Supreme Styles

The Urban Expansion

Supreme Styles combines a huge range of acoustic and amped guitars plus all the essential sounds needed for urban music.

Since the main focus of this library was set on guitars, there is a huge range of acoustic and amped guitars, such as rock guitars with and without distortion, flamenco guitars, classical nylon guitars, also guitars with wah-wah effect and much more.

Format:

ELASTIK

Genre:

Urban, R&B

4 GB, 30 Construction Kits, 1534 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

Supreme Styles

Supreme Styles is the ultimate library of urban music, which adjust its top priority on guitars. The library deals with a wide range of styles such as HipHop, R&B, Club and Dancehall, as well as other surrounding genres. Each of the 30 Construction Kits delivers a well composed track, (including a main part, variation, intro/outro), which consist besides its instrument and drum and percussion loops, of several guitar loops. With a range of 58 bpm to 127 bpm, you‘ll find unique tracks, which have their own tension, feeling and style. Everything is composed to conform to the musical genre and the samples comprise a state of the art Library, made to achieve true urban sound.

Content

A close look into the 4GB package, finds more than 1600 loops and samples of supremely engineered, recorded instruments. Since the main focus of this library was set on guitars, there is a huge range of acoustic and amped guitars, such as rock guitars with and without distortion, flamenco guitars, classical nylon guitars, also guitars with wah-wah effect and much more. A flood of guitar phrase choices are available from short licks, up to catchy melodies, riffs and chords. All guitar loops were created with top brands such as Fender, Gibson, Music Man, PRS, Sandberg, Martin, Washburn and Takamine, to name only a few. Amps used include Marshall, Vox, Mesa Boogie, Hiwatt, Engl, Orange, Line 6 and others. Additional DSP processing, stomp pedals, along with outboard processing were also applied.

Beside the guitars, all the essential sounds needed for urban music are available, including: bass drums, snares, claps, hihats, shaker, a great amount of percussion, as well as heavy bass-lines, remarkable synthesizer sounds, pads, strings, organs, acoustic pianos, e-pianos and much more.

Structure

Furthermore, the kit contains up to 3 sub-kits and a drum single sound folder, material is organized as follows:

- Main Kit - Includes the main theme, with its sounds and phrases.
- Variation Kit A - 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.
- Intro/Outro Kit - Here you can find the matching intro/outro track for the overall kit, along with its individual parts.
- Single Drum Sound - The single-shots are centralized in this folder, making it easy to create your own additional drum patterns.

The given structure and features like labeled key signature and tempo information provide a very easy way of arranging a whole song including all the parts you need to make the perfect urban track. Additionally the Elastik Player offers you a lot of DSP functions to adjust the phrases to further fit your productions / creations.

Credits

Responsible for this product are Marc Steinmeier and Bene “Beneluxus” Dehling. They have worked for Companies like Universal Music, EMI Electrola and Sony/BMG to name a few. They have assisted, produced or remixed for well known artists such as LL Cool J, Alica Keys, George Clinton, Eminem to name a few. They gave a lot of productions their break in terms of Sounddesign. This product guarantees a sound that is truly high fidelity.

Genre: Urban

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

4 GB, 30 Construction Kits, 1534 Urban Loops and Samples

SOUNDBANK CONTENT

Mixes: 120

Backing: 120

Drum Loop: 124

Electronic Bassdrum: 126

Snare Electronic: 43

Rimshot: 8

Claps: 99

HiHat: 52

HiHat Closed: 53

HiHat Open: 34

Tom: 15

Cymbal Ride: 12

Crash Cymbal: 52

Cymbals: 23

Percussion: 48

Shaker: 65

Conga: 5

Bongo: 35

Tamborin: 19

Djambe: 3

Snaper: 8

Windchimes: 5

Timpani: 2

Electric Bass: 102

Electric Guitar: 146

Acoustic Guitar: 59

Harp: 10

Acoustic Piano: 17

Electric Piano: 26

Organ: 13

Synthesizer: 62

Pad Sounds: 2

Instrumental Mix: 3

Strings: 69

Brass Hits: 9

Trumpet: 3

Flute: 14

Oboe: 1

Vocal FX: 3

Electronic FX: 24

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

Overall, Supreme Styles is yet another well?made selection of urban construction kits (...). 4/5 Stars"

Supreme Styles

Sound on Sound, May 2011
www.soundonsound.com

Supreme Styles, based around Ueberschall’s Elastik loop player, covers a range of modern urban styles, with a fair amount of its focus on guitar?based sounds, oddly, which is something not exactly hinted at by its title.

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Let’s jump straight into the numbers: Supreme Styles’ 4GB worth of content is split into 30 kits, whose tempos range from a very laid-back 58bpm to a more upfront 127bpm. Each kit is then split into sections: Intro, Main Kit, Variation and Outro. Each of these sections contains a main mix and all of the component loops. The kit is then rounded off with a collection of all the single drum hits used. All of the loops within each section are spread over the keyboard, starting at C1, and can be filtered, panned, reversed and sync’ed to a new tempo, all within the Elastik player interface.

Style?wise, to my ears, the kits tend to sit within the smoother, chart hip?hop/commercial R&B/street soul side of the urban genre (although the lines are becoming increasingly blurred). Everything is put together skillfully but, to my mind, the collection is perhaps missing that little bit of attitude and edge to lift it above an already crowded market of equally well?produced competitors.

As far as the individual elements go, the guitar loops and licks are the highlight of this collection, perhaps unsurprisingly, given their emphasis in the accompanying blurb. Overall, the guitar work is well played, well recorded and refreshingly tasteful. The effects are well chosen and rarely overwhelm proceedings, tending to remain quite subtle and in keeping with the genre. There are some nice Latin touches, as well as plenty of solid, soulful, muted guitar picking and strums. As well as the fret work, there’s also a good line in supporting instrumentation, with electric piano licks, synth lines and string beds that settle back nicely in the mix.

If there’s anything that lets this collection down slightly, it’s at the bottom end. Sure, the bass is deep, but it somehow remains slightly uninspiring, with some rather workmanlike choices of bass synth. This is also true of the beats, which roll along fine but still seem to be missing an edge and are occasionally a little percussion-heavy for my taste. Of course, the beauty of the construction-kit format is that any superfluous percussion can be easily stripped out, although it may be trickier to squeeze a bit more swagger in.

Overall, Supreme Styles is yet another well?made selection of urban construction kits that, although lacking in attitude in places, is still packed with high production values and commercial appeal. The heavy emphasis on the guitars may not be to everyone’s taste, but they are handled very well and provide a unique selling point.

4/5 Stars

Oli Bell