Spitfire Audio (including LABS) announced Splice has acquired it. Splice is a modern music production company with some of the highest-quality royalty-free samples, where one million sounds are downloaded daily by a global community of 10+ million music producers and creators. Both of these companies have played a transformative role in defining the music creation landscape since their inception, making high-quality sounds more accessible for creators everywhere.
Spitfire Audio co-founder Paul Thomson and Splice CEO Kakul Srivastava met up in Air Studios this past weekend to discuss the deal:
Splice and Spitfire Audio each built platforms focused on high-quality sound, innovative software, and a goal of unlocking new levels of creative expression. And bringing Splice and Spitfire Audio together is not just about offering more sounds as it is about helping creators find the right sound at the right moment, whether it is a kick one-shot with the perfect amount of punch or a string quartet that brings a scene to life.
This partnership also lays the foundation for the next generation of creative tools: by pairing Splice’s ethical AI-powered discovery engine with Spitfire Audio’s world-class sound engine, we’re setting the stage for what’s next in music creation.
KEY QUOTES:
“First of all, I’m not going anywhere. I’m really excited about the future and about what we’re going to be able to build together. My two passions have always been, since I first started writing music commercially, creating sounds for me to use in my own music, and the actual composition work itself. So, I’m going to enjoy doing more composition work and getting fulfilment from that creativity, but also, I love making sample libraries and I love making musical tools that people can use to express their creativity. They’re both equally important to me. We’re still going to be providing perpetual licence products.”
“We have such a shared passion for the creators we serve, the values match,” adds Srivastava. “One of the things that I’ve been learning about our customers is they want more creative control, and they want Splice and the sounds that we have deeper into their workflow. We’ve been thinking about all the different ways to do that. When I think about Spitfire [Audio], the tools you’ve built, the user experience, the creative control you’ve given users, making that accessible to the Splice community will be very powerful. Most important is what we can build together. In the next six to nine months, we’re going to see some really cool new stuff coming out.”
Paul Thomson
