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Imho it‘s a shame that there‘s only one clavinet sample. I‘d really like to see further Hohner D6 samples with the clavinet‘s damper slider set to full and set to 50%. Shouldn‘t be a big thing for Nord.
Furthermore a finger damped grand piano sample would be highly appreciated...
A note from another angle, not answering the main question, though:
dexibell recently released a new virtual instrument T2L Electric Piano where you can find various modifications of the basic EP - Clav - Wurli sound types.
The current Clavinet sample was released by Nord in May, 2010. There may have been a software upgrade to version 6.1 to accommodate newer keyboard architecture, but no new instrument was sampled. Based on this length of time, it's unlikely Clavia has any intention of providing a new sample.
The Wurlitzer has suffered the same fate. At one point they modified the two samples to utilize DYN features on the keyboard, which helped quite a bit...but the samples themselves are from 2009 and 2013.
Not that anyone cares, but all the Harpischords are from 2010 too. The Electric Grand from 2011.
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Gambold wrote: 21 Mar 2026, 02:16
The current Clavinet sample was released by Nord in May, 2010. There may have been a software upgrade to version 6.1 to accommodate newer keyboard architecture, but no new instrument was sampled. Based on this length of time, it's unlikely Clavia has any intention of providing a new sample.
The Wurlitzer has suffered the same fate. At one point they modified the two samples to utilize DYN features on the keyboard, which helped quite a bit...but the samples themselves are from 2009 and 2013.
Not that anyone cares, but all the Harpischords are from 2010 too. The Electric Grand from 2011.
Hi Gambold,
thanks for your clarification. I didn't know that. Well, to be honest I'm using the Wurlis a lot and I'm happy with those, so I have no urge for a newer sample. Same with the Electric Grand. You are right, I'm also one of those who don't care about Harpsichords as I'm not using it. Nevertheless, the Clavinet samples is far away from being "state of the art". What I miss most are more prominent key off samples that the original Hohner C6 has and the ability to emulate the mute slider (here separate samples are needed...). Furthermore I miss the typical "imperfection artefacts" that Nord normally knows how to handle in such a brilliant manner.
I made a few clavinet samples, but they only work on a Wave 2 as they are 3 samples velocity split, and that is the only board which will work for this. Still no release samples, but they are chromatically sampled which helps a lot.
I'd love to see a new clav in the piano library, but it seems so unlikely.
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