Sound Dust have released the 5th instalment from their Drift series of instruments. Drift 005 – Clavotron is available at the intro price of £35.00 / $45.00.
Let’s be straight, you could play Superstition with DRIFT005, but you can do better. It is much more interesting to think of the clavinet as a 60-string electric guitar !
DRIFT005 is packed with deep sampled articulations of real D6, and intriguing variations on the clav sound. It can do an authentic recreation of cool 70s clav, but you’ll also find amped and feedbacked D6 alongside the bright, soft and muted variations. There’s a real harpsichord (plucked, not hammered strings), analogue clavichord via the gorgeous Siel Orchestra2, and deeply faked, modeled, FM’d and bad clavichords made with hybrid software/hardware combinations.
The unique stacking system of the DRIFT universe means obtuse impossible instruments are no longer impossible, just stack them together and sculpt the sound in your head…or use one of the many pre rolled variations.
Simple at the front, complex behind the curtain. The business end is just 4 large knobs: Grist, ADSR, Morph and Space combine multiple functions for uncomplicated and intuitive sound design. A minimal interface beneath which lurks a maximalists desire to warp, bend and squash millions of new sounds into the aether.
Stack together instruments from across the DRIFT range for monstrous modular hybrid sounds.
Features include:
- 10 deeply multi sampled complex sounds sources = 3GB
- 40 modular instrument stacks
- 50 snapshots
- Play delay in ms for stacked mode joy
- Morph EQ knob with 100 presets
- Morph ADSR knob with 100 presets
- Grist knob for noisy filth
- 50 custom impulse response reverbs
- Space knob adds IR reverb and goes to 100% wet
- BPM synced drift control for tape like chaotic wow and flutter
- 2 x BPM synced bipolar ducking modulators for complex throbbing
- Polyphonic, monophonic, legato and offset play modes
- Portamento
- Up to 8 voices of detuned girth
- Custom modwheel settings per sound source
- Full automation capability
- Fake round robin for extra spice
- Chaos page adds even more unpredictability
- Handy built in instructions in RTFM page
Drift 005 – Clavotron requires a full version of Kontakt 6.7.1 or later.
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