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Retro Future Black Friday deals start here: 30% off this Ueberschall funk sample pack, $41.30 until Nov 29, 2026.
Retro Future is a loop library that pairs a modern pop, funk, lounge and soul sound with an 80s twist. It is built around beats, live-recorded electric bass, guitar and piano, with a measured dose of synth.
The maker pitches it as a way to start an upbeat music cue or a song project.
The download is 1.5 GB and holds 435 loops and phrases, split into 5 construction kits. Each kit has four musical sections plus a dedicated outro.
Because loops run up to 18 seconds, full song-length arrangements can be assembled from the sections.
Most parts come with a choice of instruments, so you mix your own arrangement instead of taking a fixed one.
The drum material comes two ways: ready-mixed loops that include percussion, or separate loops for each instrument. The separate set has kick, both acoustic and electronic snares, rimshot, handclaps, finger snaps, hi-hat, ride, congas, bongos, shaker, tambourine, cowbell and guiro.
Electric bass anchors the groove, and some sections carry several bass parts. Electric guitars come dry or with FX, alongside electric and acoustic piano parts for rhythm and harmony.
The maker points to the classic synth sounds as the source of the 80s flavour. The vinyl noise loop is there if you want a lo-fi layer on the final mix.
Retro Future is made for the Elastik loop-player. Tempo and key can be changed to suit your project, using Elastik's time-stretching, pitch-shifting and polyphonic scale syncing.
For sound design, Elastik adds resample, formant and reverse functions plus a multimode filter. Its tag-based browser searches every installed Elastik library, so you can find specific sounds in seconds.
Ueberschall also lists Funk Up, Jazz Trip, Noise Floor, Downtempo Beats, LoFi Beats and LoFi Lounge as Elastik libraries that sit well next to this one.
The credits read: drums and keys by J. Holo, bass and guitar by J. Conrad, atmospheric guitars by J. UK, with sound design and production by J. Holo.
For the Elastik Player, the recommended systems are macOS 10.12 or higher and Windows 8 or higher. The Ueberschall Downloader needs an internet connection and the same macOS and Windows versions.
Yes. The Retro Future Black Friday deal takes 30% off Ueberschall's funk loop pack, so it costs $41.30, and the offer ends Nov 29, 2026.
You get 435 loops and phrases in 5 construction kits, 1.5 GB in total. Each kit has four musical sections and an outro, with drums, electric bass, guitars, piano, synths, a folder of single drum sounds and a vinyl noise loop.
The loops were recorded at tempos from 104 to 124 BPM. Tempo and key can both be adjusted inside Elastik's playback engine, so the loops can be fitted to your project. Individual loops run up to 18 seconds.
The loops play in the Elastik Player, which recommends macOS 10.12 or higher or Windows 8 or higher. The Ueberschall Downloader needs an internet connection and the same recommended macOS and Windows versions.
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