Samples specially designed for Minimal Electro, Techno and Tech House
Background:
Introducing Minimal Electro Vibes, developed for Ueberschall's total fidelity Nouvelle Series. Minimal Electro Vibes covers progressive electro techniques used by top trend innovators from the dance floor. This set includes 20 Construction Kits (1.5 GB of new material) which have been embedded into the Elastik Player for lighting access. Each kit includes all solo parts and drum shots used in the mix for extended individualization.
Pounding bass loops and grooves dedicated to the club scene, deep atmospheres and animated sound fx. These loops zoom into standard electro grooves and magnify synthetic elements from core sounds. Resulting magnified tones provide more access to a grooves inner textural composition. Minimal Electro Vibes offers an overdrive ready arsenal for multiple High-Tech mixing and production environments. Sounds can be fused to various genres for extended exploitation. All samples have been specially designed for Minimal Electro, Techno and Tech House.
For Excessive Use In
Packaging: 1 DVD
Overall size: 1.5 GB
Interfaces: AudioUnits, VST, StandAlone, RTAS
System requirements:
MacOS X: 500 MHz / 512 MB RAM / 10 MB
Windows XP / Vista: 1000 MHz / 512 MB RAM / 10 MB
*Info taken from the Uberschall website
Setting up:
To the untrained eye the set-up can be abit of a pain. There is no initial instructions on how to go about using the samples. The autorun is none existant (I know this is the case for many Mac programs) as there is only an icon that appears on the desktop. The Minimal Electro Vibes construction pack is part of the Uberschall range that uses a player named “Elastik Player”. Having no previous knowledge of this, I was slightly dumb-founded upon trying to install the darn thing.
The Elastik player acts as a loop facility, enabling you to manipulate looped samples to different tempos, tone change, volume, panning etc. within a few mouse clicks. All future libraries compatible with Elastik can be taken care of in this one simple player.
At first glance, the player is a little scary. With the aptly named “Loop Eye” staring at you with a sense of aggression. This a “new, innovative waveform representation” is very swish. When a sample is played the Loop Eye changes waveform to represent the one being played (cool huh?) and also has a pointer that follows the eye clockwise. The control allows you to change where the sample starts, saving time and he ability for easy sample manipulation. There are a few options for installing the player; Stand-alone, RTAS, AU and VST. I personally used AU as Logic is abit of a bitch when it comes to VST’s sadly. For simple sample simulation, the stand-alone player is the most efficient and easiest option
With the installation out the way, you can get started with playing around with the sounds, although there still is no real indication on where to start. The PDF’s included on the disc have some easy-to-use guides for the stand-alone version of the player. Loading the MEV (Minimal Electro Vibes) production pack into the player is pretty easy; a couple of clicks and it’s ready to rumble.
Annoyingly after two times opening the plug-in, a stupid register box appears, easily solved though.
Usage:
The player itself runs very smoothly, it features its own render cache. This means samples that have been loaded at a previous session will load extremely fast, saving a lot of time and memory. After a few minutes working with the player you begin to understand the aesthetics, and they work well. The Loop Eye is a breath of fresh air so to speak, it provides something very new and looks bloody cool.
Upon saving the project file for the first time I did experience a problem.
This could have been due to my own technical problems, as I wiped my Mac a few days before writing this review, thus re-installing all my software. After a restart there wasn’t any problems to follow, Logic never crashes, I’m sure of it!
The MEV soundbank features a diverse range of sounds to play with. There are 20 different construction kits with samples split into notation and BPM’s. With 750 samples to choose from, you will not struggle to put a great piece of music together. The drum kicks are tight and punchy that drive through your mix like knight rider (not sure what I mean by that!). They are split across the keyboard within the player, along with the different sections of the main sample. For example: If the main sample is a bass drum, snare, piano and guitar altogether as a mix, then the player spreads each one across the keyboard. Thus enabling you to take the part you want from the sample. It’s a great idea and obviously this can be created on many different plug-ins like ESX24, but it would be a lot cooler if you could use any sample, from anywhere, not just the set ones provided in this production pack. Maybe one day someone will invent software capable of doing this though?
The bottom line:
With a wide range of samples, different editing techniques and a new exciting innovative player. What more could you ask for from a sample library? The Minimal Electro Vibes soundbank fills your ears with a lot of options. This pack is more suited to the electro dance producer, but can still diverse onto other genres.
Key benefits include:
All ideas production and mixing by:
SFYM (Danilo Rispoli & Walter Tumminello )
Websites:
http://www.ueberschall.com/en/produc...chreibung.html
Minimal Electro Vibes*|*ueberschall.com
The Uberschall website is very handy as it includes some online tutorials.
Mastering by:
Danya Vodovoz
Introducing Minimal Electro Vibes, developed for Ueberschall's total fidelity Nouvelle Series. Minimal Electro Vibes covers progressive electro techniques used by top trend innovators from the dance floor. This set includes 20 Construction Kits (1.5 GB of new material) which have been embedded into the Elastik Player for lighting access. Each kit includes all solo parts and drum shots used in the mix for extended individualization.
Pounding bass loops and grooves dedicated to the club scene, deep atmospheres and animated sound fx. These loops zoom into standard electro grooves and magnify synthetic elements from core sounds. Resulting magnified tones provide more access to a grooves inner textural composition. Minimal Electro Vibes offers an overdrive ready arsenal for multiple High-Tech mixing and production environments. Sounds can be fused to various genres for extended exploitation. All samples have been specially designed for Minimal Electro, Techno and Tech House.
For Excessive Use In
- Clubs Sets
- Jingles
- Cues
- Film Score
- GameAudio
- Online Videos
- highspeed timestretching and pitchshifting in best quality
- innovative "LoopEye" for fast loop variations
- all parameters midi controllable
- multiple content management
- each product separately installable
- mapping tools (automatic slice- & chromatic-map)
- save audio of original and modified loops
- creation of user presets
- filter with "kill function" (-72db)
- adaptable to tempos from 10 to 480 bpm
- audio engine for quick adaptation
- and many many more
Packaging: 1 DVD
Overall size: 1.5 GB
Interfaces: AudioUnits, VST, StandAlone, RTAS
System requirements:
MacOS X: 500 MHz / 512 MB RAM / 10 MB
Windows XP / Vista: 1000 MHz / 512 MB RAM / 10 MB
*Info taken from the Uberschall website
Setting up:
To the untrained eye the set-up can be abit of a pain. There is no initial instructions on how to go about using the samples. The autorun is none existant (I know this is the case for many Mac programs) as there is only an icon that appears on the desktop. The Minimal Electro Vibes construction pack is part of the Uberschall range that uses a player named “Elastik Player”. Having no previous knowledge of this, I was slightly dumb-founded upon trying to install the darn thing.
The Elastik player acts as a loop facility, enabling you to manipulate looped samples to different tempos, tone change, volume, panning etc. within a few mouse clicks. All future libraries compatible with Elastik can be taken care of in this one simple player.
At first glance, the player is a little scary. With the aptly named “Loop Eye” staring at you with a sense of aggression. This a “new, innovative waveform representation” is very swish. When a sample is played the Loop Eye changes waveform to represent the one being played (cool huh?) and also has a pointer that follows the eye clockwise. The control allows you to change where the sample starts, saving time and he ability for easy sample manipulation. There are a few options for installing the player; Stand-alone, RTAS, AU and VST. I personally used AU as Logic is abit of a bitch when it comes to VST’s sadly. For simple sample simulation, the stand-alone player is the most efficient and easiest option
With the installation out the way, you can get started with playing around with the sounds, although there still is no real indication on where to start. The PDF’s included on the disc have some easy-to-use guides for the stand-alone version of the player. Loading the MEV (Minimal Electro Vibes) production pack into the player is pretty easy; a couple of clicks and it’s ready to rumble.
Annoyingly after two times opening the plug-in, a stupid register box appears, easily solved though.
Usage:
The player itself runs very smoothly, it features its own render cache. This means samples that have been loaded at a previous session will load extremely fast, saving a lot of time and memory. After a few minutes working with the player you begin to understand the aesthetics, and they work well. The Loop Eye is a breath of fresh air so to speak, it provides something very new and looks bloody cool.
Upon saving the project file for the first time I did experience a problem.
The MEV soundbank features a diverse range of sounds to play with. There are 20 different construction kits with samples split into notation and BPM’s. With 750 samples to choose from, you will not struggle to put a great piece of music together. The drum kicks are tight and punchy that drive through your mix like knight rider (not sure what I mean by that!). They are split across the keyboard within the player, along with the different sections of the main sample. For example: If the main sample is a bass drum, snare, piano and guitar altogether as a mix, then the player spreads each one across the keyboard. Thus enabling you to take the part you want from the sample. It’s a great idea and obviously this can be created on many different plug-ins like ESX24, but it would be a lot cooler if you could use any sample, from anywhere, not just the set ones provided in this production pack. Maybe one day someone will invent software capable of doing this though?
The bottom line:
With a wide range of samples, different editing techniques and a new exciting innovative player. What more could you ask for from a sample library? The Minimal Electro Vibes soundbank fills your ears with a lot of options. This pack is more suited to the electro dance producer, but can still diverse onto other genres.
Key benefits include:
- Very low system resource imprint
- No need to setup special streaming technologies
- No Dongle
- Gigantic range of commercial sounds available
All ideas production and mixing by:
SFYM (Danilo Rispoli & Walter Tumminello )
Websites:
http://www.ueberschall.com/en/produc...chreibung.html
Minimal Electro Vibes*|*ueberschall.com
The Uberschall website is very handy as it includes some online tutorials.
Mastering by:
Danya Vodovoz
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