On 30.8.2006, at 0:01, Andris Sice wrote: > > We've had a few opinions on virtual B3's. > > What about virtual rhodes/wurly/etc.'s? > > I'd be very interested to hear peoples' views. > > Andris > Clavinet - I owned a Hohner D6 and I made a little comparison with EVD6. The samples are a lame variation to a Mad Professor tune and are in the ogg format - use VLC to play them. The EVD6 sample is EQed to match the real clavinet as good as possible. I installed new hammer tips on the clavinet before this recording. http://dubwise.ic.cz/audio/d6.ogg http://dubwise.ic.cz/audio/evd6.ogg I like the real D6 much more. It just sounds like a musical instrument to me. Rhodes - I own a Magnetica sample CD, EVP88 and played and recorded a Rhodes mkII stage piano. I like the mkII best, then comes the Magnetica CD and the EVP88 is the worst sounding in this trio, IMO. Wurlitzer - sorry I hate the Wurlitzer sound :) All the Logic instruments are perfectly usable, but they just dont sound as good as the real instruments, IMO. However, even better virtual instruments cannot sound like the real thing when you dont have the right keyboard - the clavinet has a special shallow keyboard, the Rhodes has a very stiff keyboard and the Hammond organs have more or less that "waterfall" keyboard, that can be played by your breath. The keyboard is a big part of the sound of the instrument and you have to remember that, if you want your VI's to sound similar. Petr