Apple MainStage 3 Instruments - MainStage 3 Instruments
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Vintage Electric Piano<br />
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Vintage Electric Piano overview<br />
Vintage Electric Piano simulates the sound of various Rhodes and Wurlitzer pianos as well<br />
as the sound of the Hohner Electra Piano. See Rhodes models on page 459 and Hohner and<br />
Wurlitzer models.<br />
The unmistakable tones of Fender Rhodes pianos are some of the best-known keyboard<br />
instrument sounds used in the second half of the 20th century. Various Rhodes models have<br />
been popularized in a wide range of musical styles, encompassing pop, rock, jazz, and soul, as<br />
well as more recent genres such as house and hip-hop. Nearly as popular was the Wurlitzer<br />
piano, which enjoyed most of its success in the 1970s.<br />
Vintage Electric Piano’s sound engine uses component modeling techniques to generate<br />
ultrarealistic electric piano sounds, with smooth dynamics and scaling over the entire 88-key<br />
range. Component modeling has no abrupt changes between samples, sample looping, or<br />
filtering effects during the decay phase of notes.<br />
Vintage Electric Piano also simulates the physical characteristics of the original instruments,<br />
including the movement of the electric piano reeds, tines, and tone bars in the (electric and<br />
magnetic) fields of the pickups. It also emulates the ringing, smacking, and bell-like transients of<br />
the attack phase as well as the hammer action and damper noises of the original instruments.<br />
See Component modeling synthesis on page 494.<br />
The integrated effects include classic equalizer, overdrive, stereo phaser, stereo tremolo, and<br />
stereo chorus effects that are commonly used with electric piano sounds.<br />
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