Hop Riffs Strum GS-2 Sound Bank

Get ready to add some serious guitar goodness to your hip hop production with ease, no guitar playing skills required. Resident sound designer Niall McCallum returns with Hop Riffs—a Strum GS sound set tailored to discriminating hip hop beatmakers and producers in dire need of guitar flavor. Feel the groove take over your arrangements with this laid-back collection inspired by the modern wave of LoFi hip hop flooding the internet, as well as pioneers of the genre's classic 90s boom bap period. Hop Riffs features 12 hip hop sub-genres, 84 guitar presets, and 84 strumming patterns playable with your own chord progressions.

Watch Hop Riffs’ deceptively simple strumming patterns come to life once combined with your favorite groovy drum beat making it dance and spark all over your song. From gentle chord figures and glistening arpeggios, to punchy dark riffs and atmospheric background textures, kick back and ignite your next beat with Hop Riffs' generous sprinkling of rich effects and smooth, versatile tones.

Who’s Niall McCallum?

Niall McCallum is the co-founder of ModeAudio—a small but passionately dedicated team of sound designers and music lovers based in the UK, specializing in music loops, samples, and bespoke preset design for some of the world’s best-loved music technology. Niall and his team's credits include a wide selection of drum and percussion samples that comes pre-packaged with FL Studio, and custom sound design for Native Instruments, Bitwig, Intua, and many others.

System Requirements

This preset collection can be used with the free AAS Player plug-in as well as the Strum GS-2 session guitarist plugin.

After you have installed the sound bank, there are two options to use it:

• A. Strum GS-2 - Tropical Jam will automatically be added to Strum GS-2 if it is installed on your computer.
• B. AAS Player - If you don't own Strum GS-2, you will be able to play Funky Cat from the AAS Player plug-in or standalone application.

Mac*

• macOS 10.11 (El Capitan) or later
• Intel Core i5 (circa 2015), Apple M1, or later
• 64-bit DAW

Windows*

• Windows 10 64‑bit or later
• Intel Core i5 (circa 2015) or later
• 64-bit DAW

*The minimum system requirements mentioned above are for standalone usage. For plug-in usage, please refer to your DAW software requirements (Cakewalk, Pro Tools, Cubase, Live, Digital Performer, Logic Pro, etc.).