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675Logic Pro Instruments
Vintage Electric Piano
Logic Pro Vintage Electric Piano overview
Vintage Electric Piano simulates the sound of various Rhodes and Wurlitzer pianos as well
as the sound of the Hohner Electra Piano. See Rhodes models and Hohner and Wurlitzer
models.
The unmistakable tones of Fender Rhodes pianos are some of the best-known keyboard
instrument sounds used in the second half of the 20th century. Various Rhodes models
have been popularized in a wide range of musical styles, encompassing pop, rock, jazz,
and soul, as well as more recent genres such as house and hip-hop. Nearly as popular was
the Wurlitzer piano, which enjoyed most of its success in the 1970s.
The Vintage Electric Piano sound engine uses component modeling synthesis techniques
to generate ultra-realistic electric piano sounds, with smooth dynamics and scaling over
the entire 88-key range. Component modeling has no abrupt changes between samples,
sample looping, or filtering effects during the decay phase of notes.
Vintage Electric Piano also simulates the physical characteristics of the original
instruments, including the movement of the electric piano reeds, tines, and tone bars in the
(electric and magnetic) fields of the pickups. It also emulates the ringing, smacking, and
bell-like transients of the attack phase as well as the hammer action and damper noises of
the original instruments.
The integrated effects include classic equalizer, overdrive, stereo phaser, stereo tremolo,
and stereo chorus effects that are commonly used with electric piano sounds.