Funk & Soul

Elastik Inspire Series

This volume keeps the authentic feeling of Funk & Soul music. Live recorded guitars, tight real drum loops, bass licks with 100% groove and many more soul material.

All loops are 4 bars long. 400 drum and single drum tracks, all easily combinable. Create over 100.000 crazy funky drummer grooves within seconds.

Format:

ELASTIK

Genre:

Funk, Soul

2 GB, 1282 Loops & Samples

149.00 €

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

Funk & Soul

Ueberschall presents the new „Elastik Inspire Series“! This innovative concept offers new ideas and complete arrangements „on the fly“. Endless searching for matching key and BPM is a thing of the past. With the help of the Elastik 2 Player each inspiration is transformed into a new, unique track.

Loop to Inspire!

This volume keeps the authentic feeling of Funk & Soul music. Live recorded guitars, tight real drum loops, bass licks with 100% groove and many more soul material. All loops are 4 bars long. 400 drum and single drum tracks, all easily combinable. Create over 100.000 crazy funky drummer grooves within seconds.

More than 700 funkey loops from instruments like electric bass, synth, horns, clavinet, epiano, guitar, organ, piano and many more. All made ready for the „Elastik Inspire Series“

How does „Elastik Inspire Series“ work?

The „Elastik Inspire Series“ goes beyond previous boundaries of sample libraries. All loops and tonal phrases fit together perfectly every time, even across genres. Each sample is automatically detected and stretched to the song tempo.

The Elastik 2 Player, the 2 GB sample library and the elaborate tagging system aid in spontaneously creating new tracks. The workflow is fast, simple and clear.

Any instrument can be replaced with samples of the same instrument group at random via the intelligent random-replacement function. The results always work flawlessly. All samples of the „Elastik Inspire Series“ match perfectly. This creates millions of opportunities for new and inspiring tracks.

Everything is possible!

The „Elastik Inspire Series“ represents an inexhaustible source of inspiration especially for creative people in the music, film, multimedia and web industry. Due to the high quality of ueberschall products the created tracks can be immediately integrated into one‘s own projects without any further treatment.

What do the different functions mean?

Using the „Random“ button, new combinations of instruments can be created automatically. The selected sample will be replaced by a randomly selected sample of the same instrument class. The tagging system keeps track of certain features, such as the type of instrument of the sample. Thereby samples are selected from all genres.

Apart from its new graphic interface, Elastik 2 offers a whole new range of desirable features: The self-explanatory browser, designed for fast access to any loaded sound libraries. Browser features: The multiple filter search function allows quickly to find sounds. Prelisten the whole library content in-sync to host tempo and tag favorite samples.

The central Loopeye surface focuses all attention on the loop. All editing is now done inside the Loopeye. Within Loopeye you can record all cursor movements for automation purposes. Elastik 2 even features a sequence mode. Slice up your loop and access an unmatched multitude of editing features for each part.

Due to the advanced architecture of the élastique pro algorithm by zplane.development, realtime sync-to-host is an integral part of Elastik 2.

It also provides highest sound quality and CPU-friendly processing. A random replacement function is a ground breaking feature to create new loops and sounds. Elastik 2 now offers a completely dynamic zoom function to resize its window format.

In several videos on our site each function will be explained in detail.

Loop to Inspire!

Content

- 2 GB, 1282 Loops

- authentic content for each genre

- Random Button for new inspiration

- automatic speed adjustment to existing projects

- infinite possibilities of new tracks and inspiration / ideas

- concerted tonality within the loops

Elastik Features

- innovative loopeye functions

- fast browser features (multiple filter search, tagging)

- prelisten in sync

- sequence mode (loads of edtiting features per slice)

- random sound replacement

- parameter automation

- realtime sync to host

- bounce of original and modified loops

- resizeable window format

- mutiple soundbank management

- timestretch and pitchshift in best quality

Genre: Funk

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

2 GB, 1282 Funk Loops and Samples

SOUNDBANK CONTENT

Drum Loop: 104

Acoustic Bassdrum: 102

Snare Acoustic: 102

Claps: 9

Snap: 6

HiHat: 102

Cymbal Ride: 7

Crash Cymbal: 12

Shaker: 12

Conga: 10

Tamborin: 9

Cowbell: 3

Electric Bass: 232

Synth Bass: 84

Electric Guitar: 168

Acoustic Piano: 27

Electric Piano: 59

Organ: 58

Clavinet: 48

Synthesizer: 56

Strings: 13

Brass Hits: 39

Trumpet: 19

Electronic FX: 18

Reversed: 1

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

Seamless mix and match. Brilliant inspire feature can generate new combinations of loops. Elastik host is playable and encourages improvisation.

Funk and Soul

Electronic Musician, October 2011

emusician.com

"Seamless mix and match. Brilliant inspire feature can generate new combinations of loops. Elastik host is playable and encourages improvisation."

We covered the Funk & Soul sample library from Ueberschall’s Inspire series in the 10/11 issue. But the series has now expanded to five titles, with Urban, House, Rock, and Ambient added to the collection, so let’s re-visit the concept for those who missed it the first time around.

Ueberschall makes great-sounding libraries, hosted by their sophisticated Elastik 2 playback engine, which works as either a plug-in (VST, RTAS, AU; Mac/Windows; 32/64 bit) or standalone. There’s also controllable processing with filter, pan, volume, pitch/formant control (by zplane), slice sequencing, and more; you can apply these changes to individual loops or globally to selected loops. What makes Elastik more of an “instrument” is that you load loops into a virtual keyboard and click on it, play it in real time from a physical controller, or trigger the notes from a sequencer—think of Elastik as an “instrument of loops,” the way you used to play loops with samplers.

But here’s how the Inspire concept takes this further. The Elastik player’s random option lets you load new sounds from other installed Ueberschall libraries; for example, suppose you load loops for kick, snare, a percussion mix, bass, and clavinet, then start playback. Click the Random button, and any selected loops will be replaced with loops from the same instrument category (e.g., a bass line gets replaced with a different bass line). Don’t like it? Try again—but you can also undo/redo, which is handy if you like what you have but want to see if you can do better.

With non-Inspire series libraries, though, the replacement loop may or may not be in the right key. You can always transpose it, but with Inspire libraries, any loop from any Inspire library will not only match tempo, but also key. So if only Inspire library soundbanks are available to the Elastik 2 player, you literally can’t go wrong (a future update will allow you to select which soundbanks Inspire will recognize).

Once you have the loop the way you want, you can just keep playing or sequencing it and save it for future use, or export the loop at the current tempo as a digital audio file. In a nutshell, an Inspire library by itself is like a “loop factory” that can conjure up with a virtually endless combination of possible loops, and you don’t have to concern yourself with matching tempo or key. But when combined with other Inspire libraries, the possibilities are multiplied just that much more.

You can also use the Inspire series libraries as standard sample libraries; they’re all well-crafted and continue to uphold Ueberschall’s high sonic standards. But the Inspire concept really does work—when I found loops that were “close but not quite,” it didn’t take too long before to end up with something that worked well.

Sounds interesting? Download the Elastik 2 player and a free 410MB sound library from Ueberschall’s web site to find out for yourself. The player has a bit of a learning curve, but take the time to scale it—Ueberschall has added a new and very useful twist to the world of sample libraries.

by Craig Anderton