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Spitfire Studio Woodwinds

Spitfire Studio Woodwinds offers a wide range of instruments from the section – from the guttural depths of the bassoon to the gleaming sounds of the piccolo

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Your creativity, your control

Spitfire Studio Woodwinds is the third and final release in our vital Spitfire Studio Orchestra range. Our ambition was to create an incredibly versatile pro-end dry stage sample library, and by choosing the crisp and vibrant setting of AIR Studio One – a smaller, more controllable space than the opulent Lyndhurst Hall – we offer our fellow composers a woodwind library that captures every grain in depth and detail.

As with our other Studio libraries, we offer you a wide range of instruments from the section – from the guttural depths of the bassoon to the gleaming sounds of the piccolo. With solo or section performances, choose from an abundant range of articulations, and realise the detail of your music with rips, key noise FX, swells, and sforzandi. Boasting the widest emotional range of performance in pin-sharp detail, Spitfire Studio Woodwinds will breathe new life in to your orchestra.

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11 instruments / 4 solos

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143 articulations

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Listen to Spitfire Studio Woodwinds

Open Resistance — Homay Schmitz
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The Sleeper In The Vale — Christian Henson
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Junkyard Sortie — Paul Thomson
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New Life — Oliver Patrice Weder
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Purgatory — Oliver Patrice Weder
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Mischief By Daylight — Homay Schmitz
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Walkthrough

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In Action

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Contextual — Spitfire Studio Orchestra

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The final chapter

Two years in the making, Studio Woodwinds is the third section of our new Studio orchestral libraries. It has all the treasured Spitfire hallmarks: A-list London session players, the best instruments and an unparalleled signal path recorded to tape by Grammy award-winning engineer Simon Rhodes – in a room perfectly suited to capturing the granular detail and velvet sonority of the woodwind family. As with our existing symphonic and chamber libraries, we have applied a “no stone unturned” approach: an encyclopaedia of articulations, dynamic layers and round-robins for seamless, nuanced realism.

Studio Woodwinds is available in two versions: Spitfire Studio Woodwinds and Spitfire Studio Woodwinds Professional.

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Spitfire Studio Woodwinds

Spitfire Studio Woodwinds takes you straight to the section’s roots for instant results: 143 articulations across 11 instruments, including 7 solo – all recorded to a Decca tree rig featuring Schoeps microphones. This peerless detail and control extends to the articulations, which fulfil all the traditional requirements, but include extended techniques such as Multitongue, Air and Key FX, staccatissimo and swells. Instantly usable, and immediately musical, whatever stage you are at.

Spitfire Studio Woodwinds Professional offers you all of this, plus extra instruments and our full range of mic positions.

Studio Woodwinds bassoon player

Spitfire users now have a comprehensive range of orchestral manoeuvres. We believe Studio Woodwinds suits users of our existing Lyndhurst Hall ranges as an essential sonic alternative, suitable for the widest range of musical settings and ready for your own favourite reverbs and FX. With the versatility we have engineered into this library, we have no doubt that Spitfire Studio Woodwinds will be a cherished part of your music-making over the next decade.

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Recorded by Simon Rhodes

Simon Rhodes was an obvious choice for our entirely new Studio Orchestra range — a microphone magician with multiple Grammy awards to his name, and a senior engineer at Abbey Road Studios. Simon has worked at the highest level in film so score recording, having been James Horner’s go-to engineer for 18 years. Blockbustermovies such as AvatarSkyfall and Spectre have also had the Rhodes treatment.

“For the Spitfire Studio Woodwinds sessions, the approach echoes what we did with the Studio Strings and Brass, so there is complete consistency between the libraries. The main Schoeps mics were the same, and I captured two flavours of spots.”

For more mic positions and two curated mixes, check out the Professional edition of the library.

Simon Rhodes engineering the recording session

Spitfire Studio Orchestra

Overview panel GUI

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.

General controls GUI

General controls panel

This view allows further in-depth control of the instrument, showing all available signals and feature controllers, as well as the ability to purge techniques from memory to reduce system usage.

Ostinatum GUI

The Ostinatum

In this view you can add notes to a pattern sequencer, select which key it triggers on and then play for instant ostinato creation. It’s like an arpeggiator on a synthesiser.

What's included

Instruments

  • Piccolo Flute
  • Flute Solo
  • Flutes a3
  • Alto Flute
  • Clarinet Solo
  • Clarinets a3
  • Bass Clarinet
  • Oboe Solo
  • Oboes a3
  • Bassoon Solo
  • Bassoons a3

Extended techniques

  • Piccolo Flute - Core techniques
  • Piccolo Flute - Decorative techniques
  • Flute Solo - Core techniques
  • Flute Solo - Decorative techniques
  • Flutes a3 - Core techniques
  • Flutes a3 - Decorative techniques
  • Alto Flute - Core techniques
  • Alto Flute - Decorative techniques
  • Clarinet Solo - Core techniques
  • Clarinet Solo - Decorative techniques
  • Clarinets a3 - Core techniques
  • Clarinets a3 - Decorative techniques
  • Bass Clarinet - Core techniques
  • Bass Clarinet - Decorative techniques
  • Oboe Solo - Core techniques
  • Oboe Solo - Decorative techniques
  • Oboes a3 - Core techniques
  • Oboes a3 - Decorative techniques
  • Bassoon Solo - Core techniques
  • Bassoon Solo - Decorative techniques
  • Bassoons a3 - Core techniques


Individual articulations

Piccolo flute

  • Piccolo Flute - Falls
  • Piccolo Flute - FX 1 Keynoise
  • Piccolo Flute - FX 2 Air
  • Piccolo Flute - Long Flutter
  • Piccolo Flute - Long Hollow
  • Piccolo Flute - Long Sfz
  • Piccolo Flute - Long
  • Piccolo Flute - Multitongue
  • Piccolo Flute - Rips
  • Piccolo Flute - Short Marcato
  • Piccolo Flute - Short Staccatissimo
  • Piccolo Flute - Short Staccato
  • Piccolo Flute - Short Tenuto
  • Piccolo Flute - Swell
  • Piccolo Flute - Trill (Major 2nd)
  • Piccolo Flute - Trill (Minor 2nd)

Flute solo

  • Flute solo - Falls
  • Flute Solo - FX 1 Keynoise
  • Flute Solo - FX 2 Air
  • Flute Solo - Long Flutter
  • Flute Solo - Long Hollow
  • Flute Solo - Long Sfz
  • Flute Solo - Long
  • Flute Solo - Multitongue
  • Flute Solo - Rips
  • Flute Solo - Short Marcato
  • Flute Solo - Short Staccatissimo
  • Flute Solo - Short Staccato
  • Flute Solo - Short Tenuto
  • Flute Solo - Swell
  • Flute Solo - Trill (Major 2nd)
  • Flute Solo - Trill (Minor 2nd)

Flutes a3

  • Flutes a3 - Falls
  • Flutes a3 - FX 1 Keynoise
  • Flutes a3 - FX 2 Air
  • Flutes a3 - Long Flutter
  • Flutes a3 - Long Hollow
  • Flutes a3 - Long Sfz
  • Flutes a3 - Long
  • Flutes a3 - Multitongue
  • Flutes a3 - Rips
  • Flutes a3 - Short Marcato
  • Flutes a3 - Short Staccatissimo
  • Flutes a3 - Short Staccato
  • Flutes a3 - Short Tenuto
  • Flutes a3 - Swell
  • Flutes a3 - Trill (Major 2nd)
  • Flutes a3 - Trill (Minor 2nd)

Alto flute

  • Alto Flute - Falls
  • Alto Flute - FX 1 Keynoise
  • Alto Flute - FX 2 Air
  • Alto Flute - Long Flutter
  • Alto Flute - Long Hollow
  • Alto Flute - Long Sfz
  • Alto Flute - Long
  • Alto Flute - Multitongue
  • Alto Flute - Rips
  • Alto Flute - Short Marcato
  • Alto Flute - Short Staccatissimo
  • Alto Flute - Short Staccato
  • Alto Flute - Short Tenuto
  • Alto Flute - Swell
  • Alto Flute - Trill (Major 2nd)
  • Alto Flute - Trill (Minor 2nd)

Clarinet solo

  • Clarinet Solo - Long Flutter
  • Clarinet Solo - Long Sfz
  • Clarinet Solo - Long
  • Clarinet Solo - Multitongue
  • Clarinet Solo - Short Marcato
  • Clarinet Solo - Short Staccato
  • Clarinet Solo - Short Tenuto
  • Clarinet Solo - Swell
  • Clarinet Solo - Trill (Major 2nd)
  • Clarinet Solo - Trill (Minor 2nd)

Clarinets a3

  • Clarinets a3 - Long Flutter
  • Clarinets a3 - Long Sfz
  • Clarinets a3 - Long
  • Clarinets a3 - Multitongue
  • Clarinets a3 - Short Marcato
  • Clarinets a3 - Short Staccato
  • Clarinets a3 - Short Tenuto
  • Clarinets a3 - Swell
  • Clarinets a3 - Trill (Major 2nd)
  • Clarinets a3 - Trill (Minor 2nd)

Bass clarinet

  • Bass Clarinet - Long Flutter
  • Bass Clarinet - Long Sfz
  • Bass Clarinet - Long
  • Bass Clarinet - Multitongue
  • Bass Clarinet - Short Marcato
  • Bass Clarinet - Short Staccato
  • Bass Clarinet - Short Tenuto
  • Bass Clarinet - Swell

Oboe solo

  • Oboe Solo - Falls
  • Oboe Solo - Long Sfz
  • Oboe Solo - Long
  • Oboe Solo - Multitongue
  • Oboe Solo - Rips
  • Oboe Solo - Short Marcato
  • Oboe Solo - Short Staccatissimo
  • Oboe Solo - Short Staccato
  • Oboe Solo - Short Tenuto
  • Oboe Solo - Swell
  • Oboe Solo - Trill (Major 2nd)
  • Oboe Solo - Trill (Minor 2nd)

Oboes a3

  • Oboes a3 - Long Sfz
  • Oboes a3 - Long
  • Oboes a3 - Multitongue
  • Oboes a3 - Short Marcato
  • Oboes a3 - Short Staccatissimo
  • Oboes a3 - Short Staccato
  • Oboes a3 - Short Tenuto
  • Oboes a3 - Swell
  • Oboes a3 - Trill (Major 2nd)
  • Oboes a3 - Trill (Minor 2nd)

Bassoon solo

  • Bassoon Solo - Long Flutter
  • Bassoon Solo - Long Sfz
  • Bassoon Solo - Long
  • Bassoon Solo - Multitongue
  • Bassoon Solo - Short Marcato
  • Bassoon Solo - Short Staccato
  • Bassoon Solo - Short Tenuto
  • Bassoon Solo - Swell
  • Bassoon Solo - Trill (Major 2nd)
  • Bassoon Solo - Trill (Minor 2nd)

Bassoons a3

  • Bassoons a3 - Long Sfz
  • Bassoons a3 - Long
  • Bassoons a3 - Short Marcato
  • Bassoons a3 - Short Staccato
  • Bassoons a3 - Short Tenuto
  • Bassoons a3 - Swell
  • Bassoons a3 - Trill (Major 2nd)
  • Bassoons a3 - Trill (Minor 2nd)

Legato techniques

  • Piccolo Flute - Legato
  • Flute Solo - Legato
  • Flutes a3 - Legato
  • Alto Flute - Legato
  • Clarinet Solo - Legato
  • Clarinets a3 - Legato
  • Bass Clarinet - Legato
  • Oboe Solo - Legato
  • Oboes a3 - Legato
  • Bassoon Solo - Legato
  • Bassoons a3 - Legato

Other patches

  • Piccolo Flute - Economic Longs
  • Piccolo Flute - Economic Shorts
  • Piccolo Flute - Light resources
  • Piccolo Flute - Time machine
  • Flute Solo - Economic Longs
  • Flute Solo - Economic Shorts
  • Flute Solo - Light resources
  • Flute Solo - Time machine
  • Flutes a3 - Economic Longs
  • Flutes a3 - Economic Shorts
  • Flutes a3 - Light resources
  • Flutes a3 - Time machine
  • Alto Flute - Economic Longs
  • Alto Flute - Economic Shorts
  • Alto Flute - Light resources
  • Alto Flute - Time machine
  • Clarinet Solo - Economic Longs
  • Clarinet Solo - Economic Shorts
  • Clarinet Solo - Light resources
  • Clarinet Solo - Time machine
  • Clarinets a3 - Economic Longs
  • Clarinets a3 - Economic Shorts
  • Clarinets a3 - Light resources
  • Clarinets a3 - Time machine
  • Bass Clarinet - Economic Longs
  • Bass Clarinet - Economic Shorts
  • Bass Clarinet - Light resources
  • Bass Clarinet - Time machine
  • Oboe Solo - Economic Longs
  • Oboe Solo - Economic Shorts
  • Oboe Solo - Light resources
  • Oboe Solo - Time machine
  • Oboes a3 - Economic Longs
  • Oboes a3 - Economic Shorts
  • Oboes a3 - Light resources
  • Oboes a3 - Time machine
  • Bassoon Solo - Economic Longs
  • Bassoon Solo - Economic Shorts
  • Bassoon Solo - Light resources
  • Bassoon Solo - Time machine
  • Bassoons a3 - Economic Longs
  • Bassoons a3 - Economic Shorts
  • Bassoons a3 - Light resources
  • Bassoons a3 - Time machine


Mics & mixes

Mics

  • Tree

Videos

Studio Orchestra Overview

Overview — Studio Orchestra

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FAQs

What is the difference between Spitfire Studio Woodwinds and Spitfire Studio Woodwinds Professional?

Spitfire Studio Woodwinds features 11 essential instrument patches with 143 articulations to choose from, all available with the default Decca Tree microphone position. With Professional, you have access to 4 more unique instruments, 260 articulations, as well as seven extra unique microphone positions and two stereo mixes:

Spitfire Studio Woodwinds

11 Instruments
7 Solo instruments
Tree 1
Up to 4 round robins

Spitfire Studio Woodwinds Professional — all of the above, plus:

15 Instruments
11 Solo instruments
Close 1, Close 2, Tree 1, Tree 2, Ambients, Outriggers, Mix 1 and 2


Is there a crossgrade path to Spitfire Studio Woodwinds Professional?

Yes, the upgrade price is simply the price difference between the two products at the point of purchase. Add Spitfire Studio Woodwinds Professional to your cart, and it will intelligently calculate your crossgrade price. Make sure you’re logged in first!


How is this different from Spitfire Symphonic Woodwinds?

Recorded in Studio One at Air instead of Lyndhurst Hall, where we recorded our Symphony Orchestra, this library offers a more controlled sound - instantly more focused and detailed - compared to the legendary lush and vibrant reverb of ‘The Hall’.

Read more FAQs for this product

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

32-bit systems are not supported.

File size

~16132 samples

10.20 GB download size

10.20 GB disk space required during install

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Kontakt player

Kontakt Full or Kontakt Player 5.6.8 or higher

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