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We've selected some of the best stage pianos available for recreating classic Rhodes and Wurlitzer sounds both in studio and on stage.
UAD has launched 2 new plugins in the form of the Electra 88 Vintage Keyboard Studio and Capitol Mastering Compressor. Let's take a look!
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Rhodes has released a virtual version of the MK8. Rhodes V8 hopes to capture every detail of the hardware in the official Rhodes VSTi. And win a MK8!!
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The MK8/75AE was teased in March, appeared at Superbooth and was even given away in a prize draw, but soon you'll be able to secure one for yourself.
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The new sampled instrument platform conjures up a 1976 Vintage Rhodes and does some ultra-deep sampling of the Commodore 64's chiptune soul.
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Casually thrown into a Rhodes update email is a photo of Chief Product Officer Dan Goldman and Grammy award-winning Bill Laurance leaning on what looks like the new Rhodes MK8.
"It's almost time for you to meet the new Rhodes," and the recently formed Rhodes Music Group gives us a glimpse behind the scenes of the new Rhodes piano. Latest updates!
The Rhodes name has been picked up in the UK to create the Rhodes Music Group Ltd and they plan to continue the development of high-quality musical instruments synonymous with the name.
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Using their magical second-generation spectral modelling engine Sampleson has analysed the Fender Rhodes Suitcase 73 and squeezed it down to a 35MB virtual instrument.
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Sampleson has taken their Rhodes samples apart and found that they only need to tune sine waves to accurately recreate the entire spectrum of sound. Markus 88 is only 25MB and sounds like a 2GB instrument.
Electrix steals the sound of the Hohner Electra Piano T from Stairway to Heaven, No Quarter and Down by the Seaside and gives a rare opportunity to sample Led Zeppelins sonic character.
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The VOX Continental Keyboard injects itself with three classic organs, three electric pianos and three acoustic pianos to create what it believes to be the ultimate stage keyboard - in orange.
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Not another electric piano? Oh yes but Tines is simpler, groovier and much cheaper that any of those massive Rhodes emulations.
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Yet another collection of classic keyboards, but Keyscape has a lot more going on than other recent electric piano collections
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Can we cope with more electric pianos? Spitfire Audio believe that the definitive vintage sound can only be found in North 7 Vintage Keys.
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e-Instruments reckon they can capture the soul of a Rhodes in 20GB in their Electric S - Waves did it in 4GB with the Electric 88 - which is better?
The iconic sound of the Rhodes electric piano is part of our musical consciousness. Here's my top 5 software recreations of this classic instrument.
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They found an old piano, sampled the heck out of it and want you to love it like an old friend - the Electric 88 Piano