From mskremote@yahoo.com Thu Nov 27 15:28:25 2014
Subject:Re: Odd little clone discovery

The exaggerated bell in the rhodes was exactly what I had in mind. And to my ears gets worse the higher you go from middle C.

I now suspect the issue with EP and clonewheels sounding brittle and unrealistic in the higher registers is that the original amplification was valve and often the speakers used rolled off over 8k.

Now we play through amps that go twice as high with no noticeable roll off exposing harmonics not audible in the past. Based on crude tests I can still hear 13k and shrill treble I find really annoying.

VB3 is the VST I find to be the most accurate in the higher registers and the ability to shape the sound as it is created is fast making me a convert to modelled rather than sampled VST's. That and the fact you get 128 layers of velocity for AP and the option of tailoring velocity to each keybed.

Early days with the EP's in Pianoteq but I am liking what I hear so far.

"Hammonddave hammonddave2004@yahoo.com [CloneWheel]" wrote:

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>This is the problem with some of these clones.  The designers do exaggerate the sonic qualities as most musicians (consumers) have no idea what these classic instruments really sound like. Plus, being analogue instruments, no two Wurlies (or Hammonds, for that matter) sound alike. So what sound does the designer go after?  The quality that separates a Wurlies from a Rhodes, and they highlight that quality. 
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>You hear this all the time with Rhodes sounds.  The bell is always exaggerated. Your band mates like it because they think it sounds like a Rhodes. But I would bet if you had a Rhodes next to it the sound would be different,  
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>On Nov 27, 2014, at 12:49 AM, Mark K mskremote@yahoo.com [CloneWheel] wrote:
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