Cinematic Guitar Loops

Atmospheric Guitar Textures

As part of the Inspire series, Cinematic Guitar Loops provides a huge collection of atmospheric guitar performances that would make ideal source materials for music producers and media composers looking to create ambient soundscapes.

Format:

ELASTIK

Genre:

Cinematic, Ambient

6.4 GB, 100 Construction Kits, 1192 Loops & Samples

149.00 €

74.50 €

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

Dry And Processed Loops For Maximum Flexibility

The library spans some 6.4GB of sample data and contains nearly 1200 individual loops organized into 100 construction kits. Within each of these kits, three individual guitar parts are provided. There is also an associated bass part to deliver all the low end required. For each part, both dry and processed versions are included as well as two pre-mixed layers, giving 12 loops in total for each kit. The pre-mixed layers provide two alternate mixes and an 'outro' section for easy cue construction. All loops have a length of 8 to 16 bars and up to 32 seconds. Each of the kits is organized in exactly the same fashion making it very easy to navigate.

In addition, the kits themselves are organized into four categories – Themes, Ambient, FX and Distorted – so you can quickly find material suitable for the mood you wish to create. Stylistically, the kits span from the more melodic Themes category to the more abstract and darker Distorted category but, as you get all the dry recordings – and given the ease with which Elastik allows you to adjust the tempo and pitch of any loop – you can mix and match loops between any of the kits, adding your own processing options, for an almost endless number of musical possibilities. Elastik also makes it easy to pitch or tempo match the samples to any other musical elements – drums, synths, vocals, etc. – that you may have in your project.

Almost Endless Combinations Available

The content for Cinematic Guitar Loops has been crafted using a range of different electric guitars including 6,7 and 8 string models, 6 and 12 string acoustic guitars, resonator guitars and 4 and 5 string basses. Effects and processing options used include e-bows, amp-based feedback, analog and digital delays, a whole range of stompbox-style effects, a violin bow, bottlenecks, down-tuning and various modified pickups. For the processed loops, the creative processing delivers some unique and truly atmospheric sounds and textures.

Atmospheric Guitar-Based Loops

Whether you are looking for a soothing or melodic ambience or a darker, more disturbing, soundbed, this library will inspire your creativity. Cinematic Guitar Loops is an ideal choice for media composers.

Credits

All Guitars played by Kai Reuter

Genre: Cinematic

Elastik Soundbank for Mac & Win - AU/VST/AAX/StandAlone

6.4 GB, 100 Construction Kits, 1192 Cinematic Loops & Samples

SOUNDBANK CONTENT

Electric Bass: 142

Electric Guitar: 649

Guitar FX: 400

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 playing is suitably tasteful and very well recorded and presented.

Cinematic Guitar Loops

Sound on Sound, January 2017
http://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/ueberschall-elastik-cinematic-guitar-loops

"The playing is suitably tasteful and very well recorded and presented."

Ueberschall have built up an impressive series of titles — in both number and content — based around their Elastik Player front-end. The bulk of these follow a construction-kit format offering collections of genre-specific music composition broken down into their constituent loops, and which Elastik allows you to mix and match, tempo- and pitch-shift, and otherwise blend into your own projects with a minimum of fuss. However, they also offer an Instrument Series for Elastik with libraries focused upon specific instruments — such as the Concert Flute and Trumpet 2 titles reviewed previously in SOS — and providing large collections of melodic phrases.

Their latest offering — Cinematic Guitar Loops — is a bit of a hybrid of these two approaches. Yes, it offers a collection (and a very sizeable one at that) of melodic guitar lines designed with media and film composers in mind, but the bulk of these are organised into mini-construction kits, each with several loops that can be linked or blended, as well as various guitar parts and often a suitable bass loop.

In total, the library provides over 6GB of samples and contains around 1200 individual loops. The loops are organised into these mini-kits under four categories: Ambient (dreamy soundscapes), Themes (a somewhat stronger emphasis on melody?), FX (lots of interesting processing applied) and Distorted (no prizes for guessing). Within each kit at least three different guitar parts are included and these are provided in both dry and processed versions. Pre-mixed loops are also provided along with some intro- and outro-style loops for easy cue construction. As befits the ‘cinematic’ reference in the title, most of the loops are extended in nature, with eight- or 16-bar lengths the norm.

OK, so for a loop library the asking price is perhaps not in the ‘impulse buy’ bracket for most, but there is plenty of content and Elastik itself allows you to squeeze plenty of mileage out of that content. In the ‘Ambient’ and ‘Themes’ categories, the playing is suitably tasteful and very well recorded and presented. It’s not all Ry Cooder and Paris, Texas but, stylistically, it creates the same atmospheric moods. That does mean that Cinematic Guitar Loops is perhaps quite niche in its target audience but, for composers without the necessary guitar chops, there would be some useful ammunition here if you had a moody, atmospheric, scene just crying out for a bit of dreamy guitar playing.

By John Walden