Vintage Electric is a new virtual instrument based on a reproduction of a vintage electric piano Fender Rhodes Mark I (1976) with a full range of dynamics (from soft to distorted sounds), release noise and pedal resonance. "Vintage Electric" is been used by American composer Geoff Stradling for the music of 2019 Golden Globe night as the only virtual instrument played within a real orchestra!
THE INSTRUMENT
Music first!
"Vintage Electric" is based on an old Fender Rhodes Mark I electric piano made in 1976.
SETTINGS
Find your own sound
To find out the best sounds from the piano, Paolo Principi had to work with the screwdriver note by note
RECORDING
Take it!
Paolo recorded his "Vintage Electric" ny amazing Apogee Symphony I/O mkii sound card for the best audio resolution and musical details.
ANALYSIS
Observation!
By a careful analysis of the sound, he found a great variation of the harmonic spectrum during the dynamic range of the tines.
EDITING
Composing the sound
Paolo used up to 16 dynamic layers for each note of the instrument; a dynamic response control and effects
ENVELOPES
Play it again Sam!
All the samples of the Vintage Electric has been recorded for all the duration for a natural decay of sounds.
PRESETS
All the sounds you need
The 4 presets allow the musician to find his own sound: from soft sound to hard and distorted. The presets with "Envelope" in the name don't use the "Note Off velocity" for resonance (for controller keyboard with fixed Note Off velocity transmission).
CONTROLS
Power is nothing without control
Control panel with: Dynamic Response, key release volume. pedal resonance volume. , Tremolo, Chorus and Reverb controls.
UVI POWERED
Play it now and ...FREE!
Vintage Electric comes with its own sample player, the Uvi Workstation 2 (v2.5.6 or later). Uvi provides it for free! It works on Mac (10.6 or later) and PC (windows XP SP2 or later), in standalone or as a plugin (VST, AU, AAX, RTAS, MAS) and in 32 and 64 bits.
COPY PROTECTION
Save your sounds!
Vintage Electric is protected by the PACE Protection System. You can register your virtual instrument to your computer or to an iLok key (version 1 or version 2). To authorize your library, please download the iLok authorization manager.
SPECIFICATIONS
• Fender Rhodes Mark I (1976) implementation
• 2,2 GB Storage
• 24 bit resolution
• All samples with natural decay (no loop)
• Up to 16 velocity layers
• Pedal resonance (with control)
• Key-off noise level (with control)
• Tremolo effect (with controls)
• Adjustable Dynamic Curve
• Chorus effect (with controls)
• Convolution Reverb (with controls)
• Equalizer (Low, Mid, High)
• Powered by UVI Engine XT™
• Requires UVI Workstation v2.5.6 or later
• UVI.net provides UVI Workstation for free!
• UVI Falcon full Compatibility!
• Playable by Motu Machfive too (requires v3.2.1)
• PACE protection system (free iLok account required)