***Crossgrade from Celtic ERA, oder Ancient ERA, or Dark ERA to ERA II Medieval Legends
Extensive Collection of Historical Instruments
With ERA II, we take you on a sonic journey back to the Middle Ages. This library, tailor-made for the Engine Player, features an unmatched collection of over 70 historical instruments and countless atmospheric soundscapes.
Every sound was crafted by none other than Eduardo Tarilonte, one of the top sampling experts of our time. Known for groundbreaking libraries like Dark ERA, Forest Kingdom, NADA, and Quetzal, Eduardo brings his years of experience and deep understanding of historical sounds to every note in ERA II.
ERA II is your personal virtual minstrel for scoring movies, series, and fantasy games. It's also a perfect fit for genres like folk music and medieval rock. Whether you're composing epic soundtracks or weaving ancient sounds into your music, this library will transport your audience straight to the age of knights and kings.
ERA II Medieval Legends includes:
10 flutes, 8 woodwinds, 4 hunting horns, 3 brass instruments, 9 bowed strings, 13 plucked strings, 3 keyboards, 20 percussion instruments, and 1 vocal.
The Engine Player offers a user-friendly interface so you can dive right in. These sounds are designed to spark your creativity and help bring your vision to life. With detailed multisamples, multiple dynamic layers, diverse articulations, round-robin techniques, and true legato samples, ERA II provides everything you need for authentic medieval compositions.
This 22 GB library covers all the instruments and sounds needed to create a historical atmosphere. ERA II is like an immersive fantasy novel, transporting you to mystical times long past.
The Instruments:
- Brass: Cornetto, Natural Trumpet, Sackbut
- Keys: Organetto, Spinet, Virginal
- Percussion: Claps, Kettle Drum, Church Bells, Frame Drums, Hand Drums, Snares, Tambourines
- Bowed Strings: Bowed Psaltery, Fidule, Nyckelharpa, Viola de Roda, Fiddle Grooves, Hurdy Gurdy Chanters & Grooves, Tromba Marina, Viola da Gamba
- Plucked Strings: Baroque Guitar, Bass Citole, Early Renaissance Bray Harp, Early Renaissance Harp, Gittern, Gothic Harp, Langeleik, Medieval Lute, Medieval Psaltery, Beaten Psaltery, Renaissance Lute, Small Psaltery Plucked, Zither
- Voices: Tavern Singers Shouts, Tavern Singers
- Winds: 2-Hole Flute, Gemshorn, Traditional Soprano Recorder, Traditional Wooden Flute, Whistle, Wooden Transverse Flute, Renaissance Recorder (Alto, Bass, Soprano, Tenor)
- Reeds: Bagpipes, Crumhorn (Alto, Bass, Soprano, Tenor), Shawms, Bombarde, Chirimia
- War Horns: Anyafil Calls, Anyafil, Celtiberic War Horn, Shofar Calls, Shofar, War Horn
The Recordings
The recordings for ERA II were conducted in carefully selected Spanish studios, including the Infinity Studios in Madrid and Eldana Studios in Dueñas. Renowned musicians like Rinaldo Valldeperas (crumhorn, shawm, renaissance soprano recorder) and Efren López (lute, citole, psaltery) contributed their expertise.
All instruments and vocals were recorded using a Neumann U87 microphone and high-quality preamps from Avalon and Neve. This ensures the clearest and most detailed sound recordings, giving you full control over your audio. The mics were deliberately placed close to the instruments, capturing every detail without room reverb, guaranteeing the highest sound quality.
Engine Player Version 1.1 required
Editors Choce Award PAM
Best of 2015
Professional Audio Magazin
Sehr gut
MusicTech, Choice
Amazona, Sehr Gut
ERA II limited edition
The Audio Spotlight 5 stars
ERA II limited edition
Best Value Award
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Sound On Sound, 5 stars!
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Delamar, Sehr Gut
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Luc Arbogast
French musician of old instruments and a singer, songwriter. Albums: Odysseus, Oreflam, Metamorphosis, Fjall d’yr vinur, Canticum in terra, Hortus Dei, Aux portes de Sananda, Domus
Game of Thrones Main Title Theme
"In Eduardo Tarilonte’s sample libraries, especially “Era II Medieval Legends”, I have found exceptional sound quality creative tools and a huge variety of early instruments. In my work, I place big demands on quality and workflow, particularly orchestration and high quality atmospheres. It has been a huge pleasure for me to work with these powerful tools and adapt them to my musical universe."
Marcin Przybyłowicz
Composer / music director, CD Projekt RED, Soundtrack "The Witcher"
"For past few years I've lived in the land of medieval sounds, instruments and scales and I must say ERA II was perfect addition to my folk arsenal in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. It's versatility, authenticity and great detail in sound still amazes me. It's enough to say The Witcher 3 soundtrack wouldn't be the same without ERA II. Thank you Eduardo!"
Bill Brown
BMI TV Music Awards for "CSI:NY" Seasons 1-9, Canadian Video Game Awards Best Original Music, and many more.
"ERA 2 continues to inspire new sonic directions in my music, especially for the epic adventures I’m scoring currently. Eduardo meticulously recorded a lot of organic source material and created compelling, useful instruments to manipulate, customize and create with. From very human, musical performances to wild effects and everything in-between, I’m having fun creating new sonic landscapes with ERA 2 for far away imaginary lands..." -Bill Brown
TREVOR MORRIS
2 time EMMY winning composer, The Borgias, Immortals, The Scorpion King 3
"I have lived in the language of Ancient and Medieval instruments for more than a few years in my work on "The Tudors" and "Pillars of the Earth", and I can say that ERA is the best sounding, most cinematic library of its kind I have heard. An instant addition to my palette, Bravo."
CHRISTOPHE HERAL
Video Game composer of Rayman Origins, The Adventures of Tintin: The Shadow of the Unicorn among others.
"As a composer I worked last year on Rayman Origin´s, a UbiSoft Video Game. I needed to find Middle-ages Instruments to animate the World of princesses and dragons in our next project, Rayman Legend ! I found all I needed in ERA. I was really thankful to Eduardo to have succeded in making such wonderful program allowing the best playability possible. Thank you Eduardo for your wonderful work."
Rupert Gregson-Williams
Disney´s Bed Time Stories, Bee Movie, Over the Hedge, Made of Honor…
"Era has been loaded into my template, and has already proven really useful. Eduardo Tarilonte´s attention to detail is always top drawer."
Stephan Massimo Jauch
Music and TV composer
"Eduardo Tarilontes ERA Medieval Legends war mir bei der Komposition des Scores zum „Vermächtnis der Wanderhure“ von unschätzbarem Wert. Die beeindruckende Klangqualität und die intuitive Spielbarkeit dieser Auswahl mittelalterlicher Instrumente sucht Ihresgleichen."
Niel Mitra
"Faun"
"You sometimes notice that the creator of an audio library is not simply a collector of sounds who layers them in a virtual instrument. You notice, that there is an inspired artist, who knows how to create a key to virtuosity. This is what Eduardo Tarilonte has done with ERA II."
Benjamin Schwenen
Produzent der Mittelalter Rock Band "Tanzwut"
"ERA II ist eine grandios aufgenommene Library mittelalterlicher Instrumente und Soundscapes. Ein Muss für jeden Film- und Game-Komponisten. Auch für mich, als Produzent von Mittelalter-Rock ein reicher Quell an Sounds von Instrumenten, die man nicht oft in die Finger bekommt und die für das gewisse Etwas sorgen. Gut gemacht, Best Service"
Alexander Schiborr
Composer, Arranger
"On my search for an authentic sounding Medieval instruments library, I discovered Eduardo Tarilontes Libraries. I needed to create tracks for the official Kaltenberg Knights Tournament 2016 in Germany and wanted a library which has a variety of instruments with the ability to work together cohesively. Thus, I purchased ERA II - Medieval Legends. I am amazed at how great it sounds straight out of the box. It is not only a very inspiring library, sound wise, but also outstanding and brilliantly detailed, very playable, and a big time saver when your clients ask for "real" authentic sounding Middle Age instruments. This library has surpassed my expectations and I could not be happier!"
Teufel
Band "Tanzwut"
"ERA II Medieval Legends, Celtic ERA und Dark ERA sind für mich als Mittelaltermusiker und Produzent eine perfekte Grundlage für die Studioarbeit. Die Sounds der mittelalterlichen Instrumente sind authentisch und harmonisieren miteinander. Es ist eine Freude mit diesen Samplern zu arbeiten und neue Songs für meine Band Tanzwut mit Hilfe dieser beeindruckenden Klang-Bibliothek entstehen zu lassen."
Mac
- macOS 10.15 - macOS 15
- 64 bit: Stand-alone, AU, VST3, AAX (native Apple Silicon or Intel)
- RAM: 4 GB (more recommended)
Windows
- Windows 10 or newer
- 64 bit: Stand-alone, VST3, AAX
- Intel Core Processor
- RAM: 4 GB (more recommended)
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