best service Celtic ERA 2 Virtual Instrument Library (Download)
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best service Celtic ERA 2 Virtual Instrument Library (Download) Overview
The Celtic ERA 2 Virtual Instrument Library from Best Service is a comprehensive, period-specific instrument library that comes jam packed with 36 traditional Celtic wind, string, and percussion instruments, rich in detail and recorded in immaculate high-quality. With authentic phrases programmed as MIDI patterns, as well as four additional Bronze Age instruments, the cranyx, cornu, dord, and war horns, rarely heard in modern applications, this unique virtual instrument library lets you create distinctive compositions and inspiring soundscapes with ease.
These instruments were recorded with select Kahayan U47 mics and preamps in 24-bit / 44.1 kHz and performed by outstanding musicians of the Irish music scene. Designed for versatility of the modern DAW-based music production ecosystem, this library is available in AAX, AU, and VST2 plug-in formats as well as standalone operation, and comes with the ENGINE 2 Sample Player.
Versatile and Unique
A true highlight of this library are four additional instruments, unheard in any previous sample library: Cranyx, Cornu, Dord and War Horns which already existed in the bronze age. These instruments allow you to tap into unexplored sonic worlds. The instruments of this 25GB heavy library (consisting of more than 25,000 samples) are elaborated multisamples (24-bit / 44.1 kHz) with several dynamic levels, various articulations, round-robin, and real legato samples as well as dedicated glissando samples.
List of Instruments
For Celtic ERA 2 multi-instrumentalist and sampling-expert Eduardo Tarilonte meticulously captured 36 Celtic wind, string, and percussion instruments in full detail and with immaculate quality. Among them you will find catchy flutes, dreamy harps, the famous Uilleann bagpipes, and striking bodhran drums. To achieve an even greater variety, some sounds were created by recording two different instruments of the same kind. This allows you for example to play a harp duet with different sounding instruments. In addition, authentic phrases were recorded as MIDI-patterns as well as inspiring soundscapes. Naturally, the instruments are offered in all of their typical articulations with an added true legato function.
- Flutes: Asubio, Galician Ocarine, Folk Low Whistle, Folk Tin Whistle, Folk Whistle, Irish Flute, Low Whistle D, Whistle D, Wooden Low Whistle
- Pipes: Breton Bombarde, Gaida, Galician Bagpipe, Highland Pipes 1, Highland Pipes 2, Scottish Smallpipes, Uilleann Pipes
- Keys: Two Concertinas
- Strings: Two Acoustic Guitars (fingered, plucked and strummed), Irish Bouzouki (fingered, plucked and strummed), Tenor Banjo, two Celtic Harps, two Celtic Zithers, Fiddle
- Ancient Instruments: Carnyx, Cornu, Dord, War Horn
- Drums and Percussion: Bodrahn, Scottish Snare Drum, Small Skin Snare, Tom, Bass Drum
The Recording of Celtic ERA 2
The recordings for Celtic ERA 2 were made in Eldana Studios in Spanish Dueñas. All instruments were played by superb musicians from the Irish music scene:
- Martino Vacca (Uilleann Pipes, Irish Flute, Low Whistles, and Whistle)
- Karen Hickey (Fiddle)
- Carlos Martín Aires (Acoustic Guitar, Irish Bouzouki, Tenor Banjo)
- Fernando Mosquera (Highland Pipes 2, Gaida, Galician Bagpipe, Scottish Smallpipes, Wooden Low Whistle, and Asubio)
- Jean Yves Magre (Highland Pipes 1)
- Marie Agnes Magre (Breton Bombarde)
- Pablo Vergara (Bodhrans)
- Álvaro García Pichu (Scottish Drum, Skin Snare, Bass Drum, and Tom).
All instruments were recorded using selected Kahayan U47 mics and preamps as well top-notch ribbon mics. Miking was carried out intentionally close and thus without room detail. This procedure offers full control over the subsequent sculpting of the sounds and effects. Therefore, the sounds of Celtic ERA 2 can be combined with Eduardo Tarilonte’s others libraries without any difficulty.