Genuine Soundware ZD6 v1.1 VSTi AU OSX-UB
Instrument Background
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Genuine Soundware VB3 v1.2.2 VSTi AU OSX-UB
Instrument Description
VB3 is a virtualtonewheel organ which simulates an american electromagnetic organ of the old days, but it’s also capable of other simulations like the italian transistor organs of the seventies or the red-tolex organs played by famous pop bands of the sixties.
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Genuine Soundware Type4 v1.0.1 VST AU OSX-UB
About
A spring reverb is a system to obtain artificial reverberation invented during the 40′s by Laurens Hammond (also inventor of the Hammond Organ). In a Spring Reverb pan, the audio signal is coupled to one end of the spring by a transducer (a device that can convert electrical energy into mechanical energy or viceversa). This creates waves that propagate through the spring in both directions. At the other end of the spring there is another transducer that converts the motion in the spring into an electrical signal, which is then amplified and added to the dry sound. Most spring reverb units use several springs together, with each spring having its own characteristics (length, dimensions, tension, etc.) resulting in a natural reverberation by summing several delayed sounds at fixed or random intervals. However, with real spring reverbs the user isn’t allowed to change these characteristics. A software simulation like Type4, on the other hand, allows you to adjust parameters like “decay” (reverb duration), the dampening factor, the virtual spring tension and other parameters that affect the overall timbre of the reverb effect. Why should you want to use a spring reverb rather than a precise and modern digital reverb? Spring reverbs have typical sonic characteristics that, nowadays, make them desirable mostly as effects on their own rather than simulations of an acoustic phenomena.
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Genuine Soundware MrRay Mark II v2.0.3 VSTi AU OSX-UB
Instrument Description
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.
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Genuine Soundware GS-201 v1.1.3 VST AU OSX-UB
Basic Concepts
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Genuine Soundware EG70 v1.0 VSTi AU OSX-UB
Instrument Background
The CP-70 was a portable electric piano invented during the seventies by the japanese company Yamaha, also makers of renowned fine classic grand pianos. It was made for the touring musician who wanted to take an acoustic piano on the stage. It’s a rock solid instrument that splits into two parts for better transportability. The structure is based on the keyboard and mechanics of a classic grandpiano but with a smaller harp, less strings and shorter than a classic baby grand. There’s no soundboard, and every note has its own piezoelectric pickup. The main preamplifier offers a basic 3-band equalizer and a tremolo effect. This piano had a significant role in the pop music of the seventies and the eighties, featuring in songs by well known musicians like Stevie Wonder, Genesis, George Duke, Simple Minds, etc. It is now back on the stage thanks to the british band “Keane”, you can see it in the video of the song “Everybody’s changing”. Every modern digital keyboard offering a wide variety of timbres has a patch inspired to the sound of the CP piano, and sometimes it’s still preferred in genres like rock and pop where the producers want a brighter and more prominent piano sound.
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