Retro Keys Collection for Kontakt

Retro Keys Collection for Kontakt
A collection of electromechanical keyboards and organs for Kontakt. All the classics,
a few rare ones, and a few surprises. Others' samples. New programming and combinations. Amazing results for the size.


Have you ever noticed how difficult it is to find a decent virtual electromechanical keyboard smaller than roughly a gigabyte in size?

Sure, there are a billion Rhodes sample sets out there, but how many of 'em are actually usable, let alone versatile? Such a delicate instrument, the tine piano -- the inspiration for the legendary DX7 piano patch that dominated the FM synth Eighties -- so responsive, from its glasslike bell soft-touch highs to its smashed, fuzzy growled heavy-handed lows. Chorus it up for classy night lounge music, or drive it through a Twin and make it roar, the Rhodes was an instrument of many faces, and a complex character that spanned genres and decades.

Sure, if you're willing to devote enormous tracts of digital "land" to your DAW, loading up memory and hard drive space and dropping in a multi-core processor, you'll have no problem assembling an excellent collection of vintage instruments. Load up Sampletekk's Tubed Keys Mk I 73 and Bigga Giggas Hohner D6, or Scarbee's Vintage Keys Collection, or Native Instruments' Electrik Piano, and you're good to go for a couple of outstanding Rhodes sounds, a Wurly EP200 and a pretty decent Clavinet. On the other hand, you're also down a few gig, and loading up even one of those instruments is going to make a dent in your RAM footprint, and eat CPU cycles.

But what's available at the smaller scale? Some gems, some pretty good compromises, some reasonably good compromises, and a lot of duds. Some solutions that are really good in some respects, but utterly broken in others -- an otherwise marvelous sample pack can be seriously damaged by sampling "wet" (ruining its versatility), poor EQ, insufficient attention to velocity or layer transitions, inadequate velocity planning, or even something as simple as a poorly-chosen release rate, creating a synthlike "note off" effect instead of an authentic one.

Well, you know me. I have a soft spot for oddballs, a fondness for efficiency, and I love tinkering. This pack contains several of the sampled instruments I work with in my own music. It might interest you for several reasons. First, the largest of the instruments is about sixty megabytes; these sample packs won't break your system resource budget. Second, you'll find a wide range of goodies in here, from classic "must-have" sounds to rarer instruments that ought to be "must-haves," to a few really strange beasts that were just too cool not to include.


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