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Spitfire Audio – Trevor Horn
£99
>There’s no denying the status of Trevor Horn as a legendary pop producer, and one who’s long career includes a slew of tracks (often as both producer and songwriter) that are firmly ensconced on radio and streaming playlists. In many respects he is thought of as an archetypal ’80s producer, who managed to combine well-crafted songs with technologically advanced production (aided by the swift changes in the studio technology during that decade). This means, that although his discography is extremely wide and varied, there remains deep fondness and fascination for the synths and allied processing that defined his sound in that era. It is with this in mind that many potential users might come to Jupiter By Trevor Horn, a samplebased Spitfire Audio library that claims to deliver the “defining sounds of a pop icon”.
The library itself (which weighs in at nearly 50GB), makes use of Spitfire’s Mercury front-end to host the content, with presets accessed via a drop-down browser at the top of the window. The synth-engine consists of two layers, both with a standard array of shaping and tweaking controls. Each gets its own effect section as well as shared auxiliary and insert effects alongside a rhythmic gate sequencer. This means there’s quite a bit of flexibility in manipulating the underlying sample content.