Now Scarbee Clavinet weighs just a few grams ). Of course, as most electro-mechanical instruments, the original instrument had it’s shortcomings: it was quite a heavy beast considering its svelte dimensions. 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.
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. The sharp tone and the percussive playing style made it a first choice for many funk recordings, where it complemented funk guitar rhythms like no other instrument. For many, this is as close as they will ever get to a sound which could compete with the cut of an electric guitar. It has a big round twanging bottom and a wiry and tight top end. 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. Pan.Īuto-Wah.Ĭompressor.Ĭhorus.ĭistortion. Original Noise Adjustment.Ĭontrols (Pianet). Introduction (Pianet).Ĭontrols (Clavinet). Leave them wondering: “How did he do that?“ Years later, I am still very fond of “illusions“ inĪny media.Introduction (Clavinet). When I was a boy, I wanted to be a great Magician. Thomas Hansen Skarbye – The Bassist and Producer Skip ahead to the section near the end that explains the various differences between MMBass and Jay-Bass.
Manual is equal to that of the MM-Bass manual. Jay-Bass was designed to mimic the functionality of MM-Bass as closely as possible, but using the samples from the J-Slap’n Fingered library. Hard rock maple, black dot position markersĢ x volume, 1 x active bass, 1 x passive treble Made of hardrock maple), Dunlop 6110 “jumbo” frets and bone nut.ġ-piece hard rock maple, reinforced with graphite barsīolt-on with threaded steel bolts and inserts Neck, the same pick-up placement, the same wood (body made of ash neck and fingerboard The instrument we used was an excellent and expensive danish hand built bass that has theįeatures of a classic funky late ♇0s bass: The same shape and dimensions of the back of the Presets, and access documentation covering every aspect of the instrument directly through
The full strings of the bass have been sampled in order to reproduce the timbre changes that The trills and cross hammering you can trigger all of the articulations and techniques above
Jay-Bass was designed to make it very easy to use all these while playing live.
Slapped version – without the use of compression, tubes or EQ to ensure maximum flexibility Three pick-up settings: Bridge, Both and Neck have all been recorded in both a fingered and Take advantage of our highly advanced scripting technology originally developed for MM-Bass. Scarbee Jay-Bass is built on the samples of J-Slap’n Fingered, but has been reprogrammed to 37ġ0 Differences Between Jay-Bass and MM-Bass.38ġ1 Production Credits & Thank You’s.39 25Ħ Sustaining Notes.26ħ Vibrato.27Ĩ Instrument Reset.28ĩ Main Menu and Instrument Settings.29 Hammer-on/Pull-off.15įast Grace Note Up.16 All rights reserved.ġ Welcome to Scarbee Jay-Bass!.6Ībout the Bass. Special thanks to the Beta Test Team, who were invaluable not just in tracking down bugs, but in Product and company names are ™ or ® trademarks of their respective owners. Written permission by Native Instruments GmbH, hereinafter referred to as Native Instruments. May be copied, reproduced or otherwise transmitted or recorded, for any purpose, without prior
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