Groove Shadow Elastik

Video Demos

	Introduction
	Registration & Activation
	Browser Window
	Browser Function
	User Settings
	Loopeye

More infos

Download Elastik 2 Installer MAC
Download Elastik 2 Installer WIN
Download Elastik Demo-Soundbank
Quickstart Manual
Elastik 2 Manual

Systemrequirements

Free ELASTIK 2 Player is included in this product or can be downloaded for free!

Interfaces:
Mac & PC (32 Bit and 64 Bit) - AudioUnits, VST, StandAlone, RTAS (32bit only)

System requirements (recommended):
MacOS X 10.5 or newer: 2GHz / 2GB RAM
Windows XP / Vista / Win7: 2GHz / 2GB RAM

Elastik 2 Features

• innovative loopeye functions
• fast browser features (multiple filter search, tagging)
• prelisten in sync
• sequence mode (loads of edtiting features per slice)
• random sound replacement
• parameter automation
• realtime sync to host
• bounce of original and modified loops
• resizeable window format
• mutiple soundbank management
• timestretch and pitchshift in best quality

Product activation:
An internet connection on any computer is required to authorize / activate the product (Challenge/Response).

Reviews

Sound on Sound 2/2008

Groove Shadow Elastik

Sound On Sound, January 2008
http://www.soundonsound.com/

This new library from Ueberschall pumps some new life into one of their legacy product concepts: Groove Shadows. The original Groove Shadows CD sample library contained a selection of abstract rhythmic textures designed to be used as layers to support your main drum programming, rather than standing on their own. Two groups of Groove Shadows were targeted at more foreground and background use, and a selection of different common tempos was provided to suit different projects. I found the background layers, in particular, really useful in my own music
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You get more than 430 different presets in Groove Shadow Elastik, each providing a mixed loop, as well as (typically) four isolated layers - electively a construction kit - and a handful of the most characteristic one-shot samples for adding quick programming touches. This is an enormous amount of material, going far beyond the scope of the original Groove Shadows CD, and the carefully reconstructed elements
work in tandem with Elastik Player´s beat-slicing routine to offer phenomenal flexibility when it comes to fitting the samples around pre-existing arrangements - which is the raison d´etre here, after all. The only thing I pined for were some quick ´loop menu´ presets, placing only the mixed loops on adjacent keys for auditioning purposes.
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To cut a long story short, I´m glad to report the Groove Shadow Elastik is bigger,
better, and lots more usable than its Audio CD forebear, and I don´t hesitate to give it five stars - I´ll certainly be using it to death!
Mike Senior

Remix Magazine

Groove Shadow Elastik

Remix Magazine, June 2007
http://www.remixmag.com/


Devoted entirely to polyrhythmic backdrops to layer behind your main beat, Groove
Shadow Elastik is filled with abstract effects loops, stretched circuit-bends and
atmosphere-based sequnces.
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Shadows are categorized by light, medium and hard intensities, which sounds cool in
theory because it allows you to approach your groove-building dynamically. But in
practice, those guidelines aren´t very well executed and had lots of false alarms and
misappropriation.
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The Elastik player´s "loop eye" interface proved to be the ideal host for such a library.
Layers and elements can be individually filtered, panned, reversed, ptich-shifted,
time-stretched or sent to separate outputs. By adjusting the start and end loop-
points, I was able to mesh whole elements or partial sections together in perfectly
locked time. You can even auto-splice elements down to a granular level with the
results mapped across the keyboard when you´re feeling all Aphex Twin-like. Groove
Shadow Elastik feels as much at home for film and game composers as it should be
for triggering live during performances or DJ sets.

Jason Scott Alexander