AudioThing Wurly - Vintage Electric Piano, Wurlitzer Plugin - Update v1.1

[sqigls]

i've slept on this, shame on me. Possibly because i've always been more of a Rhodes fan
Sounds lovely. add it to my list

[audiothing]

i've slept on this, shame on me. Possibly because i've always been more of a Rhodes fan
Sounds lovely. add it to my list

I've always been a fan of Rhodes pianos. I played several over the years, but I had never actually touched a Wurlitzer before, aside from the Wurlitzer presets on my Nord Electro. Just before covid, I moved into a slightly bigger space, one of my previous studios, finally giving me enough room for a Rhodes. I started looking for one and found several in great shape at reasonable prices. But the main problem was I couldn't move one on my own. They are just too heavy.

That led me to researching alternative and lighter electric pianos, and of course, the Wurlitzer kept coming up. During covid, I finally got my hands on one. I still remember the first few notes I played while it was still sitting on the pallet. I instantly fell in love.

Something nobody tells you about Wurlitzers is how incredible they sound acoustically when you play them switched off or just through their speakers. Most recordings rely solely on the output jack, but I've found the best sound comes from blending that with a mic (or two) placed near the speakers. It captures the speaker's sound but also all the other acoustic noises and what I then called Clank in Wurly. It completely changes the character of the instrument.

[sqigls]

yeah i think you really nailed the magic
i felt an instant affinity for this one.
very cool indeed

[Nameerf]

Wurly has become my go-to Wurlitzer plugin - I think I have ALL of them (I like Cherry Audio's Wurlybird 140B and some the UVI Keysuite Wurlitzers too) But Wurly just has the sound and playability out of the box AND the tweakability of it means you can quickly get any type of Wurlitzer sound from warm and wooly to barky and nasally - just brilliant.

[Spitfire31]

I agree wholeheartedly with Nameerf about AudioThing Wurly.
I also have many (most of?) the available Wurlitzers but these days my go-to's are Wurly-with-clank and Waves Electric 200.
The Wurlybird is too polite for me and that enormous GUI with all its wasted space (including the pointless note stand!) makes it a regretted purchase for me personally.
On the other hand, the Acoustic Ssamples Wurlitzer is very nice with a lot of interesting presets, although tied to the UVI player.
I'm now looking forward to an AT Wurly with built-in effects and some outrageous presets …
/JHS

[Lotuz2019]

i've slept on this, shame on me. Possibly because i've always been more of a Rhodes fan

They're both electric pianos, but it's not like if you have one, then you'll have no use for the other. The Rhodes fits a genre like Jazz well, but the Wurlitzer not so much. The Wurlitzer on the other hand is nice for Soul/R&B. Maybe the Pianet is the one to get when you can have only one, because it sounds a bit like both, but not all Pianet plugins let you adjust the pickups to get that Wurly-esque sound.

[Andreya_Autumn]

Something nobody tells you about Wurlitzers is how incredible they sound acoustically when you play them switched off or just through their speakers. Most recordings rely solely on the output jack, but I've found the best sound comes from blending that with a mic (or two) placed near the speakers. It captures the speaker's sound but also all the other acoustic noises and what I then called Clank in Wurly. It completely changes the character of the instrument.

Yeah 100% agreed. I also never realized that until I got to play a real one in good shape a few years back. Great sound.

[audiothing]

I'm now looking forward to an AT Wurly with built-in effects and some outrageous presets …
/JHS

Yeah, it's coming up nicely, but we are probably going to release Philicorda with the FX section first.

[Lotuz2019]

[sqigls]

ooooOOOOooohh
it that for Wurly or Philicorda ?

[telecharge]

ooooOOOOooohh
it that for Wurly or Philicorda ?

From their email:
"Wurly v1.2 now includes 4 rearrangeable effects: Overdrive, Phaser, Flanger, and Spring Reverb."

Thanks, Carlo!

[sqigls]

43% off, SOLD!! thank you so much

https://www.audiothing.net/instruments/wurly/

[audiothing]

Glad you're enjoying it! After the great feedback on the SX1000, we've decided to add the FX section to all our recent instruments: Philicorda, Wurly, SX1000, and RES-09. Hopefully it'll become a standard feature in all future instruments too

[Spitfire31]

It's a great addition! The OD sounds very nice. Any special reason that the FX rack doesn't include a Roland type chorus?

[FrettedSynth]

Nice addition, Thanks
Running well on MX Linux