Sample Libraries

Rating: 5/5 Stars ***** If you are a budding or busy composer looking for sonic inspiration in this style, then Ueberschall's Synthetic Soundtracks titles may well be of interest.

The latest release in the series is Twelve String Electric, which conjures the sound of late-’60s pop like almost no other instrument.

Ueberschall have built up an impressive series of titles based around their Elastik Player front-end. The bulk of these follow a construction-kit format offering collections of genre-specific music composition broken down into their constituent loops...

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.

Action Cuts is the latest addition to Ueberschall's Elastik-based 'Inspire' series of sample libraries.

Elastik 2

Elastik-based library

Jazz Colors features 20 jazz-flavoured construction kits comprising over 3GB of sample data, spread across some 1400 samples.

According to its liner notes, the purpose of Urban Ballads is to provide R&B producers with "authentic” sounds.

Ueberschall tend to design their products so that they serve a very specific genre of music. Looptool is rather different, in that it covers all genres by sampling the content of a huge number of Ueberschall libraries.

As with other titles in Ueberschall's growing catalogue of Elastik-based collections, this is essentially a loop‑based...

The Elastik engine is at the heart of Ueberschall’s many sample libraries — and now they’ve stretched it a bit further with the release of V2...

Described as 'Natural Chillout Music', Ueberschall's Nightshift features 18 song-construction kits aimed at smooth, laid‑back...

Ueberschall's Ambient Lines is another in their series of Elastik‑based sample libraries.

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As the title suggests...

It's not often that packaging sleeve notes are underwhelming — they tend towards excessive hype — but those of Deep House don'...

Regular readers of our sample library reviews might be forgiven for thinking that Ueberschall's Score FX II is just the same...

Ueberschall's libraries tend to target specific markets, with titles like ''80s Punk...

Ueberschall seem to be on a bit of a streak when it comes to Electro libraries: hot on the heels of the Elastik‑based Club...

Ueberschall's Electrolines is a further volume in their popular Liquid Instruments series. We've looked at a number of these...

As the title suggests, the musical target of Chillers Joint is downtempo soul, funk, hip-hop, trip-hop and related styles....

Ueberschall's Score FX is a further volume in the Liquid Instruments series, where the phrase samples are accessed through a ...