SPITFIRE AUDIO Fractured Strings

Refract, bloom, soar

From AIR Studios, to the edge of the world. We’ve collaborated with Hans Zimmer’s prestigious scoring collective Bleeding Fingers Music (Frozen Planet II, Planet Earth II, Blue Planet II) and London’s finest string players to create a new kind of small ensemble library — featured in BBC’s Frozen Planet II.

Fractured Strings introduces an innovative approach to articulations that offers inspirational surprises through intervallic performances and new modal colours, delivering unparalleled depth and realism. With these emotive musical gestures and our new Scale Mode technology, this library lends itself perfectly to cellular, ambient, and neoclassical composing — reflecting the intricacies, patterns and contrasts found in natural phenomena.

Featuring an eight-piece string ensemble and two soloists, these sounds have been brought to life in the unparalleled acoustics of AIR Lyndhurst Hall, complete with 15 signal paths. With infinite intervallic possibilities, you can take these strings anywhere — to places of warmth, grit, darkness or light.

A new force of nature

This is a new kind of chamber string library, designed to infuse warmth, colour, and humanity into the gestures, leaps, and cellular motifs that you compose — as well as to inspire you with surprising intervallic and modal possibilities. These strings refract, bloom and soar across 100+ seventh-reaches, two-note statements, swelling rotations, pizzicato strums, and soaring chord extensions.

Elevate your scores with Scale Mode

Introducing our new Scale Mode technology — select from any of the seven diatonic modes or build your own scale by simply clicking the notes you want included. From there, it intelligently selects the right samples that conform to the scale you’ve entered, split by velocity, developing their intervallic string techniques and triggering wider intervals at higher velocities for endless inspiration.

AIR Studios at its most spellbinding

To capture tiny, intimate moments unfolding across a vast, uncaring landscape, we brought a small section of London’s finest string players to the mammoth AIR Lyndhurst Hall, home of blockbuster scores. Together, these eight players, the Bleeding Fingers Music team, and our own collective of composers, conductors, and engineers collaborated to create a vast suite of short leaps, gestures and swells. The resulting sound makes for a sublime companion to other libraries recorded at AIR Studios, including other small string section libraries such as Albion Neo, Chamber Strings, and Olafur Arnalds Chamber Evolutions.

Extreme scoring

For Frozen Planet II, Bleeding Fingers Music and the show’s composers Hans Zimmer, James Everingham and Adam Lukas were looking for a library that could score not only scenes of frozen silence, but also scenes of action, tension, crisis and drama. Rather than imitating the whispering textures of glacial rivers, Fractured Strings offers a spectrum of sounds and textures that reflect the planet’s fuller-voiced, more melodic moments, from microscopic to grand gestures. The result is a library with potential far beyond the world’s end.

Bleeding Fingers Music

Emmy-winning and BAFTA-nominated Bleeding Fingers is an exciting, diverse composer collective hand-selected and mentored by Hans Zimmer. They were awarded an Emmy for Outstanding Music Composition for BBC's Primates, Emmy nominations for BBC’s Planet Earth II and Nat Geo's Being the Queen, plus two Webby awards for the BBC’s groundbreaking 13 Minutes To The Moon.

Hailing from eight countries we embrace and nurture our deep musical heritage to deliver a sonic depth that is second to none. Housed in state-of-the-art studios on Hans Zimmer’s world-renowned Santa Monica campus and supported by a best-in-class production team, Bleeding Fingers is equipped to produce music at the very highest standard.