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ERA II Medieval Legends - a wonderful collection of knights, princesses and dragons from a forgotten fantasy world...
The ERA II takes you on a distant journey into the medieval world, deeper than ever. Eduardo Tarilonte, creator of award-winning libraries such as Forest Kingdom, Desert Winds, Epic World and Shevannai, presents the considerably expanded version of the first edition of ERA Medieval Legends. ERA II offers an even more comprehensive selection of historical instruments. This library has the perfect instruments for film and television soundtracks with historical backgrounds, fantasy games and folk music, medieval rock and related compositions.
For ERA II, Eduardo Tarilonte created 25 new instruments, resulting in a total number of over 70 instruments, all recorded with the highest detail and quality. In addition, there are a slew of soundscapes available - all ready to use in the advanced Engine-Player and its generously expanded and specifically optimized UI.
ERA Medieval Legends II contains: 10 flutes, 8 reed instruments, 4 war horns, 3 brass instruments, 9 curved string instruments, 13 plucked string instruments, 3 keyboards, 20 percussion instruments and 1 singing voice.
ERA II seeks to capture the musical atmosphere and sound aesthetics of the medieval, incorporating those old times into the computer-based production environment. The Engine-Player's carefully programmed user interface makes this library easy to use, allowing the sounds of ERA II to inspire and reveal all the musician's creativity. ERA II is like a thrilling fantasy novel, taking musicians and composers on a journey to dark and long-forgotten times.
ERA II is fitting for different styles and genres, ranging from medieval scores with authentic instruments to fantasy music, soundtracks and new age spheres. ERA II sounds are absolutely unique and cannot be found in any other library. It has a huge variety of instruments, sounds and soundscapes that provide musicians with a complete sound compendium, leaving no sound to be desired.
ERA II instruments use extensive multisampling, dynamic layers, multiple joints, round-robin and true legato samples. The library contains 25 gigabytes of sample data, including all of the instruments and sounds from part one.
The instruments
Brass: Cornetto, Natural Trumpet and Sackbut
Keys: Organetto, Spinet & Virginal
Percussion : Palms, Kettle, Church Bells, Picture Drums, Hand Drums, Snares, Tambourines
Curved strings: Curved Psalter, Fidule , Nyckelharpa, Viola de Roda, Fiddle Grooves, Hurdy Gurdy Chanters & Grooves, Trumba Marina, Viola da Gamba
Plucked Strings: Baroque Guitar, Bass Citole, Harp Bray Early Renaissance, Early Renaissance Harp, Gittern, Gothic Harp, Langeleik, Medieval Lute, Medieval Psalter, Psalter (beaten), Renaissance Lute, Plucked Small Psalter and Sitar
Voices : Screams of tavern singers, tavern singers
Winds : 2 flutes with orifice, Gemshorn, traditional soprano recorder, d flute and traditional wood, whistle, wooden transverse flute, renaissance recorder (alto, bass, soprano and tenor)
Reeds: Bagpipes, Crumhorn (Alto, Bass) , Soprano and Tenor), Shawls, Bombarde, Chirimia
War Horns : Anyafil Calls, Anyafil, Celtiberic War Horn, Shofar Calls, Shofar & War Horn
The recordings
The recordings for ERA II took place in several selected Spanish studios, such as Infinity Studios of Madrid and Eldana Studios in Dueñas, just to name a few. In addition, several talented musicians contributed their skills to the project, such as Rinaldo Valldeperas (crumhorns, shawms, Renaissance soprano recorder), Efren López (Gittern, Bass Citole, Medieval Psalter, Medieval Lute), Cecilia Nocilli, Lorena Porres and many others.
All instruments and voices were recorded using a Neumann U87 microphone accompanied by high quality preamps selected from manufacturers such as Avalon and Neve. The instruments were intentionally captured with close microphone techniques, avoiding unwanted room input to give users full control over the following sound shaping process and additional effects.
