Urban Ballads

Sexy high quality R&B Music

All Construction Kits are filled with extraordinary samples, beatz, guitars, Rhodes, pianos, basslines, synths, pads, fx sounds and a whole bunch of drum and percussion sounds.

Format:

ELASTIK

Genre:

Urban, R&B

3.6 GB, 22 Construction Kits, 1261 Loops & Samples

99.00 €

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

Urban Ballads

Featured by the Urbanic Series, Urban Ballads is an all new jam packed release which includes 22 Construction Kits providing 3.6 GB of smooth, sexy high quality R&B Music. It grants you access to the melancholic and emotional facet of modern and classic R&B music. Including tempos between 50 – 77 BPM, you’ll find primarily slow and calm Kits with applicable accents, which are perfect for creating the freshest, most modern love tunes, ballads or R&B tracks on the market today.

Content

All Construction Kits are filled with extraordinary samples, beatz, guitars, Rhodes, pianos, basslines, synths, pads, fx sounds and a whole bunch of drum and percussion sounds. Every sample on Urban Ballads is labeled with BPM information and root key (key signatures).

Structure

Furthermore, the kit contains up to 4 sub-kits,
material is organized as follows:

• Main Kit - Includes the main theme, sounds and phrases

• Variation Kit - Provides an alternative track and phrases which is used to add contrast to the main theme

• Intro/Outro Kit - Here you can find the matching intro/outro track for the overall kit, along with it‘s individual parts

This structure makes it easy to select the correct vibe needed for your track. Plus the integrated Elastik player allows you to fit the samples to your individual needs. The content is geared toward Urban Music producers, especially R&B producers, looking for authentic R&B sounds. Everything is programmed to conform to the musical genre.

Credits

Responsible for this product is Marc Steinmeier. He has worked for companies like Universal Music, EMI Electrola and Sony/BMG to name a few. He has assisted, produced or remixed for well known artists such as LL Cool J, Alica Keys, George Clinton, and Eminem to name a few. He 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

3.6 GB, 22 Construction Kits, 1261 Urban Loops and Samples

SOUNDBANK CONTENT

Mixes: 88

Backing: 88

Drum Loop: 75

Electronic Bassdrum: 72

Snare Electronic: 12

Rimshot: 17

Claps: 31

Snap: 15

HiHat: 7

HiHat Closed: 63

HiHat Open: 23

Tom: 15

Cymbal Ride: 11

Crash Cymbal: 19

Cymbals: 16

Percussion: 54

Shaker: 29

Claves: 1

Bongo: 10

Tamborin: 3

Windchimes: 33

Triangel: 11

Timpani: 4

Electric Bass: 84

Electric Guitar: 58

Acoustic Guitar: 4

Harp: 8

Acoustic Piano: 64

Rhodes: 88

Organ: 2

Synthesizer: 112

Pad Sounds: 30

Instrumental Mix: 4

Xylophon: 4

Vibraphon: 1

Marimba: 4

Strings: 62

Brass Hits: 3

Flute: 5

Oboe: 2

Vocal FX: 3

Electronic FX: 20

Elastik 3 is the most powerful sample player that we have ever created. It provides a complete toolkit for modern music producers working with audio loops. Loops can be an essential part of many musicians creative process and, with Elastik, you get a fast, efficient and flexible set of tools. With its intuitive Loopeye editing environment, the high-quality pitch, key, scale and tempo manipulation algorithms and the huge collection of sample libraries spanning almost every musical genre, Elastik is a powerful workstation for loop-based music creation. It can be used either as a stand-alone application or as plugin within almost any DAW on both Windows and macOS.

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REVIEW

All in all, Urban Ballads does the job pretty well, offering a variety of solutions to composers who are unsure about which sound combinations work.

Urban Ballads

Sound on Sound, April 2012
www.soundonsound.com

"All in all, Urban Ballads does the job pretty well, offering a variety of solutions to composers who are unsure about which sound combinations work. 3.5/5"

According to its liner notes, the purpose of Urban Ballads is to provide R&B producers with “authentic” sounds. What qualifies as “authentic” remains unclear, but the sample content includes guitars, electric and acoustic pianos, basses, synths, pads and effects.

As is the way with all the Elastik instruments I’ve encountered, Urban Ballads is made up of Construction Kits. Within each Kit, all the samples and loops share the same tempo, key and rhythmic characteristics, and form a song-like composition when combined. Urban Ballads offers 22 kits, amounting to 3.6GB of data and comprising 1261 samples. The idea is that the end user builds an arrangements from loops and samples belonging to a Kit, but there’s nothing to prevent you selecting a drum hit or solitary loop and using it as a basis for something completely different.

In terms of sample organisation, each Construction Kit folder contains a Main Kit carrying the dominant theme, phrases and sounds, a Variation Kit offering alternative loop ideas, and Intro and Outro Kits. Tempos range from 50 to 77 BPM — approximately half the speed of a typical dance track — although the hip-hop inspired ‘beatz’ prevent the feel from becoming too laid-back.

(...) The use of virtual instruments and the aforementioned electronic beats does keep things contemporary, as I’ve observed, but much of the material draws heavily on ’70s and ’80s R&B and funk production, where strings, tremolo guitars, chirpy synths and cheeky basses play a big part.

The samples themselves are well played and programmed, and are generally ambiguous enough on their own to be useful in many different compositional contexts. I suspect that the Rhodes piano examples will have the longest shelf life, particularly as they wouldn’t be out of place on the Dirty Harry soundtrack, but there are other minor gems too. I was quite taken by the range and quality of the acoustic guitar riffs, for example, many of which could form the basis of a new composition. Other highlights include the organ samples and the FX folder content.

All in all, Urban Ballads does the job pretty well, offering a variety of solutions to composers who are unsure about which sound combinations work. (...) 3.5/5

Tom Flin