New from Ueberschall, the Urbanic Guitars (Mac / Win; 99 EUR or approximately $134) Elastik soundbank offers a dynamic collection of guitar melodies, hooks, riffs, and licks.

The 1.77 GB Urbanic Guitars includes 125 themes and 780 loops in all. The themes are divided into three folders of loop packs: Acoustic, E-guitar 1 (Gibson ES style), and E-guitar 2 (Fender Strat style). Each folder contains loops performed by Kai Reuter with a range of contemporary playing techniques; however, all of the content may be classified as "urban." Finding the grooves you want is easy, since all loops are labeled with key signature and tempo information (from 60 to 130 BPM). Use Elastik Player's DSP functions to adjust the phrases to further fit your needs.

Urbanic Guitars is available now as a standalone instrument and in VST, Audio Units, RTAS formats, from ueberschall.com.