London, U.K. (November 11, 2026)—Spitfire Audio has released Eternity, its third sample library created in collaboration with Grammy Award-winning composer and conductor Eric Whitacre, capturing the ambient electronic sound palette behind his latest album.
Eternity marks the first time Spitfire Audio has developed a flagship sample library alongside the recording of a live album—Eternity in an Hour, released on Decca Classics in October—as part of one large-scale creative project. Produced by Spitfire’s principal producer Harry Wilson in the same sessions and with the same machines as he recorded the album, the Eternity library draws directly from Whitacre’s creative process, capturing the composer’s evolving relationship with synthesizers, his choral writing and his lifelong relationship with the piano, including the family instrument on which he composed some of his earliest pieces.
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Eternity gives composers access to the sounds that shaped the album, from dissolved and transformed choral vocals to organic synth textures and expansive sound design. It includes more than 200 presets and five signal chains built around Whitacre’s own rig, opening up new ways to explore the sonic world of Eternity in an Hour.
Eternity is the first collaborator Spitfire Audio library within Splice Instrument, a unified player with thousands of instruments from Splice and Spitfire Audio.
Eternity in an Hour marks both a personal and musical shift for Whitacre. An hour-long work for choir, cello, piano and live electronics, it was composed from four lines of Willam Blake poetry, and is the first of his compositions to place synthesizers at its center.
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The sample library captures elements of that palette, including sonic stems and textures from Whitacre’s own instruments and effects. Among its collection of many unusual and interesting synthesizers and effect sources is a Soma Lyra-8 synthesizer, which became a central part of Whitacre’s creative world during lockdown. The library also includes deep samples of his grandmother’s piano, an upright Ludwig & Co instrument bought by his great-grandfather in 1903 and kept in the family ever since.
