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Vintage Electric Piano overview
Vintage Electric Piano simulates the sound of various Rhodes and Wurlitzer pianos as well
as the sound of the Hohner Electra Piano. See Rhodes models on page 458 and Hohner and
Wurlitzer models.
The unmistakable tones of Fender Rhodes pianos are some of the best-known keyboard
instrument sounds used in the second half of the 20th century. Various Rhodes models have
been popularized in a wide range of musical styles, encompassing pop, rock, jazz, and soul, as
well as more recent genres such as house and hip-hop. Nearly as popular was the Wurlitzer
piano, which enjoyed most of its success in the 1970s.
Vintage Electric Piano’s sound engine uses component modeling techniques to generate
ultrarealistic electric piano sounds, with smooth dynamics and scaling over the entire 88-key
range. Component modeling has no abrupt changes between samples, sample looping, or
ltering eects during the decay phase of notes.
Vintage Electric Piano also simulates the physical characteristics of the original instruments,
including the movement of the electric piano reeds, tines, and tone bars in the (electric and
magnetic) elds of the pickups. It also emulates the ringing, smacking, and bell-like transients of
the attack phase as well as the hammer action and damper noises of the original instruments.
See Component modeling synthesis on page 493.
The integrated eects include classic equalizer, overdrive, stereo phaser, stereo tremolo, and
stereo chorus eects that are commonly used with electric piano sounds.
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