This electronic download of the Era Medieval Legends Virtual Instrument from Best Service features over 70 instruments from the Middle Ages and early Renaissance eras. Produced by Eduardo Tarilonte, this library includes 10 distinct flutes, eight reed instruments, four war horns, three brass instruments, a plethora of psalteries (bowed, plucked, and beaten), a viola da gamba, and more, providing tools well suited for compositional, sound design, or demo purposes.
The instruments in this library are extensively multisampled and dynamically layered, allowing you to use diversely articulated, round-robin style (i.e., naturally inconsistent, as opposed to falsely uniform) tones whose legato is naturalistic and whose heft is suitable for fantasy genre soundtracks, new age compositions, and for demoing chansons, madrigals, and more. With a fast soundloading feature, Engine 2 loads instruments, samples, and effects quickly and offers direct stepping through the soundpool, facilitating sound browsing to lend a smoother workflow.
- Renaissance recorder (soprano, alto, tenor, bass)
- Traditional soprano recorder
- Traditional wooden flute
- Gemshorn
- 2-holed flute
- Tin whistle
- Wooden transverse flute
- Crumhorn (soprano, alto, tenor, bass)
- Bagpipe (A and D)
- Chirimia
- Bombarde
- Anyafil
- Shofar
- Celtiberic war horn
- Conventional war horn
- Natural trumpet
- Sackbut
- Cornetto
- Viola da Gamba (bass and tenor)
- Fidule
- Hurdy gurdy
- Viola de roda
- Bowed psaltery
- Tromba marina
- Nyckelharpa
- Fiddle grooves
- Baroque guitar
- Renaissance lute
- Renaissance small harp
- Renaissance small bray harp
- Zither
- Psaltery (beaten)
- Medieval psaltery
- Gittern
- Bass citole
- Medieval lute
- Small psaltery
- Gothic harp
- Langeleik
- Organetto
- Spinet
- Virginal
- Tavern singers
- Snares (army piccolo, execution I, execution 2, juglar, Napoleonic)
- Barbarian frame drum (I and II)
- Frame drum (stick)
- Bombo leguero
- Bumbac (high, mid, low)
- Distant drums
- Tambourine (I, II, III)
- Church bells
- Field drum
- Kettle drums
- Claps