Indie Rock 2

Two guitars, a bass and drums - get your ideas moving and start jamming. Full throttle! The best song ideas often derive from the raw sound and easy atmosphere in a rehearsal space. With Indie Rock 2, you can take these ideas straight into your DAW.

This library delivers lots of inspiration for music productions of classic rock, powerful pop up to cross-genre tracks.

Format:

ELASTIK

Genre:

Indie, Rock

3.2 GB, 10 Construction Kits, 1.215 Loops and Samples

99.00 €

49.50 €

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Loop Library for the free Ueberschall Elastik Player
VST2/3, AU, AAX and Standalone for macOS and Windows

Indie Rock 2

Finally, the second part of our successful library Indie Rock is here! And we have even topped it. This library sounds a lot rougher and meatier than volume 1. An unpolished and lively sound you only know from these cellar-rehearsal-places. Fresh and careless, this library moves between genres. Punk, Rock and Pop meet with spirit and creativity - real Indie!

Content

Indie Rock 2 consists of 10 construction kits, including a total of 1.215 loops. Each construction kit is divided into five to eight parts. Available are intro, A-, B- and C-parts as well as breaks and outro, up to 16 bars in length. This large choice allows building „real“ song structures, avoiding the artificial looped character when using too little variations of a theme. Not with the varied parts of these construction kits! However, you may always pick certain kit elements and create looped-aesthetics intended - typical for remixes and crossover-tracks.

The electric guitars and basses of Indie Rock 2 have been recorded using real amplifiers. All guitar riffs are available as amped sound as well as dry D.I.-recordings. You chose between a professionally mic‘ed sound, ready-to-use, or the direct instrument version, ready to be sculpted with your favored tools.

As in most Ueberschall productions, the drums have been carefully and elaborated mic‘ed, recorded and prepared. At first, there is a premixed drum-mix for immediate use. In addition, you also find the individual tracks of the complete drum kit: bass drum, snare (mic‘ed from top and bottom), hi-hats, crash cymbals, toms, overhead- and room-microphones. Using these tracks, you can freely shape the sound of the drum kit to your taste.

This library delivers lots of inspiration for music productions of classic rock, powerful pop up to cross-genre tracks. Similarly, the construction kits are suited for target oriented, trendy jingles, television trailers, advertisements as well as for scoring movies and games. In all cases, the Elastik player supports a fast workflow and creative use of the sample content.

Elastik-Features

Ueberschall‘s Elastik player is clearly laid out in structure. For all loops of Indie Rock 2, details for base pitch and tempo are provided. This makes navigation within the library real easy. Zplanes‘ élastique-pro-algorithm allows for lightning-fast time-stretching and pitch manipulation of loops at highest quality and without tasking your CPU. All instrument loops of a construction kits can be transposed and integrated into other song kits effortlessly. Also, the whole production‘s drum sound is consistent across all kits and therefore completely interchangeable and combinable. Because all installed Elastik libraries are managed using an efficient and clear browser, there is immediate access to all installed loops. This comes especially handy with the production of cross-genre tracks.

On top, Elastik player‘s intuitive functions such as formant, resample, reverse and its multimode filter grant freedom when using loops creatively.

Credits

Production: Uwe Kinast, Drums: Michael Fromm, Bass, Guitars: Kai Reuter

Genre: Indie Rock

Elastik Soundbank for Mac & Win - AU/VST/AAX/RTAS/Standalone

3.2 GB, 10 Construction Kits, 1.215 Indie Rock Loops and Samples

SOUNDBANK CONTENT

Mixes: 64

Backing: 64

Drum Loop: 64

Acoustic Bassdrum: 62

Snare Top: 62

Snare Bottom: 62

Snare Trigger: 62

HiHat: 41

Tom: 44

Cymbal Ride: 24

Cymbals: 54

Overhead: 64

Room: 64

Electric Bass: 64

Electric Guitar: 193

Distorted Guitar: 182

Acoustic Guitar: 15

Electronic FX: 30

In addition to the pitch and tempo manipulation, Elastik’s central Loopeye is a detailed loop-editing tool. A large number of parameters can be adjusted, including slice-based pitch-shifting, volume and pan, reverse, formant, filter and resample. Elastik even includes a random sound replacement function called INSPIRE: one click on the Inspire button and Elastik will select an alternative loop, providing just that bit of additional inspiration when you need it. All this can be done on the fly and without leaving the Elastik environment. You can define which soundbanks will be used in the Inspire tool with the new Inspire browser.

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REVIEW

For those looking to build convincing indie-rock tunes in a flash, Indie Rock 2 is just the thing.

Sound on Sound, June 2013
www.soundonsound.com

Ueberschall’s original Elastik-based Indie Rock library got a five-star review back in the January 2012 issue of SOS. A year or so on and the company are back with a follow-up, the suitably titled Indie Rock 2. This companion title follows the same construction-kit format but, in line with some of Ueberschall’s other recent releases, the balance has shifted slightly towards depth rather than breadth. The 3GB of samples are thus spread across just 10 construction kits, but within each kit you get both a larger number of sub-sections (suitable for intro, verse, chorus, break, outro), and within each sub-section a greater number of individual loops. The result is more control over your mix options and the ability to create more varied arrangements.

Like the first release, the content of Indie Rock 2 is musically spot-on. In rather too little time, you can piece together any of the construction kits into a radio-friendly indie-rock backing track. Add in some suitably full-on lead vocals and anthemic backing vocals, and this material would fit into any current rock radio playlist. The playing is top-notch and includes some great up-tempo, runaway drums with lots of splashy cymbals and simple, but very solid, basslines. However, the highlight is the guitar work that catches the genre just right: heavy, energetic, a little spikey; definitely at the ‘rock’ end of indie, but not ‘heavy rock’ and with enough melodic elements to keep things interesting.

Sonically, things are also in the right ballpark. However, as well as the usual combination of both a stereo drum mix for each construction kit sub-section and the individual drum mics (so you can easily re-balance the drum mix if you wish), Ueberschall have also included DI’d guitar loops this time, as well as those from the miked-up amps. Personally, I think this is an excellent addition, as it means you can add further variety by applying your own amp-modelling plug-ins to customise the guitar tones. This does, of course, allow for some extra tricks, such as switching between clean and overdriven versions of the same part for impact, or creating dual guitar parts by using different amp tones panned left and right.

There are obvious constraints when working with any construction-kit-based samples, the most significant being that you are working with the same loops as everyone else who has purchased the library. However, within that limitation, Ueberschall have done pretty much everything they can with Indie Rock 2 to give you the scope to build your own take on the basic elements. Add a few of your own guitar layers and top-notch vocals, and you can make them more your own. For those looking to build convincing indie-rock tunes in a flash, Indie Rock 2 is just the thing.

John Walden