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Claro

4.7 (2439 Reviews)

$134.00

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Product information

Whether you're a bedroom producer or a Grammy-winning pro, you want to take control to develop your own musical voice. Claro will empower you to make informed musical decisions in a unique and intuitive way.

Claro is a comprehensive EQ plugin that serves the production process from composition to final mix, with three distinct views, progressively adding deeper insight and precision to prevent mud, clutter, or harshness, helping you blend your tracks into a clear and balanced mix.

How Does Claro Benefit You?

Staying focused is difficult, it slows the production process and kills creativity.

Specifically designed to offer "Vibe first, detail later", Claro has three distinct views which help to build your EQ intuition and confidence without interrupting the flow. You'll be guided towards making the right decision for you, first time, every time.

After having reduced masking from your previously muddy mix, have you ended up with something lifeless or sterile?

Of course, you have, but were you aware that not all masking is bad all of the time? Masking can impart body, thickness and presence to your tracks. Claro identifies masking and empowers you to learn and choose whether it is problematic or positively contributing to the tone you're trying to achieve.

Resonance isn't always bad.

Resonances are the sharp, tonal characteristics that ring over time, as the overtones of a bell. They can cause things to sound harsh or boxy, and while you might be tempted to notch out or remove all of the resonances, they also help determine that sound's character, including its pitch.

When searching for resonant areas to tweak, Claro shows precise peaks and highlights those that resonate most over time.

You don't always refer to audio in specific Hz, so why should your Plugin?

Claro's friendly, intuitive interface guides you towards frequency ranges using familiar words such as 'Mud' and 'Harshness' in addition to Hz. A piano keyboard is also displayed to set your EQ band to a specific note helping you to work musically.

Produce | Tweak | Mix

Three Distinct Views

Claro sustains focus and accelerates your workflow through three distinct views.

The first is the PRODUCE view, offering a fast, creative EQ that actively promotes your musical creativity while removing unnecessary distractions and complex technical terminology.

TWEAK view then opens up more correctional possibilities, providing you with the cleanest, most flexible filters. The real-time analyser adapts to your moves and helps to identify problematic resonances.

Finally, use the MIX view to understand and assemble your mix. Every track is simultaneously displayed for you to prioritise, explore interactions and swiftly address frequency collisions between competing tracks.

Claro is an equaliser that aids the production process from composition to final mix. Progressively adding deeper insight and precision, Claro maintains focus and accelerates your workflow through three distinct views.

Produce - Tone

Build EQ intuition and confidence without interrupting your flow.

Broad EQ moves while creating, even if they're subtle, often inspire you to make different musical decisions.

Focus on where the energy is and discover what tonal characteristics you want to achieve.

Produce - Width

Mid-side EQ is often essential for cleaning up stereo synths and loops or creating space for vocals, and it's just as quick as Tone shaping.

Flip to Width mode to see the side-channel energy and tweak it.

Too much rumble in the sides? Mono the bass with the Low Cut Filter.

Tweak

Sometimes you'll need to dive into finer details, tweak filter resonance, adjust left/right and mid/side balance, or attenuate areas that contribute to boxiness or harshness.

Claro's adaptive spectrum analyser follows the channel (stereo, left/right or mid/side) and the Q of the band you're adjusting to show you what you need to see.

No more boosting and sweeping. Claro identifies resonances and highlights them so you can be in control of how much or little you wish to attenuate those resonances.

Mix

View all Claro instances across your project and see how the audio interacts.

Drag & drop tracks to explore corrective EQ moves across any combination of tracks from the same window.

Yellow highlights indicate where each track in your mix competes against, or masks, your chosen reference track. Areas of masking can lead to it sounding boomy, muddy, or harsh.

Use the Invert EQ function to apply corresponding boosts to one track and cuts to another to reduce masking and give each track its own spectral space.

Features

Claro's EQ is highly flexible, with each of its 26 bands offering:
- A clean, musical-sounding EQ that resembles the well-loved Neve types, their modern derivatives and the SSL G Series, as well as many high-end outboard equalisers.
- Left, Right, Mid, Side, Mono, or Stereo channel processing giving you the capability to correct, widen, narrow, or make space within each track.
- A wide 20hz - 40kHz range. The extended high-frequency range offers a smooth, airy quality - excellent for vocals and mix busses.
- Variable Q, including resonance and overshoot on the cut and shelving filters, respectively, giving you the ability to mimic classic synth filters and hardware EQ curves.
- Variable slopes on all band shapes, up to super-steep (120dB per octave) for surgical work and treating precise audio bands
- Claro's automation is smooth and artefact-free, unlike most premium EQs.
Auto Gain uniquely keeps your track at the same loudness, no matter the signal content or how you choose to EQ it.

Testimonials

Mike Exeter

"I love the sound and feel of this plugin, and the resonance visual feedback is better than anything else I’ve used"

Nuno Fernandes

"It’s such a huge time saver to be able to do everything in one plugin."

Rhys Fletcher

"I've got really into using this plugin now, it took a little time but now I feel like I can’t live without it! Mix mode is proving invaluable. It’s amazing!"

System Requirements

macOS

macOS 10.12 or later (Intel / M1 Apple Silicon supported) (64-bit only)
Plugin Formats - AAX Native, AU, VST3
Supported Hosts - Pro Tools 11 or above or any desktop application that supports Audio Unit (AU) or VST3 plugins.

Windows

Windows 10 or later
Plugin Formats - AAX Native, VST3
Supported Hosts - Pro Tools 11 or above or any desktop application that supports VST3 plugins.

Activation

The Toolbox range offers 2 activations for each product licence you buy.

Providing you have an iLok account, each activation will allow you to authorise your plugin on one of these devices:

Machine
iLok device, iLok2 / iLok3 required with latest drivers OR
iLok Cloud (Active internet connection required)

Installation Instructions

Note: VoxDoubler has been used as an example.

Mac

2. Visit Sonnox to register your product.

3. Read the Sonnox Software Licence Agreement > Click 'I Agree' at the bottom of the page.

4. Copy and paste/manually type in the 14 character Activation Key (serial number) from your User Account, into the 'Activation Key' box and click 'Submit.'

5. Enter your personal details and complete the customer registration page and once inputted, click 'Submit.'

6. Your software product has now been successfully registered.

Please note:

You will have been sent a confirmation email containing your product serial numbers, licence details and installer links to your registered Sonnox email address.
Please keep this email safe as you will need the serial numbers to access any future upgrades of the plug-ins or download your installers

7. Log into your email address inbox and click the 'Download' option.

NB: This email may be located in the spam/junk folder of your inbox.

8. Enter your iLok Account User ID and then click 'Verify.'

9. Check and verify your details by selecting 'Deposit.'

10. Launch your iLok licence manager application and log into your account > locate the Sonnox VoxDoubler product name and drag and drop this onto the computer/iLok USB location that you wish to activate the software to.

11. Select 'OK' to confirm the activation.

12. The software is now successfully activated to your location of choice > you can now close the iLok licence manager application.

13. Click 'Mac Installers' to navigate to the product download section.

14. Select the 'Sonnox Toolbox VoxDoubler' link to initiate the downloading of the software.

15. Once the .pkg file has successfully downloaded, double-click it to begin the installation process > click 'Continue.'

16. Read through the Licence Agreement > click 'Continue' then 'Agree.'

17. Select a computer destination in which to install the software to > click 'Continue.'

18. Select which software components you wish to install > click 'Continue.'

19. Review the installation and click 'Install.'

20. The installation of the software has successfully completed > click 'Close.'

21. Restart/open your DAW, then locate and select Vox Doubler from your Audio FX drop-down selection.

Note: if the software fails to show, restart your DAW and/or rescan your plugin selection to refresh the installation.

The Software is now Ready for Use!

Windows

Note: Either an iLok USB Key and/or FREE soft iLok licence manager account (and application) are required to activate your Sonnox Software. If you do not have an iLok Key, you can purchase one from HERE and your FREE iLok account can be created HERE.