Spitfire Albion Colossus [First Look]

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

Take 2!

[@christiaantinga]

I can never get enough of this. The combination of: 1. Learning, 2. Write: 3. Inspiration, and most of all is number 4: Playful and humorous approach. Guy, you are LEGENDDDD :)

[@Evangelionism]

Your day doesn't get much better than a brand-new Guy Michelmore video.

[@TheUnderscore_]

Especially about a brand-new orchestra VST

[@SickickMusic]

Love this guy 💜

[@ArQBeats]

I didn't expect to see you here 💀

[@brentwitten3237]

I just bought this yesterday at a nice discount. A very nice collection. Spitfire gets my money again but worth every penny. Keeps me entertained for days. I only have one of the Albions along with their Chamber Strings and BBC Orch. Good to see you Guy! You always brighten up my day.

[@CristinaMarshal]

Rarely do I find channels more enjoyable than your good one Guy!

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

Thank you :)

[@BillyHayes79Music]

I concur

[@rohanwalker2404]

Dear Mr Michaelmore - you have my sincere gratitude for your teachings. You are a genius. You have my deep thanks.

[@RobertRodriguezMusic]

Must have been a long week for you Guy 😂 Fantastic video as always!

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

I know -Oh well!

[@FamilyFun3132]

Guy, you're just amazing sir. I always find your videos interesting and engaging, and without a doubt humorously entertaining.😊 I learn something new from you every time! Thank you for taking the time to share with all of us your creativity perfectly mixed in with teaching.

[@FamilyFun3132]

@Guy_Michelmore Thank you 🙏 Absolutely! I will do that right now.

[@FamilyFun3132]

@Guy_Michelmore Hello, Guy. I'm on a mobile device. I'm not seeing the address, sir.

[@Markisbeatz355]

Hi Michelmore! I want to thank you a lot I learned cubase in 30 minutes with ONLY YOUR HELP! I was searching for some videos and i found you. I am so happy to learn producing music but it isn't that hard for me( i am pianist). So, thank you a lot for your effort and I also really like your explanation.See you next time bye!

[@bennycole1257]

Guy… putting out the video early. It’s a bit on-brand, and I mean that in the best way possible. It’s this kind of relatable fumbling that keeps me coming back week after week. I don’t wanna see the guy that has it all figured out, stoic, and such. I want to see the guy that’s excited, digging in for the first time, making discoveries as he goes. Great as always. Cheers, mate!

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

Well flakey I can do!

[@clydesight]

You have such a great presentation style! I love watching your videos!

[@josiahsimmons9866]

Really exciting that we have our first Albion in their own engine! I'm seriously thinking about getting this. I really love their plugin. It always looks great, it's easier to navigate and resize than Kontakt... Definitely an exciting library! And the scale slider that fades between the symphonic and chamber orchestra? Genius!!!

[@sandwich-breath]

Yup. All the fuss from the toxic spitfire fanboys was all nonsense. I enjoy using their GUI and find it easy to use and intuitive. I just wish there was a global settings menu for start up templates.

[@RobinsMusic]

Im on M1 mac and I use logic pro and I have a lot of issues with the spitfire engine sadly :/ but aside from that its very userfriendly

[@idontgivea1769]

Too bad it’s an awful Albion

[@HewWagner]

Guyyyy I think you might have put this vid out early 😲😲

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

I really did..... now a week on

[@joshgiesbrecht]

Oh my this got chaotic very quickly 😂 first time watcher, and probably the fastest I've ever subbed to anyone. Sounded great, and love your sense of humor.

[@BF-up5xw]

'A big, low, wodgy mess'. I resemble that remark. But I don't want my mixes to do so too! Thanks for another great walkthrough. Early, on time, late - time moves on and it doesn't matter anymore! It's lovely to watch you work; you sound a bit poorly though, in this video! If so, I hope you are feeling better now.

[@tomsocha]

It only took me about ten minutes of watching your video before Spitfire had my money. Absolutely one of the best libraries I have used. Will you be sharing your Cubase template or offer for sale?

[@SamuelMaurin]

Love the teary eyes and the trembling - full of emotion - voice at the end, could it be the sign of an artist carried away by his own creation ?

[@NachtmahrTV]

5:52 Doug and Carrie, Doug and Carrie, Doug and Carrie, Doug and Carrie 😁 Love it. Your workflow is so inspiring

[@PASINC]

Great, Mr. Guy. Thanks again for sharing your talent.

[@JakobHeidelberg]

Thank you, Guy. Love & respect from Copenhagen ❤

[@outdoorsinontario3037]

Love it! Hyped up stuff! Good personality too!

[@egosystem9959]

I always keep a clean new 2 inch paint brush in the studio. It's a great tool for quickly dusting off all the studio gear.

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

The shed…. In the garden it’s a lost cause keeping the dust at bay

[@yadinmichaeli12]

Hello Guy,i just love your personality and attributes you really makes watching tutorials with a fun mood! please dont stop!Hello Guy,i just love your personality and attributes you really makes watching tutorials with a fun mood! please dont stop!

[@CB-Music]

Thanks for the nice walkthrough, looks interesting for sure. Big sounds!

[@Ahmad-Mounir44]

The "where I am ahu heu where are we going heh heu ...hmm" at 19:22 really got me 🤣🤣🤣🥰

Sorry for swearing, but JESUS FUCKING CHRIST that guitar bit with dive and reverse soooo musically sexy. Goosebumps. I wondered if you can combine rock elements with symphony. Yeah, I know about symphony rock etc, but my word... This particular combination is out of the world. Wowzers!

[@theblacksmith2112]

Am I the only one thinking: Doug and Carrie, Doug and Carrie…? Nice one, Guy! It always improves my mood watching one of your videos.

[@ramonf.9217]

Great review, thanks guy.

[@LindaMissad]

COOL! Thanks, Guy

[@jayhunthuntcreative]

That was very useful and creative - Thank you

[@jamiegrayson3739]

Hi there from Perth Australia, love your vids…. Briliant

[@dannel273]

Missed you Guy!

[@mmoore4456]

The Snakes of Russia sounds in this library make it totally worth it

[@mmoore4456]

@@dinopolesesharkosaur I've been urging the same thing. Joseph does produce some damn good sample packs.

[@AdGameRr]

Great video! One advise maybe; try to mute or a least lower your mic volume when you’re playing so the sound of your keyboard doesn’t mask what you are actually playing. Cheers

[@ronricherson6685]

I have a about 10 Spitfire libraries, including 2 Albions but this one didn't grab me for some reason. It does seem to have some thoughtful features though.

[@HOBBITSODYSSEY]

This is the tamest Colossus I have heard.

[@larswillsen]

Bravo young man!! :D

[@recreationalsoundslab3451]

Thanks for sharing. We are looking for more tutorials and ideas.

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

Yes more coming shortly

[@edwinpickett13]

2:37 Guy: Oh guitars longs Colossus: Plays GM Distorted Guitar from 1983 Guy: Anyway....

[@MamaSymphonia]

I don't even remember this library being announced xD

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

Couple of days ago

[@nightfrightshow]

last summer when you were melting in the UK I had commented we go from +40 to -40 in Kingston Canada (on the great lake Ontario) Never being one to lie we have reached that epic temp of -40c tonight. brrrrr. Why my great-grandfather who immigrated form Birmingham came to Montreal and not California I don't know. Must have come in July. Best.

[@bestOskarEverxD]

Interesting :) I though he is a plain Cubase user. Are you transitioning to Logic or just enjoy to use both / explore ?

[@LAghemo]

I always love your video, whatever the subject is! Oh... about subjects, I have a proposition: what about making a series of video teaching the standard solutions for scoring a scene? I'm talking about the clichè, what one usually shouldn't do, but you have to know them to avoid them. And sometimes, let's be honest, you might even have to use them because that's what the director want! What I mean is something like "...to score a love scene the typical approach is a major diatonic scale played by strings..." followed by a demonstration. This could be done for different kind of scenes, like "love scene", "sad scene", "thriller/tension", bla bla. I know you already did something similar in the past, but not under the viewpoint of composition/harmony approach and not in a organized way. I hope I've been able to explain what I mean in my faulty and clumsy English language. Then, of course, you might answer that this is one of the subjects in your Master Degree courses... it would probably make sense! Still, asking is free, isn't it? 🙂

[@144digital]

😂😂 I knew I saw this video before... 😂 😂 😂... Great video...

[@AmanBansil]

hah! ok to fix the shed dirt issue, just get a simple Winix type of an air purifier (even used one but focus on one that can push a lot of air around). Customize the filter by adding some additional cheap filters to take out dust...that will take care of that shed nicely.

[@MichaelNight]

Guy, thanks for your videos! Let’s assume someone has a ton, ton, TOOONNN of diverse epic and non-epic orchestral classic and cinematic instrument, guitar VSTs and percussion libraries, does this library give a musician something he couldn’t have previously, or is it all about convenience and ease of use in such a case? This is an amazing product, I’m just not certain if I need it.

[@es__music]

Same boat. Definitely don't need it. I could put a saturator and a sub behind my strings on my own haha

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

Do you need it? No but neither do I yet today I was using it in an animation project because it was.... the sound I needed. But then I do this for a living so its a different equation

[@MichaelNight]

@@ThinkSpaceEducation I know exactly what you mean. Same reason a guitar player might have a dozen guitars or a guy like me might have hundreds of thousands of synths, some of which may sound “close enough” to another ear, but to me, do not have the exact same “oomph.”

[@mista8084]

That instrumental you made would be awesome as the intro music for someones KZbin channel. The intro music for the start of every video.

[@djnudo6709]

2:34 Three years of Playstation memories in 2 seconds.

[@tserke]

Dark Knight Vibes! Love it!

[@apple11117]

I absolutely love you content guy, it has helped me tremendously. I am going to be studying music composition next year in a university, and I wanted to see if you could recommend a keyboard that would be compatible with daws and other "music gear" that would be somewhat affordable? My last keyboard broke and I am looking for one that will last me a while and that I will be able to use as I advance more in my music. Thank you again for making this content!

[@JesuisParte]

you can't do anything wrong with the Native Instruments midi keyboards. best daw integration in my opinion. just as you are new to that field be aware of the fact that they are midi keyboards what means you need a daw with a library to get sound.

[@apple11117]

@@JesuisParte ok, thank you very much this is very helpful.

[@HellbellyUK]

Those flutes are somewhere between "Live and Let Die" and "Some Mothers do 'Ave 'em" :)

[@joshgiesbrecht]

I want to get into orchestral composing very soon, what's a good fundamental library to have? Should I go for Albion One, or something like Colossus? (haven't watched vid yet so maybe that will be answered lol). I'll probably get a few over time, but want a good starting point (preferably less than $500).

[@sonicshaman9418]

Any clue why Spitfire insists on making every single one of their products at such a LOW recorded volume that you can barely hear it? For years I have to push any Spitfire instrument channel by at least 8db just to get it loud enough to work with (compared to other non-Spitfire instruments).

[@primermag]

I’ve had the same issue and assumed it’s bc I don’t know something haha. Like an expectation to put compression or something

[@tillsommerdrums]

I’ve read something about the different articulations not being able to change fluidly like with Albion One. So I can’t play a part and then choose which of the notes is a long, a legato, a spiccato etc. I have to load a new instance of Colossus for every different articulation. Is that true ? And wouldn’t that be super annoying ? Makes much more sense to me that you can change it like in Albion One.

[@reakapho]

When that guitar came in. 🤯😁

[@cmvb]

Legend.

[@themissinglink7126]

So much of this you could do yourself with their other libraries and synth patches that you build.

[@TomKilworth]

I agree. I wonder if this is more a time-saving tool than an indispensable set of sounds

[@AshleyKampta2]

This is basically Spitfire's version of Metropolis Ark, then, right? Actually, it's kinda like if Metropolis Ark and Heavyocity Damage had a British frankenbaby.

[@iustingalea1547]

About the library, not much to say,, unfortunately, but about the dust on your keyboard, a decksaver save you, even in that beautifull studio you have :)

[@sillypookmonster]

Thank you for the video, this looks really interesting, even if I don't think it would fit my needs. Do you have any recommendations for someone looking to step up from BBC Discovery? I'd like more articulations and instrument choice, but it's hard to know where to start and my budget isn't huge.

[@dilzaaaa]

I think the first thing to do is let us know your budget. A low budget can mean different things for different people.

[@VintageModernRemixes]

Well I just finished paying off the BBC Symphony Orchestra plugin... looks like this one's next!

Wait, is not in the Spitfire page yet! How did you get it?

[@friedrichgattermann]

Seems like a mistake. This video shouldn’t be listed as „public“ yet 😅

@@friedrichgattermann 🤭

[@reindeerman214]

Do you stream anywhere? Would be awesome to see you hold a workshop or create something in real time or along with your viewers. Thanks for another great video!

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

I do to my MA students but I should do some more on here - have done in the past so thanks for the reminder

[@nicholasbinder5593]

might be a leak. but it has worked its magic, I‘m gonna buy it

[@BrunoBizarro]

Owning OT Ark 1, 2 , 3 and 4, EW CC and Albion One, for example, do we need this?

[@frankiehands]

Are the instruments slow to load for anyone else? I have 64GB of RAM and all my samples on a T7 external SSD. It's the first samples I've ever purchased to have such a lag anytime I load a new patch.

[@Guitarwizardjoinme]

Did you switch to Logic from Cubase?

[@M4T]

I believe this new library serves a purpose: big sound. What about RR? The demos I've heard gave me a strange feeling... However, blending other Spitfire orchestral libraries I always have with some EW forbidden planet brilliant patches+ some distorsion may lead so a similar result. I think this is a good product when you need a first libray focused on Epic/Hybrid... I pass ... Respectfully !

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

I think this one works best in the company of other libraries - it has quite a distinctive sound and if its all Colossos it can be a bit much

[@Ahmad-Mounir44]

Yes Stephane, this library is mainly intended for epic hybrid/trailer stuff more than the traditional classical sound. I believe it will work very well with most aggressive hybrid orchestral/synth libs such as ProjectSam Pandora, Metropolis Ark 1 and most Heavyocity products indeed.

[@minder01]

You know it'll be loud when the stereo out is already in the red before Guy even had pressed record.

[@KOCMOKOT800]

Bravo!

[@LonnonFoster]

Epic Celesta is my new band name.

[@sacitp]

Greetings from turkey...we love you

[@dafingaz]

Let’s go!

[@david_schneider]

exclusive walkthrough? ;)

[@josiahsimmons9866]

How similar to Heavyocity's Punish is the hype slider? Seems like it's similar to that, which is really cool!

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

Punish is a very powerful distortion plug-in probably the best

[@mista8084]

I've had the same issues with insane amounts of dust collecting on my gear, my keyboard, computer, MPC X etc. Do yourself a favor mate and throw some towels over your keyboards etc. when they're not in use and you'll never have to deal with the dusty keys and electronics again! All you need is a few bath towels and your gear will thank you later!

[@NickWendelsGuitarLessons]

Hey Guy, what do you really think about this libary?

[@drew6524]

Bottom right is a transpose function

[@PAL-MUSIC-1]

Hey Guy Autograph Grand by Labs is pretty good if you've tried it??

[@fuglbird]

UK is well known for it's irony - but only if you live there. We who don't live in the UK but only visited 15 times between 1978 and 2015 feel that irony is less used in the UK than in the real world.

[@snoww2009]

Hello, my question is when making music using these plugins, who owns the copyright? Also, it seems with these plugins, anyone can make music, even for someone like me who has zero knowledge in music theory. Is this a good thing or bad thing? I mean if I made some great music, people would expect me to know how to play at least a few musical instrument, but in reality I know nothing. Will I disappoint them? Is this cheating? 😅

[@axonathan]

Oops...I don't think this video will be up for long

[@elieh.studio]

Hey Guy, how does Logic compare to Cubase? Would love a video about that

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

Good idea

[@elieh.studio]

@@ThinkSpaceEducation Hurrayyy ✨

[@nitemare3904]

5:53 Doug and Carrie, Doug and Carrie

[@victoza9232]

Guy, what software would I have to already have in order to use this? What do you use?

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

Any DAW as it comes with its own player

[@ivansimonov6076]

Amazing. and also, can you teach anyone else how to make 20th century (fox) studios fanfare?

[@Lasidar]

Spitfire Audio: Albion Ark 1

[@MarcShake]

I am going to watch this, although I think it's somehow a leak 🤣

[@the_real_kieganjones9932]

Same it’s gonna be gone if I leave I’m sure

[@steph1918]

That ostinato in the beginning reminds me of Rammstein.

[@quantumcadillac4748]

ur hilarious. great demo!

[@scb1620]

@Guy Michelmore Could you please do something about the "you've won a prize" scammers on your channel. They are becoming a real nuisance and put people off commenting on your great content.

[@melchisedekj]

awsome beard!🫡🙌🏿

[@MartinJG100]

Looks like it's a hungry resource beast. PS - 3:35. Absolutely, Guy. Good for you. 7:18. Peeps need to get used to our dirty irony in the UK, well, what's left of it anyway.

[@gianandrelubin]

nice

[@MrEMann]

Can you please post a video on how you set this up in cubase? I see you using logic which is not helpful for us non Apple users. I like how you have all the parts etc. Thanks.

[@MrEMann]

@Guy_Michelmore spammers get reported. Bye 👋

[@MooseMalarkey]

Look at all that RAM gobbled up

[@wacomoyenga8329]

🔥🔥

[@DVaderOfMusic]

This library feels very underwhelming… the orchestra sounds worse than Albion One, i feel like all the synths its has you could find better ones in other libraries (Analog Brass and Woodwinds for epic brass and woodwinds), so I dont see how I could justify the price tag or even something worth using. Even the guitars you could just get Dystopian Guitars for some really epic stuff.

[@minder01]

Agreed. Albion is supposed to be “Out of the box ready to go all you need” but now we’re up to what? Six Albions?

[@TiagoNugentComposer]

I feel like spitfire forgot that you need the players to play loud *before* you add processing.

[@minder01]

@@TiagoNugentComposer Spitfire will always post process like hell. Samples aren't ever really dry and always got some odd artifacts in them. Spitfire woodwinds tend to be really great though.

[@TiagoNugentComposer]

@@minder01 their samples aren't dry because they record in Air Lyndhurst lol. if you look at the studio series, they're way drier because they were recorded in a much drier space. Spitfire doesn't really post process outside of libraries like Colossus.

[@minder01]

​@@TiagoNugentComposer Not to be rude but I imagine you posted that thinking that's the reason. It is not. AIR's flagship hall is vast yes, but it's not that wet. Especially noticeable with ERs which the hall should have in spades. They ought to be upfront, like all the real sessions recorded there. However, they're not in Spitfire products sampled at that hall. BBCSO core is most notable in this regard because Maida Vale is a bespoke studio, yet I've found it to be as wet as Lyndhurst without the muddled reflections. Worthy of note that stages are much drier than you'd think. Spitfire sample just like a session would be recorded, yet none of the locales they sample at reflect that. Sony, the largest stage on the planet, is crisp and clear. Outriggers alone from Cinesamples are drier than the close mics on BBCSO, that just shouldn't be possible. Additionally, The studio series were sampled at Lyndhurst and they're equally as processed maybe even worse than some of the Albions. Edits* "noticeable"

[@jhardindrums]

Wouldn’t this be the second look now?

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

Ha ha! very true