Mute; Off Center" String Strike; Click - Native Instruments Scarbee Clavinet & Piano User Manual

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LEVEL: Here you can adjust the volume of the bass strings (F0-D#2). Don't turn it completely

down, as the relative levels of all velocities then will be flattened out and show velocity—which

isn't good at all. A level between -0 dB to -5 dB should work fine for most players.

3.4 Mute

To the right of the keys on the original instrument you have a Mutebar. By pressing it the

sound will be muted. We recorded all sounds with the Mutebar on and you can switch between

normal and muted sound using the Mod-Wheel.

Off/On: whether to use mute. Click on and off. You can also use modulation wheel CC01 to

control this.

Musicians who have played the real instrument probably remember the occasional "off cen-

ter" string strike, a well known characteristic of the original instrument. We have included

that too and programmed it to appear as often as within the original instrument. And since

we didn't use random "round-robin" features, but instead mapped it to particular velocities

it now is possible to edit the sound away—if you think that your track wasn't quite perfect...

When playing the original instrument with the Mutebar ON, you get much more clicks on the

release of the string, even on a well adjusted instrument. This is probably due to the fact that

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