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VST with multiple Rhodes, Wurly samples?

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Philip Vasta

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Hi all, does anyone have any recommendations for a VST that includes several Rhodes and/or Wurlitzer sounds? I have a Nord Electro 3 and they provide a wealth of very high quality options in that regard (as they would, it's literally the purpose of this keyboard). The only problem, if I can call it that, is that these sounds exist only in the keyboard.

I do own NI Komplete, which comes with the Scarbee Vintage Keys collection. The instruments are passable but not really up to the quality I get on the Nord, and there's only one of each kind of instrument. Does anyone know of any VST with a good collection of multiple Rhodes, Wurlys and the like?

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I personally think the Scarbee stuff is quite good, I'd spent a bit more time working with that. The other thing is that originally Scarbee sold those on his own and included a separate FX plugin that was custom designed exactly for this purpose...that plugin was developed or purchased by overloud and your can still buy it as a separate thing...and IMHO it helps out the Scarbee samples a lot:

Categories | Overloud

overloud.com overloud.com

So you could turn off the kontakt-based FX that ended up in the final NI version of his keyboards...and instead use the Overloud plugin the he originally designed them all with. It comes with a bunch of related FX presets, etc..

Scarbee also made a better Rhodes later...still sold separately...also very good...

https://scarbee.com/products/scarbee-classic-ep-88s?variant=12426006495294

Then you have numerous other things out there, all of which are worthy to check out.

https://www.applied-acoustics.com/lounge-lizard-ep-4/ (half off right now)

www.xlnaudio.com

Mark One

Our Mark One instrument is based on a Rhodes Mk. 1 electric piano. The Rhodes Mk. 1 has been the most popular electric piano for more than four decades and is heard on countless hit records. Rhodes pianos can vary in sound, and this particular instrument was selected for its unmistakable warmth...
www.xlnaudio.com www.xlnaudio.com

Modartt: Electric

www.modartt.com www.modartt.com

Arturia has several also, which can be expensive if you don't get them on sale, but on sale you can get a big pack of synths that also includes electric pianos.
 
UVI have a collection of electric pianos including Rhodes models from Mark 1 to Mark V. Highly playable and realistic. Runs in the free UVI player. On sale @ 30% off for another day:

www.uvi.net

UVI Key Suite Electric - The Essential Electric Keys Collection

63 instruments including electric pianos, tines, reeds, clavs, analog, electro-acoustic hybrids, basses and more
www.uvi.net www.uvi.net
 
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Also, I can highly recommend these (need full version of Kontakt):

https://www.kontakthub.com/product/reed-collection-electric-pianos-kontakt/
https://www.kontakthub.com/product/tine-collection-reed-pianos-kontakt/
 
I think the Scarbee stuff that comes with Komplete is great, but I’ve had my eye on the Keysuite Electric from UVI.
It gets good reviews and there is so much in there.
 
Keyscape is hands down the best overall. That said, my advise is run the scarbee stuff through an amp sim like guitar rig or something similar. It’s too clean otherwise. Fx can really get solid results out of that. Spitfire makes North 7, vcollection has a good modeled ep, and 8dio has a few options. EP is pretty easy to come by. If you have Ableton Live it comes with a great ep as well.
 
You might have a look at Velvet 2. It's a got a number of electric pianos, and is often on sale for $15 - like right now at Best Service.

It's got a Mark 1, Mark 2, SC73 and Pianet. Plus, it's got a bunch of built-in effects like Fuzz, Ring Modulator, Wah Pedal, Chorus, Flanger, Phaser, Reverbs, Tube Simulator and Compressor along with a ton of presets.

Ooops, I see you bought something already. Well, one can never have too many VSTis, right? :laugh:
 
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Our Neo-Soul Keys comes with the VKFX effects suite in the library AND as a stand-alone plugin. It has all of the factory presets and can load vkfx presets, so it’s two plugins in one.
 
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