Wrongtools has subverted its soulful history by treating the Clavinet not as a keyboard, but as a resonant string machine.
Clavinets and The Historical Shift:
From Funk to "Anti-Funk"
An anti-funk exploration of the Clavinet.
The Clavinet is essentially a mechanical guitar with 60 long strings played by a keyboard. Historically, the instrument’s legacy was built on short, dry notes.
Bypassing the hammer-on-string
By bypassing the traditional “hammer-on-string” attack, the Wrongtools Clavinets leans into an “Anti-Funk” aesthetic.
An anti-funk exploration of the Clavinet.
A New Frontier in Cinematic Underscore
Drawing from the philosophies of modern ambient guitarists, Wrongtools use unconventional excitation methods—including bow-hairs, ebows, rotating fans, and even electric toothbrushes—to coax out the hidden, singing overtones of the instrument.
Sound as a sense of place
A Radical Reimagining of the Hohner Clavinet
Recorded from chains of hardware, tape echos, spring-reverb tanks and tube amps.
The inherent variability of electric circuits and various hardware contributes to the ear-pleasing feel that plugins can’t provide.
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Dismantling a Soul Icon
For film and TV scoring, the wrongtools clavinets excels at creating “poetic atmospheres” and “nocturnal hymns.”
Their ability to shift from “hushed, melancholic sighs” to “searing, neon-lit wails” makes it an essential “secret weapons” for composers seeking a distinctive, non-linear sonic signatures.
The clavinet anti-funk evolution.
Wrongtools Clavinet libraries are a sonic exploration of what happens when a vintage mechanical icon is pushed into the “liminal realm” of ambient fusion. It is a mandatory addition to the palette of any composer looking to capture the “unmistakable sonic fingerprint” of the true-North.
Wrongtools anti-funk Clavinets includes 284 of Kontakt instruments of bowed and plucked clavinets,glacial textures and cinematic Nordic atmospheres +.
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Cursed Clavinets
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Clavisphere
€50
CURSED CLAVINETS
Unsettling, distorted leads, drifting pads and haunting soundscapes made from Clavinets
AMBIENT CLAVINETS
Ambient Clavinets was made in an unusual way; it sculpts haunting, ethereal soundscapes by bowing, ebowing, and even fanning its strings.
PLUCKED CLAVINETS
Imagine the iconic Hohner Clavinet, unbound from its keyboard, re-engineered for the modern film scoring.
CLAVISPHERE
Timeless patches that delivers a rich palette of emotionally resonant Nordic epic and poetic tones.
It’s a series of four very unusual clavinet kontakt libraries.
Wrongtools clavinet kontakt libraries are a deep and colourful free formed research into Clavinet timbres.
- Clavinets sampled with all the tricks and equipment usually assosiated with electric guitars:
- Single tones vibrato non vib and organic vibrato made with tuning fork.
- Chords – major, minor, open fifth chords
- Long tones – controlled playable and usable release and tails.
- Trems fast repetitive tones synced to tempo in octaves or single tones
- Controlled feedback – made by placing an amp close to the instrument.
- Harmonics – picked strings – huge poetic tones – control harmonics with fingers
- Percussion – Using the clavinet body as a percussive instruments. – through pickups and amps.
- Scrapes – scraped strings and strummed glissando effects.
- Unconventional strings manipulations – prepared strings, tools, Playing notes behind the nut.
- Cinematic textures – Always recorded through pedalboards.
- Vivid – granular, fists, tapemachine clutter etc
- Low end – low-end goodness, punchiness and warmth
- Loops – Synced to the tempo. Different rhythms played on single tones or in octaves.
- Pitch drifting – Bending the with the tuning screws, or similar.
- Clavinet ensembles – Layered clavinets
Absolutely—load a preset and play sustained chords or melodic lines. You can tweak layer mix, movement, and effects in Kontakt while performing, creating your own evolving background textures.
The libraries requires the full version of Full Retail Version of Kontakt 6.4.2 [or later]. It will not run in the free Kontakt Player. If you’re unsure about compatibility, see our general Kontakt compatibility guide.
It the four of them takes up a total of 16,46 GB
All four totals 284 rich-sounding and often complex multi layered patches.
Total number of samples are 6288
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