

Looks like this could be a major keyboard favorite. Check out Applied Acoustics’ site above for plenty of details on the meticulous modeling, and watch CDM for a review in December. The electric piano was invented by Harold Rhodes (1910-2000) during the. That addresses the major shortfall of the previous version: effects have been expanded from the meager offerings of the previous outing. Lounge Lizard EP-4 is the recreation of classic electric pianos and delivers the. Tremolo, wah, chorus, phaser, delay, reverb, and EQ are all included, as visible in the screen grab. Lounge Lizard is a versatile instrument that will meet all your electric piano needs. More realistic sounds are always welcome, but the biggest news here is that Lounge Lizard finally has additional built-in effects. (For those of you wanting to play your Rhodes in Javanese pelog tuning, your day has come!) Also nifty: an integrated audio recorder lets you capture ideas easily. EP-3 upgrades the already-generous preset selection, adds improved and expanded models of different pickups, forks, and dampers, (in addition to those already in EP-2), and adds support for Scala microtuning files. The signal from the Rhodes can then be sent to an amplifier or recorded direct-input. The current Lounge Lizard is already a joy to play: Applied Acoustics nails the feel and sound of the classic Wurlitzer and Rhodes keyboards. The Rhodes is an electromechanical instrument that generates sound via hammers hitting tines which produces magnetic induction in a giant pickup spanning the body of the piano (not unlike the pickups in a guitar ).


In addition to looking forward to Native Instruments’ sequel to their B4 organ synth, another modeled-instrument fave is getting a big upgrade soon: Updates to favorite keyboard soft synths - always a good thing.
