Rhodes has expanded its lineup of digital pianos and keyboard devices with Pianology, a set of three “timeless pianos”: a live performance grand, acoustic upright and classic electrical grand.
Providing producers and composers entry to devices that are “uncommon and infrequently encountered exterior famend studios, live performance halls and personal collections”, Pianology’s three software program devices have been sampled by Rhodes’ engineering and sound design groups “with a give attention to immediate playability”.
First up within the three pianos included in Pianology is a Japanese Upright Piano based mostly on a Yamaha U-series – recognized for its vibrant tone, compact sound and midrange, and tailor-made to jazz enjoying and “understated songwriting”.
Subsequent up is a basic American Grand Piano, which boasts a broad dynamic vary and balanced tonal profile, in addition to a harmonic depth and maintain making it appropriate for an unlimited vary of enjoying types.
And at last, you’ve received Japanese Electrical Grand, a digital electro-acoustic piano sampled from one with actual strings and pickups. This one’s harking back to the sound of Eighties pop, rock and digital music, Rhodes says.
In the meantime, Pianology incorporates a simplified set of sound-shaping controls to additional form the tone of your piano sounds, with world controls together with Timbre Shift, International Tune, Mechanical Noise and Lid Place on the grand piano.
There’s additionally an built-in Amp and Mic part, providing entry to amplifier fashions and microphones derived from Rhodes’ V8 Professional plugin. Moreover, you’ve received compression, EQ, modulation, delay, stereo tremolo, panning and reverb controls, too.
“Constructing on the worldwide success of V8 Professional, Wurli, and Anthology, Pianology marks the subsequent chapter in our evolving Rhodes sound library,” mentioned Dan Goldman, Chief Product Officer at Rhodes.
“With three fastidiously ready and deeply sampled pianos, Pianology is designed for expressive playability, natural tone, and an in depth connection between participant and instrument. Paired with our results engine and sound-shaping instruments, Pianology displays Rhodes’ method to tone and expressivity, inserting the enjoying expertise on the coronary heart of the sound.”
Pricing & availability
Rhodes Pianology is on the market now in VST, AU and AAX codecs. Till 7 April, you will get it at 30% off, so that you’ll pay simply £99.95 / $104.95 as a substitute of £139.95 / $149.95.
For extra data, head to Rhodes. There’s additionally quite a lot of demo sounds obtainable at Rhodes’ official SoundCloud web page.
Sam is the Affiliate Information Editor for Guitar.com and MusicTech. Completely immersed in music tradition for almost all of his life, Sam has performed guitar for 20 years, studied music know-how and manufacturing at college, and in addition written for the likes of MusicRadar, Guitar World, Complete Guitar and Steel Hammer.
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