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Ethno Instruments Forest Kingdom II Play Track $259

Ancient sounds from ancient civilizations

Forest Kingdom II, the sequel of the award winning Best Service sample library Forest Kingdom by Eduardo Tarilonte, creator of “Era”, “Desert Winds” , “Epic World” and many more.
Forest Kingdom II is a unique sample library inspired by Nature. It is the sound of forests and jungles and the sound of Mother Nature in one magic sample library!

Bigger than ever, Forest Kingdom II offers 300 patches, 430 unique MIDI files and 12.665 individual samples, more than 11 GB of flutes, harps, percussion, fantasy creatures, voices and sonic landscapes.
Never before sampled wind instruments recall ancient times, unheard percussion instruments inspire with a deep and authentic, ethnic sound.
Deep in the magic forest you will find natural instruments, deeply sampled true legato, portamento, round robin and multiple ornaments all playable in real time.

Forest Kingdom II is the perfect tool for composers and sound designers creating ambiences for films, documentaries, video games, new age music or anything else.
Besides many new instruments, patches, MIDI grooves and soundscapes Forest Kingdom II includes the complete Forest Kingdom (I).

Many features like true legato, instrument loading times and RAM usage were improved and the original Forest Kingdom patches were revised and updated to match the new ones.

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Ethno Instruments Ethno World 6 Instruments Play Track $259

The ultimate Sample-library for Ethnic Instruments from all over the World
ETHNO WORLD 6 Instruments is the summit of a library that has continuously been growing and improving for over 16 years. In this sixth edition, numerous new instruments with a volume of several gigabytes have been added to the library.

Marcel Barsotti
Award-winning film composer Marcel Barsotti (e. g. Pope Joan, The Miracle of Bern) has gathered a gigantic selection of instruments from all over the word from widely varying cultures.

ETHNO WORLD 6 Instruments now consists of 264 instruments, with roughly 620 patches, 10 construction sets and 5 shaker sets. For the most authentic sound, the instruments were recorded with different play techniques that can easily and precisely be accessed from the patches via key-switches. The library consists of 24.7 gigabytes (uncompressed) of sample data and 23,559 samples. All instruments come in 24 bit and 44.1 kHz.

Over 70 musicians from all over world were involved in the recording process, conducted by music-producer Andreas Hofner. The recordings took place in different local studios with the use of first-class gear such as microphones by Neumann and Brauner, SPL preamplifiers and converters by RME.

ETHNO WORLD 6 Instruments comprises an incredible spectrum of instruments from the most diverse regions of Asia, Africa, Europe, North- and South-America. Here, you will find the perfect instruments for folkloric, ethnic as well as for modern music.

Library size ~ 15 GB (using Kontakt´s lossless compression)
Kontakt / Kontakt Player 5.6 or newer required!

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Ethno Instruments Ethno World 6 Voices Play Track $259

The ultimate Sample-library for ethnic Voices from all over the World
ETHNO WORLD 6 Voices is the summit of a library that has continuously been growing and improving for over 16 years. Never before was there such a comprehensive and high-quality library of ethnic voice recordings. ETHNO WORLD 6 Voices sets new standards for the musical use of ethnic voices. Never before, was there a library that was comprehensive, of perfect sound and yet innovative to play.

Award-winning film composer Marcel Barsotti (e. g. Pope Joan, The Miracle of Bern) has gathered a gigantic selection of solo-voices, phrases and choirs from all over the word and widely varying cultures.

ETHNO WORLD 6 Voices consists of approximately 177 patches with solo-voices, phrases and choirs. The library consists of 8,68 gigabytes (uncompressed) of sample data and 5,230 samples. All recordings come in 24 bit and 44.1 kHz.

Singers from all over world were involved in the recording process, conducted by music-producer Andreas Hofner. The recordings took place in different local studios with the use of first-class gear such as microphones by Neumann and Brauner, SPL preamplifiers and converters by RME.

Library size ~ 7 GB (using Kontakt´s lossless compression)
Kontakt / Kontakt Player 5.6 or newer required!

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Ethno Instruments Epic World Play Track $199

Magical athmopsheres and inspiring acoustic instruments take you on a sonic trip to a fantasy world

Epic World – Cinematic Landscapes by Eduardo Tarilonte
is the perfect tool for composers and sound designers to create ambience for films, documentaries, video games and new age music.

CINEMATIC LANDSCAPES

Epic World is a sample library of unique sounds you will not find anywhere else. In a matter of seconds you can easily create inspiring, cinematic landscapes, drones and beds – soulful and emotional. Its magical atmospheres and acoustic instruments will take you on a sonic trip to a fantasy world.

INNOVATIVE

Pushing the boundaries of soundscapes and sound design, Epic World blends unreal atmospheres with real sounds. Every evolving and organic drone has up to 8 different layers that can simply be tweaked to get an unlimited number of combinations. The creation of cinematic, sonic landscapes has never been so intuitive. Epic world textures derive from acoustic sources, so each of the amazing atmospheres has a real sound at its core, instead of synthesised one.

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Ethno Instruments Desert Winds $119

Welcome to DESERT WINDS, another virtual instrument from Eduardo Tarilonte, the creator of “Epic World” and “Forest Kingdom”, featuring 21 exotic and oriental soundscapes based on four unique ethnic solo wind instruments. It is a perfect tool for composers and sound designers to create ambience and music for films, documentaries, video games and new age music.

Desert Winds is a 2.5 GB library with more than 2000 individual samples. In Desert Winds you will find up to 6 different real legato types per instrument, deep sampling and amazing playability.
For each of the wind instruments you will find a microtuning folder with 16 patches featuring the most important arabic/turkish microtuning tables.

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Ethno Instruments ERA II Medieval Legends Play Track $259

ERA II Medieval Legends – a wonderful collection of knights, princesses, dragons and their forgotten fantasy world …
All users that have registered ERA (1) may purchase an upgrade for the price of € 99.-

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 historic instruments. This library holds the perfect instruments for film- and television soundtracks with historical background, fantasy-games as well as 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 in highest detail and quality. In addition, there is a huge amount of soundscapes available – all ready to use within the advanced Engine-Player and its generously expanded and specifically optimized user interface.

Requires Free Engine 2.5.0.100 or newer

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Vocal Shevannai Play Track $159

Welcome to “Shevannai, the Voice of Elves” !
A perfect tool for composers and sound designers to create ambiences and music for films, documentaries, video games and new age music. Unparalleled realism… Pure inspiration

Shevannai is a beautiful solo vocal library aiming for easily creating your own ultra-realistic melodies, without using any phrases. Thanks to over 4000 carefully recorded and wisely programmed samples by Eduardo Tarilonte, handling the 5 true legato types and 33 words, is intuitively easy.

Minimum Free Kontakt Player or Full Kontakt Version 5.8.1 required.

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Ethno Instruments Ethno World 6 Complete Play Track $449

The Ultimate Sample-library for Ethnic Instruments and Voices from all over the World

ETHNO WORLD 6 Complete is the summit of a library that has continuously been growing and improving for over 16 years. In this sixth edition, 80 new instruments and voices with a volume of 13 gigabytes have been added to the library.

Marcel Barsotti
Award-winning film composer Marcel Barsotti (e. g. Pope Joan, The Miracle of Bern) gathered a gigantic selection of instruments from all over the word. He additionally recorded a wide range of solo-voices and choirs from widely varying cultures.

ETHNO WORLD 6 Complete now consists of 320 instruments and voices, with roughly 800 patches. For the most authentic sound, the instruments have been recorded with different play techniques that can easily and precisely be accessed from the patches via key-switches. The library consists of 33.4 gigabytes (uncompressed) of sample data and 28,789 samples. All instruments come in 24 bit and 44.1 kHz.

Over 70 musicians and singers from all over the world were involved in the recording process, conducted by music-producer Andreas Hofner. The recordings took place in different local studios with the use of first-class gear such as microphones by Neumann and Brauner, SPL preamplifiers and converters by RME.

ETHNO WORLD 6 Complete comprises an incredible spectrum of instruments and voices from the most diverse regions of Asia, Africa, Europe, North- and South-America. Here, you will find the fitting instruments and voice-recordings for folkloric, ethnic as well as for modern music.

Library size ~ 22 GB (using Kontakt´s lossless compression)
Kontakt / Kontakt Player 5.6 or newer required!

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Ethno Instruments Dark ERA Play Track $259

Dark ERA, ancient pagan music and the sound of the Vikings

With Dark ERA, Eduardo Tarilonte – the master of mystical sounds – leads us back into the dark age where legends were born and where old northern gods still determined the fate of mankind. This library allows you to discover sounds to which the vikings and other already forgotten cultures and tribes were celebrating and singing their myths.

The fascinating sound of Dark ERA ranges from the transcendental drones of the ancient stringed-harp Tagelharpa to the unmatched grace of the gut-stringed Lyre to the distinctive and characteristic sound of the Nordic bone flutes and the overtone flute Fujara. Goose bumps are guaranteed with the sound of war horns such as the wooden Lur, thunderous mighty percussion, a full ensemble of frame-drums as well as mystical throat chants.

These instruments are complemented by an impressive collection of pulsating pads and atmospheric soundscapes which evolve over longer periods. These unique sounds ensure that Dark ERA can clearly be regarded as the next masterpiece created by Eduardo Tarilonte.

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Wylie Stateman

Supervising sound editor,
The Hateful Eight, Inglourious Basterds, Kill Bill: Vol. 1

A Sound Effect is an excellent resource for us to keep our animated films sounding unique and exciting.

Gabriel Guy

Re-recording Mixer, Walt Disney Animation Studios:
Frozen, Big Hero 6

A Sound Effect is a great asset to have discovered.

We found the site very easy to navigate, purchasing and downloads were effortless and the effects themselves are awesome! Asbjoern has done us all a great service.

We’ll definitely be back!

Wayne Pashley

Supervising Sound Editor/Re-recording Mixer, The Lego Movie & Mad Max: Fury Road

There are many great independent sound effect libraries available these days. The main problem with having so many, is keeping track of them!

A Sound Effect is a great hub, and is one of the first places I visit to look for sounds by category or genre. I started coming here to see if I could find libraries that I knew I had heard, but forgot WHERE I had heard them.

And in the process discovered libraries I never would have found otherwise. Great work! Keep it up!

David Farmer

Sound designer:
Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit trilogies

We're always looking for new sounds to mangle, so when A Sound Effect had a holiday sale, I tried them out.

The purchase experience is really smooth and quick, and delivery is almost instant.

I'll definitely come back to them again in the future!

Charles Deenen

Director, Digital - Source Sound Inc.

A Sound Effect is a wonderful resource for indie sound effects libraries. On top of that, it has some of the finest sound design, film and game audio interviews!