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aantetomaso · Post by **aantetomaso** » Wed May 10, 2006 8:12 pm

Hello to all,
I'm writing to tell all of you who love the Fender Rhodes, like me, about a fantastic library named ReasonRhodes, developed as Reason NN-XT and combinator patches, from a real Mark II. The library has been developed by some people who love this instrument and used the most recent tecniques to build a sample library of very high quality. The price is not so expensive, I've bought it directly from their site, paying using PayPal. It's fantastic !!! I think that there is no keyboard that can emulate a Rhodes in such that way.
The site is www.reasonrhodes.com. Try to listen to their samples, you won't believe it !
Good music to you all and good Rhodes playing, using ReasonRhodes, to all of you that love this fantastic instrument !

Polite Company · Post by **Polite Company** » Wed May 10, 2006 10:36 pm

Well somebody works for ReasonRhodes.com

keyman_sam · Post by **keyman_sam** » Wed May 10, 2006 10:50 pm

Well, not to rain on your parade, but there's a freebie soundfont for rhodes that you can load in Reason NN-XT (sounds really good imo).

anopenscroll · Post by **anopenscroll** » Wed May 10, 2006 10:52 pm

The electromechanical refill is prety good, and free.

aantetomaso · Post by **aantetomaso** » Thu May 11, 2006 7:37 am

I also have the electromechanical ReFills...but the quality is not so high as ReasonRhodes, believe me. The MK2 of electromechanical is quite good but the MK1 tubed, in my opinion, is not so real and playable. Anyway, it's only my opinion. I want also to say that I'm not working for ReasonRhodes, as someone can imagine. I'm only a boy who plays keyboards and loves the Rhodes. I was searching for a very good emulation for this electric piano and I've found this library that is a lot above (always in my opinion, of course) any other implementation. The only library that, for me, is equal or a little higher is Scarbee RSP 73, but it costs 4 times more. So I have thought to tell other Rhodes fans about my experience in order to give them another choice about Rhodes emulation. Nothing more.
Bye.

aantetomaso · Post by **aantetomaso** » Thu May 11, 2006 7:56 am

Dear Polite Company,
I'm simply a boy from Rome who plays music as hobby. I have nothing to do with ReasonRhodes, neither them pay me something for my spot. You can believe it or not. I simply bought their product and found it superb, if compared to the price it costs. I was thinking to share my experience with you, but if you get annoyed from my words, OK, no problems, ignore them and believe what you want.
Bye

learjeff · Post by **learjeff** » Thu May 11, 2006 2:55 pm

OK, bub, we believe you. Your post looked a lot like typical company SPAM, that's all. Thanks for posting.

For some pretty darn good (if I do say so myself) free Rhodes soundfonts, try jRhodes3. You may want these even if you like Reason and Scarbee. I have Scarbee, but I wanted a soundfont that sounds like my 1977 Mark I Stage 73, the way I have always tweaked it with EQ and light stereo chorus for imaging. Also, Scarbee samples aren't quite hot enough: the highest velocity layer is not as hard as I sometimes strike the keys on my Rhodes. (You'd never break tines playing at Scarbee's highest level. I broke a few back when I played my Rhodes live routinely.)

Thanks for sharing your enthusiasm about Reason Rhodes.

Cheers
Jeff

Mr.Scarbee · Post by **Mr.Scarbee** » Thu May 11, 2006 3:40 pm

learjeff wrote: Also, Scarbee samples aren't quite hot enough: the highest velocity layer is not as hard as I sometimes strike the keys on my Rhodes. (You'd never break tines playing at Scarbee's highest level. I broke a few back when I played my Rhodes live routinely.)Jeff

hmm - I don't agree - highest recorded velocities of RSP73 was recorded hammering the keys very, very hard.

Pantsdown666 · Post by **Pantsdown666** » Thu May 11, 2006 3:45 pm

Yes aantetomaso, thanks for joining kvr to make three posts about this product and for informing us that we can use Paypal to buy it.
What are some other products that you recommend ?

aantetomaso · Post by **aantetomaso** » Thu May 11, 2006 4:10 pm

I've tried Scarbee RSP'73. Yes I agree with learjeff. The sound is superb, but pressing at the most whatever piano key you cannot reach the maximum level of velocity that you can hear clicking with the mouse over the virtual keyboard of Halion, for example. You have to use a virtual amplifier or equalizer to reach the maximum level. My friend uses Scarbee Vintage Keyboard FX and it's very very good too. It has a very good compressor and a superb phaser. Using it you can have no differences between the library and a real Rhodes. Thanks for the link, learjeff, I'll try it and let you know.

For Pantsdown666, I've made only the first post for telling about my experience. The other two are answers to other posts, in orther to explain the situation. I usually answer to people who write me, don't you do the same ? After this, I suggest also MrRay seventythree. It's a free emulation of the Rhodes MK 1 and it's very good. You can download it from www.soundfonts.it, as well as MrTramp, that emulates the Wurlitzer. Both are donationware : you can use them for free, but if you donate something to the author, you will receive further updates and will disable the banners.

Bye.

Polite Company · Post by **Polite Company** » Thu May 11, 2006 4:32 pm

Well somebody works for ReasonRhodes.com

Sorry if that came off a bit harsh, just seemed like an awful lot of praise...

p.s. I'll just stick to my Wurlitzer 203 for e.p.

ozinexile · Post by **ozinexile** » Thu May 11, 2006 4:35 pm

aantetomaso wrote:I've tried Scarbee RSP'73. Yes I agree with learjeff. The sound is superb, but pressing at the most whatever piano key you cannot reach the maximum level of velocity that you can hear clicking with the mouse over the virtual keyboard of Halion, for example.

That sounds more like a problem with your velocity curve setup in your controller than the sample library. Thats the real trick with lots of these sounds is to match the velocity curve with your own playing style, along with how you expect the instrusment your emulating to behave. The velocity curve I use for piano differs for what I use for rhodes patches because I expect them to behave differently to my playing technique.

Wow! Too much to think about just to play keyboards.

toddyjoe · Post by **toddyjoe** » Thu May 11, 2006 6:40 pm

For some pretty darn good (if I do say so myself) free Rhodes soundfonts, try jRhodes3. You may want these even if you like Reason and Scarbee. I have Scarbee, but I wanted a soundfont that sounds like my 1977 Mark I Stage 73, the way I have always tweaked it with EQ and light stereo chorus for imaging.

As someone who first tried Jeff's Rhodes soundfont just recently, I will agree with his humble assessment that the jRhodes3 is "pretty darn good." I would actually say it is a LOT better than that. Thanks for the work that you put into that fantastic soundfont, Jeff!

waiting man · Post by **waiting man** » Thu May 11, 2006 7:49 pm

the guy posted the same stuff on xelenio.com.

aantetomaso · Post by **aantetomaso** » Fri May 12, 2006 1:36 pm

Yes, waiting man. KVR and Xelenio are the site I go to mostly. So simply I repeated for both my experience. Hei Learjeff, I've tried your Rhodes. I send my congratulations it's very good. It's also very playable with my piano and, with respect to Scarbee, I suffer less the velocity problems. Thank you very much. Very good job. I think that if you added two layers more, it had been comparable to Scarbee RSP '73, with the differences that Scarbee use a lot of RAM and needs 2 minutes to load, while your library takes 1 second.

Bye to all. Bye the way, I heard about another Rhodes simulation from Soundtrekk, does anyone knows about it ?