![]() ![]() Each of the effects has additional settings in this section as does EQ and you’ll also find variable controls for velocity and pedal behaviour. Then there’s a dial called Timbre Shift that lets you control the shift between softer and more mellow, and more biting and hard-edged feels across the instrument. DetailsĬlick into the Detail section and you can access more in-depth settings starting with master tuning and variable mechanical noise. There’s Preamp with an envelope and drive, a three-band EQ, a panner to replicate the classic Fender Twin amp effect, and then compression, chorus, phaser and delay with amount, rate, mix and depth controls as appropriate. The front panel almost exactly mirrors that of the hardware, with large dials to control volume, EQ and effects. In fact, there are 30,000 samples of the MK8 hardware taken at 100 velocity layers – figures that won’t be a surprise to players who know how much a Rhodes’ sound changes depending on how you play a key. The Rhodes V8 comes in all major plugin formats (though there’s currently no standalone app) and weighs in at 20GB, which isn’t unusual for a modern, high-quality sampled instrument. Though other Rhodes emulations exist, this is the first one created by the company and, as such, is turning heads. READ MORE: KIT Plugins BB N73 review: Does the world need another 1073 emulation?Īlongside the release of Rhodes’ brand new Mk8 Rhodes piano, the revived company has released an official plugin version for the many players who won’t be able to stretch to the £8,000 asking price of the jaw-dropping hardware.Entirely analogue, it could be tuned and tweaked relatively easily and was incredibly responsive to different playing styles. ![]() ![]() Far more importantly, however, it had a unique sound that would quickly come to be a staple of jazz, rock and pop music. The Rhodes, though itself a serious piece of furniture, was designed to be more portable. In that pre-digital age, moving keyboard instruments from venue to venue was impractical, since they were either conventional pianos or hefty beasts like Hammond organs with Leslie speakers. The Rhodes electromechanical piano was created in the late 1960s by Harold Rhodes, initially in partnership with Leo Fender. ![]()
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