Sample Libraries

ACCORDIONS

Accordions is the definitive accordion sample library. Designed and scripted to perform in real time ultra-realistic accordion melodies and chords.

All the subtle sounds from an accordion have been carefully captured to increase the realism of your performance, like key and button noises.

8 different Accordions where sampled in high detail, being one of them a real A-A (Alfred Arnold) Bandoneon from the 1930´s with an incredible tone. Just the same model Astor Piazzolla used. Also included are 8 perfectly balanced Multis with meticulously made combinations to create new ready to use registers.

Accordions can be used in many different kind of productions and styles. From cinematic, romantic to folk styles like Celtic, Tex-Mex or South American.

This library includes:

7 complete independent instruments sampled with amazing depth plus 1 bonus accordion:

Bandoneon

Concertina

Single Reed Piccolo Accordion

Single Reed Musette Accordion

Single Reed Bassoon Accordion

Double Reed Musette Accordion

Left Hand Bass Accordion

Steirische Accordion (Bonus)

8 perfectly balanced multis with fine tune combinations to create new ready to use registers:

Oboe Register

Celeste Register

Bandoneon Register

Organ Register

Triple Musette Register

Harmonium Register

Master Register

Accordion Register

Endorsements:

Rupert Gregson-Williams

“Eduardo Tarilonte has done it again! Very few sampled instruments have been researched and programmed to make the performer feel so in touch (except perhaps the Celtic and spiritual wind collections Eduardo has produced before…) These accordions are a must for anyone wanting to play the instrument in an authentic way. The tone is fabulous – Eduardo chose a wonderful instrument to sample and he has created the perfect virtual accordion.”

Hollywood Soundtrack composer: Disney’s Bedtime Stories, Bee Movie, Over the Hedge, Made of Honor…

Release format: Kontakt 3 Player included.

WHISTLER (Human Whistle)

Welcome to the Whistler, a virtual human whistler with real samples (no synth). You will find it very easy and intuitive to use.

Also included in the pack are:

“THE SINGING BIRD” a real singing bird multisampled with different articulations to create your own melodies.

“SWEET DREAMS” A collection of 6 whistle sound designed patches to add magical flavour to your tracks.

In order to run this library you will need the full Kontakt 3.5 version or higher. No Kontakt Player included. The free Kontakt player DOESN’T run this library.

Listen to the demos here

SAMPLED LANDSCAPE – AMBIENT WORLD

Sampled Landscape is a unique collection of sounds, programs and multis. Solely developed to create film inspired textures, SL easily generates a host of evocative and primal musical emotions deeming it the perfect tool for documentaries, soundtracks and new age music.

This innovative product begins with sampled World instruments that are professionally blended with imaginative sound designed elements. From soft and beautiful -to- dark and mysterious, Bela D Media invites you to explore this new and exciting sonic path.

SAMPLED LANDSCAPE SOUND ON SOUND MAGAZINE REVIEW

The 1.5GB Sampled Landscape library is divided into three folders: Drones, Instruments, and Landscapes. The 15 Drones aren’t the passive synth tones that fill so many libraries: they’re living, breathing, organic sounds comprising between two and four sample layers, with moods ranging from spiritual to deeply unsettling. The layers can be controlled via the mod wheel, MIDI expression controller, and occasionally even the pitch-bend wheel.

The 84 Instruments cover a lot of world music ground, and the plentiful control options this time use script-created drop-down menus to control the filters, EQ, effects, envelopes and even the relative levels, tuning and pan positions of the sounds in each instrument. As well as the inevitable breathy synth drones, you get didgeridoo, pads, flutes, male and female chants and mantras, bells, bowls, and chimes. Highlights include the Tibetan mantras, ethereal Ancient Voices, the trills and flourishes of the Forest, and Magical Flutes, which has extremely expressive Bansuri flutes with key-switching of various articulations, as well as atmospheric extras such as deep rumbles and whispering winds. There are few plucked instruments, but there’s a nice range of ambient percussion, including bells, rainmakers, shells, and talking drums. There are even arpeggiator-driven drums and kalimba rhythms.

The Landscapes folder contains 39 Multis of Drones and Instruments, with various background sounds and articulated extras to fade in and out, or otherwise alter. There are up to six different layers, featuring bass drones, arpeggiated drums, vocal accompaniment, wind instruments, chimes and other effects, sometimes with keyswitching. Some Landscapes are so complex that single-finger playing is more advisable, but there are some wonderful combinations, such as Mysterious Wood, which features harp glissandos and shakuhachi phrases with layers of wind chimes, shell percussion, and whispering wind on your mod wheel. Others, such as the trumpets, war horns, the far voice of Roma, the mantras (deep earth drones), and the distant and ritual drums of War Call are more subdued and suited to traditional playing.

Sampled Landscape is a very accomplished and inspiring collection. Media composers could use this without worrying that the results will sound derivative, and with so much control, it never feels like a ‘construction kit’. Martin Walker

RETRO FLUTE

“Retro Flute is complex, and is the most sophisticated flute we’ve seen thus far, and the sound quality is tops!!”  Computer Music Magazine Review

Eduardo Tarilonte is well known for his 5 star Anthology series. The same award winning attention to detail has been applied to this latest release. Retro Flute is not a “yet another flute library.”

Above and beyond the extreme scripted features and flawless recording/sampling quality, Retro Flute provides the user with something new and innovative.

Though it will sit extremely well in a Cinematic, Classical or Jazz ensemble track, it is the retro sound used by many progressive rock artists that produces a pure and powerful tone.

Perhaps the most exciting feature of Retro Flute is the ability to generate the popular sung style, best described as the flute being sung through as it is sounding. This mix of instrument and vocalist has never been sampled before.

Release Format

Native Instruments Kontakt 2 and 3

2.2.4. or higher (K3 compatible)

Audio Format

24-bit/44.1KHz

ANTHOLOGY: CELTIC WIND VOL. 01

Bela D Media presents the next generation of sampled World Instruments for Kontakt2. Anthology, produced by Eduardo Tarilonte, is a projected multi volume sample collection of authentic instruments from various countries and cultures.

Joined together with unique and inspiring sounds, Celtic Wind promises to deliver the ultimate in composer friendly playability. All that breeds’ life to this sacred set of instruments is kept intact. Elements like that of user controlled instrument noises and triggered vocal breathing add authenticity to any MIDI orchestration. From the Highland Pipes to Celtiberic War Horn.

Authentic

Advanced

Affordable

The Instruments

Highland Pipe

Uilleann Pipe

Bombarde

Whistle D

Low Whistle F

Tin Whistle F

Concertina

Accordion

Celtiberic War Horn

Audio Format

24-bit/44.1KHz

ANTHOLOGY CELTIC WIND SOUND ON SOUND MAGAZINE REVIEW

Bela D Media Anthology Volume 1: Celtic Wind

Bela D Media have settled on the new ethos of ‘Authentic, Advanced, Affordable’, with the launch of this new library. The first in a series of ethnic sample collections, Anthology Volume 1 is dedicated to Celtic Wind, covering the usual flute suspects, through reedy accordions and a concertina to the more esoteric Bombarde and Celtiberic War Horn, via both Highland and Uilleann Pipes.

Authentic? Very much so. Respected European session player Eduardo Tarilonte came onboard to oversee (and sometimes play on) this library. There are multiple layers, plenty of articulations and everything from key clicks to bag noise captured in 24-bit glory. Packaged into a Kontakt 2 format (with Giga to follow if they can find a way to replicate the complex scripting), Celtic Wind comes complete with its own instrument graphics. More importantly, the sounds are top notch, with no glaring noise or excess hiss.

Advanced? Yes — but not in the traditional sense. Bela D Media have decided not to enter the “I’ve got more samples than you” contest. In fact, the entire library comprises only 15 separate patches, including left-hand and right-hand patches for instruments like the accordion. Instead, the laudable goal has been to make every single sample count, by making the patches endlessly flexible and their full capabilities easily accessible. Keyswitches and a well-designed custom patch window within the Kontakt 2 interface make tweaking a cinch, with the crucial controls falling easily to hand.

The reason for including so few patches becomes clear the instant you load one: perhaps Bela D Media should have added an extra word to the alliteration — ‘Accessible’ — as it’s really the scripting that raises a well-recorded library to another level entirely. The closest comparison I can draw is with the VSL VI libraries, with their own custom player. You load the instrument you want and then keyswitches and controllers can change articulations on the fly (if the cunning scripting hasn’t already done it for you through speed, legato or other detection routines). Much of this is thanks to the Kontakt 2 platform, but it is a refreshing change to have it all sorted for you on day one, allowing you play straight away, rather than spend valuable composing time tweaking MIDI and scripting.

Affordable? Definitely. The nine instruments with 15 patches each are great value at this price — even before you consider the excellent impulse response for the Church of the Redeemer that comes as part of the package.

Normally, seeing this price tag would make me run a mile, in fear of nasty sampling processes, a lack of articulations and limited layers, but in this case it represents incredible value for money. For me, the VSL comparison holds true, and if Celtic wind instruments are what you’re after, you should look no further, as Bela D Media have done it again.

Hilgrove Kenrick

SOS Magazine 2007

ANTHOLOGY: SPIRITUAL WIND VOL. 02

Anthology, produced by Eduardo Tarilonte, is a projected multi volume sample collection of authentic instruments from various countries and cultures.

In continuance of the Anthology collection, Bela D Media presents Vol.2, Spiritual Wind. Authenticity, playability and user friendly control via unique and inspiring instruments captured from around the world. Welcome to the next generation of sampled power and expression.

Authentic

Advanced

Affordable

The Instruments

Armenian Duduk

Bulgarian Kaval

Didgeridoo

Koncovka (High Overtone Flute)

Fujara (Low Overtone Flute)

Dizi

Low Bansuri

Shakuhachi

Turkish Clarinet

Audio Format

24-bit/44.1KHz