Ueberschall - Jazz Works Series

Review in: Keys, April 2023. https://www.keys.de/

Staying flexible with loop-based production and still sounding modern and getting results quickly? Sounds almost too good to be true, but with the Ueberschall libraries and the Elastik player it is possible.

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Let's ask ourselves who the target group of these sounds is in the first place. At first glance a seemingly "stupid" question, because it actually seems obvious. Of course, everyone who likes jazz sounds and loops. Looking a little closer, the addressees of Ueberschall in the narrower sense are actually film and TV music producers.

But Jazz Works can also be used for other purposes. If you play around with it a bit, you will quickly realise that it can also be used optimally for classic vinyl cuts in the areas of hip hop or house. As mentioned above, the Elastik engine also offers "sliced mapping" and samples can be edited in their slices, i.e. smallest fragments, with pitch shifting and all kinds of other options. If you approach the whole thing a little creatively, this is a predestined situation especially for the styles mentioned. Solos from Jazz Works can therefore easily be used in RnB, HipHop, Soul, Chillout, Lounge or House and numerous other electronic genres and offer a wealth of inspiration whenever and wherever Jazz is needed for one of the next productions.

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To work innovatively with samples, especially in the field of media music, but by no means only, there is perhaps hardly anything better at the moment.

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+ independent concept
+ great creative potential
+ convincing sound