Acoustic Guitar

Perfect Collection For Songwriters

Ueberschall presents Acoustic Guitar, the perfect loop collection for songwriters and music producers.

Each phrase has been performed three times using different acoustic guitars with instruments made by Martin, Yamaha and Ibanez. Each of the 464 loops has been recorded carefully using selected, high quality equipment.

Format:

ELASTIK

Genre:

Pop, Instruments

1.4 GB, 464 Loops and Samples

49.00 €

34.30 €

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Acoustic Guitar

Ueberschall presents Acoustic Guitar, the perfect loop collection for songwriters and music producers. This Elastik sound bank is part of Ueberschalls Instrument Series and dedicated to the acoustic guitar. The library contains 464 painstakingly produced acoustic guitar loops.

Content

Each phrase has been performed three times using different acoustic guitars with instruments made by Martin, Yamaha and Ibanez. Each of the 464 loops has been recorded carefully using selected, high quality equipment. To add flexibility, all loops are available in unaltered versions without equalization and compression.

For immediate use, the sound bank not only contains dry versions of any loop but also mastered versions. In this mixdown, guitar 1 has been panned left, guitar 2 fully to the right and guitar 3 to the middle. The individual loops were not repeated identically. Therefore, they can be used to complement each other rhythmically and dynamically, resulting in an extreme wide but 100% mono-compatible sound.

Each loop was produced, to be possibly integrated into different song structures. Thereby the loops mainly focus on unobtrusive and accompanying phrases as opposed to virtuous licks. The individual phrases can easily be matched to your productions using Elastik Player, regardless of working on music productions, web applications, video- or game sound.

Elastik Features

The loops are four or eight bars in length and can be freely combined in tempo and key. In addition, the Elastik loop player allows adapting the guitar loops to your current song project in speed and pitch. Ueberschalls Elastik-Player is the perfect tool for loop-based music production. The intuitive browser commonly manages all Elastik libraries for immediate access to all loops. This way, not only loops of a single library can be combined freely but across all installed Elastik libraries.

Note: The drums being used in the audio demo are not part of the library. They simple demonstate possible applications for the library‘s licks.

Credits

All Guitars played by Kai Reuter

Instrument: Acoustic Guitar

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

1.4 GB, 464 Acoustic Guitar Loops and Samples

SOUNDBANK CONTENT

Acoustic Guitar: 464

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

The quality of the recording is very good and this is matched by the quality of the playing.

Acoustic Guitar

Sound on Sound, May 2014

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/may14/articles/sample-shop-0514-04.htm

Acoustic Guitar is another addition to Ueberschall's impressive collection of sample libraries for their Elastik loop player. As the title suggests, the library is dedicated just to acoustic guitar samples and there are a total of 464 loops, spread across 16 construction kits and totalling around 1.4GB of sample data. The format of the library is, however, somewhat different to some of the more usual 'construction kit' collections. Each of the phrases — and these are generally four- or eight-bar performances — has been recorded on three different steel-strung acoustic guitars (a Martin, a Yamaha and an Ibanez, apparently). Each of these is presented 'dry' without any EQ or compression applied, so you are free to process them just as you would your own guitar recordings. However, in addition to these three versions of the same phrase, you also get a 'mixed and mastered' version with the three guitars spread across the stereo field. The playing is pretty tight across the three versions and, as a result, these pre?mixed versions sound huge. Stick a suitably angsty singer?songwriter vocal across the top and you probably don't need much else.

Of course, the format — in mathematical terms at least — means that the musical variety here isn't perhaps as wide as the headline loop count might suggest. As each phrase actually appears in four different versions (three individual guitars and one pre?mixed loop), what you actually get is just shy of 120 phrases to play with. Each of the 16 construction kits, therefore, contains around seven or eight phrases. One of these is (usefully) given over to a proper ending, and the rest provide the various elements you might need to build a complete arrangement in a verse/chorus/bridge fashion.

The quality of the recording is very good and this is matched by the quality of the playing. At all times this is fairly restrained — there is little here by way of acoustic histrionics — but the playing is full of character and the accuracy between the various different takes is impressive. All of the original tempos span the 80?100 bpm range (although Elastik can, of course, tempo?match pretty well), while the kits are evenly distributed between G, Em, C and Am. Given the very consistent sound of the guitars across the kits, you can easily mix and match between them.

In terms of style, the playing is contemporary (think Ed Sheeran, perhaps, rather than Ray LaMontagne) and, while many of the kits would easily cross over into the pop?rock genre, if you do just want some instant singer?songwriter backing, this would be about as easy as it gets. Perhaps the only real downside to Acoustic Guitar is the somewhat restricted total number of performances given that each is presented four times. That said, the library is modestly priced and the quality of what is here — both recording and performance — is very good indeed.

John Walden