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4Front Rhode Pro
by 4Front Technologies
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Product 4Front Rhode Pro
Developer 4Front Technologies
Primary Type Electric Piano
Price (MSRP) $30
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4Front Rhode Pro
4Front Rhode is a vintage Rhodes/Wurly typed piano module with gentle overdrive.

This module reproduces the classic sound similar to Rhodes/Wurlitzer pianos. The module is not sample based, the sound is generated on-the-fly, therefore there are 127 layers with vintage rhodes smooth overdrive, clean and continuous.

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4Front Rhode Pro v1.0 released 5th September 2003

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By PaintedBlue
On 8th October 2003
Version: 1.0 Pro

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4Front Rhode Pro is a useful VSTi plug-in for musicians who are in need of a lightweight, low-CPU vintage-style electric piano sound.

User Interface: Clean and colorful.

Sound: Sounds close to a Rhodes/Wurly style electric piano; has a pretty unique character compared to other electric piano VSTi. The low-end is particularly good with the correct drive settings. Does not have any key release sounds or tremolo.

Features: Has user controls for velocity sensitivity, drive, decay/release, cutoff/Q and reverb. Of these, velocity and drive only seem to be very useful with respect to the altering the vintage electric piano sound. I would have preferred to see tremolo and key release sound settings over reverb and decay.

Documentation: N/A

Presets: A small variety that are all very useful.

Customer Support: The 4Front website seems to be very customer-focused, and George (the lead developer) posts here often. I believe that he has set up a listserv for his users as well.

Value For Money: The price is a fraction of the physically-modeled electric piano VSTi, and you receive a fraction of the features. Lounge Lizard 2, for example, has a more realistic sound and controls that make sense to me, but 4Front Rhode is still useful due to its low CPU usage and unique sound. I would recommend that users who do not use vintage-style electric pianos too much look into this product; heavy users should look to investing in the Scarbee sample libraries, Lounge Lizard 2, or the Emagic vintage line. I would like to also point out that PlugSound Free includes a fairly nice sampled Rhodes suitcase electric piano, which might be a better alternative for some users.

Stability: Excellent.

Overall, 4Front Rhode Pro is a nice, low-CPU, vintage-style electric piano VSTi. It can be fun to play, even though it does not sound as realistic as some other products on the market, and I do reach for it often despite owning several of the very high-end VSTi and sample libraries out there.
 
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By rrtdj
On 22nd September 2003
Version: 1.0

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forefront rhode pro is probably the best available rhode synthesis for its price/features

$30 for professional rhode synth is awesome.

sound can be quite similar to scarbee rhodes, if you manage to tune it up. altho you need to have pro version. free one doesn't get controls to control drive/velocity curve and attack/decay

user interface is great, well designed, multifunctional.

parameters are easy to edit (tap E on a slider and enter value), doubleclick resets to default value, ctrl-drag for precise mode

as for features - tremolo/rotary is missing but i fix this by adding tremolo effect into vst stack. author promised to release an addon for registered users, which i'm waiting for :)

presets are great and from time to time you see that preset pack gets expanded, though there are no notices on the site about this "hidden" process

customer support is great. you get an instant download link after you purchase it, and all inquiries get answered (each and every page on the site contains feedback box)

i didn't have a need to ask for techsupport, as rhode module works solid as a rock. i didn't have any problems with it, never crashed.

there is no documentation for the module, but i wonder if one would need it, as the module is self-describing

value for money is absolute. you hardly can find a good deal like this. but i think this is also a problem for this software - people normally do not expect pro software for such a price

stability - i never run into issues, and once you fire it up - no matter how hard you play - you never get your CPU screwed. vsti is very lightweight

overall - great module. good work, george :) probably you would get more sales if you wouldn't have free version tho
 
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