Just out of interest and to hopefully pick up a few tips

I wondered how people go about processing their deep Piano/rhodes type sounds.

I've had some nice results from bouncing a basic piano/organ note to audio, using a sampler to play the chords, applying some reverb, phase, chorus etc at this stage. Then low passing, splitting the result into 3 tracks and then detuning 2 of them.

Does it make any difference to bounce a chord down to audio and play single notes via the sampler?

Apply detuning or certain fx at the very first stage?

or at the very last stage, e.g phaser, chorus to the final stem?

Any tips on other fx which produce nice results.

Without sounding unappreciative i'm expecting a do what you think sounds best type answer, if we could get some method type answers i think it would make for an interesting thread.

Cheers, Darren

I suppose your approach should depend on exactly what kind of sound you're trying to achieve. Are you trying to achieve a piano sound, a rhodes sound, a prog-house chord sound, some cool-sounding fourth thing? I guess I didn't quite understand what sound you're describing.

True.

In this example i am playing some ACE stabs dry with just a touch of verb(don't underestimate the stack section for this kind of tasks) : http://www.box.com/s/9ab6333a8ce78288d97b

In this one, i am loading samples of chord already effected in a drum rack, my aim was to control better the lenght of the sound achieving a more rythmical result: http://www.box.com/s/jtzu6ikpm7v2ge5yhyaa

I's up to you, have fun experimenting and if it sounds good it means that you did it in the right way.

Yeah fair point,

i guess i'm just trying to create a nice warm sound.

Not so much to emulate a piano or rhodes but just come up with something pleasing to the ear.

Kind of sounds you hear in a lot of deep house records.

Kerri Chandlers stuff's a good example

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOloAh-yUjw

Here's one of mine

http://soundcloud.com/darrengregory/darren-gregory-whats-you r

to me it looks like you've already nailed a nice sound; i can't understand wich timbre do want to create.

Of course, especially when you're using an old-school hardware sampler.