Scarbee R.S.P. 73 (EXS24, HALION, KONTAKT) - £118.72

Scarbee is proud to announce the immediate release of the Scarbee R.S.P.' 73, the most comprehensively sampled Rhodes piano on earth. The depth and sophistication of this sampling project has allowed us to finally capture the elusive 'soul' of the Rhodes piano..

The Scarbee R.S.P.' 73 was recorded at 24 bit resolution through a Mindprint En-Voice preamp (without any use of EQ, tube saturation or compression), and then digitally transferred to a Nuendo AudioLink 96 audio card. The piano sound was captured directly from the harp, bypassing the passive tone control on the front panel, in order to capture the full frequency range of the instrument and minimise unwanted noise. All sample editing including noise reduction and normalizing was also done at 24 bit resolution.

The 24 bit native EXS24 mk II and the 24 bit native HALion editions are not conversions. They have been programmed from scratch' using the ''Direct from harp'' sound. Programming this way allows us to utilise every facility available on the native sampler, rather than create something which might have taken mere minutes to port, but which was only pretty close' to the original version because of inaccuracy in the porting software. In fact, critical comparison of the three versions has confirmed that they have identical timbre and response. The ''Classic'' sound can easily be created by using the internal EQ of your favourite sequencer program.

Accurate presets for Cubase and Logic are included with the library.Each 24 bit version utilises 1752 samples and requires 2.25 gigabytes of disk space (shared).

NB. The multi-format version is only available as DVD.