THE ROCKER SWITCHES
The main section duplicates controls of a real Hohner D6 Clavinet.
If you haven’t used a real Clavinet (and even if you have) these rocker
switches can be a little bit confusing. First of all, the switches are ON when
turned to a downward facing position. So in the image above, the four filter
switches (Brilliant, Treble, Medium, and Soft) are ON, and the two pickup
switches (CD, AB) are OFF.
The filter switches basically turn on or off a bandpass filter allowing a certain
frequency range through. As you might guess Brilliant is a high frequency
band pass and Soft is a lower frequency band pass. If all four of these are
off, there is no sound from the Clav.
Again, if all four of these filters are off, there is no sound from the Clavinet!
(There is in fact no sound from the pre-amp of the Clav, which we’ll see later
we can get behind in this virtual emulation of a Clav.)
The pickup switches CD and AB are also rather confusing, so we’ve put a
menu below those that show you what pickup configuration is selected. You
can use either the menu or the rocker switches to make your selection. On
the original instrument you had only the rocker switches, and the
configurations were as follows:
CD
AB
Pickup
OFF
OFF
Both pickups in phase
ON
OFF
Upper pickup only
OFF
ON
Both pickups, out of phase
ON
ON
Lower pickup only
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