AMBIENT CLAVINETS

The Clavinet is rarely the first instrument associated with vast, glacial horizons. 

However, Wrongtools’ “AMBIENT CLAVINET” represents a radical departure from the instrument’s percussive history.

The library contains cinematic colors, epic transitions, and ambient tones – formed from Hohner Clavinets through effects stacks and amps.

This is a space wide open for your sound imagination to truly breathe. A place beyond definition, beckoning you to suspend caution, embrace new perspectives, and express yourself. 

Clavinet strings were set in motion with the use of external objects. Like bow-hairs, ebows, rotating small fan, electrical toothbrush, needles, scrapes, clinkers and feedback.    We opened the lid, and played directly on the strings. As well as with the keys. Then we recorded them though signal chains that probably would be recognizable in the guitar worlds. 

• Deep and Colorful Sustains: Long, evolving pad sounds with a unique organic character.

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• Haunting Drones: Low, sustained textures perfect for creating tension, mystery, or desolation.

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• Shimmering Wildflies: Bright, fluttering, and highly textured sounds that add movement and sparkle.

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• Epic Transitions: Sounds that morph and evolve, ideal for building atmosphere and seamless scene changes.

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• Unusual Textures: Sounds generated by setting Clavinet strings in motion with ebows, bow-hairs, and even rotating fan.

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Every patch has optional advanced effect setups : Choose from a variety of flexible modulation options such as a Glide portamento, Pitch Follower, granular madness, sadistic filters and randomized evolving [FX] textures.

The sound of Ambient Clavinets originates from a sampled Hohner Clavinet, treated almost like a massive guitar with 60 long strings. These strings were then set into motion using unconventional methods such as bow-hairs, ebows, and small rotating fans. The sounds were pushed through various effect stacks and amplifiers, creating a distinct sonic fingerprint of deep, sustained, and highly textural qualities.

Ambient clavinet library relies heavily on time-based and experimental effects to transform the dry signal into ethereal, sustained, or evolving soundscapes. 

• • Strymon BigSky: A legendary multi-reverb pedal, a foundational piece for many ambient guitarists, offering pristine algorithms from lush halls to shimmers.
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  • Hologram Electronics Microcosm: A granular effects pedal that re-arranges and re-interprets the sounds using sampling, pitch-shifting, delay, and looping.
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  • Old Blood Noise Endeavors Dark Star: A characterful lo-fi reverb pedal specializing in slow attack and pad generation, with controls for signal degradation, filtering, pitch shifting, and added delay.
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  • Chase Bliss Audio MOOD : A granular micro-looper and delay that allows audio to continuously pass between two channels, creating evolving, interactive, and often unpredictable soundscapes.
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  • EarthQuaker Devices Avalanche Run: A stereo delay and reverb multi-tool offering long delay times, lush plate reverb, reverse delay, and dynamic swelling, perfect for dreamy atmospheric sounds.
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  • Red Panda Particle : A granular delay/pitch shifting pedal that chops the signal into small grains, then rearranges, shifts, and mangles it for unique rhythmic and textural effects.
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  • GFI System Specular Tempus: A powerful reverb and delay processor with 32 hand-crafted algorithms and extensive interconnectivity, providing vast sonic possibilities for ambient soundscapes.
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  • Fairfield Circuitry Shallow Water: A “K-Field Modulator” that creates unique, often subtle, and unpredictable chorus, flanger, and vibrato effects, ideal for adding organic movement and lo-fi warmth to ambient textures.
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  • Vongon Paragraphs: A resonant low pass filter with stereo modulators and other sound-shaping capabilities.
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• Drolo FX Stamme[n]: A granular and lo-fi delay, sampler, and pitch-shifter, that creates some  weird unique, stuttering, and evolving ambient textures.

To use Ambient Clavinets, you will need the Full Retail Version of Kontakt 6.4.2 (or later) . It is not compatible with the free Kontakt Player. The library requires 3.8 GB of free disk space for installation.