Rock & Pop
The complete sample collection for
rock and pop music
The Rock and Pop Collection contains 108 pitched instruments plus 20 drum kits (featuring a vast range of percussion sounds from Disco to World Music), of which you can play up to 32 at once. It includes all the sounds you'll need to write rock and pop music – from guitars, keyboards and drums to horns, strings, and even a Hammond B3 organ.
The collection has been created in partnership with SONiVOX and Native Instruments, who are among the world's leading sampling companies. It includes well-known instruments such as a Fender Stratocaster guitar and Rickenbacker bass, and multiple samples are provided for many of the instruments, with different styles and tones so you can get just the sound you're looking for.
The Rock and Pop collection integrates seamlessly with Sibelius 5, via a special version of the acclaimed Kontakt sample player from Native Instruments. This gives you a range of adjustable parameters – including reverb, brightness, tuning and other audio characteristics – so you can control the sound of each instrument individually. You can even export an audio file to create a CD of your music, or convert to an MP3 file.
Rock and Pop Collection sounds
The list below shows the full range of sounds in the Rock and Pop collection, and indicates where there are multiple sounds for an instrument. Some instruments have an accompanying MP3 file to demonstrate them.
Tip: listen to the MP3 samples with good headphones or through a hi-fi. Most computer speakers aren't good enough to give an accurate impression of them.
Keyboards
- Electric Piano (two sounds)
- Fender Rhodes Mk 2 (five sounds) (395K MP3)
- Wurlitzer A200 (five sounds)
- Clavinet E7 (four sounds)
- Piano (two sounds)
- Hammond B3 Organ (four sounds)
- Mellotron Brass
- Mellotron Strings
- Mellotron Choir
- Mellotron Flute
- Keyboard Synth Bass
- Keyboard Wah-Saw 1
- Keyboard Swirl
- Keyboard Analog Sweep
- Keyboard 8-bit Brass
- Keyboard Android Sin
- Keyboard Wah-Saw 2
- Keyboard Soft Pad
- Keyboard Naïve & French
- Keyboard Hard Lead
- Keyboard Synth Bass 2
- Keyboard Analog Bass
- Keyboard Lead Synth
- Keyboard Rezo-Saw
- Keyboard Pulse Lead
- Keyboard Drop-Saw
- Keyboard Tri-Oscillator
Bass guitars
- Electric Bass – Precision (eleven sounds) (138K MP3)
- Electric Bass – Jazz
- Electric Bass – Rickenbacker
- Electric Bass – Fretless (two sounds)
- Semi-Acoustic Bass
- Upright Bass
Electric Guitars
- Stratocaster (eight sounds) (161K MP3), (163K MP3 with fuzz)
- Telecaster (two sounds)
- PRS (two sounds)
- Miami Sound
- Stadium Rock
- Grunge
- Metal
- Nu-Metal
- Distortion (five sounds)
Acoustic guitars
Voice
- Lead Voice – Male
- Lead Voice – Female
- Scat Voice – Female
Drum kits
- TR-808
- Alternative
- Brushes
- Dance
- Disco
- Electronica
- Garage
- Pop
- Hip Hop
- Hot Rods
- Industrial
- Lo Fi
- Metal
- Modern Rock
- Motown (158K MP3)
- New Age
- Reggae
- Stadium Rock
- World (633K MP3)
Other instruments
- Vibraphone (two sounds)
- Trumpet (two sounds)
- Soprano Saxophone
- Alto Saxophone
- Tenor Saxophone
- Baritone Saxophone
- Trombone
- Horn Section
- Flute
- Violin Section
- Viola Section
- Violoncello Section
- Double Bass Section
- String Section (three sounds)
Example music
- Anglo Cubano - Complex cuban latin piece from Alex Wilson and David Pattman
- Funky - Jazz/funk/blues combo
- Karpet - European house groove
- Live Like You - Laid-back East Coast cool riffs
- Reggae - Modern reggae vibey tune
- Seventh - Hard rock thrashing
- StarterMoter - Grungey funk rock
System requirements
Requires 3.2GB hard disk space (in addition to Sibelius 5); Windows XP (or some Windows 2000 configurations); Mac OS 10.3.9 or later; DVD drive; Sibelius 5. Additionally:
Scores that use up to about 8 different sounds:
- Windows: 1.2GHz processor or faster, 1GB+ RAM, preferably ASIO compatible sound card
- Mac: G4/G5 , 1GB+ RAM
Scores that use up to about 20 different sounds:
- Windows: 2.5GHz processor or faster, 1GB+ RAM . ASIO-compatible sound card strongly recommended (not sound chip on motherboard), preferably separate graphics card
- Mac: 1.8GHz processor or faster, 1GB+ RAM
Scores that use reverb or more than 20 different sounds will need a faster processor and more RAM.
Sibelius 4 users
If you have Sibelius 4, please contact us for information on the Sibelius 4 version of Rock & Pop Collection.
