About the Hohner D6

Introduced in 1971. by the German company, Hohner, mostly known for their

melodicas and harmonicas came the Hohner D6 model. Hohner had released

some models before this, and was to release some after the D6 but this without

questioning "THE" model to have!

It has appeared on thousands of recording and has become the funky trademark

of several artists, remember Stevie Wonders “Superstition”? Ever wondered how

that song would have sounded without the Hohner D6…???

By using the disk streaming technique it has been possible to, for the first time,

reproduce the tone and feel of the original Hohner D6.

This sampled instruments consists of all the possible tonal presets sampled in

three different velocities and with three different damper settings. The Hohner

D6 has been sampled in thirds, that is, C, D#, F# and A has been sampled for the

entire range of the keyboard giving a total more then 1000 samples!

The sampled instruments contain NO LOOPS!!! All samples are left with its natural

decay.

This is truly the mother of all sampled D6’s!

Have fun & enjoy!

Boris & Worra

About the sampled instrument

The Hohner D6 Clavinet is really a acoustic instrument. It consists of strings that

are being hammered on using a piano-like action. This means that different

strings for different tones produce the tone of the Hohner D6.

The tone of the D6 changes depending on how hard you hit the string. When

releasing the key, the tone is being silenced with a damping mechanic giving a

distinctive release sound.

“Boris Hohner D6” has been assembled to reproduce the original instrument as

closely as possible.

The notes have been sampled using three different velocities and the release has

been sampled separately.

Since the D6 uses separate strings for each note, the tone might differ between

different notes. On “Boris Hohner D6” these differences has been included to

preserve the unique tone of the Hohner D6

Layout

“Boris Hohner D6” has been sampled in thirds, C, D#, F# and A all across the

keyboard.

The original D6 has a tonal range going from F1 to E5, but the lowest and highest

region has been stretched to cover the normal range of a keyboard, that is C0-C7.

“Boris Hohner D6” contains several different instruments. The different

instruments are sampled to cover all the different tonal settings on the D6.

The D6 is a stringed instrument that uses electro magnetic pick-ups, much like a

electric guitar. The D6 has 2 pick-ups that are controlled with two switches, “AB”

and “CD”, with these switches you can produce four different pickup

combinations. On “Boris Hohner D6” all those combinations has been sampled.

There is a mechanical slide on D6 that can be used to mute the strings on the

instruments, thus alter the tonal quality. The purist usually recommends using the

damper either off of full on. These settings has been included in Boris D6 + a

setting where the damper is put halfway up. This is notated as “half mute” for

notes sampled with the slider halfway, “full mute” for notes sampled with the

slider full up.

The Hohner D6, being a mechanical instrument, produces a sound when the key is

being released. “Boris Hohner D6” has a release sample that captures this. There

are however, versions of all instruments that are without release samples, since

some people might think that this sounds better, but for the purist, we have

included all, faults too!

The gig

The gig consists of several different instruments. “A*, “B”, “C” and “D” reflects the

different pickup combinations. There are three different instruments/pickup

setting with different muting. For example, “Clav A” is the clavinet sampled

without any muting; “Clav B Half Mute” is sampled with a different pickup

combination and with the muting slider half way up.

There are also versions of all “normal” instruments without the release sample.

The release sample captures the “thunk” or “click” that happens when the string

is muted. This could by some people be thought of as annoying, and I’m certain

that if the Hohner company had the option of removing it on the original, they

would have done so. But it’s there, and it’s a part of the original sound.

There’s also a some “Special” instruments.

In these instruments, the samples have been processed, (compressed, eq, and

limited).

They can be used as a complement to the original, un-processed instruments.

VOICE DESCRIPTION

Clav Pickup A Pickup combination A, no muting, release triggers

Clav Pickup A Half Mute Pickup combination A, half muting, release triggers<

Clav Pickup A Full Mute Pickup combination A, full muting, release triggers

Clav Pickup B Pickup combination B, no muting, release triggers

Clav Pickup B Half Mute Pickup combination B, half muting, release triggers

Clav Pickup B Full Mute Pickup combination B, full muting, release triggers

Clav Pickup C Pickup combination C, no muting, release triggers

Clav Pickup C Full Mute Pickup combination C, half muting, release triggers

Clav Pickup C Half Mute Pickup combination C, full muting, release triggers

Clav Pickup D Pickup combination D, no muting, release triggers

Clav Pickup D Full Mute Pickup combination D, half muting, release triggers

Clav Pickup D Full Mute Pickup combination D, full muting, release triggers

Clav Pickup A No Rel Pickup combination A, no muting, no release triggers

Clav Pickup A Half Mute No Rel Pickup combination A, half muting, no release triggers

Clav Pickup A Full Mute No Rel Pickup combination A, full muting, no release triggers

Clav Pickup B No Rel Pickup combination B, no muting, no release triggers

Clav Pickup B Half Mute No Rel Pickup combination B, half muting, no release triggers

Clav Pickup B Full Mute No Rel Pickup combination B, full muting, no release triggers

Clav Pickup C No Rel Pickup combination C, no muting, no release triggers

Clav Pickup C Half Mute No Rel Pickup combination C, half muting, no release triggers

Clav Pickup C Full Mute No Rel Pickup combination C, full muting, no release triggers

Clav Pickup D No Rel Pickup combination D, no muting, no release triggers

Clav Pickup D Half Mute No Rel Pickup combination D, half muting, no release triggers

Clav Pickup D Full Mute No Rel Pickup combination D, full muting, no release triggers

SpecClav A Pickup combination A, no release triggers, Processed

SpecClav B Pickup combination B, no release triggers, Processed

SpecClav C Pickup combination C, no release triggers, Processed

SpecClav D Pickup combination D, no release triggers, Processed