10.6

670Logic Pro Instruments
• Stiffness/Inharmonicity sliders and fields: Intensify or reduce inharmonic overtones.
Different values let you create metallic, bell-like sounds or DX-style electric pianos.
Stiffness and Inharmonicity can also be useful for wood bass sounds.
• The Inharmonicity parameter determines the lowest harmonic—the harmonic
threshold. Inharmonic content above this threshold is stretched or spread across the
frequency spectrum.
• The Stiffness parameter controls the intensity of the stretching or spectral spreading
set by the Inharmonicity slider.
Note: The fundamental note pitch is not affected by the Stiffness and Inharmonicity
parameters.
• Tension Mod slider and field: Add a slight upward pitch bend effect immediately
after being plucked, struck, or strummed. This type of modulation is common to
stringed instruments like the D6, guitars, and so on. A predefined Tension Modulation
characteristic is built into each model, but this can be altered with the Tension Mod
parameter. The impact of this parameter can be significant, enabling you to generate
strange sound effects with Vintage Clav. You can also use it to simulate an out-of-tune
clavinet, or a sitar-like sound.
• Pitch Fall slider and field: Set the intensity of a D6 characteristic where the pitch of
each note falls immediately after you release the key. This sonic quirk is due to the
physical construction of the D6. The intensity of this effect varies with each model, but
it can be completely deactivated by setting Pitch Fall to the leftmost position.
Logic Pro Vintage Clav Pitch parameters
The Pitch parameters affect the tuning of the selected model.
Pitch parameters
• Tune slider and field: Adjust tuning in one-cent intervals. At a value of 0c (zero cents),
the central A key is tuned to 440Hz, or concert pitch.
• Stretch Tuning slider and field: Use to deviate from the default equal-tempered scale
by altering the bass and treble ends of the sound. This simulates the way stringed
keyboard instruments such as pianos are tuned (see information below).
Note: Use of both Warmth and Stretch may result in a detuned sound that is quite
similar to a heavy chorus effect. In some instances, this effect may be so extreme that
Vintage Clav sounds out of tune with your project or concert.