Concert Flute

Delicate Melodic Moods

Concert Flute, as with other titles in the Elastik Instrument Series, brings you a collection of exquisite solo instrumental performances. This library is build around a collection of phrases played on a western concert flute in C, beautifully played and beautifully recorded. The library contains some 800 MB of sample content spread across nearly 1000 individual musical phrases.

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ELASTIK

Genre:

Jazz, Instruments

800MB, 954 Loops

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

Captures The Intimate Sound Of The Concert Flute

The licks are pre-organised into groups based upon performance style with low register legato, high register legato, staccato and 'trill' based groups included. Original recording tempos span 70 to 130bpm and are indicated for each phrase. Elastik's high-quality time-stretching algorithms do, of course, allow you to adjust tempo with great flexibility. Sets of phrases are presented with matching tempos and feels, making it easy to construct longer melodic passages or complete solo performances.

Beautifully Recorded

The recordings are presented dry with no EQ or compression applied so that you can apply your own choice of processing. The intimate, breathy sound of the instrument is captured to perfection and the style of playing, while working within a more formal orchestral setting, is also ideally suited to pop, jazz, soul, latin or house productions. Used in the right musical context, you can also capture the retro feel of 1960s pop.

Timeless Melodic Performances

Concert Flute is ideal for busy music and media producers requiring the authentic sound of the flute for their latest music cue and will add a touch of class to any music production.

Credits

Multireedman David Milzow has already recorded with musicians from the James Brown-family, for Mousse T.'s Label, the live-version of the superhit 2010 “We no speak Americano”, various products for Ueberschall including the legendary “Saxophone” and “Hornsection”-series and releases regularly his own projects with Clubmusic to Fusion and Jazz.

Attention: The backing loops used in the demo are not part of the library!

Instrument: Flute

Elastik Soundbank for Mac & Win - AU/VST/AAX/StandAlone

800 MB, 954 Flute Loops and Samples

SOUNDBANK CONTENT

Western Concert Flute: 954

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

Concert Flute sounds like an excellent player is right there in the room with you.

Concert Flute

Sound on Sound, March 2016

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/mar16/articles/sample-shop-0316-03.htm

Back in the July 2015 issue of Sound On Sound, I reviewed Ueberschall’s Flugelhorn and Trumpet 2 sample libraries, both part of the company’s Instrument series for Elastik. The libraries in this series forego the construction-kit approach of the genre–based Elastik collections and, instead, are built on a series of solo instrument phrases/licks that you can piece together to form a complete performance. In this case the instrument in question is the flute and, while there are some beautiful (and very playable) sample–based flutes available as virtual instruments, there is always a place in a composer’s toolkit for phrase–based samples of a real instrument played by a real human.

Concert Flute provides around 800MB of samples and contains nearly 1,000 individual musical phrases. Given the large number of phrases, thankfully, the library is arranged into a number of sections and these are organised by playing style — legato, staccato, trills — with sub–folders within a specific style containing a goodly selection of phrases that are related in terms of the style, intensity, register and sound. Delve down to a specific sub–folder, therefore, and it is easy to find a selection of phrases that can be linked together to build a complete melodic part or lead line. In the main, the original recording tempos span the 70 to 120 bpm range, although Elastik really does make it possible to stretch/compress the material a good bit further than this before audio artifacts become apparent.

The recordings themselves are presented dry with no pre–processing applied. This obviously gives the user maximum flexibility, but does mean you have to apply your own EQ, compression or reverb as required. The sound is pretty authentic, though, and every detail of the performance — including those elements that make it obvious these are ‘real’ performances — comes through clearly. That’s a good thing by the way; Concert Flute sounds like an excellent player is right there in the room with you.

Perhaps the other important thing to note, however, is that the word ‘Concert’ in the title doesn’t mean this is a collection of orchestral–style phrases. I suspect there are melodies here that you could use in a more traditional orchestral composition, but where Concert Flute really excels is for pop, jazz or soul genres. If you need to recall the classic sound of the flute from 1960s pop recordings, then this is a sample library that will put you in that musical space very easily. That might suggest Concert Flute is a bit of a niche product (and perhaps it is) but it sounds truly genuine within that niche and, for busy media composers, provides instant access to that particular musical vibe with a minimum of effort.

John Walden