Chart Hits

Straight into and up the charts. Is music more than just fun for you? Do you want to address big audiences? Do you look for airplay, video-rotation and commercial success? Then it is time to enter the charts with your track!

Just like in recent US major productions, Euro-sounds are mixed with elements of black music to melt into real pop-music-anthems.

Format:

ELASTIK

Genre:

Pop, Dance

970 MB, 10 Construction Kits, 510 Loops

49.00 €

34.30 €

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

Chart Hits

Pop is the biggest intersection in music. It reaches large audiences by radio- and television broadcast, clubs and concerts. This allows earning quite a bit of money but also means working in a competitive market. To hold your ground, more than just a good song idea is needed to remain in the charts. Your productions need to be top notch and pick up the latest trends. This is where Ueberschall's Chart Hits library comes in. Pop-oriented construction kits integrate modern elements like Trance- synthlines, R’n’B-hooks as well as House-beats and acoustic guitar licks. Fat synth sounds and punchy drums set the base for catchy melodies and harmonic structures that paint the full picture of song. This library puts the right sound-set for your chart track into your hands. The rest is up to your and your A&R manager.

Content

Chart Hits offers 10 extensive construction kits including a total of 510 loops. Just like in recent US major productions, Euro-sounds are mixed with elements of black music to melt into real pop-music-anthems. These sounds create a dense grooving backing-track that, unlike instrumental club music, will leave enough space to fit vocals and lead instruments.

Each construction kit contains a demonstrative full-mix plus individual tracks of in the charts lead synthesizers, pad sounds, acoustic and electric guitars, electric and synthetic basses and effect sounds. In addition, you'll find all drum kits as full-mixes as well as single tracks for kick, snare, hihat, cymbals and percussions. This allows easy exchanging of single instruments and a target-oriented mixdown. The construction kits consist of 2 to 4 folders containing the main theme and further variations. Intro, breaks and A/B parts can be easily arranged this way and a first song layout is just a few minutes ahead.

When it comes to the production of a potential chart track, there's no way around this library. Also, for any application where music is meant to address a broad audience, like advertisements, signature tunes in television or product/event presentations on tradeshows, Chart Hits delivers the perfect solution.

Elastik-Features

Ueberschall's Elastik-Player is the ideal tool for fast music production. At lightning speed and highest quality, the loops and sounds of a library can be matched in tempo and pitch. All libraries' construction kits are organized in a way that single elements can be exchanged easily anytime. Also, the attribute-based browser allows fast and selective searching for specific loops and elements across all installed Elastik libraries for immediate integration in a song. You wouldn't want to miss this efficient feature, if your musical work spreads across several genres particularly.

On top of that, creativity doesn't come short when using Elastik, too. Functions like resample, formant, reverse and the effective multimode-filter allow slight or extreme manipulation of loops and sounds with little effort.

Credits

Chart Hits has been produced by Marc Steinmeier, who has previously worked for companies like Universal Music, EMI Electrola and Sony/BMG. Many of his tracks and remixes of well-known artists such as LL Cool J, Alicia Keys, George Clinton and Eminem thank their final polishing in composition and sound design to him.

Genre: Pop

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

970 MB, 10 Construction Kits, 510 Pop Loops and Samples

SOUNDBANK CONTENT

Mixes: 32

Backing: 32

Drum Loop: 35

Electronic Bassdrum: 29

Snare Electronic: 19

Claps: 27

HiHat: 12

HiHat Closed: 26

HiHat Open: 19

Cymbal Ride: 4

Crash Cymbal: 12

Electronic Percussion: 5

Percussion: 9

Shaker: 2

Windchimes: 4

Electric Bass: 1

Synth Bass: 27

Sub Bass: 3

Electric Guitar: 19

Acoustic Guitar: 3

Electric Piano: 1

Synthesizer: 125

Pad Sounds: 30

Pizzicato Strings: 1

Electronic FX: 33

While Elastik is a hugely creative tool, it also provides an extremely efficient workflow. The streamlined browser means that no matter how large your Elastik loop library becomes, you can always find just the right loop in an efficient fashion. Elastik also includes advanced features such as tagging and filtering, making it easy to narrow down any search. The browser allows you to easily audition loops in BPM, key and scale sync with your project. And if you want to add new loop libraries from the Ueberschall range, the authorization process is fast and secure.

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REVIEW

Chart Hits is a clear recommendation for productions in the style of Lady Gaga, Rihanna or Ke$ha.

Add your own top-notch vocal hooks and these tracks are ready to roll. Chart Hits sounds great.

Chart Hits
Sound on Sound, April 2013
www.soundonsound.com

"Add your own top-notch vocal hooks and these tracks are ready to roll. Chart Hits sounds great (…)."

The latest addition to Ueberschall’s ever-expanding collection of sample libraries for their Elastik format is Chart Hits. With over 500 sample loops (just under 1GB of content), spread over 10 song-based construction kits, the organisational format is similar to many of their genre-based titles. The loops within each construction kit are organised into three or four different musical sections and overall song construction can be as simple as organising a sequence of these sections.

Within each of the song sections, the user also has plenty of flexibility, as there are plenty of loops to work with (generally 15 or more in most of the song sections folders). As well as a pre-mixed drum loop, those who want full control over their drum mix, or just to drop different drum components out to create further variations, can also take advantage of a number of drum-loop layers containing kick, snare, claps, hi-hats, percussion and cymbals. The bulk of the drum sounds are electronic in nature and are suitably big, bold and dance-friendly.
While the rest of the instrumentation is dominated by synth sounds, the occasional guitar loop is provided, although some of these are processed, so don’t expect too much acoustic strumming. The synths — basses, chord progressions, stabs and special effects — sound great; there’s nothing here that would be out of place in a contemporary club. There’s plenty of material to work with, and while you can just layer every loop into a wall of sound, if you apply a little more discretion there’s more than enough variety in the various synth layers to let you build arrangements to hold the listener’s interest for an extended remix.
The Chart Hits title might actually imply a range of different musical styles, but don’t be fooled; the 10 construction kits here are pretty focused on anthemic, dance-friendly, house-meets-trance pop. While a couple of the kits are perhaps less energetic (the bulk of the original recording tempos are in the 125-130 bpm range), if you think of ‘Titanium’ by David Guetta or ‘Party All Night’ by Sean Kingston, you won’t be far off the mark. Add your own top-notch vocal hooks and these tracks are ready to roll. Chart Hits sounds great and, at this price point, is decent value for money if you need a dose of dance-friendly, anthem-style synth pop in an easy-to-use format.

John Walden