Rock Classics

70s & 80s finest Rock Sampling Collection

Rock Classics covers the era of the 70s and 80s where famous rock bands were able to decorate their studios‘ walls with gold and platinum honored releases.

Format:

ELASTIK

Genre:

Rock, 70s

7.2 GB, 20 Construction Kits, 2.960 Loops & Samples

149.00 €

104.30 €

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

Rock Classics

Ueberschall‘s Elastik library „Rock Classics“ is the result of a months-lasting, intense production. Its 20 construction kits offer professionally recorded drums, bass and guitars in up to seven different parts. Each construction kit‘s part is available in two variations to multiply the number of possible combinations. All tracks have been recorded using an analogue mixing console and an analogue multitrack to create a truly authentic sound. Also, all guitars have been recording using real amplifiers - no emulations, no exceptions! The abstinence of plug-ins of any kind has led to a production that is exceptionally warm and punchy. Sound wise, Rock Classics is head to head with the classics in rock history. The immense choice of different parts and variations makes this library ideally suited for film- and advertisement soundtracks. Rock Classic is also a perfect choice whenever the classic sound of those 70s and 80s legendary rock songs is needed. And thanks to individual instrument tracks, the library is of great use in any other creative environment, making Rock Classics an ideal start point for new compositions. At the same time, the individual tracks allow easily analyzing how the sound of a great rock classic track was built. This qualifies the library as suitable demonstration material for music schools and educational institutes for audio- and sound engineering.

Content

Rock Classics consists of 7.2 GB audio data containing 2.960 loops. The 20 construction kits are divided in up to seven parts. Available are intro, A-, B- and C-parts as well as breaks and outros. All electric guitars and basses are available as individual tracks, being recorded using real amplifiers - no modelers!

As you can expect from Ueberschall productions, all drums have been carefully mic‘ed and are available as single tracks, too. Besides a premixed version of the drum kit, there are dry tracks of the bass drum, two snare tracks (top and bottom microphones), hi-hat, toms and overheads, allowing to build the kit‘s sound from ground up.

Elastik-Features

Ueberschall‘s Elastik player is clearly laid out, structured and expands the library‘s possibilities in use. All of the library‘s loops contain information about name, tempo and key of a construction kit, allowing easy navigation within the kits. Zplane‘s „élastique pro“ algorithm enables high-quality time-stretching and pitch-shifting of the loops with just a slight tax of the CPU. This way, all loops of Rock Classics can be effortlessly adapted in tempo and pitch to existing projects and productions. Finally, the intuitive browser manages all installed Elastik libraries and enables immediate access to all loops and samples for cross-genre productions.

Genre: Rock

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

7.2 GB, 20 Construction Kits, 2.960 Rock Loops and Samples

SOUNDBANK CONTENT

Mixes: 260

Backing: 260

Drum Loop: 262

Acoustic Bassdrum: 255

Snare Top: 213

Snare Bottom: 213

HiHat: 219

Tom: 120

Cymbal Ride: 33

Overhead: 262

Electric Bass: 259

Electric Guitar: 4

Distorted Guitar: 600

Thanks to its clear structure the Elastik player is the ideal tool for fast and modern music production using loops. Each loop contains information on tempo and key, so you can quickly find the right sample for your production. The „élastique pro“-algorithm by zplane offers time stretching and pitch shifting in high quality, while the ReTune algorithm lets you change the key and scale of any tonal loop. Endless possibilities to adjust sounds to your own projects.

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REVIEW

Rock Classics is a great source of inspiration to start your own slice of classic '70s/'80s rock.

Rock Classics

Sound on Sound
November 2013

"Rock Classics is a great source of inspiration to start your own slice of classic '70s/'80s rock."

Rock Classics is a further release in Ueberschall's Elastik-based loop library series. In this case, we get 20 construction kits spread across a substantial (nearly 8GB) collection of samples. As someone who will happily admit to wearing out two copies of Thin Lizzy's Live & Dangerous album on vinyl before buying a CD copy, I'm quite partial to a bit of classic rock. It's worth emphasising that Ueberschall have a 1970s and 1980s target in mind here rather than material routed a little further back in time or, if you were born after 1995, anything that might now qualify as 'classic' in a grungy sort of a way.

Given the size of the library, and the fairly standard 20 construction kits, you would be correct in assuming that each kit is fully stocked with sample options. Indeed, each construction kit can have as many as 14 different musical sections and, within each section, you get separate loops for each drum, guitar and bass part. For the drums, as well as a pre-mixed loop, you also get separate loops for the kick, snare top, snare bottom, hi-hat and overheads. Most of these sub-sections feature two or more different guitar parts. And while all these musical sub-sections require a little bit of work on the user's part to stitch them together into a complete backing track, they do give you an impressive amount of flexibility in building your musical arrangement into your own take on the song/chorus/bridge structure for any particular kit.

Sonically, the recording and the tones used are pretty much spot on for the target style. The drums are punchy, but the production sound most certainly nods at the '70s/'80s, rather than something more modern. The guitar sounds are also of the period, although these are tones that lots of contemporary rock players often try to emulate, so a 'dated' label doesn't really apply. The playing is solid throughout but also quite restrained. There is little by way of histrionics — just good solid chord progressions and a shed-load of right-for-the-period riffs. What you are building here are complete backing tracks; you need to add your own rock vocal and the occasional solo to round things off.

Auditioning the samples, it was easy to identify the musical inspirations behind this collection. If you think AC/DC, Van Halen, Def Leppard and Thin Lizzy then you will be in the right general area. This means that Rock Classics is perhaps a bit of a niche library. That said, current bands such as Airbourne or Black Stone Cherry do reference those styles quite heavily, so the library can be used by more than just media composers looking for a pastiche. Thankfully, unlike some albums from the original artists, Rock Classics avoids the temptation to cough up a ballad. For that, you are on your own; otherwise, Rock Classics is a great source of inspiration to start your own slice of classic '70s/'80s rock.
John Walden