Neo-Soul Keys® Studio is a 100% FULL recreation of the desktop version. The bottom line is that if like me, you have had a hankering for emulations of the Fender Rhodes suitcase, stage, and Wurlitzer EPs that sounds and feels like what you played “back in the day”, or if you did not but just are intrigued by the colors they bring to the table, while there are a number of worthy choices in the marketplace, in my opinion, has delivered the gold standard.įor more details, visit: Absolutely the most exhaustive electric piano library for your iOS Device Like the Kontakt version, it works both as an AU or a VST. I loaded up the 2 versions and heard no significant sonic difference and at the price of $79.99, it is certainly good value. It is no longer possible to buy only the suitcase model for Kontakt that was originally offered, but there IS that option for Steinberg's HALion player and it uses all the same samples. Personally, I would only feel the need to use it with the Wurlitzer, but it is certainly nice to have the options. They pointed out that for those like me who are troubled by this, there is a “Cleaned Version” folder containing a default preset for each of the three models. I immediately emailed the good folks at, and they told me that some Urban producers actually prefer it this way and feel that it leads to a ”richer” experience. This for me is one of the strengths of this collection and no tuning issues in the Rhodes models bothered me at all, but when I loaded up the default Wurlitzer patch, frankly it did. As I said, these instruments are by design not perfectly tuned, as in the real world no Rhodes or Wurlitzer ever is or was, although certainly Richard Carpenter's Wurly was more evenly tuned than Brotha Ray's. They even include some combo patches that combine different combos of the two Rhodes and one Wurlitzer models.
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In the following picture, I have loaded up the default patch for the suitcase, which is still my favorite Rhodes.īut hey, who says you have to be authentic? Put one on a suitcase if you like. It is incredibly versatile and customizable. These guys are serious Gospel/Urban cats and the library is geared to that, but if you want to sound like Billy Joel's “Just The Way You Are” or Supertramp's “The Logical Sound”, rest assured, you can achieve that easily with this collection. By the time I got around to it, the original suitcase version had morphed into the Neo-Soul Keys 3X Library, which also has a Stage model and a Wurlitzer, all for $149.99. Well, work with an orchestral palette came around and I put purchasing it on the back burner. It also provided great control over them, with high-quality built-in FX, and I knew I had to have it. Here was a Kontakt based Rhodes suitcase emu that barked, farted, and reacted dramatically to my playing, with all the velocity and tuning anomalies that individual Rhodes pianos had.
UNTIL….a friend called me and said, “Jay, you gotta check this out!”
Obviously others eventually reached the same conclusion, as there are now a goodly number of Fender Rhodes and Wurlitzer virtual instruments and libraries, some of which are quite good and I was not unhappy with my choices. It was a lot easier to carry around and did many more things well than my originals, but it was thin and just flat out lacked the soul. The Rhodes sound kind of went out of fashion in the 80s, replaced by a version of it on the Yamaha DX7 popularized by guys like David Foster. Sold! I also bought a used Farfisa organ and I was good to go playing the music of my favorite British Invasion groups. It had a built-in speaker, vibrato, a sustain pedal, and more dynamic range (although still limited) and as I played it, I realized this was the sound I heard on Ray Charles' “What'd I Say”, Marvin Gaye's rendition of “I Heard It Through The Grapevine” and many other records I loved. Wurlitzer store and there saw a new Wurlitzer 145 Electronic Piano. But it frustrated me in that it had no sustain pedal and not much dynamic range. Listen to the classic Rod Argent solo on The Zombies “She's Not There” and you can hear how exciting it was. Initially, I played a friend's Hohner Pianet, which had a great sound. I started singing and playing keyboards in rock and roll bands in the mid-60s, after the Beatles made everyone want to be a Beatle. I don't generally do product reviews, as I always feel someone else in MPVHub's testing lab can do so more thoroughly, but when I discovered this Neo-Soul library I felt compelled to take it on.