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673Logic Pro Instruments
Logic Pro Vintage Clav extended parameters
Vintage Clav provides two parameters that can be accessed by clicking the disclosure
triangle at the lower left of the interface.
Extended parameters
• MIDI Mono Mode pop-up menu: Choose Off, On (with common base channel 1), or On
(with common base channel 16).
In either Mono mode, each voice receives on a different MIDI channel. Controllers and
MIDI messages sent on the base channel affect all voices.
• Mono Mode Pitch Range slider: Set a value from 0 to 96.
The chosen pitch bend range affects individual note pitch bend messages received on
all but the common base channel. The default is 48 semitones, which is compatible
with the GarageBand for iOS keyboard in pitch mode. When using a MIDI guitar, 24
semitones is the preferable setting because most guitar to MIDI converters use this
range by default.
D6 Clavinet information
D6 Clavinet history
The German company Hohner, manufacturer of the D6 Clavinet, was known mainly for its
reed instruments (harmonicas, accordions, melodicas, and so on) but had made several
classic keyboards prior to the first incarnation of the Clavinet, known as the Cembalet.
Musician and inventor Ernst Zacharias designed the Cembalet in the 1950s. It was intended
to be a portable version of the cembalo, or harpsichord—which could be amplified. Its
mechanism worked by plucking the end of a flat reed with the key, which was then picked
up and amplified, in much the same way as an electric guitar.
A year or two after the Cembalet release, two Pianet models appeared. Both the CH and N
models used flat reeds for tone generation but employed a very different plucking/striking
action. When a key was depressed, it engaged a sticky pad with a foam backing, which
actually stuck to the reed. When the key was released, the weight of the key caused the
pad adhesive to free itself from the reed. This made the reed vibrate, and this vibration was
then amplified.
The model T Pianet was released several years later and utilized a soft rubber suction
pad on the reeds, rather than the adhesive of the CH and N models. This method resulted
in limited keyboard dynamics and also damped all reeds on release, thus negating any
possibility of sustaining the sound via a foot pedal. Despite these problems, the sound of
the model T Pianet was popularized by bands such as The Zombies and Small Faces in the
1960s.
In the years between the releases of the Pianet N and T models, Zacharias invented what
was to become Hohner’s most successful, and certainly funkiest, keyboard—the Clavinet.
The Clavinet was designed to replicate the sound of a clavichord, but with an altogether
fuller sound (the clavichord was notoriously thin sounding).