Bass Saxophone

playin´ the beast

That´s really new: so soulful and melodic, almost a half octave lower are these new Bass Sax loops, played in a contemporary groovestyle.

The saxophone for this production was recorded with premium-class microphones and high-end analog/digital converters. All Licks in this library are available as dry versions, without any additional e.q.- , compressor- or reverb effects.

Format:

ELASTIK

Genre:

Jazz, Instruments

440 MB, 140 Loops

49.00 €

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Bass Saxophone

Everybody who thought the classic „buab“ by Tower of Power´s baritonesax sounds deep should listen now to these loops. That´s really new: so soulful and melodic, almost a half octave lower are these new Bass Sax loops, played in a contemporary groovestyle. Played by Multisaxman David Milzow on an extraordinary HighClass- Instrument of the Keilwerth company, these samples show the really new possibilities of this “beast”, think of “Barry White goes Sax”.

The saxophone for this production was recorded with premium-class microphones and high-end analog/digital converters. All Licks in this library are available as dry versions, without any additional e.q.- , compressor- or reverb effects.

Attention: All backing tracks used in the demo are not included in the library and only function as examples.

Credits

As one of the leading saxophonists of his generation in Germany David Milzow build up a reputation as a „multisaxophonist“. As a session musician he can be heard on productions by Ueberschall, Mousse T. or tracks like „We no speak Americano“ by The Drapers and he was live on stage with illustrious musicians like Joo Kraus, Richie Beirach, Dave Liebman, Melva Houston or Clyde Stubblefield. He played live and on TV not only with his own bands The Screenclub (New Soul Jazz) and DNA - Group (Rock Jazz) but also with The Drapers („We no speak Americano“ and „Yakety Yak“).

www.davidmilzow.de

Genre: Instruments

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

440 MB, 140 Saxophone Loops and Samples

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Saxophone: 140

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

These samples will give speaker cones a good flap! 5/5 Stars

Bass Saxophone

Sound on Sound October 2013
www.soundonsound.com

"These samples will give speaker cones a good flap! 5/5 Stars"

Ueberschall's Elastik-based library series now runs to dozens of titles and Bass Saxophone is one of the latest additions. However, the company used to offer a different front end with libraries in the Liquid Instruments series. These tended to be melodic instrument samples because Liquid included pitch manipulation technology based upon Celemony's Melodyne. This meant that you could take a melodic line and re-pitch the sample within the plug-in, which was great for getting more mileage out of your samples and creating more natural variation within your sample-based performances. As most top-notch DAWs now include pitch correction/manipulation tools in the vein of Melodyne (if not always in the same class), it's easy to understand why Ueberschall have focussed on Elastik rather than Liquid, but if you have suitable pitch adjustment capabilities in your setup, then Bass Saxophone is an ideal candidate to use them with. The library includes about 450MB of sample data spread across 140 samples. All the performances have been recorded as sub-100bpm tempos and they are organised into nine tempo/key-based folders.

And they sound gorgeous! Each sample contains a short melodic phrase and these have been beautifully played (by David Milzow) and beautifully recorded. All the samples are presented dry so you can add compression and reverb to suit your own needs but, even without any processing, they sound big and fat with the full bottom end of the sound being captured. These samples will give speaker cones a good flap!

Style-wise, the mood is mainly soulful and melodic while the slow/mid-tempo range means they are just perfect for that sax solo in your latest soul-based love ballad. That said, apply a little tempo stretch and you could easily craft out some more Yello-style funky riffs (think 'The Race' only with more punch!) from amongst this lot. Usefully, the sound is fairly consistent across all the folders; finding a few phrases to link together for a solo instrumental section is, therefore, a breeze, but it is also possible to construct an extended solo if you are trying to create a full instrumental piece. And, if you render out the samples from Elastik to an audio track, tools such as Melodyne or Cubase's VariAudio can make short work of re-pitching the melody to suit your chord progression.

The sax is a beautiful instrument but, in a solo context, it can be very difficult to achieve a believable performance from a virtual instrument without doing a lot of hard work to recreate the very expressive nature of the sound. In contrast, the sample phrases within Ueberschall's Bass Saxophone have all the expression you could hope for and, with judicious use of a suitable pitch manipulation tool, you could make these loops go a long way. At this price, Bass Saxophone comes highly recommended.

John Walden
5/5 Stars