Re: [LAU] Rhodes for LinuxSampler?

On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 12:12 +0100, Jeremy Jongepier wrote:
> On 12/06/2010 11:49 AM, Julien Claassen wrote:
> > Hello Josh!
> > I have the sampletekk Rhodes and I'm very happy with it. Of course you
> > can listen to demos on their website. My impression: Very warm, but a
> > little dificult to get it biting. Still everything's there. But as
> > mentioned, if you like to go for it, have a look at their site and see
> > when the next sale is on. Should be now or very soon, since christmas is
> > always a good time for it. :-)
> > Kindly yours
> > Julien
>
> So both Pianoteq and Sampletekk are good to work with? I have some
> issues with the Learjeff soundfont as I am a tuning freak. His Rhodes
> was either slightly out of tune or a wee bit badly intonated. Or maybe I
> can do something about this? Maybe there's something going wrong while
> up/downsampling?

If you're curious about the Pianoteq Rhodes emulation (or any other part
of Pianoteq), just head to the website and grab the demo:

http://www.pianoteq.com/try

It's a small (25MB or so) download, and it's very easy to get going.
Unless you have a total aversion to proprietary software, I think you
owe it to yourself to check it out.

FWIW, I haven't purchased the Rhodes/Wurlitzer add-on yet, but I've
played with it a little and it sounded great to me. I haven't had a need
for a Rhodes sound yet, but when I do, it'll almost certainly be the one
I go for.

Pianoteq itself I can't recommend enough. It sounds great, of course (as
good as a sampled piano to my ears), but above all else it feels "alive"
beneath your fingers in a way I've never experienced in a sampled piano.
It also gives you a range of piano sounds in a scant 30MB or so, rather
than one piano sound in a 1-2GB sample library, so it's great for
smaller systems like laptops.

If you just need a great piano sound from your sequencer, the Salamander
and LinuxSampler CVS will do a stellar job, but if you want an
instrument to play and feel that'll make you forget that you're just
sending MIDI signals from a plastic keyboard, Pianoteq is just
brilliant.

Thanks
Leigh

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Received on Mon Dec 6 16:15:05 2010