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Professional Products Vintage Electric Pianos ROM Soundblock
To expand your sound palette, you can add additional ROM
Soundblocks to your V.A.S.T. series instrument. These ROM blocks add a
large, unique collection of instantly-available sounds to the permanent internal
sound memory.
The Vintage Electric Pianos ROM option adds the
classic electric piano sounds that are vital to any modern keyboard player.
While some electric piano sounds have remained obscure vintage gems, others have
attained a level of importance to the keyboardist comparable to that which the
Fender Stratocaster or Gibson Les Paul has for the modern guitarist.
The
instruments included in the ROM block are: Fender Rhodes Electric Piano,
Wurlitzer Electric Piano, Hohner Pianet, Yamaha CP-80 Electric Grand Piano, and
the RMI Electra-Piano.
Each program was created using high-quality audio
samples of electric pianos as a starting point. The sounds were then processed
using Kurzweil's V.A.S.T. synthesis engine. This allowed us to apply powerful
filters, velocity layers and cross-fades, envelopes and a host of other
sound-sculpting tools. In some cases, samples from the K2600's base-ROM were
also used in combination with the Vintage EP's samples in order to add a certain
flavor or to enhance the harmonic content of the sound.
The final stage
of sound-shaping was done in KDFX, our massive effects processing engine. KDFX
played a crucial role in making this a truly ground-breaking project, providing
on-board effects unprecedented in both quantity and quality. Effects pedals,
speaker cabinets, and recording techniques have all been faithfully replicated,
giving the Vintage EP's programs a level of detail and realism never before
achieved in any electric piano emulation.
Using V.A.S.T. and KDFX we
were able to replicate the exact sounds from dozens of different live and studio
recordings of electric pianos. For this reason, many of the program names in
Vintage EPs are derived from song titles and not electric piano model numbers.
Also, we have included a section devoted entirely to non-realistic sounds,
"hybrids and synths," where we transformed the Vintage EPs sound sources into a
wide variety of sonic textures, ranging from slight mutations to completely
unrecognizable new sounds.
We have included detailed charts that list
the controller assignments for each program and setup. If a program has been
taken from a specific recording, the artist's name and song title have been
provided as well.
Fender Rhodes
Produced from 1965-1986
in a number of variations of the original model, the Fender Rhodes is the most
widely recognized and easily identified electric piano sound in popular music.
The Rhodes played an important role in defining some of the new styles of music
that began to emerge in the mid-sixties and early seventies, mainly jazz-fusion,
disco and funk, and was adopted quickly by other already established styles such
as R&B, rock, pop, blues, and jazz. The Rhodes sound remains popular today
and it can be found in a variety of settings: played live by blues, funk and jam
bands among others, and on recordings of hip-hop, pop, acid-jazz, and
electronica.
Wurlitzer
Similar in both its design and
sound to the Rhodes, the Wurlitzer electric piano was nearly as popular, and
actually pre-dated the first Rhodes suitcase model. The Wurlitzer produced a
sound which had a slightly more narrow frequency range than the Rhodes; it was
"thinner" sounding, blending more easily with other instruments in a mix.
Hohner Pianet
Although featured prominently in a number
of classic rock songs by The Beatles, The Zombies and others, the Hohner Pianet
remains a lesser-known instrument, its sound having often been mistakenly
attributed to the Wurlitzer.
Produced from c.1962-1980 in various
console models, the Pianet series differed from the Rhodes and Wurlitzer in a
few important areas. Sound was produced by metal reeds, which were plucked by a
set of adhesive pads. Also distinguishing the Pianet was the absence of a
sustain pedal.
Yamaha CP-80
Known commonly as the
"electric grand", the CP-80 (88 notes), along with its smaller counterpart, the
CP-70 (76 notes), was the product of clever engineering combined with
traditional piano-making craftsmanship. Inside the CP-80 are the basic workings
of a real acoustic piano, which have been altered to fit into a smaller
enclosure. On the outside, the CP-80 looks like a "grand" version of the Rhodes,
covered in tolex, with the top portion extending in the rear to accommodate the
piano harp inside. Up until the mid-1980s, when sampled pianos became available,
the CP-70/80 was the only instrument capable of providing a decent substitute
for a real piano. While it served this purpose well, the CP-70/80 had some
unique features, which allowed it to have its own very distinct sound when
desired.
RMI Electra-Piano
Built by Rocky Mount
Instruments, a division of the Allen Organ Company, from 1967-1980, the RMI
Electra-Piano is the one instrument represented in Vintage EPs which did not
produce sound by electromechanical means. With an electronic tone-generator for
each note, un-weighted plastic keys, which were not touch-sensitive, and a set
of "stops" for sound selection, the RMI more closely resembled an organ than
anything else.
There were five stops on the RMI for tone: Piano, Piano
PP, Harpsi, Harpsi PP, and Lute. There were two additional stops; Accenter,
which added in an attack "thump" as well as Organ Mode, which extended the decay
of held notes.
The RMI was most widely used by progressive-rock bands
like Genesis and Yes in the early to mid-1970s, although it has also appeared in
a broad variety of other settings.
Vintage Electric Piano
Programs
600 Model This! Rhds 650 Bernie's CP*Funk
601 Shinin'
Xfade 651 CP80 Wallflower
602 CleanRhdsEchPlx 652 Porta EPiano
603
AgedTolexPhasSw2 653 VideoKilledtheCP
604 Real 70's Chorus 654 Red Rain
605 Studio ClassicEP 655 OBLA-D CP80
606 SweetLoretta Amp 656 Dark Elec
Grand
607 TheNightFly 657 CP80 All Purpose
608 Sugdaddy Mtron 658 Bright
Live CP80
609 Herbie'sEPWahSw2 659 Groovy Dyn Chor
610 Adjstbl ChDlyRvb
660 Leave Me Alone
611 XTineRhds RvsRvb 661 Thin Space Piano
612
BellToneDist RDS 662 Chorus'd Hall CP
613 The Phase I'm In 663 80'sReflectxn
EP
614 HardStr CompRhds 664 LiveAmp CP Plate
615 SizzleTine PhsCh 665
Tight Room forEP
616 EarlyFusionDstEP 666 Dr. John's RMI
617
Growlin'Electric 667 Lamb's Wool
618 Serious EPno 668 RMI Phase Flange
619 70's HrdStr EP 669 RMI Crunch
620 Rhds No Bell 670 Wakeman On Ice!!
621 Hard E Piano 671 Rael On Broadway
622 Soft E Piano 672 MXR InMy
Stomach
623 Barking Tines 673 Electronica RMI
624 Triple Tines 674 RMI
Switch 2
625 Stay With Me 675 Crocodile Rock
626 What'dISay Wurly 676
RoTo RMI
627 RetroVerb Wurly 677 FrankenRoadz
628 VANCradleWillROK 678
Trace S&H EP
629 Supertramp Wrly 679 Baroque Synth
630
PinkFloydzTheWah 680 Skunk Art
631 EQ Vintage Wurly 681 SliderEP Synth
632 StandnOnTheVerge 682 TalkinRingmod
633 WoodstockClunker 683
Flurlitzer
634 Wurly + Alien FX 684 EPno n'Pad
635 MeanPhaseWURLY 685
Pick Up EP
636 UpcloseHeavyWrly 686 Strummed EPiano
637 Lesslie Wurlie
687 Brittle Comper
638 Soft Wurly 688 Cheese Keys
639 Joy to the Piant
689 RM-Either
640 TheseEyes 690 Xylo-Rhoadz
641 No Quarter 691 Bubble
Snap
642 Black Friday 692 Cypress Pluck
643 StrwyToEPHeaven 693 Electro
Fugue
644 MetalBuzz Piant 694 RMI Organ Keys
645 ThisIsTheWalrus! 695
Hurtful
646 MistyMountain EP 696 Multi Grand
647 Classic Zombies 697
Exploring RMI
648 Tony's FuzzBox 698 Ambient Swells
649 Queen's Friend
699 Raffa's Revenge
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