Review by Jordan Killiard Edited by Sam Dudley Price: £599 inc. vat Developer: Spitfire Audio Spitfire Chamber Strings has risen out of the ashes of Spitfire’s original Sable series. Released back in 2013, Sable was a modular library beginning Spitfire’s British Modular Library (BML) series, released in five volumes, including specially created ensemble
Author: Jordan Killiard
Jordan is a composer and sound designer based in the south west of England. After studying a for a BSC in Electronic Music at the University of Hertfordshire, Jordan delayed getting a real job for another year by getting a MA in Post Production: Sound Design from the University of Bournemouth in 2005.
Starting in a small post production studio in Edinburgh, Jordan worked on everything from ADR for Hollywood movies, to adverts for local furniture shops.
In 2007, Jordan moved down to foggy London and worked as a Studio Manager for a small company specialising in spoken word recordings, before going freelance in 2015.
He has written music for dozens of children’s audio books by authors such as Julia Donaldson, Neil Gaiman and many more. Jordan also writes commercial library music and his tracks have appeared several times on ITV1.
Website: jordankilliard.com
Twitter: www.twitter.com/Killiard
Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/jordankilliard
iCON iKeyboard 8x Review
Review by: Jordan Killiard Edited by Katie Tarrant Price: £200 Developer: iCON Pro Audio Distributor: Synthax Audio Reviewed on: Cubase 9.5, Windows 10 The iCON iKeyboard 8x is a new addition to the most under-looked of composer's tools - the 88 key semi-weighted keyboard. There's not a lot of them out there and none seem to
Pro Sound Effects – European Capitals
Review by: Jordan Killiard Edited by: Jake Basten Price: $449 US Developer: Pro Sound Effects Reviewed on: Pro Tools 2018, Mac Pro 5,1 Back in 2016, The Sound Architect's own Doug Waters reviewed the Hybrid Sound Effects Library from Pro Sound Effects, calling it "an absolutely amazing collection of recordings and created sound effects
Umlaut Audio Motors Review
Review by Jordan Killiard Edited by Katie Tarrant Price: $99 US Developer: Umlaut Audio Reviewed on: Mac Pro 5.1 Back in June 2017, I reviewed Umlaut Audio's uBeat bundle. I liked its customisable features and how it encouraged you to make the supplied pads and loops your own through use of FX. Now Umlaut Audio
BAFTA Conversations with Screen Composers: John Powell
Article by Jordan Killiard Edited by Katie Tarrant Host: Tommy Pearson Venue: Royal Albert Hall BAFTA's popular and long running Conversations with Screen Composers series, hosted by composer Tommy Pearson, has previously had such guests as Anne Dudley, Clint Mansell, James Horner, Michael Giacchino, George Fenton and Patrick Doyle. Following these illustrious predecessors,
Krotos Reformer Review
Review by Jordan Killiard Edited by Katie Tarrant Price: Free sample download with paid add-ons Developer: Krotos Reviewed on: Pro Tools on Mac Pro Most of our readers will be aware of the name Krotos, due largely to the success of the Edinburgh based company’s monster-making tool Dehumaniser (see our review here). Well, Krotos
Umlaut Audio uBeat Bundle Review
Review by Jordan Killiard Edited by Katie Tarrant Price: $199 US Developer: Umlaut Audio Reviewed on: Mac Los Angeles based Umlaut Audio originally began creating custom Kontakt libraries for composers such as Danny Elfman, Harry Gregson-Williams and John Debney, but soon they started to offer commercial libraries to the masses. Their first commercial libraries Pads and Arps were very