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benjamind · Post by **benjamind** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 1:28 am

Same here, it's absolutely essential if you like electric pianos, Mr Ray is flawless for the Rhodes emulation, and without having to use samples. Totally amazing! I've only got 1 wish left for Mr Ray - an authentic wurlitzer emulation. I'd be in heaven!

Lesha · Post by **Lesha** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 1:58 am

i've compared mrRay to evp73..
evp sounds so thin compared to mrRay

great job !

TVD · Post by **TVD** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 6:03 am

ZioKiller wrote:Hi All,
I just did another experiment trying to realize what I may call "the perfect" model of a Rhodes Piano.
Still it's a SynthEdit creation, based on the MrRay vsti, but this time I concentrated on all the elements that make the real instrument sound "real".. that is "not perfect".. since it is an electro-acoustic instrument and the younger one you can find still alive isn't less than 25-30 years old (I'm speaking about the Mark I).

I focused on all the short sounds and noises which you can hear at the attack time of a note. My main inspiration was Learjeff's free soundfont (It's a 1975 Mark 1, not in a perfect state as he says.. so quite perfect for my purpose). Also I listened carefully to other samples and soundfont found over the internet, in order to have a closer look to what's goin on when you hit a key on a Mark I. FFT and sample Scope were very useful as well.

The result is this:

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http://www.soundfonts.it/store/MrRay73.dll

This file is not intented to be officially released (at least not now) and will be probably deleted in the near future.

Now I wish to ask all those people who own a real Rhodes and play it regularly wether they can have a try at this experiment and tell me what they think.

Sooner or later, I want to write down some details of what I learnt by this research on modeling a Rhodes piano.

Regards,
Guido.

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03/09/2005 - MrRay SeventyThree official release.
download it at www.soundfonts.it
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I'm keeping my free copy!!!

Now seriously, this is your best creation ever. And yes, it does sound better than Lounge Lizard 1 & 2!

And you made this with Synthedit? Amazing!

TVD · Post by **TVD** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 6:04 am

benjamind wrote:Same here, it's absolutely essential if you like electric pianos, Mr Ray is flawless for the Rhodes emulation, and without having to use samples. Totally amazing! I've only got 1 wish left for Mr Ray - an authentic wurlitzer emulation. I'd be in heaven!

Good idea!

jcn7 · Post by **jcn7** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 6:29 am

I also have the EVP73, and it pales in comparison to Mr Ray73, and Mr Ray2.2. My request is for the Hohner D6 Clavinet! I did see you mentioned you thought that might be your next project....I hope so. I'll try to send in a donation soon. Mr ray is indeed the very best of emulations! Keep up the great work! Maybe someday someone will finally create a Yamaha VL physical modeling clone also!

griels · Post by **griels** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 10:56 am

jcn7 wrote:My request is for the Hohner D6 Clavinet!

Yes, I suggested this personally to Guido some time back, and keep hoping it'll be his next project. Now Mr Ray is perfected maybe we'll be seeing the next instrument of the funk band

Funkybot · Post by **Funkybot** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 1:35 pm

I could still use the perfect Wurlitzer myself, but hey that's just me. Thanks again, Guido, you did a fantastic job.

3*s · Post by **3*s** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 1:52 pm

Wow... this is really amazing. Is this synthedit?

It's so much more expressive than the PCM rhodes' I've used.

ZioKiller · Post by **ZioKiller** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 1:58 pm

Here is the comparison between EVP73 and MrRay73:
http://www.soundfonts.it/?a=dl&b=55
(courtesy by Mike)

You know that song intro??

Well I heard about the fellow you've been dancing with All over the neighbourhood
So why didn't you ask me baby Or didn't you think I could?
Yeah!

3*s · Post by **3*s** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 2:16 pm

MrRay + chorus + dB tremolo + izotope vinyl =

kmvst · Post by **kmvst** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 2:31 pm

There are 2 versions of MrRay: MrRay 2.2 (the "Senior" version) and MrRay SeventyThree. The former is a little buggy (read the documentation), the latter doesn't have any presets. You must be talking about the senior version... are you?
Sorry about that.. I still havent fixed it.

Yes, to clarify, I meant that Acid 4.0 crashes when I attempt to change presets & settings for MrRay 2.2. It also happens with the previous versions of MrRay. MrRay 73 seems to work fine and it sounds stunning.

By the way, on a related note, I have the same problem with Organized Trio -- my Acid host crashes when I attempt to change presets/settings. I imagine there are others out there using Acid as their VST host.. at least I hope I'm not the only one with this problem.

Hope you can look into this issue in any future releases -- your plug-ins are amazing and I'd really like to use them in my tracks!

For all Rhodes experts and lovers (MrRay73 released!)