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burningbusch · Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2011 1:48 am Post subject:

Never mind, I figured it out.

Busch.

DaveK · Joined: 21 Jun 2011 Posts: 9

Busch,

Your demo clearly demonstrated to me that C5, C#5, D5 and D#5 are the problem notes in the Mk1 Rhodes sound. It almost sounds like the tines for these notes were a lot newer than the rest! If there is a way to just reduce the attack brightness for these four notes alone, I think we would be very close to the perfect Mk1 sound. I would imagine this could easily be done in Combination mode with three patches, one for the notes up to C5, a second for the four problem notes, and a third for E5 and up.

Regarding using the harmonic sound from the Mk1 and the attack sound from another model, yes this may well solve the problem, but wouldn't the polyphony of the resulting sound then be halved?

One other general query to everyone about both the electric and acoustic pianos: Is it possible to adjust the stretch tuning amount in the SGX-1 and EP-1 engines? I can hear the stretch tuning in the German Grand because in one online demo the demonstrator is playing the piano sound against an arpeggiated high synth sound and the piano notes sound painfully sharp - one example of where being able to reduce the amount of stretch would be very useful. It could be that the Rhodes and Wurlitzer sounds are not stretched at all - I know my old Rhodes Mk2 was tuned with no stretch when I first got it, but came with a tuning chart which I used to successfully stretch tune it.

Cheers,

David Kear