#Keyscape vs pianoteq manual

Nice amount of mechanical key noise added for flavoring, so you’ll feel more like sitting at the real thing. But even at absolutely dry and flat settings, it was a joy to play. Rhodes V8 also had some compression going on with the default preset, coupled with a smiley EQ setting (= high- and low-boost). Keyscape tries to impress you with a compressed and big sound when you first open it. But the first preset sound was very, very nice! Maybe it’ll get there some day.īut this V8… I’ve tried and played so many sample libraries and modelling plugins that I was not expecting to be impressed. Pianoteq rhodes I want to like more, but it hasn’t improved in the same pace as the grand piano sounds. Keyscape sounds better out of the box and has plenty of other tasty instruments but it’s of course a lot heavier on resources, has truckloads of samples and costs more than any other keyboard plugin I’ve ever had (and just as a sidenote: I definitely didn’t get it just for rhodes). I tend to prefer VTines in a live setting because of its lightness and tweakability. Decided to give it a try.Īs a reference, I opened my three favorite rhodes plugins (VTines, Keyscape, Pianoteq). Nice, didn’t know there was an “official” Rhodes plugin available for testing before yesterday when I noticed this post. I don’t see myself using a sample based Rhodes plugin any time soon, even for home/studio use I have a much better opinion of it than before and it gets a very good sound without having to deal with samples as the Rhodes V8 does. It seems that I’ll have to do some fine tuning on the Force/Vel settings once I play it on my gigging board as the keyboards velocity curve can drastically change the playability of the plugin as well as the overall sound. I didn’t hear much difference or improvement of the sound using the Character parameter and prefer to run the dry signal into TH-U Overloud for Amp and FX (Roland JC120, Small Stone Phaser, CE-2 Chorus, etc) The rest of the parameters will fine tune some of the various noises to taste to help add some realism, but it seems a little goes a long way before they get in the way of the main sound. Tone Bar can further help add more aggressiveness to the sound or mellow it out, depending on your needs. The Vel parameter will help fine tune how the velocity responds to the Force settings

The Force parameter can be very helpful in getting more “bite” from the hammers and a bit more brightness when playing vs some of the presets.

#Keyscape vs pianoteq manual

Some notes from my re-visit of Lounge Lizard after finding the presets lacking in useful character.ĭefinitely check out the manual to get a better understanding their specific terminology as some term they use aren’t immediately clear even if you are familiar with the inner workings of the Rhodes.