Tutti is not using Spitfire Audio's own sample player, but uses Kontakt's free Player. Tutti's GUI is svery clean and allows you to see all essential parameters at a glance.

Tutti in classical music means "all and together", so everyone is playing and often, more unified than in other orchestral arrangements. Tutti can be a tricky concept for a sample bank--especially for an ensemble of the size of an orchestra. Do you create pre-orchestrated swells, chords and other building blocks with the focus on color and details or do you focus on the full-orchestra and tutti sections with more playability in mind? Tutti does the full-orchestra with a lot less fiddling and more playable straightaway.

There are five patches with the Orchestra patch being essentially, the tutti patch. It comes in three articulations with the pre-orchestrated patch including an xylophone attack which, for me, limits its usefulness.

I would usually pick the Woodwind, Brass and String patch to gives me a sense of a full orchestra, without the xylophone. Brass and Strings and Woodwinds and Strings are the other big tutti sections which sound great immediately. The dynamic range seems a little more limited than in other libraries, but this is a nod to its fast playability.

The Percussion patch comes with four sub-patches. The Drums & Metals patch is powerful and very useful and matches the weight of the other tutti sections. It cuts through and adds size. The Conga & Snares patch is a useful combination patch that needs a little attention while playing it, as I experienced some phasing at times.

With Tutti, I was able to improvise expressive sketches and score elements quickly with a very polished sound. I liked switching off the close mics and adding a little extra reverb to obtain a very convincing film-scoring orchestra that sits appropriately behind dialog.

Spit Fire Audio's Tutti sells for $99 MSRP and for much more about it, go to: Spitfire Tutti

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