Impact Soundworks Riffage: Hard Rock [KONTAKT]

Let there be rock! Effortlessly create polished, idiomatic hard rock rhythm tracks in the vein of AC/DC, Guns N’ Roses, Aerosmith and others. Riffage: Hard Rock is a collection of 299 rhythm guitar loops that are fully adaptable to any key and nearly any tempo. It comes with a killer amped tone right out of the box, or use the DI signal to dial in your perfect tone. The perfect companion to the Shreddage series!

About the Library

Our Riffage: Metal library has been a runaway hit, so we’re back with more ultra-realistic, production-ready guitar loops!

Riffage: Hard Rock gets you to a tight, driving rhythm guitar part with a killer tone crazy fast, all while giving you incredible realism. Meet every kind of professional demand, from rock band tracks to TV underscore to video game scoring, with ease and efficiency. It’s the perfect rhythm companion to our Shreddage series of electric guitars and basses.

In creating this comprehensive collection of 299 loops, we aimed squarely at a hard rock sound in the style of iconic, high-energy bands like AC/DC, Guns N’ Roses, Aerosmith, ZZ Top and others. Patrick Windsor, who also recorded Riffage: Metal, delivered full throttle rhythms and intricate licks on a Gibson Les Paul Classic Custom. Separate DI and amp signals were recorded for ultimate flexibility to let you dial in the perfect tone or get a great sound right away.

We’ve given you everything you need to construct a complete guitar part in a matter of minutes: driving riffs and sizzling licks, simple bread-and-butter rhythms, and a variety of phrase endings. Every loop can be played in every key and locks to nearly any tempo without artifacts, giving you maximum adaptability.

Convenient Tags to Get What You Need

The Phrase Browser lets you find what you need fast. Quickly narrow down your choices with filters based on articulation, riff/lick category, style, and tempo. Audition loops right in the browser with a simple mouse click. Use the waveform display in the GUI to quickly identify loops. We’ve also included all loops, both DI and amped, as separate WAV files that you can easily drag and drop into your DAW for total control over the source performances.

A Tone That’s Ready to Rock

Riffage: Hard Rock was recorded with an amped signal for a killer hard rock tone right out of the box, which you can shape quickly to your taste by tweaking the Tone dial on the main page or the balance of the DI and amped signals on the Console page. You can also put together your own tone from a full array of cabinets, pedals, amps, and tones on the Console page, or send the DI signal to an amp sim to fully customize your sound!

Riffage: Hard Rock is designed to make producing professional, authentic sounding hard rock rhythms as effortless as possible. Fit it right into an existing mix or be inspired to write something new. Its amazing performance, realism, tone, and efficiency make it the perfect partner for any hard rock productions.

Console: Modular FX Rack and Mixer

Console is our mixer, modular effects rack, and pedal board, designed to give you full control over your virtual guitar tone. Unlike our previous FX racks, which were limited to a small amount of preset modules, Console gives you 30 effects to choose from!

These include multiple EQs (digital and analog-style), compressors, spatial FX, modulation FX, amps, distortion pedals, reverbs, and a selection of over 30 custom cabinet IRs recorded just for Shreddage 3! These cabs cover all the most important sounds you would want, with both dynamic & condenser mics in multiple positions plus a ribbon mic for certain models.

Using Console, you can easily save and load FX chains or presets between projects or even different Impact Soundworks products. It also allows you to mix and blend between channels, with custom inserts on each if you’d like.

299 killer guitar phrasesCreate heavy rhythm tracks with burning riffs and licks performed by a seasoned pro. Styled after the greatest rock & roll bands of the 70s, 80s, and 90s.Play in any keyEvery phrase was recorded in multiple allowing the phrases to work in any track with minimal transposition.Doubletracked amp + DI channelsPremade, radio-ready amped tone drops into any mix; or, use the clean (DI) channel and make your own.Single-note articulations includedUse single note or powerchord sustains, slides, mutes, chugs, and chokes to end a phrase, or even build your own.Multiple temposFit Riffage phrases into any track with 80, 120, and 160bpm riffs plus lock-to-host functionality.All loops available in WAVImport all the phrases into the sampler of your choice or use directly in your DAW. Edit, chop, fade, mangle to your heart’s content without using Kontakt, if you prefer.

Patrick Windsoris a multi-instrumentalist who has performed, written, and recorded music in multiple genres for more than two decades. He has performed in the rock groups 48sin and Egostatic and the experimental rock band Tub Ring, performing around the Chicago area and finding track placement in TV shows such as “Californication.” He created the metal band Internal Empires, which played regionally in the Chicago area and shared the stage with such metal bands as Every Time I Die, Norma Jean, The Bled, and more.

Requires Native Instruments Kontakt Player or Kontakt FULL v6.7.1 and higher!