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Distorted soundscapes for cinematic scoring

A collection of inspiring and modern cinematic guitar sounds, textures and loops — from ambient to apocalyptic — created and performed exclusively by renowned guitar innovator Leo Abrahams, and expertly sampled by Spitfire Audio. Designed for use in film, TV and game music and especially suited to dark, urbane, indie style scores, its early incarnation is already a directors’ and composers’ favourite. This intuitive and instantly playable toolkit will inspire any discerning media composer or producer looking for fresh sounds and atmospheric textures with an experimental edge.

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Includes Kontakt Player (free download)

Compatible with NKS

Spitfire Audio App required

Over 400 presets

6 mixes

eDNA synth engine

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Features The Grange

Contextual

When I'm writing, I often build a sound first and let the composition evolve from it. My hope is that the guitar sounds will inspire other people to do the same, and that the ambient sounds are helpful in creating atmosphere.

Leo Abrahams

The overview panel

This is the main interface for melodic instruments. Its default view displays all available playing techniques, has a simple microphone mixer and includes the main feature controllers.

The evo grid

Based on the EMS VCS3 synth, this extraordinary and unique interface allows for instant gratification and customisation. With 1 or 2 clicks, you will be armed with something totally unique and inspiring. Scroll the Evo Grid to discover and activate Evos that are not visible. Pan and tweak each Evo for perfect blending. Punch in or out 3 useful modulators and effects. Mix your mic positions, all from the front panel.

eDNA engine

This interface houses our own sample-synthesiser engine. You can use it to combine two sounds and modulate between them with envelopes, filters and wobbles per sound, as well as a gate sequencer and a selection of go-to FX.

What's included

Construction kits

Creator patch - By hz (MotorFX - Notch, Distortion and EQ)
Creator patch - By hz (MotorFX - Phaser, LO-FI, Saturator)
Creator patch - By hz (MotorFX - Skreamer, Stereo and Vowel)
Creator patch - Tempo Synced (MotorFX - Notch, Distortion and EQ)
Creator patch - Tempo Synced (MotorFX - Phaser, LO-FI, Saturator)
Creator patch - Tempo Synced (MotorFX - Skreamer, Stereo and Vowel)

Factory sounds

Amped Guitar Pads (Factory Sounds)
Arps n Chords (Factory Sounds)
Atonal (Factory Sounds)
Enigmatic Pads (Factory Sounds)
Inspiration (Factory Sounds)
Inspiration Distortion (Factory Sounds)
Odd Looopers (Factory Sounds)

Iindividual signals

Amped Guitar Pads Amp 1
Amped Guitar Pads Amp 2
Amped Guitar Pads Amp 3
Amped Guitar Pads Clean
Amped Guitar Pads DI
Amped Guitar Pads Room
Arps n Chords Amp
Arps n Chords Clean
Atonal Amp
Atonal Clean
Engimatic Pads Amp
Enigmatic Pads Clean
Inspiration Amp
Inspiration Clean
Inspiration Distortion Amp 1
Inspiration Distortion Amp 2
Inspiration Distortion Amp 3
Inspiration Distortion Clean
Inspiration Distortion DI
Inspiration Distortion Room
Looped Clean
Odd Loopers Amp

Inspiration

Atlas
Behind The Bridge Loud
Behind The Bridge Soft
Bell Mod
Bell Particles
Broken Prairie Organ
Building Wobble Mod
Call Forward
Closer Sonar Ping
Coin Guitar Chorus Loud
Coin Guitar Chorus Soft
Coin Guitar Loud
Coin Guitar Soft
Dead Ringer
Deep Blue Pad
Distant Bridge Builders Loud
Distant Bridge Builders Soft
Distant Bridge Builders
Distant Pedal With Tone Drops
Distant Sonar Pings
Fuzz Wobble
Fuzzwah
Gated Fuzz
Glitchity Hop
Harmonic Lullabuzz 2 Loud
Harmonic Lullabuzz 2 Soft
Harmonic Lullabuzz
Harmonics Loud
Harmonics Soft
Infinite Reverb Loud
Infinite Reverb Soft
Infinite Reverb Tamed Close
Infinite Reverb Tamed Far
Jam Glitches 1
Jam Glitches 2
Logograms
Lone Landing
Mellow Particles
Moon Landing
Particle Swarm
Particle
Pluck Organ
Plucked Glitches
Pulsing FIzzer Pad
Rade Blunner 1
Redshift
Ricochet
Ring Mod Chords
Ringer Flamm
Ringer
Rust Mountain
Slow Attack Choir Loud
Slow Attack Choir Soft
Slow Attack Loud
Slow Attack Soft
Slow Build Crescendo
Slow Build Into Fuzz
Soft And Wide Synth Particles
Soft Infinite Reverb Tamed
Soft Particle Delay Machine
Sonar Pad
Space Insects
Star Odyssey
Synth Particles
Thick Monosynth
Trap Delay Monosynth
Trussart Delays Loud
Trussart Delays Soft
Trussart Loud
Trussart Pencildrop
Trussart Soft
Under The Sea
Warm Glitches Delayed
Warm Glitches
Warm Wave Pad Wider
Warm Wave Pad
Wobbles

Distorted

Noise patches

Box Of Rock Noise
Buzztone Noise
Danelectro Rock Noise
DanElectroHornet Noise
Duo Distorter Green Noise
Duo Distorter Red Noise
Fuzztone Noise
J Everman LoFi Filter Noise
J Everman LoFi Noise
Love Tone Noise
MidFi Glitch Noise
North Effects AD50 Noise
Rainger Freak Noise
Sag Aloo Noise
Sag Paneer Noise
Skreddy Lunar Module Noise
Tone Machine Noise
Univox Super Fuzz Ch1 Noise
Box Of Rock
Buzztone
Danelectro Rock
DanElectro Hornet
Duo Distorter Green
Duo Distorter Red
FuzzTone
J Everman LoFi Filter
J Everman LoFi
Love Tone
MidFi Glitch
North Effects AD50
Rainger Freak
Sag Aloo
Sag Paneer
Skreddy Lunar Module
Tone Machine
Univox Super Fuzz Ch1

Inspiration distorted

Angelic
Bass Down Low
Bassline
Black Lodge
Bouncing Bits
Broken Gameboy
Clanker
Cloud Trem
CRT Choir
Crystal Waves
Dark Echo
Desert Sands
Devilish Chords
Devilish Shorts A
Devilish Shorts B
Epic Plonk
Fifths Apart
Filthy Behaviour
Fuzz Echo
Hard Sustain
Hello
Just Yet Another Guitar
Lonely Existence Of A Mars Rover
Lost In A Dream
Lurker
Manbeast
Mellow Noise FX
Nightmare Drone
Pax Romana
Pink Ring Mod
Pitch Shift
Proxima Centauri
Ring Mod
Sound 1
Stereo FX
Subtle Shift
Switch Ghost
Trickster
Watery Baubles

Enigmatic pads

Anemone Repeater
Anemone
Apollo Pad
AtonaChimes
Autumn Pad
Background Pad
Bass Shrutibox
Blotto
Bowed Guitar Requiem
Casper
Cave Chimes
Cotton Wood Trail
Creaking Sub
Crush Shift
Crystal Chords
Dalek Synth
Dark Autumn Pad
Death Valley
Delay The Crush Shift
Dense Droplets
Denser Smooth Droplets 1
Denser Smooth Droplets 2
Desert Whale
Devil's Tower
Distant Organ
Electric Fence
Electric Rain
Electrified Rusty Radiator
Flat Bottom Fifths
Flitter Cloud
Flitter Universe 1
Flitter Universe 2
Flitter Universe 3
Ghost Hobos
Guitar Choir
Gushing Swoop 1
Gushing Swoop 2
Gushing Swoop 3
Happy Bubbles
Insect Angels
Last Sunrise
Lineman Attack
Lineman
Lo Wind Guitar
Locust Choir
Mental Floss
Mirage
Native Ghosts
Nazionale Noise Choir 1
Nazionale Noise Choir 2
Nazionale
Organ For A Common Man
Pebble Choir 1
Pebble Choir 2
Pebble Octaves
Prarie Crypt
Reversed Melatune Style
Rust Bow 2
Rust Bow
Rusted Reflections
Rustic Crystals
Rusty Hurdy Gurdy Wide
Rusty Hurdy Gurdy
Rusty Radiator
Rusty Sleigh Bells
Rusty Tines
Salem
Scraped Bowl Trem
Scraped Bowl
Seiz The Day
Slap Swoop
Smeared Halo Doubled 1
Smeared Halo Doubled 2
Smeared Halo
Solitude
Spinning Rust Bowl
Stereo Chorus Pad
Stutter Chorus 1
Stutter Chorus 2
Stutter
Swan
Time Splitter Pad
Torture
Toxic Bathroom Experiment
Toxic Fog
Tunnel Pad
Ulysses
Uncertain Company
Underwhisper Ping Pong
Underwhisper
Voyager 1
Warble
Wind Guitar
Winter Pad

Amped guitar pads

Bright Pad
Cloud Amp
Dark Pad
Dark Soft Pad
Delay Swarm
Distant Floot
Distorted Delay
Electric Sheep
Enter Mist
Flying Fish
Granular Verb Pluck
Granular Verb Trem Loud
Granular Verb Trem Soft
Grind Loud
Grind Soft
Hammond Pad
High Bellow
Landing
Loose Blibs
Mountain
Mystery Box
Over Clouds
Peel Guitar
Pod Bay Flashbacks
Rate Crush
Res Me
We Float
What Have We Here

Feedback evo grid

Individual evolutions

Ambient Guitars - Moving Ambience 1
Ambient Guitars - Distorted Evolution 1
Ambient Guitars - Distorted Evolution 2
Ambient Guitars - Distorted Evolution 3
Ambient Guitars - Distorted Evolution 4
Ambient Guitars - Distorted Evolution 5
Ambient Guitars - Lunarscape 1
Ambient Guitars - Lunarscape 2
Ambient Guitars - Duo Distorter
Ambient Guitars - Super Fuzz
Ambient Guitars - Hello
Ambient Guitars - Chaos into Ambience 1
Ambient Guitars - Chaos into Ambience 2
Ambient Guitars - Chaos into Ambience 3
Ambient Guitars - Chaos into Ambience 4
Ambient Guitars - Chaos into Ambience 5
Ambient Guitars - All in one

Ambient guitars evolutions

Arps n chords

Angelic Chords Maj Min
Angelic Stroker Lo
Angelic Stroker
Angelic Sus 9th Min
Angelic Sus 9th
Angelic Sus Aug 11th
Angelic Sus Maj 7th
Angelic Sus Maj 11th
Angelic Sus Slow 9th
Auto Jazz Mega Chorus
David Played
Leo's Arps Soft
Leo's Arps
Leo's Pad Looppegios
Loading Screen Wiggler
Oscy Angel
Oscy Plonker
Otto's Shoes
PC Organ
Rust Mountain
Summer Crystals
Sunrise in Cape Canaveral
Throb Bass
Tumbleweed

Odd loopers

Augmented Time
Behind Bridge Natural
Behind Bridge Quantized
Bell Ring Mod
Bollyspace
Capsize
Capture
Constant
Dark Ring Mod
Engagement
Flux Speed Particle
Glitch Loops
Interstellar Beam
Mashed Loops
Muted Pluck
Out There
Particle Loops
Particles
Phone Home Natural
Phone Home Quantized
Pulse Particle
Rave Ring Mod
Rhythmic Mod
Ringer Clean
Rubber Bass Natural
Rubber Bass Quantized
Scrub Guitar
Sharp Ring Mod
Shudder
Signal
Soft Ring Mod
Stalagtites
Sub Cloud
Torture
Trap Delay
Trap Delays
Trembling 5ths
Wobble Fuzz

Atonal

Anemone Drops
Coin Guitar Screeches
Delay Feedback Extended
Descending Bells
Infinite Verb Screenches
Insect Swarm
Jam Particles 1 Untuned
Jam Particles 2 Untuned
Metal Body Rub
Planeten
Rubber Hits
Space Yabby
Stuck In A Room
The Dud
Tight Spot
Trussart Sprangs
Tubular Hell
Vision

Artist presets

Christian Henson presets

1980s Sci Fi Documentary
Awesome Bass
Awesome Distorted Pad
Beauty Pad 2
Beauty Pad
Busy Pad
Cathedral Guitorgan Pitchy
Cathedral Guitorgan
CH Fave Sound 2
CH Fave Sound
Cloud Of Moss Pad
Dark Glacier Pad
Darkzone 2
Darkzone
Distant Bass
Distorted Gates 2 MW is awesome
Distorted Gates MW is awesome
Distorted Landscape
Dramatic Plucks
Echopad 2
Echopad
Endless Guitars
Enow Pad
Epic Trash Pad 2
Epic Trash Pad
Glacial Guitar 2
Glacial Guitar 3
Glacial Guitar
Great Drone 2
Great Drone
Guitar Bomb
Insect Guitar
Lo Fi Pad With Stutter Filter MW
Mellow Pad
Mellow Stutter Pad
Octave Pitch Pad
Pedal Stutter Note
Plinking Pitches
Plinkles
Skreeble Plucks
Slow Guitar
Small Organ Pad
Soft Attack Pad
Stunning Pad 2
Stunning Pad
Stuttar 2
Stuttar
Stutter Pad 2 MW is stutter
Stutter Pad MW is stutter
Super Darkzone 2
Super Darkzone
Sweller 2
Sweller
Synth Pad
Tidal Guitar 2
Tidal Guitar 3
Tidal Guitar
Trent's Plucker
Trenty Plucks
Trenty Randoms MW is awesome

Paul Thomson presets

80s Hair Metal Sad Pad
A Most Unfortunate Bass MW
Alarum Pad MW
Amazing 80s Jangle Pad MW
Amazing Highness Pad MW
Amazing Plucker 9th
Beauty Reversals Pad MW
Best Soft Pad MW
Blinking Light Pad MW
Bowed Piano Bass MW
Chifter Pad MW
Chime Afterglow Pad MW
Dawn Sampans MW
Deep Space Radio Pad MW
Delayed Gratification Pad MW
Deranged 80s Massiver MW
Digital vs Squeezebox MW
Distant Beauty Cloud MW
Distant Robot Stomper MW
Dream State Pad MW
Duvet Chatter MW
Engine Morphs Low MW
EP Starry Night MW
Epic Spacey Bassey
Ether Gasper MW
Extra Pulsing Dropsters MW
Fab Organic Trembler
Flangeful MW
Flumpy MW
Gentle Ralien Drops MW
Gentle Suspenders MW
Ghostly Wiggle that MW
Glimmers of Dawn MW
Glorious Crunch Pad
Good Nasal Pulser MW
Grinding Stabs MW
Grumbly Bottom
Grunchy Attack Pad MW
Homage To Jean MW
Intense Rethink Pad MW
Intimate Organ MW
Introspect Beauty Pad MW
Introspective Pulse Organ MW
Jittery High Chime MW
Katanga Pad MW
Lineman Pad MW
Lonely Note MW
Mains Commenced MW
Mangled Code
More Interesting Bass MW
Nasty Business MW
Never Know What MW
Oblivious Love Pad MW
One to Another MW
Organ Chiffer MW
Piquer Interest Pad MW
Pluckto Swarm Pad MW
Psych Randomiser MW
Pulsing Insistence MW
Queasy Pulse Short MW
Radio Piano Leslie MW
Radiophonic Fascination
Radiophoniq MW
Robot Gamelan
Robot Pans MW
Robot Tears Pad MW
Sad Growly Shimmer MW
Scanners Crunchpad MW
Shocked Machine Shivers MW
Sideways Look MW
Simple Organ Shimmer MW
Soft Organ Shimmer MW
Softly Chaotic MW
Solid State Pad MW
Spangles Horse
Sparkle Pluck Reveal MW
Special 5th Chord Machine MW
Special Swimmers MW
Spinner Pad MW
Sprinkle My Chords MW
Strangely Firm MW
Stranger Bass Chatter MW
Stranger Harmonics Pad MW
Superior Jangle Pad MW
Supersoft Highness Pad MW
Surprised Chord MW
Swimmy Pad MW
Talk Boxy Glitchmeister
Thoughtful Chords MW
Throaty Monster Bass MW
Timed Out Pad
TinkerBells Pad MW
Underlying Mischief MW
Undulation Station MW
Unfortunate Oil Incident
Unpleasant Insect Look MW
Very Unpleasant MW
Warmful Expansions
Why Computer
Wide Organ MW

Mixes

DI - Direct straight from the pedals
Cl - Clean Showman with ribbon
A1 - Echolette / Selmer with ribbon
A2 - Bassman amplifier with dynamic
A3 - Swart with dynamic
R - Stereo room microphones

Testimonials

Spitfire's Ambient Guitars takes the humble six-string into new and uncharted sonic territory.

There's such a wide variety of emotions and textures available from various fuzz boxes and guitars. I hear far too many guitar tones in soundtracks that sound generic and cheesy. I wanted to put the result of my compulsive years of eBay scouring at people's fingertips.

Leo Abrahams

If I’m ever asked to make something sound cool, the samples we’ve created with Leo are the ‘get out of jail’ card I can always turn to

Christian Henson Composer & Co-founder of Spitfire Audio

A valuable addition to the toolkit of many film and TV composers — the distorted chaos, mutilated plucks and reflective pads are what make this library stand out.

FAQs

What is Ambient Guitars?

Ambient Guitars is a collaboration between Spitfire Audio and trailblazing composer, producer and musician Leo Abrahams. Featuring amazing new material recorded in 2019 and an amalgamation of two true Spitfire classics; Enigma 1 & Enigma 2, it is now presented in our hugely versatile, dedicated eDNA Engine UI and gives you over 600 sounds, including over 10GB of brand new recordings and additional curated presets. We’ve also updated this to Kontakt Player format with full NKS support.

What if I own Enigma 1 or Enigma 2 or both?

If you already own Enigma 1 or 2, you will be eligible for a crossgrade. Make sure you are logged into your account, add Ambient Guitars to your cart and our checkout will automatically work out the crossgrade pricing.

If you already own Enigma 1 and 2, you will receive a copy of Ambient Guitars for free. We will email you with information about this new update.

Tech specs

Mac system requirements

Mac OS 11, 12 or 13

Both Intel and Apple Silicon/ARM are supported

Minimum: 2.8GHz i5 minimum (quad-core), 8GB RAM

Recommended: 2.8GHz I7 (six-core), 16GB RAM

32-bit systems are not supported.

PC system requirements

Windows 10 or Windows 11 - (Latest Service Pack, 64-bit)

Minimum: Intel 2.8 GHz i5 (quad-core) or AMD Ryzen 5, 8GB RAM

Recommended: Intel Core i7 6th gen and later or AMD Ryzen 7, 16GB RAM