With Scarbee Vintage Keyboard Collection your sound will have the flare that your jeans are missing. Scarbee VKC represents a powerful new synergy between Scarbee's renowned vintage electro mechanical keyboard libraries and Steinberg's cutting edge virtual sampler technology in the form of the HALion Player, based on the HALion 3.1 sampler engine.
Scarbee libraries now come ready to play 'out of the box' as standalone instruments for Apple OSX and Windows XP as well as a plugins in various interface formats: VSTi, AU, Dxi.
The Scarbee VKC includes the class-leading and award winning RSP73 - sound of Rhodes Stage Piano MK1 73™ and WEP - sound of Wurlitzer 200A™ electric pianos, as well as two new instruments which are 'hot off the press' - the 'D6-C - sound of Hohner Clavinet D6™, sampled for each of the 4 standard pickup settings: DB, DA, CB, CA - in both a standard version and a version with mutebar switched ON and the rare 'N-HP' - sound of Hohner Pianet N™.
Scarbee sample libraries are hailed around the world for capturing not only the classic tone of these vintage instruments, but also their 'feel', and the new D6-C and N-HP are no exceptions. With the D6-C, Scarbee introduces 'Horizontal Release Technology', whereby release samples are chosen from the wave pool depending on how long a key has been held - allowing a staccato played note to create a different release tone to a note which is sustained for a longer period.
To achieve this, each key sampled on the D6-C has 24 release samples assigned to it alone! The D6-C also makes use of HALion's advanced triggering options to allow the inclusion of the occasional 'off center' string strike, a well known characteristic of the original instrument. Sampled, mapped and programmed with great love and slavish attention to detail, the Scarbee Vintage Collection presents all of these classic electro mechanical instruments in their ultimate form.
At the core of the HALion Player housing the Vintage Keyboard Collection is the latest 3.1 version of the powerful HALion sampling engine from Steinberg. Capable of reproducing files in 32 bit resolution at sample rates up to 384kHz, a single instance of the player will play back up to 256 stereo voices on 16 midi channels, with 5 Stereo outputs. (Several instances of the Player can be loaded into a host simultaneously if desired.) HALion player can also connect even to any Rewire compatible Host application, for example Protools.
SCARBEE VKC features 8 assignable editing knobs/switches in the Q-Control section, newly developed for V3.1 and presets can include various combinations and control of the high quality real-time FX, like Reverb, Phaser, Talkbox, Delay, EQ, BitCrusher, AutoWah and more (27 FX in total). Presets can also take advantage of the on board filters including: Notch / High Pass / Low Pass / Band Pass 12 dB and 24 dB Filter as well as the classic analog style Waldorf filters which feature a 'Fatness' function for overdriven filter sounds.
A neat little feature for the “Vintage Purist”: Play key A-1 and you will hear original noise from instrument looped. With Noise knob you can adjust the level of the noise - take it completely away if you like a clean sound with zero hum and hiss!
INCLUDED IN SCARBEE VKC:
SCARBEE R.S.P. ‘73 - Consists of a collection of truly authentic 'deeply sampled' renderings of the Rhodes Stage Piano MK I 73™, recreating not only its signature sound but also the unique dynamic response of the original instrument. How much detail is there in the instrument? To start with, all samples are full length and unlooped. Each of the 73 keys of the Mark 1 was sampled at 12 different velocities - ranging from 0 to -26 dB - but this is only half the story. In order to capture that magical feel of really 'playing' a Rhodes®, we also recorded 'release' samples for each of the 12 velocities, at the exact same level as the corresponding 12 sustain samples. The release tone - a sound created when a damper bounces against the tine as a key is released, is an intrinsic element of what musicians recognize as the original 'Rhodes® Sound'.
SCARBEE W.E.P. - A faithful reproduction of the classic Wurlitzer 200A™ Electric Piano, recreating not only its signature sound but also the unique dynamic response of the original instrument. How much detail is there in the instrument? In order to accurately reproduce the original EP200A’s dynamics, both the sustained and release sounds of each of the 64 keys of the Wurlitzer® has been sampled at 16 different velocities – resulting in a total pool of over 2000 24 bit wav files. All samples are full length and unlooped and we also recorded 'release' samples for each of the 16 velocities, at the exact same level as the corresponding 16 sustain samples. (except those for the top 5 keys which have no damper, causing the keys to ring out to their end).
SCARBEE D6-C - A unique and totally authentic reproduction of the funky Hohner Clavinet D6™, recreating not only its signature sound but also the unique dynamic response of the original instrument. How much detail is there in the instrument? In order to accurately reproduce the original Clavinet™ dynamics, both the sustained and release sounds of the D6 has been sampled at up to 20 different sustained velocities - including samples of the occasional 'off center' string strike, a well known characteristic of the original instrument. All samples are full length and unlooped and with the D6-C, Scarbee introduces 'Horizontal Release Technology', whereby release samples are chosen from the wave pool depending on how long a key has been held - allowing a staccato played note to create a different release tone to a note which is sustained for a longer period. To achieve this, each key sampled on the D6-C has 24 release samples assigned to it alone! This was the only way to reproduce the very special action and soul of the original instrument. Scarbee have sampled each of the 4 standard pickup settings: DB, DA, CB, CA - in both a standard version and a version with mutebar switched on.
SCARBEE N-HP - A faithful reproduction of the rare Hohner Pianet N (Natural)™ Electric Piano. How much detail is there in the instrument? The Pianet N™ used a special technique to produce it’s charming sound: so-called ‘sticky hammers’ made from rubber lifted the tine - more or less like a Harpsichord and when a hammer released its tine, the classic pianet sound was produced. This technique means that the instrument is virtually without dynamics - but even so, it’s got a really cool sound! Sampling 6 velocities more than covers the pianet’s dynamic range, but as with the D6-C, N-HP takes advantage of 'Horizontal Release Technology', whereby different release samples are chosen from the wave pool depending on how long a key has been held - allowing a staccato played note to create a different release tone to a note which is sustained for a longer period. Due to the simple mechanical design of the instrument it was only necessary to make 5 release samples per key to obtain a perfect simulation of the original keyboard.
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Minimum Requirements:
Pentium / Athlon 800 MHz
1 GB RAM, 12 GB HD space
Windows XP Home and XP Professional
Windows MME compatible audio hardware
ASIO compatible sound card recommended
For using HALion as plug-in, a VST2 or DXi2 compatible Host is required
For using HALion Player as a Rewire Client a Rewire compatible Host is required
Steinberg Key is included in the package
Display Resolution 1024 x 768 pixels
Windows Recommended:
Pentium / Athlon 1.4 GHz or faster
1.5 GB RAM or more
Display Resolution 1152 x 864 pixels, dual monitor setup
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Minimum Requirements
Power Mac G4 867 MHz
1 GB RAM, 12 GB HD space
OS X Version 10.2.5 or higher
CoreAudio compatible audio hardware
For using HALion as plug-in, a VST2 or AU compatible Host is required
For using HALion Player as a Rewire Client a Rewire compatible Host is required
Steinberg Key is included in the package
Display Resolution 1024 x 768 pixels
Recommended:
Power Mac G4 Dual 1.25 GHz or faster
1.5 GB RAM or more
Display Resolution 1152 x 864 pixels, dual monitor setup
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