The famous Fender Rhodes Mark II stage 73 electric piano!
Essential if you plan to do funk-jazz, deep house, or any soulul music. The Rhodes keys can be heard on countless tracks, from Herbie Hancock to Stevie Wonder, the Doors & Ray Charles, Chick corea & JojoLapin.
It’s funky, soulful, deep, smooth, jazzy, lounge, groovy. Here are the best FREE VST emulations of the e-piano:
Free VST - EP-Station electric piano 06th September 2014. EP-Station re-creates the classic electric piano sounds, using FM modelling. Like all our vst instruments, EP-station is available both as a vst plugin or as a standalone synth. V-Station 2.4 Free Download Latest Version for Windows. It is full offline installer standalone setup of V-Station 2.4 for 32/64. V-Station 2.4 Free Download Latest Version for MAC OS. It is full offline installer standalone setup of V-Station 2.4 for macOS. V-Station 2.4 Overview The V-Station.
1. MrRay73 & MrRay22 VST by Guido Scognamiglio
MrRay 2.2 ! rhodes 4 ever
These two VSTi are donationware.
and they are pure synthesis, no sample involved. The sound is very good, Mr Ray 73 VST gives you that funky feeling when you play it. Mr Ray 22 has more parameters and some good classic effects : a chorus, a wah wah, a tremolo/autopan, a distortion and a stereo delay.
Mr Ray Charles:
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Mr-Ray-Charles-Shake-a-Tail-Feather.mp3
stormy !
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/riders-on-the-storm-mrray22.mp3
straight Rhodes e-piano
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/mrray73.mp3
soft deep house chords
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/mrray22.soft_.mp3
Rhodes piano through wah wah effect!
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/mrray22.wahwah.mp3 2. MDA ePiano
Based on a small but clever wavetable, the antique MDA ePiano still sounds fresh in 2014!
and since MDA plugins became open source, you can also find version for Mac & Linux, and also 64 bit versions => http://sourceforge.net/projects/mda-vst/files/mda-vst/mda-vst-src 20100214/
MDA ePiano VST is simple & effective, of course it’s more limited than Mr Ray, but sounds great!
riders on the storm!
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/riders-on-the-storm-mda-epiano.mp3
Ray Charles – Shake a Tail Feather
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Ray-Charles-shake-a-mda-epiano.mp3 3. EP-Station VST by Big Tick audio
EP station : more groovy keys
A very nice FM modeled electric piano. EP-station is now freeware.
The plugin is not a straight emulation of a Rhodes piano. It can also do the ” DX 7 e-piano “, the famous FM piano as heard on 95% of the pop / ballad / tv show theme / etc. tracks produced between 1983 & 1989. The EP-station also features a chorus & a phaser effect.
smooth sound for deep house
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ep-station1.mp3
phased Fender Rhodes !
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ep-station2.mp3
ultra smooth Deep house Rhodes+phaser
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ep-station3-effectrhodes.mp3
FM pop piano ! the sound of the 80’s
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ep-station4-dxpop.mp3 4. 4Front R-Piano VST
Based on samples, but not only, this emulation gives you a clean sound.
It comes for Windows 32 & 64 bit, and Mac OS X. 4Front R-piano also include a reverb.
soft e-piano for lounge house
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/4frontrpiano.mp3
plucked style
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/4frontrpiano2.mp3 Ep Station Vst Download Torrent5. LazySnake VST by Andreas Ersson
Lazy Snake VST
Back to a 100% synthesis emulation !
The Lazy Snake electric piano gives you this lounge and mellow sound. The synth is easy to tweak, and you have a tremolo + wah wah effect. It’s not really a Rhodes piano emulation, but it’s perfect for deep house chord.
soft clean deep house chord
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/lazysnake-smooth.mp3
wah wah effect!
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/lazysnake-wah.mp3
Ray Charles shake a snake
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Ray-Charles-shake-a-snake.mp3 6. Orange Lounge 2004A by StarrFish Lab
A funky japanese VSTi , created with Synthdit.
It’s not a Rhodes MK2 emulation, but it’s also groovy, and well suited for that deep house feeling. We can feel the FM modulation but it’s nice!
pretty hard tremolo effect for this e-piano
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/orangelounge-deep1.mp3
funky !!
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/orangelounge-deep2.mp3 ![]() 7. SFZ + Learjeff jRhodes3 soundfont
SFZ+ soundfont player
SFZ+ + Learjeff Rhodes soundfont
There are some nice free Rhodes multisample bank around the interweb. So you can pick your favorite sf2 capable VST player and load a Rhodes piano soundfont into it!
Here i choosed the SFZ+ player by RGCAudio and the jRhodes sf2 , that’s the best combo!
(november 17 2014 update !!)
8. RhodyMK1 by Wahnsyn
A Synthedit VST plugin from Plugindex German website : it has a clean sound, i think it’s based on a soundfont / wav bank. It’s very usable. Unlike the other “classic” emulations, it features a vibrato effect instead of a tremolo effect, it’s strange but that makes unusual sounds!
9. Clavia Lab by Simple Media
Dev c++ build error 1. Clavia Lab VST
This plugin is intended for e-piano sounds and also organ and clavinet / harpsichord sounds.
How to get the radio FM broadcast processing ?
You have music that you want to broadcast, you have set up a web radio, and now you need this “FM radio sound” : loud, clear and powerful.
You can set up a chain of effects to try to achieve this FM radio sound : multiband compressor (s), equalizer, enhancer… Or you can try this “all in one” FREE plugin, intended for FM broadcasting : Smash your sound with ENERGIZE free VST plugin
This very powerful VST plugin is old but nothing compares to it! Let’s have a look in the web archive : energize free plugin
Here’s the signal flow in the plugin :
signal chain processing
As you can see, the signal is separated into 5 bands :
0-70 Hz
70 Hz – 200 Hz 200 Hz – 1KHz 1 KHz – 5 KHz 5 Khz – 15 KHz
each band is processed separately.
You can download the energize II manual here You can download the VST plugin here Using Energize VST in Wavosaur to get the FM radio sound
1) launch Wavosaur
2) load the music / podcast / anything else you want to process : menu File -> Open
3) click on the “rack” button to oepn the VST rack, then click on “Load VST” and choose “EnergizeII.dll” –> EnergizeII.dll is in this archive !!!! => here uncompress and copy in your VST folder <–
4) the VST rack should look like this :
The energize plugin has no GUI, so you have to use the VST rack to access the parameters
the parameters are on the right : AGC release, Compressor drive, Slide B2 etc… I choose to present the 1.37 version because the next versions don’t show the parameters in the VST host. But if you don’t have to tweak and are satisfied with the default preset sound you can download the other versions : energize plugin v 1.4
5) check “processing” in Wavosaur to hear the effect when playing, click apply if you want to process your sound!
Before / After : ready for the FM broadcasting !!
here’s some before / after to show how dramatic is the effect !
Nexus Vst Download
Italo-dance ! note how the sound level is raised on “quiet” parts
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Master-Of-Progress-Can-You-Feel-It.mp3 https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Master-Of-Progress-Can-You-Feel-It-big-radio-sound.mp3
biguine bretonne : stereo enhancing is very present
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Les-Charlots-La-Biguine-Au-Biniou.mp3 https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Les-Charlots-La-Biguine-Au-Biniou-big-radio-sound.mp3
new beat / house : back to 1988
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Bassline-boys-On-Se-Calme.mp3 https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Bassline-boys-On-Se-Calme-big-radio-sound.mp3
house : the level of the part without the beat is dramatically raised ! => fm radio broadcast sound
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/DJ-Creator-Ki-Ki-Ki-ss-Me.mp3 https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/DJ-Creator-Ki-Ki-Ki-ss-Me-big-radio-sound.mp3 FM broadcasting yes ! but mastering…
We could be tempted to use this funky plugin for mastering purpose, but i found the effect a bit too radical. It’s perfect to get this radio broadcasting sound. But if you need to master your sounds, more subtle effects are recommended, more articles will come about compressors and eq !
Nothing prevents you from using the free Energize II VST plugin for creative effects though Ep Station Vst Download TorrentBig broadcast sound with Stardust VST pluginFree Vst Download Site
Stadust VST is a free and incredibly good plugin, it’s intended for mastering, but with extreme settings you can achieve something close to the “big fat FM radio sound”
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