This is some great news from kvr-homepage. I just installed the new MDA electric piano and I'm very exited about it. When turning the hardness to 100 you get a real convincing Rhodes sound, in my ears.

I compared it to my own Fender Rhodes Mark 1 and the basic sound is the same. The only thing lacking is the real 'biting' sound when a key is pressed as hard as possible.

But MDA epiano is more than just a Fender Rhodes emulation. It's a collection of electric piano's.

MDA: Thanks for this great instrument. How do you keep this free while Emagic is asking 100 dollars?? It's just great!

Michiel

MDA Electric Piano? Great idea, but I have no way of knowing what it sounds like, because, you guessed it: I own a Mac! Why is it that the MDA Piano was for both platforms, but not this new version?javascript: x()

Too bad for the Mac users, I didn't even notice.

Even better news for Orion Pro users. This vst instrument is actually the first one I use that features the right click 'link to next midicontroller'! No husseling with CC... That only worked with Orion's internal generators until now.

Michiel

I am downloading MDA-ePIANO as i write this post. So, while i dont know how it will sound, I guess its going to satisfy my basic needs for Rhodes piano full of reverb and deep in the mix
So, no EVP73 for me then...
Great, cos while i' d probably buy EVP88 I WOULDN'T BUY A CUT DOWN VERSION BECAUSE EMAGIC IS TOO GREEDY FOR ITS OWN SAKE!!!!!!!!!!

OK, now i got it out of me...

Yes,
This thing sounds great! Thanks MDA
Lemmy

What mda electric piano are you referring to ?
I only know of their piano vsti, no Rhodes emulation vsti is on their page anyway.
Could you give me the url for this please ?

Da Pelikan

Hi,
http://www.pluginspot.com ... MDA ePiano is in the same package as MDA piano.

Rgds

Have we Mac users lost MDA's support with PluginSpot taking over their stuff? This is a blow to our platform's VST support.
There is a Mac version of MDA Piano, but PluginSpot doesn't appear to have the Mac version... what is the situation? Anybody know?

-Warren / Dub Jay

Thanks for the link.
Going to try it tonight ..

Cheers,
Da Pelikan

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Originally posted by Dub Jay:
Have we Mac users lost MDA's support with PluginSpot taking over their stuff? This is a blow to our platform's VST support.
There is a Mac version of MDA Piano, but PluginSpot doesn't appear to have the Mac version... what is the situation? Anybody know?

-Warren / Dub Jay

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I've mailed them asking about the Mac support, hopefully we'll know soon...

I just tried MDA-ePiano and it sounds great. Better that the Fender Rhodes MK 1 soundfont that I have anyway!
Well done, MDA. JX10 is also one of my favorite synths.
THANKS!!!!!!

I'd like to thank mda/PluginSpot for this great plug!

If they would extend this VSTi with a Wurlitzer Piano I'll donate $25 for a non-profit institution which is choosen by the developer and, of course, paid in his name. Yeah, and I'll send a copy to emagic...

Pepe

It sounds like it's sample based. You can hear obvious changes in sound as you change the velocities. Nice try, but I'll stick to my EVP73.

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Originally posted by Lotuz:
It sounds like it's sample based.

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And a quote from Pluginspot:

"This softsynth is modelled around 12 carefully sampled and mastered (Piano) samples."

So you figured that one out

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Originally posted by Lotuz:
You can hear obvious changes in sound as you change the velocities.

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That's just what's the Fender Rhodes is all about: The sounds changes sepending whether you hit a key hard or soft. My original one does it too

But maybe you mean the changes in sound when playing from B to C. You can hear, when a new octave starts, that a different sample is used as base-sample. But I only hear it in specific parametersettings and while playing with no other instruments and no fx...

Michiel

Wow, lots of talk about it! I was just using it actually. It does sound a bit harsh and obvious dry, but so does the origonal mda piano, and peopel have grown to love it! It just needs to be in a mix and it comes into it's own. The multisampling isnt too bad, i've played hardware romplers that had worse continuity in some sounds.. Word to mda, who is a really fresh innnovator in many ways! DX10, JX10, DRUMSYNTH, VST fXPLUGS!! Well, it's useful, kinda unique, it's free, & i can guarentee im going to use it somewhere or other. It's good for warm chordal stuff and tinkly solos is my initial impression..

Yes lotuz it is sample-based just like mda's origonal piano so in that aspect it's not comparable to evp73. For what it is it's good however i think.

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yeah great sounding. but there is a sample with a looping error at the lower keys-mid velocities. sounds awful

I also think this another great VSTi from MDA good job boys. And I'll also match Pepe's offer. $25 to any charity of MDA's choice if they can do a Wurlitzer. I'd also like to see it come out of at least 24 samples instead of 12, just to get a better representation of the instrument.

This instrument is great news!
Now if I only knew how to play piano properly... sigh...

When I first visited the MDA site and found 3 free,top quality VSTis AND a free vocoder I thought to my self 'how can life get any better?'.I now know. Thank you MDA for this great new plug-in and saving me 150 quid for EVP88.If you haven't already got it, download this plug-in now!

Yeah this plug is pretty cool,thanks again for the consistantly good plugins MDA,or do I thank Image-Line?

Clint

Thumbs up from moi too, sounds delightful