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Spitfire Audio

Ólafur Arnalds Stratus £249

Web spitfireaudio.com

Format PC/Mac, Kontakt/Kontakt Player

The fourth collaboration between lauded Icelandic composer and musician Ólafur Arnalds and Brit sampleware giants Spitfire Audio is a Kontakt Player engine based on Arnalds’ self-developed software, which triggers rhythmic note patterns on two identical self-playing pianos using “sophisticated MIDI algorithms”. The pianos themselves – plus his Korg PS-3100 and Roland Juno-60 synths – have been captured in 15GB of

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