Caribbean Flavors Vol.1

Caribbean Flavors Vol.1
Paradise for Productions
 

Backdrop
From the Nouvelle series comes Caribbean Flavors. A versatile and very colorful production tool with a pristine sound which is focused on 32 live-recorded Construction Kits from the Caribbean. This upscale production offers many styles of the modern and traditional Latin music culture such as:

• Bachata,
• Buleria,
• Merengue,
• Salsa,
• Porro,
• Champeta,
• Cumbia,
• Montuno,
• Guaguanco,
• Guajira and,

Symbiosis
All material provides the live-emphasized essence to aid in production realism, artistry and identity. Sessions were recorded with world-class musicians from Puerto Rico, Columbia, Cuba, Venezuela and Germany. Arrangment and ideas come from the famous musician, percussionist and Grammy Award winner Nené Vásquez; mixed and produced by Danya Vodovoz, known for his productions for Raul Paz, Mousse T. and 4Hero.

The content is of great use in any music genre and can be easily integrated into any production where some Latin flavor is desired. Give your production more color and inspiration with powerful and hypnotic percussion grooves, real Latin Horns and Brass solos, authentic Montuno Piano grooves, Très, Flamenco or Latin Guitars and many other authentic Instruments and Vocal parts used in state-of-the-art Latin music.

This release contains nearly 2 gigs of tightly played and fully arranged Latin grooves and breaks, divided into single track loops, solos and single sounds. Every construction kit can be easily remixed, rearranged, or merged for maximum flexibility with the included Elastik virtual instrument.

Taste the Flavors!

Credits
Produced by Danya Vodovoz and Nené Vásquez.

Ideas and arrangement by Nene Vasquez

Choirs and Vocals
Cuba: Santana Fernández, Alexander Spech, Osvaldo Hernández, Carlos Gainza
Perú: Roosevelt Blas
España: Miguel Sotelo, Juanillo
Venezuela: Cristóbal Medina, Ely Orsini

Players
Tres Cubano: Osvaldo Hernández
Guitarra Acoustik: Roosevelt Blas, Osvaldo Hernández, José Poyato
Bajo: Marcos Figger, Osvaldo Hernández, Camilo Villa
Piano: Bruno Böhmer, Cristian Renz
Trompeta: Julito Padrón, Chuky
Percussion: Jaime Vásquez, Carlos Tales, Jelson Valdés, Nené Quintana
Stirl de León, Ariel Flores, Javier Vásquez
Saxophone and Clarinet: David Milzow
Violin: Hajo Hoffman
Trombone: José Pardal
Electric Guitar: Juan David Restrepo, Mohammed Charkani “Momo”
Vibes: Marc Figge
Accordion: Lazlo Gulyas

Genre: Latin
1.9 GB 1066 Loops and Single Sounds
Elastik Soundbank for Mac/PC/AU/VST/RTAS/StandAlone
Elastik Player included - no sampler required!

Video Demos

	Introduction
	Registration & Activation
	Browser Window
	Browser Function
	User Settings
	Loopeye

More infos

Download Elastik 2 Installer MAC
Download Elastik 2 Installer WIN
Download Elastik Demo-Soundbank
Quickstart Manual
Elastik 2 Manual

Systemrequirements

Free ELASTIK 2 Player is included in this product or can be downloaded for free!

Interfaces:
Mac & PC (32 Bit and 64 Bit) - AudioUnits, VST, StandAlone, RTAS (32bit only)

System requirements (recommended):
MacOS X 10.5 or newer: 2GHz / 2GB RAM
Windows XP / Vista / Win7: 2GHz / 2GB RAM

Elastik 2 Features

• innovative loopeye functions
• fast browser features (multiple filter search, tagging)
• prelisten in sync
• sequence mode (loads of edtiting features per slice)
• random sound replacement
• parameter automation
• realtime sync to host
• bounce of original and modified loops
• resizeable window format
• mutiple soundbank management
• timestretch and pitchshift in best quality

Product activation:
An internet connection on any computer is required to authorize / activate the product (Challenge/Response).

Reviews

Future Music, 11-2009

Ueberschall’s Elastik player – the VST equivalent of Marmite – returns with this collection of Caribbean construction kits. Whether you love or hate Elastik, the samples here showcase some of the best Salsa, Merengue and Flamenco session musicians from Puerto Rico, Columbia, Cuba, Venezuela and, er… Germany. You won’t find any synth loops, just live instruments recorded in glorious 24-bit accuracy. Guitars, piano, horns violin and vibraphone are joined by the much sought-after accordion. There are frankly not enough Caribbean accordion samples in the world, so we can only applaud Ueberschall for that. Check this one out for a bit of Latin spice.

Rating: 8/10