MrRay73 Mark II is a digital simulation of the famous
american electro-mechanical piano of the seventies,
invented during World War II by a music teacher,
Harold B. Rhodes (1910 - 2000), and widely used in
almost all musical genres ranging from soul/black
music to jazz, blues, modern and pop. This instrument
has rapidly become a legend, and is still used today,
altough samples have replaced the real thing so that
very often music producers use huge sample libraries
or hardware keyboards / workstations to achieve this
kind of sonority, and often the result is a cold and
'dead' sound, with no vitality, no warmth, nothing
that even compares to the unpredictability and
genuineness of the real thing. In 2007 an
enterprising and far-seeing american businessman has
started a new Company with the aim to re-manufacture
the piano using the same recipe of the old factory,
employing the same ingredients and offering the same
"taste" of the vintage instrument. The new "Mark 7"
piano was presented at the NAMM show and it was a big
success. It's on the market again, after about 20
years, with the same name, same "soul" but largely
improved under many important technical aspects.

In a similar manner, MrRay73 Mark II is the second
version of MrRay73, after two years from its
introduction to the public, but with a huge
difference in sound and functionality. While the old
MrRay73 was one of the first successfull simulations
of such an instrument, capable of offering similar
vitality, warmth and richness of the real thing, the
new "Mark II" version brings many new improvements,
first of all for what concerns "THE SOUND". As
opposite to sample libraries, a real-time
reproduction of a certain sound has the ability to
interact with the musician, producing different
behaviours from time to time. Hardly you will hear
exactly the same "waveform" twice. MrRay73 Mark II is
a complete digital reproduction of the real
instrument, with all the moving parts that, together,
generate to the sound.

Summary of the main features:


Full Polyphony (73 notes E - E)

No note-stealing

Adjustable single sound elements (metal, wood, pedal
and damper noises)

Sympathetic resonance and harp vibration

Sustain pedal re-pedaling feature

Six-stage vintage style Phaser effect

Dual mode Tremolo effect

Power amp simulation (Suitcase model)

Adjustable wear of mallets and other elements (Piano
Age)

Stretch tuning or Equal Temperament

Four velocity curves plus an adjustable "Dynamic
range" level

Fully Midi controllable with MIDI-Learn function

Very Low CPU and memory usage



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