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Brand: Spitfire Audio
Recorded at AIR Studios with 123 world-class musicians
Spitfire Symphony Orchestra places the definitive sound of modern cinema at your fingertips. From the whisper of a solo flute to the thunder of a full symphonic brass section, command the same gold-standard palette used by the world’s most celebrated composers. A comprehensive collection of curated ensembles, strings, brass, woodwinds, harp, piano and percussion, performed by world-class musicians and recorded in breathtaking detail in the legendary acoustics of AIR Studios’ Lyndhurst Hall.
Our longest-running and bestselling orchestra, SSO has been updated twice in 2025 with the addition of Solo Strings and most recently Motif Brass: three new ensembles that deliver the bold, thematic sound at the heart of cinema’s most iconic scores, adding unmistakable power, colour, and definition to your music.
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Amazing product with great sounds and brilliant to use
Have enjoyed using this so far and the interface is easy to use.
I use SSO in combination with Dorico which gives me a more realistic outcome than my former work with Dorico and Noteperformer. However it cost me a lot of time and effort to make everything work together without the reliable and timesaving help of Noteperformer.
Awesome!!!
Decent quality -
Hands down one of the best libraries I own! Not much else to say. It's brilliant, get it!
They have the download servers all f'd up, it takes an ETERNITY to download; at least 3-4 weeks. So, unfortunately I can't even properly review it because it's impossible to download. Notably, there are free string libraries like Vienna which sound good, hopefully this will download in the next dew days as I am wondering if I will need to ask for a refund. Hopefully the product is at least decent as the demos online would suggest.
Inspiration for big dreams
Using this library has been so much fun! Ideas tend to leave my brain as soon as they get in there, so to have a library where I can rapidly throw instruments where they need to be is just perfect! The legatos are so smooth :) I like to go back to my old orchestrations sometimes just to update them to SSO
A true game-changer for cinematic composition As an experienced user of Albion One, I’ve always loved its epic cinematic sound and the unmistakable character of AIR Studios Lyndhurst Hall. Now, I’ve come to a point where I need more granular control over each orchestral section while keeping that same iconic room sound. That’s exactly what I found with Spitfire Symphonic Orchestra. This library is a true game-changer for me. I now have full control over every section, along with all the microphone positions I need to shape the mix exactly the way I want. It keeps the same beautiful cinematic depth but offers the flexibility required for more detailed orchestration. If you love the Albion sound but want complete control, this is the perfect step forward.
Great orchestral selection, with all the articulations and mike positions I could ever need. Useful ensemble patches for basic idea sketching. It’ll take a while for me to work through what’s available here.
Before buying Spitfire Symphony Orchestra, I was a SPLICE subscriber. I used BBC Symphony Orchestra and really liked its user interface. After using it for a month, I decided to purchase the Spitfire Symphony Orchestra library. When I realized the user interface wasn't the same as the BBC library, I thought I'd get used to it. But my reasoning was flawed. I can't really get used to Kontakt Player. There are so many settings to configure. Furthermore, for reasons I can't explain, Kontakt Player 8 doesn't have the features of the full version and I can't afford to buy it. The feedback I'm writing here is based on my experience.
I've been using this library for a week now and only have been composing slow movements. However, I really love the warm, flexibel sound and cohesiveness. It is a perfect blend between a classic and filmic orchestral sound. Don't know how the faster action stuff holds, but for now I just love the result. As for the GUI workflow it is very clear and smooth. I'm using big orchestral templates and there I notice that SSO takes a lot of RAM. Thereby some of the samples do have some glitches or do not correspond toautomationas I expect. However, I think this was a really good move from Spitfire, rolling out this upgraded version of their former SSO flagship. I used to be a huge BBCSO Pro user, but SSO might take it's place soon.
Ne l'ayant pas encore reçu, je ne peux rien en dire de personnel
I had been using another orchestral library that proved to have some frustrating quirks, especially WRT the way the different articulations interact with velocity and modulation making it tough for me to create lines that mixed staccato and legato notes. I found SSO to be much more intuitive, especially the performance patches.
affordable and works extremely well.
I mean, what can I say. It's just gorgeous.
Sound quality blows my previous library away. It’s hyper realistic and lush. I am disappointed however that a library of this caliber doesn’t have a dedicated staccato articulation. I’m having to use layering tricks with my older cheaper inferior library because even that one has staccato and SSO does not. That’s frustrating. It’s also pretty CPU heavy. I guess that’s expected with the baked in reverb and realism. But it’s still a factor to consider. I still rate this 4 stars because the sound quality and rich tone are very impressive and it came with virtually everything that you need to make professional sounding orchestral scores for in my opinion a very fair price. (I also got it at a discount which Spitfire seems to regularly do).
The Spitfire Symphony Orchestra on sale is a great deal. It comes with more instruments than BBC Core and more dynamic layers, which equals greater realism. Plus, it’s baked in reverb is natural sounding and adds a beautiful bloom to one’s projects. Highly recommended!