cinematic landscapes by Eduardo Tarilonte Epic World by Eduardo Tarilonte 1 1. Introduction Hello, World is. You really have to hear it to believe it. Welcome to Epic World. This is a very special It just sounds...magical.“ collection that sounds unlike anything you‘ve Nick Harvey, composer ever heard before. A lot of enthusiasm, emotion (www.nickharveycomposer.com) and time has gone into creating this sample lib- rary. Having worked on it for so long, it‘s really hard for me to find the right words to describe Epic World - Cinematic Landscapes is the perfect my feelings about it. I‘m much more comfortable tool for composers and sound designers to create creating ambiences than writing about them! So, ambience for films, documentaries, video games let‘s entrust Nick Harvey with that task. Nick is a and New Age music. very talented composer with a long and success- ful career. He has beta tested Epic World since its CINEMATIC LANDSCAPES beginnings: Epic World is a sample library of sounds you „Before I start, I just have to say that what follows won‘t find anywhere else. is not a press release or false advertising, it‘s true In a matter of seconds you can easily create in- and written from the heart. spiring cinematic landscapes, drones and beds. This is the most exciting and evocative virtual in- Soulful and emotional, its magical atmospheres strument I‘ve had the pleasure of using in a long and acoustic instruments will take you on a sonic long time. You think you‘ve heard atmosphere in trip to a fantasy world. sound? Think again. I guarantee that Epic World will surpass your wildest expectations, and at INNOVATIVE times may also confound you. Pushing the boundaries of soundscapes and sound I‘ve been very fortunate indeed to get my hands design, Epic World blends unreal atmospheres on it pre-release and its drones, pads, sound ef- with real sounds. fects and individual ethnic instruments and per- Every evolving and organic drone has between 2 cussion, as well as numerous loops and vocal and 8 different layers that can be simply tweaked phrases from across the globe (and beyond - ‚el- to get an unlimited number of combinations. Ne- ven voices‘, hello!) have featured in almost every ver before has the creation of cinematic sonic cue for the many documentaries I‘ve scored over landscapes been so intuitive. the past few months. Epic World textures are derived from acoustic Admittedly there‘s a lot of choice out there for sources so all the amazing atmospheres you hear the music maker looking for drones and pads, predominantly have a „real“ as opposed to a syn- but what makes Epic World‘s stand out from the thesised sound. crowd is that they genuinely seem to have soul. Perhaps because their original source material are THE LIBRARY real musical instruments and voices, the patches Epic World is a 7gb library with more than 350 sound almost alive, and therefore help to bring to patches, including drones, pads, instruments, vo- life the music in which they‘re featured. Some of ices, whooshes, sfx and more than 1000 loops, the sounds are so full and have such a wonderful instruments and vocal phrases. depth, movement and form that all one need do is It contains a huge arsenal of sonic landscapes that hold down a key, and hey presto, there‘s the first go from bright to dark, from soft to powerful and thirty seconds completed. from magical to haunting. Eduardo Tarilonte is the man with the midas Thanks to Best Service ENGINE sample player, touch when it comes to sample libraries and this you will enjoy a beautiful, intuitive and easy to is no exception. Thank God he hasn‘t demanded use interface. No sample player is required. a cut of my recent fees. He deserves more from me than a few words typed on a train to the Lake District! I think it‘s obvious how much I think of this inspi- rational product. Yes, I know I‘m gushing, but it‘s hard to put into words just how magnificent Epic 2 Epic World by Eduardo Tarilonte Epic World by Eduardo Tarilonte 3 Baghdad Streets 2. The Library Bamboo Forest Battlefield Desolation Epic World is divided into different categories: Calcutta‘s Market 1.-Ambiences: Cirith Ungol Corpses 1.a.-Drones Crossing the River Styx 1.b.-Pads Cryogenic Chamber Crystal Palace 1.c.-Changelings Dark Mantra 1.d.-SFX Dead City 2.-Instruments and Voices Dead Plains Deep Space Communications 2.a.-Instruments Deep Tunnel 2.b.-Voices Devastated World Dinosaurs Valley IMPORTANT NOTE: Dumpster Eastern Voices All patches are loaded with Origami reverb by Endless Abyss default. Loading more patches may result in CPU Escape from a Fortress in Fire spikes because of the reverb. We highly recom- Evil Temple mend you to use the default reverb to audition the First Day Lights at the Monastery patches then bypass it and use an insert in the En- Forbidden Forest gine Mixer to avoid CPU overload. Future Megalopolis Graveyard at Night Gypsy Mourning 1. Ambiences: Hamunaptra I Hamunaptra II Ambiences is the strongest and most innovative Hamunaptra III part of Epic World. Here you will find plenty of Hamunaptra IV atmospheric soundscapes to add amazing and ins- Hamunaptra V piring textures to your music. Haunting Voices Hell‘s Doors Hidden Place DRONES: Hiding from Nazgûl C3 is the key for drones, which are designed main- Holy Earth XI Century ly to be played with one finger. To start, press C3 Huge Alien Mother Ship in every drone, enjoy of the long evolving sound Himalayan Cliffs and after that, experience different options with Hypnotic Trance India more keys. Inside Master Control Program Every drone has between 2 and 8 different in- Jerusalem dividual layers. Those layers can be tweaked in Jungle Walk I the PRO page and their volumes adjusted in the Jungle Walk II QUICK EDIT page. Every layer comes automa- King Funeral ted by default (Layer1 CC1, Layer2 CC2, etc), Long Forgotten Temple but you can easily change that by right-clicking Lord of the Beasts the layer slider and selecting your layer of choice. Lost In this way you ensure a lot of different ways to Mayan Jungle use the drones and build your own sound. Moria Mount Doom Mynothaur‘s Labyrinth Drones list: Mysterious Forest Abduction Lab Nexus 6 Aboriginal Voices Obscure Dungeon Ancient King‘s Tomb Old Chinese Aquarel Landscape Apocalypto I Old Wooden Bridge Apocalypto II Paradise Bird Arabian Desert Petrified Forest 2 Epic World by Eduardo Tarilonte Epic World by Eduardo Tarilonte 3 Processional Prayer Crop Circles Ragnarök Eve Dark Caves Reading a Long Forgotten Spell Desert Sun Ritual Dance Distant Bag Pipes I Road to the Kilimanjaro Distant Bag Pipes II Sauron‘s Eye Distant Bag Pipes III Scheherazade Distant Bag Pipes IV Skull Island Dream Harp I Smaug‘s Lair Dream Harp II Sounds in the Fog Dreamlands Stardome Druid Forest Storm Winds Elvish Tales Templar Gathering Emptiness Feeling The Battle of the Pelennor Fields Faery Tears The Crater of Snaefellsjökull Fallen Angels The Horn of Gods Farewell The Sacrifice Crypt First Gods Temple The Sun Rises in Africa Glittering Caves Tibetan Monks Goddess of Love Titan‘s Cavern Hidden in the Darkness Trance Ritual Hollow Caves Unkown World Light Being Wastelands Lights over Domed City Water World Lights through the Road Winds of Change Living Trees Forest Zen Garden Lonely Mountain Lost into the Mist Lost Temple PADS: Marble Palace Some pads are divided into layers. Those layers Mirrors Labyrinth can be tweaked in the PRO page and volumes can Misty Mountains be adjusted in the QUICK EDIT page. Every lay- Moving Clouds er is automated by default (Layer1 CC1, Layer2 Nightmare CC2, and so on), but you can easily change that Oriental Dream Harp Other World Signals by right-clicking the layer slider and selecting Outer Space Creature your layer of choice. Perfect Dream Praying Pads list: Prelude of War Pure Soul Ancient Flutes I Runes Prophecy Ancient Flutes II Slow Motion Sadness Ancient Flutes III Solitary Place Ancient Flutes IV Standing Stones Ancient Flutes V Sulfur Caverns Ancient Flutes VI Temple of Silence Another Dimension The Cave of Wonders Aquatic World The Heaven is Waiting Augury The Mirror‘s Citadel Awakening The New World Beautiful Landscape I The Sands of Time Beautiful Landscape II The Shire Beautiful Landscape III Thick Forest Beautiful Landscape IV Travel through your Memories Bowed I Two Moon‘s Light Night Bowed II Visions from the Past Bowed III Who Wants to Live Forever Bowed IV Clouds over Emerald City 4 Epic World by Eduardo Tarilonte Epic World by Eduardo Tarilonte 5 CHANGELINGS: Soft 10 Windy 01 Changelings are ambient whooshes. Windy 02 Windy 03 Windy 04 Changelings list: Windy 05 Deep 01 Windy 06 Deep 02 Windy 07 Deep 03 Windy 08 Deep 04 Windy 09 Deep 05 Windy 10 Deep 06 Windy 11 Deep 07 Deep 08 SFX Deep 09 Deep 10 This section includes natural and sound-designed Deep 11 effects. The numbers in brackets are the amounts Deep 12 of samples or phrases. Deep 13 Deep 14 Deep 15 SFX list: Deep 16 Creatures - Dragon Growls (14) Deep 17 Creatures - Flying Beast Yells I (40) Deep 18 Creatures - Flying Beast Yells II (3) Deep 19 Creatures - Giant Beast Stomps Deep 20 Creatures - Giant Robot Stomps Deep 21 Creatures - Giant Wing Flaps Jungle 01 Creatures - Ogre Growls Long (19) Jungle 02 Creatures - Ogre Growls Short (21) Jungle 04 Nature - Eerie Wind Jungle 05 Nature - Forest Ambience I Jungle 06 Nature - Forest Ambience II Metallic 01 Nature - Forest Ambience III Metallic 02 Nature - Forest Ambience IV Metallic 03 Nature - Forest Ambience V Metallic 04 Nature - Leaves in the Wind Metallic 05 Nature - Magic Forest I Metallic 06 Nature - Magic Forest II Metallic 07 Nature - River Metallic 08 Nature - Strong Wind Metallic 09 Nature - Water Stream Metallic 10 Nature - Water Stream II Metallic 11 Nature - Water Stream III Metallic 12 Nature - Waterfall I Metallic 13 Nature - Waterfall II Metallic 14 Nature - Whistling Strong Wind Metallic 15 Nature - Whistling Wind Metallic 16 SFX - Earth Voices Metallic 17 SFX - Horror Whispers Metallic 18 SFX - Sword Clean Hits Soft 01 SFX - Sword Hits Soft 02 SFX - Sword Remove from Sheath Soft 03 SFX - Tombstone Soft 04 Soft 05 Soft 06 Soft 07 Soft 08 Soft 09 4 Epic World by Eduardo Tarilonte Epic World by Eduardo Tarilonte 5 Medieval Fidule (120 BPM) (20) 2.