Riffage: Hard Rock
Instant, radio-ready classic rock riffs & licks.
$79
Audio Demos
- Highway Rumble Tim Corpus
- Muscle Car Sean Secret
- Mecha Kaiju Sean Secret
- The Village HappyHappyCloudMusic
- Midnight Racer Charlotte McMillan
- Saloon HappyHappyCloudMusic
- Highway Rumble (Guitar Only) Tim Corpus
- Muscle Car (Guitar Only) Sean Secret
- Mecha Kaiju (Guitar Only) Sean Secret
- The Village (Guitar Only) HappyHappyCloudMusic
- Midnight Racer (Guitar Only) Charlotte McMillan
- Saloon (Guitar Only) HappyHappyCloudMusic
Overview
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!
Product Info
299 killer guitar phrases
Create 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 key
Every phrase was recorded in multiple allowing the phrases to work in any track with minimal transposition.
Doubletracked amp + DI channels
Premade, radio-ready amped tone drops into any mix; or, use the clean (DI) channel and make your own.
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
Fit Riffage phrases into any track with 80, 120, and 160bpm riffs plus lock-to-host functionality.
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
Requirements
6GB disk space
7200 RPM hard drive or solid state drive recommended.
4GB 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 6.7+
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
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."
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!
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!"
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.
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: 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.
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.
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.
Download the Console manual here to learn more!