Overall ThoughtsĪs you can see from the demo, this thing sounds great.
The nice thing with this plugin is that there are a lot of presets that you can navigate between in order to find a style that you’re looking for. It sounds very realistic and also plays nicely as well.
You get a lot of great presets with this VST and you also get some great effects. I have been speaking highly of all of the VST’s mentioned, but these are the ones that I truly do like.
But I'd be down to wait till end of the year for something closer to 50% off of Canterbury.Spectrasonics Keyscape did a great job recreating the electric piano. Then there's the Scarbee Classic EP-88S on sale for $50. I do have the OTS Famous E in my cart from the group buy and have till the end of July to buy it at $71 something if I want. Now that I've revisited the EPs I've got in Komplete, I'd like to pick up something else, and I like dark and gritty but I want brilliance and sparkle too when I want it and I'd like to get all that from just one EP. is that adjustable? Like, can you make Canterbury sparkle and chime too or is it mostly just a dark-ish gritty sound? Cuz I've changed my mind a bit about what I said in another thread the other day about how most EPs seemed to be the same to me more or less, quality-wise (not sound per se). I mean, I've checked it out on YouTube, but it seems kind of a dark sounding instrument. Hey man, can you (or anyone else) tell me more about Canterbury? Mainly I just want to know how adjustable the sound is. It seems to have more grit than the Classic EP88. That said, I use the Soniccouture Canterbury Suitcase most often. The pianos in Komplete which are 12-18 velocity layers are fine for that. If it's the piano by itself and your a very expressive player then velocity levels make a big difference, but in a dance or rock piano it's not so important, at least to me. It fits into typical bass, guitar, piano and drums type songs really nicely. I'm finding it gives me the dryness that I like, without overdoing the artifacts or resonance that you get in some pianos that I don't like. My favorite for sound at the moment is "The Gentleman" in Komplete. However, when your playing back in the mix, velocity layers are less important because in a busy mix, you don't need all the different expressions which will be crushed by compression anyway.
I use the Modart one for playing direct as that utilizes the full 127 midi levels due to modelling. What I've found with velocity layers is that when your playing the instrument, velocity layers are so important for feel. Most of the current Rhodes releases are all quite good. It really comes down to personal taste. More importantly, provided you have a fast computer, it plays way better! That said, I use the Soniccouture Canterbury Suitcase most often. To my ears the Classic EP88 sounds better. Scarbee’s earlier A200 is 850 MB. The Classic EP-88S is 5.6 GB with 30 velocity layers. Are you or anyone else finding this velocity issue w/ the two Bs?Īpparently the Famous E hiss has been fixed. but nothing about a fix for the sudden change in velocity from Bb3 to B3 as reported in that first link up there. He also reported excessive hiss that made the OTS Famous E unusable to him, but if you look at this thread here starting w/ this post , on page 2 Greg from OTS responded and commented on the hiss issue, and towards the end of that second page both Virtuoso and Greg confirm that to his issue has been fixed. You seeing this problem that this guy Virtuoso reported where there's a sudden change between Bb3 and B3? You can see his post and audio example here