Riffage: Classic Rock
Riffage: Classic Rock
Roar out of the gate with these ready-built classic rock riffs and licks.
Roar out of the gate with these ready-built classic rock riffs and licks.
$55
$55
Hear Riffage: Classic Rock In Action
Hear Riffage: Classic Rock In Action
- Sunshine Tremendouz
- Don't Fear the Samples Andrew Aversa
- Inky Match DanFourts
- Choose Your Ride Vae Song
Audio Demos
- Sunshine Tremendouz
- Don't Fear the Samples Andrew Aversa
- Inky Match DanFourts
- Choose Your Ride Vae Song
Overview
Relive the glory days of rock ‘n roll. This massive collection of chugging riffs and slick licks — 300 in total! — makes it quick and easy to lay down tracks with the heart of ’60s and ’70s rock music. All the classics are honored here, with rhythm guitar lines inspired by the Who, the Beatles, Cream, Zeppelin, AC/DC, Boston, and more, performed by a professional rock guitarist. With a great sound out of the box, featuring 6 legendary classic rock amps plus a convenient DI so you can customize your own tone, Riffage: Classic Rock is the perfect rhythm companion to Shreddage guitars or your own live guitar solos.
Relive the glory days of rock ‘n roll. This massive collection of chugging riffs and slick licks — 300 in total! — makes it quick and easy to lay down tracks with the heart of ’60s and ’70s rock music. All the classics are honored here, with rhythm guitar lines inspired by the Who, the Beatles, Cream, Zeppelin, AC/DC, Boston, and more, performed by a professional rock guitarist. With a great sound out of the box, featuring 6 legendary classic rock amps plus a convenient DI so you can customize your own tone, Riffage: Classic Rock is the perfect rhythm companion to Shreddage guitars or your own live guitar solos.
Product Info
300 searing classic rock phrases
Soaring licks and kick-ass riffs, recorded by a pro and ready to go. Inspired by the greatest bands of the 1960s and 1970s.
Play in any key
Every phrase was recorded in multiple keys, allowing the phrases to work in any track with minimal transposition.
Doubletracked amp + DI channels
Amped, doubled, and ready to go out of the box. Or start with the clean DI and shape your own tone using any amp or pedal you like.
Single-note articulations included
Use single note or powerchord sustains, slides, mutes, chugs, and chokes to end a phrase, or even build your own.
Multiple tempos
Phrases recorded in 80, 120, and 160 bpm mean you’ve got riffs with wildly different energy, ready to sync up to your project’s bpm and build out any kind of song you want.
All loops available in WAV
Import 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.
300 searing classic rock phrases
Soaring licks and kick-ass riffs, recorded by a pro and ready to go. Inspired by the greatest bands of the 1960s and 1970s.
Play in any key
Every phrase was recorded in multiple keys, allowing the phrases to work in any track with minimal transposition.
Doubletracked amp + DI channels
Amped, doubled, and ready to go out of the box. Or start with the clean DI and shape your own tone using any amp or pedal you like.
Single-note articulations included
Use single note or powerchord sustains, slides, mutes, chugs, and chokes to end a phrase, or even build your own.
Multiple tempos
Phrases recorded in 80, 120, and 160 bpm mean you’ve got riffs with wildly different energy, ready to sync up to your project’s bpm and build out any kind of song you want.
All loops available in WAV
Import 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.
Features
Beautiful, wide UI
Easy tag-based browser
Console FX rack and mixer
Play riffs in any key
Sync to host BPM
Beautiful, wide UI
Easy tag-based browser
Console FX rack and mixer
Play riffs in any key
Sync to host BPM
Requirements
22GB disk space (all amps)
7200 RPM hard drive or solid state drive recommended. Note that the WAV files are optional. The Kontakt-only version requires only 11GB.
6GB of RAM
Higher amounts of memory let you load more instruments.
Apple M1, Intel i3 or equivalent CPU
A faster CPU with more cores will allow you to play more simultaneous voices.
Kontakt Player 7.10.7+
This instrument will run in the FREE Kontakt Player.
Kontakt Requirements - Mac OS
Intel Macs (i5 or higher): macOS 10.14, 10.15, 11 or 12+.
Apple Silicon Macs (via Rosetta 2 & natively on ARM in Standalone or in hosts that support it): macOS 11 or 12+.
Kontakt Requirements - Windows
Windows 10 or 11 (latest Service Pack, 32/64-bit). Intel Core i5 or equivalent CPU. Graphics hardware support for OpenGL 2.1 or higher. Windows 10 strongly recommended.
Tutorials
Instrument Walkthrough
Featured Artists & Composers
Mike Gonsolin
(Snoop Dogg, T-Pain, Playboi Carti, Migos)
“Impact Soundworks’ libraries are truly in a league of their own. I’ve been a long time user for as long as I can remember and it would take me a whole other producing lifetime to build the depths of these libraries on my own. As a Kontakt enthusiast who owns just about every library out there I can confidently say that Impact Soundworks’ libraries stand in the top 1%, and that’s saying something! No snake oil here. Just meticulously assembled libraries that are overflowing with creative sound design options and inspiration igniting presets.”
Mike Gonsolin (Mike G)
Christopher Gordon
Ladies in Black, Mao’s Last Dancer, Salem’s Lot, Master and Commander
“Impact Soundworks’ range of guitars and fretted instruments sound amazing and are crafted and nuanced with expert detail. Intuitively set up to get straight to composing. And I have a real soft spot for the juicy, screaming Shreddage 3 Hydra!”
Matthew Carl Earl
Overwatch 2, Rainbow Six Siege, Call of Duty Mobile, PUBG Mobile, Arknights
“Impact Soundworks creates easy-to-use, great-sounding virtual instruments right out of the box. Highland Harps, Emotional Mallets, and Shreddage 3 are in my daily toolkit.”
Lena Raine
Celeste, Chicory, Minecraft, Guild Wars 2, Deltarune
Instruments from ISW are a staple of my soundtrack work for games. Vocalisa has been a mainstay vocal aesthetic of nearly every game I’ve worked on including Celeste & Chicory: A Colorful Tale. Shreddage 3 has also given me the confidence to write some really fun guitar riffs & solos despite not being able to play a real one. I’ve started incorporating Tokyo Scoring Strings into the acoustic side of my scoring work, and can’t wait to try out more from ISW in the future!
Stewart Winter
(Co-founder, VideoHelper)
“I’m a keyboard player — I can’t even make a REAL guitar sound convincing. But Telos and Rosette are my go-to guitars because they sound incredible, sit well in a mix and are so easy to configure to my personal playing habits. I’m constantly discovering new ways to play them and they’ve saved my ass more times than I can count. And the pedal Steel is still my favorite library of its kind for Country, Folk and organic layering behind synths.”
Jeff Broadbent
Assassin’s Creed Identity, Call of Duty Mobile, Resident Evil, Diablo Immortal, Transformers: Dark of the Moon
“ISW creates amazing, creative, and intuitive virtual instruments! I’ve enjoyed using them for over a decade, and they have found their way into many of my music scores. Their wonderfully realistic world instruments showed up in a recent Nexon video game, Shreddage 3 Stratus on the score for Grid, and Super Audio Boy is a favorite for retro sounds, effects, and fun nostalgia. Highly recommended!”
Jimmy Hinson
Black Ops 4, Mass Effect 2, There Came An Echo, Borderlands 2
“Between Shreddage, Super Audio Cart, Juggernaut, and Mega Brass I don’t remember the last time I haven’t used an Impact Soundworks instrument in a track. The attention to detail is astonishing and it’s all so easy to use out of the box, which is a big deal.”
Richard Jacques
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, Mass Effect, Overwatch 2, James Bond 007: Blood Stone
“I’m a huge fan of the Ventus Winds series. They feature rare instruments deep-sampled to an incredibly high level of detail. It’s so liberating to have such a wide range of articulations & phrases that perfectly capture the nuances and performance style of these instruments… from beautiful to haunting, celebratory to sorrowful. Each is expertly recorded and the sound quality is superb, sitting in the mix with ease. If you want to add authentic world winds to your palette, then look no further.”
Simon Franglen
Titanic, Skyfall, Spectre, Avatar, Avatar: The Way of Water
Impact Soundworks make detailed, emotive instruments. I’ve happily bought over two dozen of their libraries which should say everything. They get used every day.
Kevin Manthei
Angry Birds Mystery Island, Marvel’s Spider-Man, Villainous, Neverwinter, Star Trek Online
“ISW creates some of the most inspiring & realistic guitar sample libraries. I had to write a bunch of really gritty, angry heavy metal & sports action rock cues. I used Shreddage 3 Serpent for leads and was blown away by its onboard processing, programming, and amazing live-sounding leads. I also created a signature sound based on the lead guitar in David Lynch’s Twin Peaks series, originally played on baritone guitar. [Serpent] built a convincing replica of that sound just using on-board FX. It was so fun and easy to do!”
Mark Portmann
(Ariana Grande, Luis Fonsi, Celine Dion, Quincy Jones)
“[ISW]’s instruments consistently deliver the sound, feel, and reliability I need to do my best work. Thank you for raising the bar and making tools that inspire.”
Neal Acree
World of WarCraft, Diablo III, StarCraft II, Overwatch
“Impact Soundworks has some of the most creative and innovative libraries out there. From world instruments to the insanely deep sampled Shreddage guitar series the Impact catalog is full of must-haves and unexpected and inspiring surprises. Highly recommended!
Mike Reagan
Invincible Fight Girl, Powerpuff Girls, Trials Evolution, God of War, Twisted Metal
“A big thanks to the team at Impact Soundworks for putting inspiration at my fingertips! Your sample libraries are in heavy use in my Orchestral, Rock and Pop templates, and always visible in my top-tier Cue-specific Kontakt. Layering your Shreddage libraries on top of my live guitar tracks creates so much depth, and I get so much out of so many of your other libraries – too many to name. A+ programming and sonic goodness gang!”
Brian Pickett
PAW Patrol, Lucas the Spider, Daniel Tiger
“I never would have thought that sampled guitars could sound as good as ISW’s do. The fact that I can use them to lay down a realistic solo is unprecedented. They’ve pushed the boundaries of realism.”
Ben Prunty
FTL: Faster Than Light, Into the Breach, Subnautica: Below Zero
“I’ve been using ISW since 2015, and their instruments have shown up in Into the Breach and Subnautica Below Zero, and in nearly all of my solo albums. Shreddage helped me fill in the gaps around my own guitar performances. Super Audio Cart provided some great raw synth sounds for parts of Below Zero. Impact Soundworks is often the first place I go to when I’m shopping for a new project. Everything they make works and sounds great.”
ShadyCicada
“Impact Soundworks software is an absolute mainstay in my work when it comes to Video Game and Anime-inspired tracks! The amount of ease and wonderful sounds these plugins offer allows me to get straight into writing and brainstorming.”
Featured Artists & Composers
Jeff Broadbent
Assassin’s Creed Identity, Call of Duty Mobile, Resident Evil, Diablo Immortal, Transformers: Dark of the Moon
“ISW creates amazing, creative, and intuitive virtual instruments! I’ve enjoyed using them for over a decade, and they have found their way into many of my music scores. Their wonderfully realistic world instruments showed up in a recent Nexon video game, Shreddage 3 Stratus on the score for Grid, and Super Audio Boy is a favorite for retro sounds, effects, and fun nostalgia. Highly recommended!”
Matthew Carl Earl
Overwatch 2, Rainbow Six Siege, Call of Duty Mobile, PUBG Mobile, Arknights
“Impact Soundworks creates easy-to-use, great-sounding virtual instruments right out of the box. Highland Harps, Emotional Mallets, and Shreddage 3 are in my daily toolkit.”
Brian Pickett
PAW Patrol, Lucas the Spider, Daniel Tiger
“I never would have thought that sampled guitars could sound as good as ISW’s do. The fact that I can use them to lay down a realistic solo is unprecedented. They’ve pushed the boundaries of realism.”
Mike Reagan
Invincible Fight Girl, Powerpuff Girls, Trials Evolution, God of War, Twisted Metal
“A big thanks to the team at Impact Soundworks for putting inspiration at my fingertips! Your sample libraries are in heavy use in my Orchestral, Rock and Pop templates, and always visible in my top-tier Cue-specific Kontakt. Layering your Shreddage libraries on top of my live guitar tracks creates so much depth, and I get so much out of so many of your other libraries – too many to name. A+ programming and sonic goodness gang!”
ShadyCicada
“Impact Soundworks software is an absolute mainstay in my work when it comes to Video Game and Anime-inspired tracks! The amount of ease and wonderful sounds these plugins offer allows me to get straight into writing and brainstorming.”
Stewart Winter
(Co-founder, VideoHelper)
“I’m a keyboard player — I can’t even make a REAL guitar sound convincing. But Telos and Rosette are my go-to guitars because they sound incredible, sit well in a mix and are so easy to configure to my personal playing habits. I’m constantly discovering new ways to play them and they’ve saved my ass more times than I can count. And the pedal Steel is still my favorite library of its kind for Country, Folk and organic layering behind synths.”
Richard Jacques
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, Mass Effect, Overwatch 2, James Bond 007: Blood Stone
“I’m a huge fan of the Ventus Winds series. They feature rare instruments deep-sampled to an incredibly high level of detail. It’s so liberating to have such a wide range of articulations & phrases that perfectly capture the nuances and performance style of these instruments… from beautiful to haunting, celebratory to sorrowful. Each is expertly recorded and the sound quality is superb, sitting in the mix with ease. If you want to add authentic world winds to your palette, then look no further.”
Mike Gonsolin
(Snoop Dogg, T-Pain, Playboi Carti, Migos)
“Impact Soundworks’ libraries are truly in a league of their own. I’ve been a long time user for as long as I can remember and it would take me a whole other producing lifetime to build the depths of these libraries on my own. As a Kontakt enthusiast who owns just about every library out there I can confidently say that Impact Soundworks’ libraries stand in the top 1%, and that’s saying something! No snake oil here. Just meticulously assembled libraries that are overflowing with creative sound design options and inspiration igniting presets.”
Mike Gonsolin (Mike G)
Christopher Gordon
Ladies in Black, Mao’s Last Dancer, Salem’s Lot, Master and Commander
“Impact Soundworks’ range of guitars and fretted instruments sound amazing and are crafted and nuanced with expert detail. Intuitively set up to get straight to composing. And I have a real soft spot for the juicy, screaming Shreddage 3 Hydra!”
Ben Prunty
FTL: Faster Than Light, Into the Breach, Subnautica: Below Zero
“I’ve been using ISW since 2015, and their instruments have shown up in Into the Breach and Subnautica Below Zero, and in nearly all of my solo albums. Shreddage helped me fill in the gaps around my own guitar performances. Super Audio Cart provided some great raw synth sounds for parts of Below Zero. Impact Soundworks is often the first place I go to when I’m shopping for a new project. Everything they make works and sounds great.”
Jimmy Hinson
Black Ops 4, Mass Effect 2, There Came An Echo, Borderlands 2
“Between Shreddage, Super Audio Cart, Juggernaut, and Mega Brass I don’t remember the last time I haven’t used an Impact Soundworks instrument in a track. The attention to detail is astonishing and it’s all so easy to use out of the box, which is a big deal.”
Simon Franglen
Titanic, Skyfall, Spectre, Avatar, Avatar: The Way of Water
Impact Soundworks make detailed, emotive instruments. I’ve happily bought over two dozen of their libraries which should say everything. They get used every day.
Lena Raine
Celeste, Chicory, Minecraft, Guild Wars 2, Deltarune
Instruments from ISW are a staple of my soundtrack work for games. Vocalisa has been a mainstay vocal aesthetic of nearly every game I’ve worked on including Celeste & Chicory: A Colorful Tale. Shreddage 3 has also given me the confidence to write some really fun guitar riffs & solos despite not being able to play a real one. I’ve started incorporating Tokyo Scoring Strings into the acoustic side of my scoring work, and can’t wait to try out more from ISW in the future!
Mark Portmann
(Ariana Grande, Luis Fonsi, Celine Dion, Quincy Jones)
“[ISW]’s instruments consistently deliver the sound, feel, and reliability I need to do my best work. Thank you for raising the bar and making tools that inspire.”
Kevin Manthei
Angry Birds Mystery Island, Marvel’s Spider-Man, Villainous, Neverwinter, Star Trek Online
“ISW creates some of the most inspiring & realistic guitar sample libraries. I had to write a bunch of really gritty, angry heavy metal & sports action rock cues. I used Shreddage 3 Serpent for leads and was blown away by its onboard processing, programming, and amazing live-sounding leads. I also created a signature sound based on the lead guitar in David Lynch’s Twin Peaks series, originally played on baritone guitar. [Serpent] built a convincing replica of that sound just using on-board FX. It was so fun and easy to do!”
Neal Acree
World of WarCraft, Diablo III, StarCraft II, Overwatch
“Impact Soundworks has some of the most creative and innovative libraries out there. From world instruments to the insanely deep sampled Shreddage guitar series the Impact catalog is full of must-haves and unexpected and inspiring surprises. Highly recommended!
Riffage: Classic Rock is a loving tribute to the days of the British Invasion (artists like the Stones, the Who, the Beatles, and Cream) as well as the edgier sound that followed in the next decade: arena-filling giants like Queen, AC/DC, Aerosmith, and Led Zeppelin. These eras were the birthplaces of many legendary electric guitar tones and performance styles, which is exactly what we set out to capture with this library.
From the choices of guitars to the six included amp tones to the writing of the riffs and licks themselves, each of the 300 looped phrases in the library pays homage to 1960 and 1970s rock and roll. There are 100 phrases each at 80 bpm, 120 bpm, and 160 bpm, so you can choose anything from laid-back, bluesy vibes to high-speed, high-voltage shredding.
Just like other libraries in the Riffage series, Classic Rock is designed to deliver the most authentic, realistic sound as quickly and easily as possible. You can use it to inspire a brand new song, add a dash of era-appropriate flavor, or lay down complete backing tracks. Of course you don’t have to be working on a rock single; Riffage: Classic Rock works just as well for TV and video game scores that need to capture that sound. Lay down the groove as a starting point and write anything you can imagine over the top.
From riffs and licks in every key to straightforward rhythm guitar parts, there’s enough room to build out a song in any key and virtually any tempo you want. A variety of phrase endings help you stick the landing and give you even more combinations you can use to build out a sound that’s uniquely yours.
It also plays well with our existing Riffage: Hard Rock, which includes some overlapping inspiration. The sound for Classic Rock is a little lighter, while Hard Rock has more of an edge. But if you want a huge collection of classic sounds with even more variety, the two collections have enough crossover to work well together.
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.
Riffage: Classic Rock gets you locked into a tight groove fast, with rhythm guitar licks and riffs looped to perfection, recorded on era-perfect Les Paul and SG-style guitars with humbucker pickups.
Get a super-wide sound out of the box, since every single riff was recorded twice (double tracking) through a clean direct-in (DI). Then we re-amped those performances through 6 classic amps from iconic heavy hitters like Fender, Marshall, HiWatt, and Vox. It’s the garage rock jam of your dreams, and you can take it anywhere you want.
Patrick Windsor is 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. After moving to Los Angeles, Patrick began writing and recording with a range of artists. He has worked on music featured on Showtime, Starz, Shudder, and performed on NBC’s The Kelly Clarkson Show with The Boulet Brothers.
Console is our mixer, modular effects rack, and pedal board, designed to give you full control over your virtual guitar tone with 30 effects to choose from!
These include multiple EQs (digital and analog-style), compressors, spatial FX, modulation FX, amps, distortion pedals, reverbs, and custom cabinet IRs. 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.
Download the Console manual here to learn more!