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Big Tick Ticky ClavTicky Clav is a fun-to-play, physically modeled alternative to paid-for Clavinet plug-ins, and boasts several features that mimic the real thing. First, four buttons let you set the pickups as you would on a real Clav, offering a good deal of tonal variation. Second, a dampening knob simulates the position of a real Clav’s damper lever, which produces a muted sound when engaged, and “click” can add the sound of the hammer pulling off the string on key-ups. Third and foremost, though, is the wah effect. It’ll follow a built-in LFO, velocity, or a MIDI message such as a control pedal. It’s got a salacious quality, the sonic equivalent of dancing that would not have been allowed on TV in the ’50s. Without the wah, though, Ticky Clav has a character from, say, middle C on up, that reminded me of both a banjo and an Ensoniq Mirage-era sampled electric guitar, and I couldn’t get entirely rid of it no matter how I twiddled the knobs. It’s not in the attack or release characteristics, which are all fine — it’s more in the actual frequency content. Still, put this criticism in brackets, as this is a free software instrument. INSTRUMENTS PLUG-IN FORMATS PROS CONS BOTTOM LINE |
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