Spitfire Audio – Enigma 2 The Rapture

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A heavily sampled library of twisted beauty that represents Leo’s tremendously cool style, offered in several formats to provide you with a plethora of alternatives. A huge range of articulations recorded in London’s super cool Pool Studios using Leo’s enviable guitar collection, his candy shop pedal board, and a slew of various vintage amps and signal routes.

Distortions – 18 Pedals with 167 different articulations and six distinct signal routes.

Enhancements – Similar to the original Enigma, 24 inspired dedicated Mercury “synth” sample sets, each with 6 distinct amps.

Evolutions is a 16 × 16 Evo Grid with four separate amplifiers and signal lines to patch in and mix.

Leo Abrahams follows up his 2013 Enigma hit with an apocalyptic collection of distorted instruments and sound barriers. Layer into your mix for maximum distortion and feedback. We decamped to Bermondsey’s Pool Studios for weeks of raiding Leo’s unique and unusual collection of instruments, pedals, and amplifiers. Whereas “The Rapture” is a deep-sampled essay on the art of distortion, feedback, filth, and squalor, the original Enigma is a very tiny boutique collection of great sounds.

– If you’re a producer trying to give your music that extra edge, this is a must-have in your arsenal: whatever it touches receives a white-hot zeitgeist edge.

– If you’re a writer looking for a spark of inspiration, both Enigmas are “inspiration machines” that can feed your imagination instantaneously.

– If you’re a composer wanting to use distortions in your compositions for cinema, television, or gaming, you may now do so with confidence. There will be no more dull distorted guitar sounds!

BACKGROUND

Leo Abrahams is a pioneering musician, songwriter, and producer who has worked with and toured with artists such as Imogen Heap, Ed Harcourt, Roxy Music, Grace Jones, and Pulp. Leo began writing and producing for a variety of young singers and bands, which led to the creation of his own recordings, including The Unrest Cure, which included vocals by Brian Eno, KT Tunstall, Ed Harcourt, Foy Vance, and Bingo Gazingo. Leo has worked with musicians such as Regina Spektor, Paolo Nutini, Wild Beasts, Frightened Rabbit, and Carl Barat of the Libertines. He has written great soundtracks for films like as The Lovely Bones (with Eno) and Hunger (with David Holmes), and he is also acknowledged as the guitarist in films such as ’71, Oceans 12, Twilight, and Green Zone. Leo’s talent has spanned various musical genres, and it is his dedication, along with his innate talent, that has led to his current success.

He had the following to say about “The Rapture”:

“When I’m writing, I frequently start with a sound and let the music flow from there. I’m hoping that some of the guitar sounds available here may encourage others to do the same. I also hope that some of the ambient sounds are useful when neither a synth pad nor an actual ‘part’ is required, but simply a bit of atmospheric ambiguity (or ambiguous atmosphere, depending on whether it’s a sci-fi thing or a costume drama).

With this collection, I aimed to evoke the sense of danger and recklessness that the guitar is frequently tasked with conveying. There’s also a huge range of emotions and textures possible from different fuzz boxes and guitars – I hear far too many bland and tacky guitar tones in soundtracks. I wanted to put the results of my obsessive eBay hunting at people’s fingers.

When I was working on David Holmes’ Oceans 12 soundtrack, he dispatched me to every guitar store in Los Angeles, buying old fuzzes until we discovered the proper tone for a certain cue. It took two days, and one of the VIs came from the stompbox.

As a result, it’s designed to serve as both a filler in people’s toolboxes and an inspiration machine. Thank you in advance if you decide to investigate.”

FEATURES

Because Enigma 2 has a variety of articulations and pickup options, we created 5 new icons to help you identify between the key articulations in the library.

When you see these symbols with A, B, or C within, they represent multiple pickup or playing position possibilities for that articulation, each with a slightly different tone.

The library is divided into three sections: “Distortions,” “Augmentations,” and “Evolutions.” With 167 articulations split over 18 distinct guitar pedals, the Distortions constitute the heart of the library. The sounds are organized by pedal and include six distinct signal settings for a range of mixing possibilities.

The six signal possibilities include a clean DI straight from the pedals, four different amps, and a stereo room pair that allows you to recreate the ambiance of The Pool recording facilities. The four amps provided were hand-picked to provide a wide range of sound possibilities. The first amp (“Cl” on the GUI) is a Showman, with a clean guitar feed before any pedals to add the pure tone of the guitar. The following three alternatives all come directly from the distortions, with the first being a Klemt Echolette M40 into a Selmer cabinet, the second a Bassman, and the third a Swart Space Tone.

The Augmentations are a collection of 24 one-of-a-kind sounds created by Leo himself using his carefully chosen pedal board, ranging from deep bass tones to engulfing pads and soundscapes. These all feature the same six signals as the Distortions, but they are all housed in our Mercury engine, where users may further expand the sounds using built-in effects.

Last but not least are the Evolutions, which are based on our Evo Grid series and comprise 16 distinct sounds distributed around the keyboard that may be randomly generated to create intricate moving sounds. These sounds, all designed with distortion and feedback in mind, progress from gentle distortion to screaming feedback and back again. These all feature four signal possibilities, which include the three ‘dirty’ amplifiers listed above as well as the room signal.

GUIS

PANEL OF GENERAL CONTROLS

A more detailed but yet basic UI panel that allows you to change the overall settings. How many round robins you want and how you want them to behave How do you like memory to be organized, together with pitch possibilities and velocity?

SYNTH MERCURY

The Mercury synth serves as the front end for all of our steam punked, sound created, and warped libraries. It’s a clever user interface that lets you to have fun right away without having to roll up your sleeves and crawl beneath the Kontakt hood. All of the controls are assignable to your control surface, allowing you to instantly personalize our sounds.

EVOLVE GRID

This remarkable and one-of-a-kind interface, based on the EMS VCS3 synth, provides for quick satisfaction and customization. With just one or two clicks, you’ll have something really distinctive and inspirational. Scroll through the Evo Grid to find and trigger all 48 Evos. Pan and adjust each Evo for optimal mixing, punch in or out three handy modulators and effects, and mix your mic placements all from the front panel.

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