MrRay73 mk2: public beta test
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1297 posts since 17 Aug, 2003 from Italy
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1297 posts since 17 Aug, 2003 from Italy
You can't register now because it isn't still available.
Meanwhile, I've made another update. I changed the phaser algorithm, the new one is modeled after the Maestro PS-1, a 6 stages phase shifter of the sixties originally engineered by Oberheim. If I'm not wrong, this was used by Joe Zawinul in the song "Scarlet Woman":
Meanwhile, I've made another update. I changed the phaser algorithm, the new one is modeled after the Maestro PS-1, a 6 stages phase shifter of the sixties originally engineered by Oberheim. If I'm not wrong, this was used by Joe Zawinul in the song "Scarlet Woman":
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- KVRAF
- 5629 posts since 22 Sep, 2005
Ok sounds good.. Will try real hard to be patient .. Will you be looking for any audio demos to showcase the mk2? I'd be happy to record some for your site plus create some other presets (ie already made a pretty good Gil Scott Heron).
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.. Will you be looking for any audio demos to showcase the mk2? I'd be happy to record some for your site plus create some other presets (ie already made a pretty good Gil Scott Heron).L
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1297 posts since 17 Aug, 2003 from Italy
And here is the new beta with the latest additions
I hope this is the last one, I mean the 'final' build. I feel enough satisfied by how it sounds and what it offers. OMG... I still haven't prepared the Docs!! 
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9. b14010801 - Jan 14, 2008
- Added: new phaser algorithm based on the vintage Maestro PS-1 6 stages phase shifter
- Changed: better velocity sensitivity scaling
- Fixed: Tube Amp simulation saturation (compression) was overloaded under high input volumes
- Improved: slightly decreased the memory and CPU usage
- Fixed: clicking the "buy now" button opened two instances of the web browser
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- KVRist
- 49 posts since 7 May, 2006
Ciao Zio,
I Tried intensivelly the MRV2.
First, I was very impressed by the liveliness of the instrument.
It sounds "Thrue" (like the VB3).
You know, I'm a "purist" of the Rhodes MKII in the sense that, since many years ago, I've been playing it in a "clean-mode", almost without effects (just a bit chorus or phaser, not always)no staturation, no hard preamplification, no hard mallets/picks settings.
This may have caused me to be too much critical about the simulations, always compared with my "pure" Rhodes.
But, finally, I think I was a bit wrong in that criticism.
This plug has "the balls", it exits from my monitors full of life, giveing the impression of a thrue old instrument under my fingers.
To my ears, the MRV2 sounds different from my "clean" MKII, but who cares?
With this plug I reached some sonorities, I get used to listen from albums like "The dark side of the moon" or "The power and the glory" (Gentle Giant), which I wasn't able to get with My "pure" Wurly A200 and Rhodes MKII.
And I was also able to recreate some sounds from my beloved Wheater Report and Gino Vannelli Albums.
I compared MRV2 with a famous nord-european sample collection (considered one of the best Rhodes by now). This one is very good, but finally it doesn't match that "life", remaining a bit "bydimensonal", like a photo (IMHO).
MRV2, instead, sounds more "tridimensional" and gives me a lot of sensations.
It doesn't sound exactly as my Rhodes? who cares.
The whole point is that MRV2, definately, has the character of a THRUE electric piano.
I'm waiting for the official release (I'll buy it for shure).
..... and then.... MrTramp 2.... clavinet .... Xylophone .....
Stefano
I Tried intensivelly the MRV2.
First, I was very impressed by the liveliness of the instrument.
It sounds "Thrue" (like the VB3).
You know, I'm a "purist" of the Rhodes MKII in the sense that, since many years ago, I've been playing it in a "clean-mode", almost without effects (just a bit chorus or phaser, not always)no staturation, no hard preamplification, no hard mallets/picks settings.
This may have caused me to be too much critical about the simulations, always compared with my "pure" Rhodes.
But, finally, I think I was a bit wrong in that criticism.
This plug has "the balls", it exits from my monitors full of life, giveing the impression of a thrue old instrument under my fingers.
To my ears, the MRV2 sounds different from my "clean" MKII, but who cares?
With this plug I reached some sonorities, I get used to listen from albums like "The dark side of the moon" or "The power and the glory" (Gentle Giant), which I wasn't able to get with My "pure" Wurly A200 and Rhodes MKII.
And I was also able to recreate some sounds from my beloved Wheater Report and Gino Vannelli Albums.
I compared MRV2 with a famous nord-european sample collection (considered one of the best Rhodes by now). This one is very good, but finally it doesn't match that "life", remaining a bit "bydimensonal", like a photo (IMHO).
MRV2, instead, sounds more "tridimensional" and gives me a lot of sensations.
It doesn't sound exactly as my Rhodes? who cares.
The whole point is that MRV2, definately, has the character of a THRUE electric piano.
I'm waiting for the official release (I'll buy it for shure).
..... and then.... MrTramp 2.... clavinet .... Xylophone .....
Stefano
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- KVRAF
- 8389 posts since 11 Apr, 2003 from back on the hillside again - but now with a garden!
should that be Mr Vibe?
The clav could be Mr Wonderful...
DSP
The clav could be Mr Wonderful...
DSP
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- KVRAF
- 5629 posts since 22 Sep, 2005
I wrote:Keyboard scaling envelopes per key would be good. Please Zio if you add this add some presets with it also..
Now I remember what I meant ! No worries just wanted to show you that.L
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- KVRist
- 48 posts since 31 Dec, 2004 from Belfast
come on tails!!!ZioKiller wrote:I was deciding between 199 euros and 49 euros...
I'll flip a coin at the last minute, head 199, tail 49.
Wow thats a big difference!-
- KVRist
- 49 posts since 7 May, 2006
I'm ready to pay 149 for the MrRay II.
I've got so much fun with the last beta version, outragelly disturbed by that "fffffth" every few seconds.
I'll pay 149 € just for "shutting up" that noise
Stefano
I've got so much fun with the last beta version, outragelly disturbed by that "fffffth" every few seconds.
I'll pay 149 € just for "shutting up" that noise
Stefano
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- KVRAF
- 3096 posts since 3 Nov, 2002 from Kettering UK
krakli patent pendingLagrange wrote:I wrote:Keyboard scaling envelopes per key would be good. Please Zio if you add this add some presets with it also..
L
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1297 posts since 17 Aug, 2003 from Italy
