbolt Collection! 

Explore Thunderbolt here: https://bit.ly/3gSt0aL

Which library tempts you the most?

Kris

I am a bit in a dilemma. I want to get a new library I can use "a lot" for the kind of cues I do write. A lot of cues / tracks in an ambient dramedy style and also often some "crime" cues (s lot of D minor ;-) )

I am struggling deciding to get the LCO textures or the Symphonic Motions. Anyone having these, what would you go for? Which on is more versatile and more "open" for multiple styles of cues and approaches?

Jack

https://community.spitfireaudio.com/discussion/comment/8274#Comment_8274

I would choose LCO over Motions.

Motions is particularly designed to create symphonic rhythms which might be a little too big in sound for suspense which is created through detailed percussive texture. Crime cues also benefit greatly from deep / dark mysterious ambience which LCO provides brilliantly well.

What Motions could provide for crime / suspense cues can also be created with more intimate percussion / electronic percussion sounds. These can be created in many ways without a library, and these types of sounds would sit more crisp / detailed than Motions on a bed of ambience, perhaps giving a more un nerving vibe to the cue.

Cheers

J

Kris

https://community.spitfireaudio.com/discussion/comment/8279#Comment_8279

Hi Jack,

Just reading this now and I did come to the same conclusion after watching a few hours of reviews and demos. I did get LCO. ;-)