Settings page
Learn how to use the Settings page in Claire, which provides global settings regarding the sound and the control of your instrument.
The Settings page provides global settings regarding the sound and the control of your instrument.
Click Settings at the top right of the instrument to open the Settings page.
The Settings page is split into three sections:
Pedal section: Adjusts the pedal settings. Refer to Pedal section.
Tuning section: Adjusts the tuning of the instrument. Refer to Tuning section.
Velocity section: Adjusts the velocity response of the instrument. Refer to Velocity section.
Pedal section
The Pedal section lets you adjust settings affecting the pedals. It contains the following controls:
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Re-Pedal: Enables re-pedaling. When on, the sustain pedal is depressed during note release and the remaining sound sustains.
Half Pedal: Enables the use of a continuous sustain pedal for half-pedaling, which affects the release time and the amount of resonance. For half-pedaling you need a special continuous sustain pedal. If the Half Pedal button is off, a continuous sustain pedal is transformed into an on/off switch.
4th Pedal settings: Adjust the behavior of the fourth pedal feature.
4th Pedal icon: Indicates whether the fourth pedal feature is on (pedal white) or off (pedal grayed out). You can turn the fourth pedal on or off using the 4th Pedal On/Off switch located in the Anatomy section of the Piano page. Refer to Anatomy section for more information. The other 4th Pedal settings have an effect only if the fourth pedal is active.
4th Pedal CC: Shows the MIDI CC number assigned to the fourth pedal. You can choose another MIDI CC number by clicking the display and selecting the desired number from the drop-down menu. Alternatively you can click the 4th Pedal MIDI Learn button (MIDI socket icon) next to the CC field and move the desired control element on your MIDI controller to quickly assign it to the fourth pedal.
4th Pedal Strength: Adjusts the virtual distance between the hammers and the strings, thus the amount of loudness reduction induced by the pedal.
Tuning section
The Tuning section contains settings affecting the pitch and tune of the instrument. It contains the following controls:
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Stretched/Equal selector: Switches the tuning system (or temperament) of the instrument between Stretched and Equal. The default setting is Stretched, which is the way the piano was tuned for sampling. Stretched tuning accommodates the natural “inharmonicity” of metal strings, which stretch harmonics beyond the strings’ ideal frequencies. Therefore, to make the instrument sound more harmonically pleasing (or “musical“), higher notes are stretched upwards. You can otherwise switch to Equal temperament, which is the most common tuning system used in Western music.
Reference Pitch: Adjusts the instrument’s basic pitch, from 436 Hz to 444 Hz.
Detune: Slightly detunes each key differently. At full left, the keyboard is perfectly tuned. The further you drag the slider to the right, the more the keys will go out of tune.
Pitch Bend Range: Selects the pitch range available on the Pitchbend wheel, in semitones.
Velocity section
The Velocity section lets you adapt the instrument’s velocity response to your keyboard and to your way of playing. It contains the following controls:
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Velocity Curve menu: Selects from different velocity curve presets. The selected velocity curve is shown in the display below.
Silent Key: Turns the Silent Key function on or off. When Silent Key is on, very low velocities result in no sound, as on a grand piano. Fabric and mechanical noises will be triggered though and the overtone function is active as well as the virtual string is free to vibrate sympathetically.
Velocity Response display: Shows the current velocity response. Starting from a velocity curve preset, you can customize the response by dragging the three white dots on the display: The middle dot adjusts the position of the inflection point, and the other two dots adjust the lower and upper part of the curve.
Kontrol Keyboards Preset buttons: Click either button to quickly select the velocity curve of that particular Kontrol keyboard. These buttons are shortcuts for the corresponding entries in the Velocity Curve menu above.