Re: "Electric Piano" sounds?

In article <e76q9f$8av$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Boris Lau <boris.lau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Pete wrote:
"80'S E. PIANO" seems to have a very sharp velocity break point. It suddenly
changes tone quite markedly at high velocities. (Can actually be quite
jarring.) Is this an actual characteristic of some pianos, or is it just
poor sampling?

Sounds like a Fender Rhodes imitation, or maybe a Wurly. The brightness
of the sound indeed depends on the velocity on the real instrument. If
you hit it really hard, it does start to sound a bit nasty, and I'm
loving it. That said - it's actually pretty different from instrument
from instrument, since you can adjust the tone of every single note with
2 degrees of freedom. Some sound shallow with many overtones (like on
many Chick Corea records), some sound mellow with a bell-like touch on
top of it.

Take a listen on these pages:
http://www.fenderrhodes.com/models/mark1a.php
http://www.fenderrhodes.com/models/mark1b.php

Thanks -- interesting samples, but I don't think they match. As I corrected
myself in another post it's a *60*'s, not 80's, sound -- an early Rhodes,
I'd guess.

The soft sound I think is a bit more vibraphoneish (though not very) than
bell-like. It suddenly gets quite twangy when you strike hard.

The voice that sounds really bell-like [also responding to another post
here...] is the "ELEC PIANO 2". I think this also gets a few more overtones
at high velocity (pretty sure they all do), but I don't get the abrupt shift.
Maybe ELEC PIANO 1" and ELEC PIANO 2" are supposed to be different settings
of the same instrument as you describe.

-- Pete --



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