My New Rhodes: Anyone Down for a Large Free Sampleset?

[pljones]

I think you wrote it in your sleep one night, and deleted the source.

Heh, I wish. If my memory were better, this irritating "itch" at the back of my head would turn into a URL... Are you sure it wasn't your Rhodes soundfont that had the credit and link?

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Found it. At least, found where I probably got it...
You need to have bought ns_kit7 as it's in the members resources - utilities section at the naturalstudio website.
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[toddyjoe]

About that Bass Boost setting questioned above, I wonder what Jeff thinks about that considering he went through this Rhodes sampling game before?

On my Rhodes Mark 1 Stage 73, the full up Bass Boost really adds some body to the piano, body that is lacking in the low registers when the boost is set low or on zero. However, I suspect what sounds good playing alone would sound mushy and indistinct and get lost in the mix once you add other instruments, particularly bassy instruments. I am not sure but it is possible the Bass Boost is just a passive attenuation circuit, so maybe it is better to think of it as a bass cut? I honestly do not know because I just got my Rhodes earlier this week and have not dissected it... yet.

Despite my wisecrack remark earlier, I really do give Funkybot credit for trying to undertake this task. My computer equipment and sampling skills are too mediocre to attempt to even create an average-sounding Rhodes 12 sample set, much less a full 73 or 88 set. I was perfectly content using the excellent Learjeff soundfont, MrRay73 and the mda ePiano for Rhodes until a deal on the real thing dropped into my lap. Now I know how hard it is to capture the full range of a real Rhodes in a sample set or with physical modeling. GOOD LUCK!!

[learjeff]

Scarbee sampled bypassing the bass boost. And yes, it's just a passive high pass filter, so "boost" is really a misnomer: it's actually a bass cut filter. The Rhodes is a real bassy instrument, though, so it's sensible they set it up that way. Most folks, I think, set it low to medium. Since I scoop out a big wide notch near the bottom I play with it full up to keep the fundamentals of the lowest notes in there.

Sampling with the control dead center is probably a good idea, or maybe even set to the bottom.

In any case, EQ can be applied later, so IMHO it's not critical to sample it one way or the other. I'd probably put the control in the middle, for the basic "vintage" sound.