Scarbee is proud to present to you the Scarbee R.S.P.. 73,
the most comprehensively sampled Rhodes piano on earth.
The depth and sophistication of this sampling project has
allowed us to finally capture the elusive .soul. of the
Rhodes piano.

The R.S.P..73 consists of a collection of truly authentic
.deeply sampled. renderings of the classic Fender Rhodes
Stage Piano MK I - .73, captured in high definition 24 bit
quality. Ingenious Danish programming has resulted in both
the 24 bit Emagic EXS24 mk II and 24 bit Steinberg Halion
editions of the library being included in the same 4 CD set,

The Scarbee R.S.P.. 73 was recorded at 24 bit resolution
through a Mindprint En-Voice preamp (without any use of EQ,
tube saturation or compression), and then digitally
transferred to a Nuendo AudioLink 96 audio card. The piano
sound was captured directly from the harp, bypassing the
passive tone control on the front panel, in order to capture
the full frequency range of the instrument and minimise
unwanted noise. All sample editing - including noise
reduction and normalizing was also done at 24 bit resolution.

How much detail is there in the instrument?

To start with, all samples are full length and unlooped.
Each of the 73 keys of the Rhodes was sampled at 12 different
velocities - ranging from 0 to -26 dB - but this is only
half the story. In order to capture that magical feel of
really .playing. a Rhodes, we also recorded .release. samples
for each of the 12 velocities, at the exact same level as
the corresponding 12 sustain samples. The release tone - a
sound created when a damper bounces against the tine as a key
is released, is an intrinsic element of what musicians
recognise as the original .Rhodes Sound..

To accommodate systems with RAM limitations, several .Lite.
versions of the piano are included. Lite versions contain the
samples of the white keys, which are stretched down a semitone
to cover adjacent black keys. Lite versions come in 12, 8
and 4 velocity layer flavours.

In response to a number of requests, all programs are
available in both Equal and Stretch tunings.


The 24 bit native EXS24 mk II and the 24 bit native HALion
editions are not conversions. They have been programmed
.from scratch. using the .Direct from harp. sound.
Programming this way allows us to utilise every facility
available on the native sampler, rather than create something
which might have taken mere minutes to port, but which was
only .pretty close. to the original version because of
inaccuracy in the porting software. In fact, critical
comparison of the three versions has confirmed that they have
identical timbre and response. The .Classic. sound can easily
be created with the EXS24 and Halion versions by using the
internal EQ of your favourite sequencer program, - just go to
http://www.scarbee.com/rsp73/eq.html for a detailed
description! Each 24 bit version utilises 1752 samples and
requires 2.25 gigabytes of disk space (shared).

http://www.scarbee.com/rsp73/index.html

Download File Size:2.32 GB

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