Spitfire Audio: Contemporary Drama Toolkit

[Guy Rowland]

Contemporary Drama Toolkit is a broadcast-ready sound set, expertly curated and produced by award-winning composer Samuel Sim and our team of composers, to help you score to picture without the theory — without compromising on emotion. Across 72 individual instrument patches and 44 combinations, expression is baked into each sound, leaving you to focus on your music instead of software menus.

Much like the massively successful British Drama Toolkit, CDT’s sound palette is thoughtfully curated. Originating in a masterful blending of its source material — mellow, chorus tones of a Juno 6, iconic MS–20 textures, vocalisations, and inspiring lead lines performed on guitar, electric cello, and electric violin — all processed via an enviable collection of analog effects, vintage pedals, and Eurorack modules. Everything from whispered textures and bold melodies blossom from the simplest variance in playing, unlocking a world of sound in every patch.

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This looks and sounds really good, I like the key velocity based-approach and it sounds spot on. The biggest downside is that I think it will be so easy to make things work here for modern scoring, it might well produce a lot of a samey cliched scores. But there's no arguing this looks a very well conceived and executed product to me.

[wst3]

So far I have to say I like what I hear. I have the British Drama Toolkit and it is fun, and provides inspiration, although the workflow is still somewhat foreign to me. I imagine CDT will be similar. Not sure I need another oddball library, but I will be watching for reviews.