Soulful Pop

Delicious Songs

Soulful Pop is a comprehensive and versatile Pop Music library which delivers over 3.8 GB of authentic, high quality Pop arrangements spiced up with a breeze of soul.

The 18 song oriented construction kits (including an intro, a main part, two variations and an outro) have a musical spectrum that ranges from slow soulful songs to smooth pop songs up to classy pop rock songs.

Format:

ELASTIK

Genre:

Pop, Soul

3.9 GB, 18 Construction Kits, 1137 Loops and Samples

99.00 €

69.30 €

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

Soulful Pop

Soulful Pop is a comprehensive and versatile Pop Music library which delivers over 3.8 GB of authentic, high quality Pop arrangements spiced up with a breeze of soul. The 18 song oriented construction kits (including an intro, a main part, two variations and an outro) have a musical spectrum that ranges from slow soulful songs to smooth pop songs up to classy pop rock songs.

Content

The whole content covers a bandwidth of tempos between 59 – 100 BPM and is filled with more than 1130 loops of precision engineered instrument recordings. All drum recordings are dry and without any extra reverb.
Furthermore the library is stocked with percussions, bass lines, amped and acoustic guitars, organs, various strings, flutes, synthesizer pads and acoustic and electric pianos. Most of these samples get an additional polish with special gear to achieve an authentic and warm vintage sound.

Structure

Each Soulful Pop song-kit contains up to 5 sub-kits:
• Intro: Here you can find the matching intro track for the complete song.
• Main Kit: Includes the main theme, with its sounds and phrases.
• Variation Kit: Provides an alternative track and phrases which is used to add contrast to the main theme and gives you more flexibility for your entire track.
• Variation Kit 2: Provides like the first Variation an alternative track and phrases.
• Outro: Like the intro, this is the matching outro.

As usual, every single-stem is labelled with BPM information, root key (key signatures) and can be easily mixed and combined with other sounds from this or any other Elastik library from Ueberschall.
With the provided Elastik built-in granulation features, you can also stretch and reshape the given material.

Credits

Marc Steinmeier has worked, produced and remixed for Companies like Universal Music, EMI Electrola and Sony/BMG. He has constantly developed unique and fresh styles, creating new standards all the time. He gave a lot of international productions their break in terms of Sound design.

Genre: Soul

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

3.9 GB, 18 Construction Kits, 1137 Soul Loops and Samples

SOUNDBANK CONTENT

Mixes: 90

Backing: 90

Drum Loop: 93

Electronic Bassdrum: 85

Snare Acoustic: 75

HiHat: 69

Tom: 45

Cymbal Ride: 24

Crash Cymbal: 75

Shaker: 3

Conga: 2

Windchimes: 1

Electric Bass: 86

Electric Guitar: 184

Acoustic Guitar: 1

Acoustic Piano: 57

Electric Piano: 81

Organ: 36

Synthesizer: 5

Pad Sounds: 4

Strings: 24

Brass Hits: 3

Saxophone: 1

Flute: 1

Electronic FX: 2

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 sounds and playing quality are top notch, (…) the material is generally very tasty and rarely bland. 4/5 Stars

Soulful Pop

Sound on Sound, May 2011
www.soundonsound.org

"The sounds and playing quality are top notch, (…) the material is generally very tasty and rarely bland."

I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from a sample library entitled Soulful Pop as, while it is a musical genre that can include the most classy and tender of musical emotion, in the wrong hands it can easily cross the line into the most sickly and (hopefully!) forgettable of ballads. Thankfully, Ueberschall seem to have managed to stay on the tasteful side of this divide with their latest Elastik based library. And with nearly 4GB of sample data divided into 18 construction kits, there is plenty of mellow, down tempo material to help you create either loved up, warm and fuzzy or sad and reflective atmospheres.

The sounds and playing quality are top notch and, while I found some of the construction kits more engaging than others, the material is generally very tasty and rarely bland. In particular, the guitar work is excellent. The rhythm playing is relaxed, with some really nice use of wah wah (or some other filtering effect) to add additional rhythmic elements to the playing. While the lead guitar tone occasionally gets a little raucous, the mood is generally beautifully restrained.

Given the dominance of the guitar and the very sweet tones used, I’d be very surprised if John Mayer’s Continuum album was not in the minds of the producers of Soulful Pop. Indeed, for maybe a dozen or so of the kits, I found it very easy to imagine John Mayer’s voice layered over the top of this instrumental material. If ‘Gravity’ or ‘Waiting For The World To Change’ is your sort of thing, and you want an instant dose of something similar, Soulful Pop is where to look.

Aside from one or two of the kits that were perhaps a little less inspiring, my only other observation would be on the variety within each kit. While the main parts and the variations are good, when trying to construct a full song arrangement, I was occasionally left wishing that the variations were just a little bit more ‘different’ from the main part, so a more obvious verse/chorus contrast could be established. These minor comments aside, Soulful Pop is class in a glass. Just add vocals!

4/5 Stars

John Walden