Wellencraft releases Alegre - New World Collection

Wellencraft releases Alegre - New World Collection featuring 275 MIDI groove presets,191 loop recordings and much more.

Continuing our New World Collection series as promised, we now release Alegre, the next link in the chain of musical ensembles from the northwest coast of Colombia. The “tambor Alegre”, also called "hembra", "mayor" or "quitambre", is a membranophone percussion instrument of African origin used in the traditional music of Colombia's Caribbean coast. It is the drum that marks the melody; it plays with the notes of the melodies dictated by the lead instruments and voices. Alegre's role is to support the melody with complex and joyful improvisations, especially at the end of the melodic phrase, during its execution.

Watch our first Walkthrough Video of Alegre - New World Collection "Quick Start" where we give you a quick overview, at:

We bring improvements like the new the Loop Editor ("Looper") and also improvements to familiar features like the Step Sequencer ("Groover" - 10 articulations in this case).

The Loop Editor allows you to edit the loop section and sample start of Alegre loops. Our Loop Editor serves as a central hub for your loop settings. Here you can define where to place the Sample Start, Loop Start and Loop End markers. Each Pattern and Loop is displayed with an underlying slices grid, which you can use as a reference to decide where to place the desired loop markers. The Snap Button activates the magnetic marker behavior, which helps you to place the markers on a slice start/end position. And you can return to Wellencraft's default settings by pressing the Default button on the loop editor’s display. Within the slices grid you can see the number of slices of the loaded samples and the loop editor’s display shows you their BPM (beats per minute), signature (2/2, 6/8, etc.) and sample mode (loop, one-shot).

Loop Editor features:

- Sample Start, Loop Start and Loop End markers for manual setting

- Default Button for resetting loop points to Wellencraft original settings

- Snap Button activates the magnetic marker behavior, which helps you to place the markers at a slice start/end position

- Works in Pattern & Loops and Sound Design samples

- Stretch and Auto Stretch

Loop Editor (from the Wellencraft_Alegre_Manual_v1.pdf pag.36)

The Step Sequencer allows you to play different grooves without having to play them manually, simply by pressing and holding down a green key or triggering it with the same notes as the green keys in the DAW’s piano roll editor. You can also load grooves from the groove drop-down menu, which has a large list of varied rhythms, or create them yourself from scratch. The sequencer allows you to set the MIDI velocity of each note and use all of the Alegre articulations in it. There are seven sequencers assigned to the seven green keys, so you can load different grooves at the same time to play them in your project.

Step Sequencer features:

- Manual Edit, Step Edit, Synchronized Edit

- Clear, Copy, Paste, Save (10 user slots)

- Rate, Step and Swing parameters

- Humanize (3 modes)

- Groove Drop-Down Menu (275 grooves)

- Drag & Drop MIDI to DAW

- Save the grooves in MIDI format to desired system path (PC, Mac)

- Crossfade between articulation velocities

Step Sequencer (from the Wellencraft_Alegre_Manual_v1.pdf pag.31)

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Summary:

Content

- 1 GB

- Round Robins for multi-sampled articulations (blue keys)

- Different velocity samples

- 275 MIDI groove presets organized in 10 categories of traditional Alegre rhythms

- 191 loop recordings playing rhythms from beginning to end

- 51 sound design elements created from Alegre samples

Loop Editor (Looper)

- 14 Loop Editors with default Wellencraft presets:

- - 6 categories of traditional rhythms (Bullerengue Sentao, Cumbia Binaria, Cumbia Ternaria, Chalupa, Tambora Tambora, Guacherna)

- - 6 categories of sound design sounds (Hits, Loops, Pulses, Halos, Waves, Wooshes)

- - Auto stretching script for the loop editor, which keeps the sample in time with your DAW

Sequencer (Groover)

- 7 multi-sample sequencers with editing and beat creation functions

- Humanizing timing script with different modes

Mixes

- 2 different mixes (Mix A and Mix B) of the Alegre with their respective mix controls

- - Volume, Pan, Attack, Release, Mute, Link

FX

- Independent EQ per mix (three band EQ)

- Independent Reverb per mix (Wellencraft originals and N.I. factory)

- Independent Delay per mix (Milliseconds and musical) )

- Independent Punch per mix (Transient Shaper, Saturation)

- Pitch Knob

- Velocity Response (Performance Tab for adjusting controller behaviour)

Info/Support

- Wellencraft Alegre User Manual (PDF)

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