Engine Audio Ancient ERA Persia Upgrade (Digital product)
Brand: Engine Audio
Product code: 1327581
Brand: Engine Audio
Product code: 1327581
- Тype: Sampler, Synth, Virtual Instrument
- License duration: Perpetual
- Compatibility: Mac OS, Windows
Engine Audio Ancient ERA Persia Upgrade (Digital product)
Evolve Air: The Sound of Ambience
Evolve Air is a sample-based synthesizer designed to evoke atmospheric and ethereal soundscapes. With breathy textures, wind instruments, and spacious atmospheres, it creates intimate yet intangible sonic experiences. From airy vocals and soft woodwinds to hollow brass and evolving pads, Evolve Air captures fragile moments that float at the edge of the ethereal.
Featuring over 250 presets filled with longing, Evolve Air offers distant vocal phrases, ghostly pads, foggy melodic motifs, and vast cinematic spaces. This emotional palette feels weightless and alive, making it perfect for ambient compositions, scoring to picture, producing leftfield electronica, or designing immersive soundscapes. Inspired by innovators like Tim Hecker, Jon Hopkins, Brian Eno, and Oneohtrix Point Never, Evolve Air adds depth, movement, and atmosphere to any track.
What Can Evolve Air Do?
- Blend four layers of samples or synths using a powerful quad-engine.
- Morph sounds in real time with an expressive XY Pad.
- Ignite creativity with one-click randomization.
- Import your own samples to create custom patches.
- Modulate any parameter with drag-and-drop envelopes, LFOs, and XY controls.
- Enhance your sound with air-inspired macro effects.
- Fine-tune your tone with dual filters and a rearrangeable 3-slot FX chain.
- Explore 250 genre-spanning presets or start from scratch.
Four Dimensions of Sound
The heart of Evolve Air lies in its quad-layer engine, where each layer can host either a sample-based instrument from a selection of 250 sources or a synth oscillator. Users can import their own samples to create new sounds or replace existing sources. Sampled sources provide play direction, tone, and keytracking parameters, while synth sources offer oscillator shape sliders and unison detuning options.
Randomization is easy—click the dice on any layer to select a sample at random or roll the dice in the header to randomize the entire plugin, including sound sources, parameters, and effects. The XY Pad allows blending between sound sources in "Sounds Mode" or modulation of parameters in "FX Mode."
Smooth Movement
Modulation is integral to Evolve Air, offering a comprehensive selection of sources with intuitive setup and visual feedback. With 12 modulation sources, including six envelopes, two LFOs, and adjustable Velocity and Keytracking, users can achieve intricate sound design. A full modulation matrix provides a clear overview of all assigned routings, allowing for deeper customization.
Effects for Texture and Character
Evolve Air includes four main macro effects designed to shape its output:
- Mist: Adds grain and texture.
- Drift: Creates slow, floating pitch modulation.
- Frost: Applies a shimmering delay that freezes audio.
- Cloud: Wraps sounds in a long, low-passed reverb.
Each sound source can be routed through dual filters, which can operate in parallel or series, offering a variety of filter curves and controls. Additionally, three rearrangeable effects slots host a choice of 16 high-quality effects, including saturation, feedback, delay, reverb, and more.
Features
- 4 Sound Sources (A, B, C, D)
- Sample and Synth OSC engines
- XY Pad with Sounds and FX modes
- 250 Sound Sources including Chords, Hits, Instruments, and Vocals
- User Sample Import
- Randomize Sounds, Parameters, and Effects
- 4 Macros: Mist, Drift, Frost, Cloud
- Comprehensive modulation options
- Dual-Filter Modes with various parameters
- 12 Modulation Sources for advanced sound design
Experience the ethereal soundscapes of Evolve Air and elevate your music production to new heights.
Ancient ERA Persia Upgrade — Unlock the Full Middle Eastern Sound Library
The Ancient ERA Persia Upgrade is the upgrade from Desert Winds to the complete Ancient ERA Persia library by Eduardo Tarilonte; it can only be activated if Desert Winds is already registered in your Best Service account. Designed by Engine Audio and Best Service, this upgrade takes Desert Winds owners to the full Ancient ERA Persia, which includes all Desert Winds content and offers 28 meticulously sampled instruments, over 1,000 percussion loops, 51 atmospheric soundscapes and a dedicated microtuning module. The Ancient ERA Persia Upgrade is ideal for composers working on film, game and ambient productions who need authentic Middle Eastern textures.
What the Upgrade Includes
All content from Desert Winds is included in Ancient ERA Persia, so the upgrade brings everything together in one cohesive collection. Players get access to bowed strings like the Lyra 1, Lyra 2 and Turkish Violin, plucked strings including the Kopuz, Baglama (big and small), Dutar, Santur, Oud, Tambur, Rabab and Tar, winds such as the Persian Ney, Turkish Ney, Duduk, Zourna, Kaval, Turkish Mey and Turkish Clarinet, plus a full percussion section with Bendhir, Daf, Darbuka, Davul, Dayre, Riq, Riq Plastic and Tombak. The microtuning module supports Arabic, Persian and Turkish scales out of the box, and lets users store their own tuning presets for region-specific work.
Engine Player and System Requirements
The library runs inside the Engine Player, which provides a modern, intuitive interface with direct access to volume, articulations, legatos, glissandi and soundscape layers. This makes the upgrade easy to drop into an existing Engine Audio workflow.
- Host: Engine Player 1.5 or higher — activation via a Best Service account
- Plug-in formats: AAX, AU, VST3, Standalone — covers all major DAW workflows
- macOS: 11 (Big Sur) or newer — native Apple Silicon and Intel support
- Windows: 10 or newer — 64-bit, Intel Core Processor
- RAM: 4 GB minimum, more recommended — for loading multi-layer soundscapes
- Download size: 11.18 GB — full content delivered as a digital download
Who This Upgrade Is For
The Ancient ERA Persia Upgrade is the right choice for composers, producers and sound designers who already own a registered Desert Winds license and want to expand into the full Ancient ERA Persia library. It suits film and television scorers, game audio designers, world music producers and ambient composers who need authentic Middle Eastern strings, winds and percussion with true legatos, glissandi and a wide range of articulations. Anyone building an Engine Audio–based template will find this upgrade slots straight into the same workflow, with the Engine Player handling all articulation switching, microtuning and soundscape layering in one place.
Additional Info
The upgrade is intended for existing owners of an older version of the same software. It allows you to move to the current version at a discounted price. A purchase typically requires proof of ownership of an eligible previous version. Specific eligibility conditions vary by manufacturer and product.
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Apple Silicon, Intel
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Please refer to the user manual for the specific safety instructions for this product.
