Native Instruments Scarbee Clavinet & Piano Manuale utente

USER MANUAL

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Manual written by: Thomas Hansen Skarbye

Edited by: Patryk Korman

Document Version: 1.0 (02/2010)

Product Version: 1.0 (02/2010)

Special thanks to the Beta Test Team, who were invaluable not just in tracking down bugs, but in

making this a better product.

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Scarbee Clavinet and Pianet - User Manual – IV

Table Of Contents

1 Introduction(Clavinet).......................................................................................................6

2 Introduction(Pianet).........................................................................................................9

3 Controls(Clavinet).......................................................................................................... 12

3.1 SustainPedal....................................................................................................... 12

3.2 PitchBend............................................................................................................ 12

3.3 BassString........................................................................................................... 12

3.4 Mute.................................................................................................................... 13

3.5 “OffCenter”StringStrike...................................................................................... 13

3.6 Click.................................................................................................................... 13

3.7 Pickups................................................................................................................14

3.8 FilterSwitches...................................................................................................... 15

3.9 OriginalNoiseAdjustment..................................................................................... 16

4 Controls(Pianet)............................................................................................................. 17

4.1 SustainPedal....................................................................................................... 17

4.2 Click.................................................................................................................... 17

4.3 OriginalNoiseAdjustment..................................................................................... 18

4.4 Tremolo................................................................................................................ 18

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5 Effects(ClavinetandPianet)........................................................................................... 19

5.1 Reverb.................................................................................................................. 19

5.2 Delay....................................................................................................................20

5.3 Pan......................................................................................................................20

5.4 Auto-Wah..............................................................................................................21

5.5 Compressor..........................................................................................................21

5.6 Chorus..................................................................................................................22

5.7 Distortion.............................................................................................................22

5.8 Phaser..................................................................................................................23

5.9 Amp.....................................................................................................................23

6 Credits...........................................................................................................................24

Scarbee Clavinet and Pianet – User Manual – 6

1 Introduction (Clavinet)

Scarbee Clavinet is a unique and totally authentic reproduction of the most funky keyboard

ever made, recreating not only its signature sound but also the unique dynamic response of

the original instrument. It has a big round twanging bottom and a wiry and tight top end. For

many, this is as close as they will ever get to a sound which could compete with the cut of

an electric guitar. The sharp tone and the percussive playing style made it a rst choice for

many funk recordings, where it complemented funk guitar rhythms like no other instrument.

These days, it’s a testament to the unique and legendary status of the original instrument

and the music to which it was part of. Virtually every synthesizer you power up has a program

called “clav.” Thankfully, the Scarbee Clavinet preserves the true sound of the instrument

for generations of keyboard players to come. Of course, as most electro-mechanical instru-

ments, the original instrument had it’s shortcomings: it was quite a heavy beast considering its

svelte dimensions. Now Scarbee Clavinet weighs just a few grams ;). The original instrument

suffered from the usual wear and tear you might expect from an instrument of this design.

Most commonly, strings rusted, went out of tune and broke, keys broke under performance

stress or froze due to wear in the rubber key guides, and rubber hammer tips split, causing

notes to stick or sound dead. The Scarbee Clavinet was in perfect condition when sampled

and will sound that way forever. No tuning problems, no broken strings, no hammer tips to

cut up and install—just load it and play. The original instrument’s output lasted only as long

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as the 9 volt battery powering its preamp. No battery meant no sound. Just like the single

pole pickups found on electric guitars, the original instrument’s pickups had a tendency to

amplify transformer noise and any other type of hiss and hum within range, leading to a

niche business for the instrument’s tweaking with improved RF shielding inside the instru-

ment’s housing. The original had a very specic sonic envelope, and it could not be used in

conjunction with a piano style sustain pedal. Now that Scarbee has poured the funk machine

into the more uid environment of a sampler, the original’s classic tone is available for far

more experimental approaches to synthesis, from envelope alteration to lter modication

to layering to just about anything your imagination can bring to bear. The sound is one of

the most easily identiable and unique amongst classic keyboards. Although its legendary

status and popularity have led to frequent imitation and sampling, until now the essence and

vibrant dynamics of the original keyboard have never truly been captured. Just as we did with

the MARK I, the A-200 and Scarbee Pianet, the Scarbee Clavinet delivers the sound of the

original in the kind of vivid and inspiring detail which—once you’ve started playing—you will

see you want to play on, and on, and on.

How much detail is there in the instrument?

In order to accurately reproduce the original keyboard’s dynamics, both the sustained and

release sounds have been sampled at up to 20 different sustained velocities—including

samples of the occasional ‘off center’ string strike, a well known characteristic of the original

instrument. All samples are full length (no loops) and with the Clavinet, Scarbee introduces

“Horizontal Release Technology,” whereby release samples are chosen from the wave pool

depending on how long a key has been held. This allows a staccato played note to create a

different release tone than a note sustained for a longer period. To achieve this, each key

sampled on the Scarbee Clavinet has 24 release samples assigned to it! This was the only

way to reproduce the very special action and soul of the original instrument. We sampled each

of the four standard pickup settings: Lower, Upper, Both (out of phase) and Both, each in a

standard version and a version with mutebar switched ON, resulting in 8 unique sounds! We

also made it possible to switch Standard/Mute modes with the Mod-Wheel. In addition we

have created a set of Impulse Responses for the KONTAKT 4 Convolution effect, which offers

you an exact simulation of the original and very special Filter/EQ on the original instrument.

Scarbee Clavinet and Pianet – User Manual – 8

RESTORATION

From the start we had decided to sample the black and metal colored “road” model of the

original instrument because it was better shielded and more recent. And I managed to get

a great looking instrument, it looked almost new. I spent the Christmas holidays to change

strings and hammers, which seriously stressed my back. Then I started the initial recordings,

but it just didn’t sound as good as the recording clips I had from my friend Christian Vinten’s

recently restored version, the classic wooden one. I went to see my friend Preben Lyngmark,

who had two of the wooden ones in his repair shop and we compared both models directly,

with the result that they did sound different. We discovered a slightly different preamp and

modied the road one’s amp to our liking. But still the sound was not right—probably due to

the metal case of my version. Although Preben did a great job (as usual), we never got the

road version to sound as good as the wooden one, so one day I called Christian and begged

him to lend me his instrument for a few months...(it took a year before I returned it). Preben

now replaced a single transistor in the preamp to reduce noise a little bit. Another problem

was that sometimes the switches wouldn’t work. Fortunately we could xed that. The original

is driven by a 9 Volt battery (!) and we had to change it quite often to avoid bad sound...

Changing the rubber hammers was easy, but the green yarn (wow), each string had to be put

through very gently and in exactly the right way, was a headache. If any of this got broken, it

would have been a complete disaster, the yarn is the damper of the strings! The strings came

in four sizes: three different bass gauges and one treble string. It was no fun at all to replace

those. Tuning the instrument was also quite cumbersome; some of the strings were very hard

to turn and you had the feeling they would break any second. I had to retune pretty often

while sampling, but in the end the instrument sounded as if it came directly from the factory.

Scarbee Clavinet and Pianet – User Manual – 9

2 Introduction (Pianet)

One day I received a mail from Dave Stewart, who had reviewed Scarbee MARK 1 and the

A-200 (they had other names in earlier versions) for Sound On Sound magazine and awarded

them both with ve stars. In the mail Dave asked me if I could do him a favor and bring his

beloved electric piano back to life and sample it for him. How could I say no? Back in the

70s, Dave’s keyboard rig consisted of an organ and this rare electric piano, both of which were

often played through effect pedals. This specic instrument was featured on all of Dave’s early

bands’ albums (including Hateld & The North’s legendary “The Rotters’ Club”), and was an

intrinsic part of his keyboard sound for many years. Dave’s original instrument, manufactured

in 1968-69, has been restored to full working order and was sampled extensively for this

keyboard collection. Dave says: “It’s great to play this delightful old instrument again—thanks

to Thomas’ meticulous restoration and painstaking sampling, it sounds as clean, rich and

vibrant as the day I bought it!” Dave Stewart is a UK keyboardist/composer who rst came

to the public’s attention in the early ‘70s as a member of the experimental rock groups Egg,

Hateld & The North and National Health. The Scarbee Pianet has a sound that sonically

lies somewhere between the reedy bite of the Scarbee A-200 and the purer bell tone of the

Scarbee MARK I. The result is a vibraphone type tone with a very percussive envelope and

almost no dynamic response due to its sticky hammers. Although more portable than either

of these pianos, the instrument’s lack of a sustain pedal and limited dynamic response often

Scarbee Clavinet and Pianet – User Manual – 10

saw it dismissed by the pros. On the other hand, its smaller size and lower cost made it the

rst electric piano owned by many. Being an electro-mechanical beast, the original piano

had its troubles. Sometimes a sticky pad would tear loose from the key. Other times, when

the adhesive on the pads dried out, reeds would be dropped sooner or later, creating a much

softer note and uneven keyboard response. Worn reeds were almost impossible to tune, and

replacement or soldering was quite time consuming. Rust plagued the reeds of any piano in

proximity to the ocean, and pickups tended to pick up more than just the dulcet bell tone of

reed vibration. The Scarbee Pianet not only leaves those electro mechanical woes behind,

providing a clean, accurate 24 bit full length, multi sampled, multi velocity reproduction of

the original, but it also adds new possibilities for the adventurous keyboardist in terms of vari-

able envelope shapes, lters, tunings, modulation, patch layering and even (nally) a sustain

pedal. With the fusion of classic tone and cutting edge programming options, the Scarbee

Pianet may yet get its “day in the sun.”

How much detail is there in the instrument?

Well, this unique keyboard used a special technique to produce its charming sound: so-called

(rubber-made) “sticky hammers” lifted the tine—more or less like a Harpsichord and when

a hammer released its tine, its classic sound was produced. This technique means that the

instrument is virtually without dynamics, but even so, it has got a really cool sound! As with

the Scarbee MARK 1 and Scarbee Clavinet, Scarbee Pianet takes advantage of the “Horizontal

Release Technology,” whereby different release samples are chosen from the wave pool de-

pending on how long a key has been held—allowing a staccato played note to create a differ-

ent release tone compared to a note which is sustained for a longer period. This technology

makes it possible to imitate the action of these keyboards. The result is a very inspiring and

authentic playing experience, which we nd is very important when creating music. Due to

the simple mechanical design of the instrument, it was only necessary to sample ve release

sounds per key to obtain a perfect simulation of the original keyboard.

RESTORATION

As usually, Preben Lyngmark from Musikpartner was giving me a helping hand and managed

to x a broken power cable and to clean the outputs. He also could explain some inside quirks

of the keyboard; For some reason the output was loudest when inserting the foot-swell jack

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