Clavestinas – Authentic Clave Sound in Your DAW
Welcome to the world of rhythm and authentic percussive sounds! Introducing the Clavestinas plugin by Alan ViSTa – the perfect tool for adding live, rich clave sounds to your music projects. This plugin doesn’t just imitate, but reproduces the true sound of this classic percussion instrument thanks to high-quality sampling. Clavestinas will become an indispensable assistant for both creating Latin American rhythms and for giving unique texture to tracks in any other genre.
Forget about standard samples – with Clavestinas you get the depth, detail and expressiveness that will bring your compositions to life. Designed with attention to detail, this plugin provides ease of use and flexibility of settings, allowing you to easily integrate it into your workflow.
Clavestinas Features
Delve into the world of Clavestinas, where each clave beat conveys its unique individuality. This plugin is based on a carefully assembled collection of samples, which includes 7 different clave sounds in pitch. This gives you a wide range of tonalities to create complex and interesting rhythmic patterns.
To achieve maximum realism and dynamics, Clavestinas uses 2 velocity layers. This means that the force of pressing a key (or MIDI programming) affects the loudness and timbre of the sound, allowing you to create expressive and dynamic parts that sound natural and lively, and not monotonous.
The plugin is based on 14 high-quality stereo 24-bit samples. These samples were taken from the public library of the Electronic Music Studios of the University of Iowa, which guarantees their authenticity and high recording quality. The use of stereo samples adds width and volume to the sound, making it more present in the mix.
In addition to “dry” samples, the plugin also includes a separate set of samples created to simulate room ambient reverb. This allows you to easily add a sense of space and “air” to the clave sound right inside the plugin, avoiding the need to use external reverb effects for basic spatial sound.
Control and Settings
Sound control in Clavestinas is intuitive and effective. A set of useful controls is at your service:
- Panning and volume controls: Allow you to accurately position the clave sound in the stereo field and adjust its volume level in the mix.
- Room ambient reverb control: Allows you to dose the amount of spatial effect created based on special ambient samples.
- Amplitude dynamic range control: Gives you the ability to control the difference between the loudest and quietest sounds, which is useful for shaping the dynamics of the part.
- Master volume: The overall volume control of the plugin.
Conclusion
Clavestinas by Alan ViSTa is a small but powerful tool that specializes in one particular sound, but does it with exceptional quality and attention to detail. If you are looking for realistic, expressive and flexible claves for your music, Clavestinas will be an excellent choice. It is available in VST and AU formats for Windows (32-bit and 64-bit) and macOS, ensuring broad compatibility with most modern DAWs. Add this unique percussion instrument to your plugin collection and discover new rhythmic horizons!
