Scarbee F.E.P.

PRICE: EUR 149.00 CATEGORY: Vintage Keyboards FORMAT: Kontakt 1.5.3/ 2.11 HALion 3.1 MEDIA: 3 x DVD SIZE: 6.72 GB BUY NOW: Multi Format Edition

Scarbee F.E.P. (Funky Electric Piano) has a big round 'twanging' bottom end and a top end which is wiry and tight. For many, this is as close as they will ever get to a sound which could compete with the cut of an electric guitar. In the the sharp tone and percussive playing style made it a first choice for many funk recordings where it complemented funk guitar rhythms like no other instrument.

Screenshot from Kontakt 2.11 version.

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How much detail is there in the instrument? In order to accurately reproduce the original keyboards dynamics, both the sustained and release sounds 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 F.E.P., 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 F.E.P. 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.

We sampled each of the 4 standard pickup settings: CA (Lower Pickup), CB (Upper Pickup), DA (Phase reversed), DB (Both Pickups) - in both a standard version and a version with mutebar switched ON, resulting in 8 unique sounds! We also made it possible to switch Standard/Mute with Mod-Wheel.

The F.E.P. was recorded at 24 bit resolution through a Mindprint En-Voice preamp (without any use of EQ, tube saturation or compression), and then digitally transferred to a Nuendo AudioLink 96 audio card.

With the Scarbee S.E.P musicians will have access to the inspirational sounds of this classic electric piano for generations to come – vintage sonic lightning preserved in a cutting-edge software bottle.

Features:
· 6.72 GB multisampled content with full decay and no loops
· 12.275 individual samples
· Includes both a 16 bit and a 24 bit version.
· Instrument graphics for KONTAKT 2.11
· Ultra realistic sound and feel
· Original Instrument Noise can be adjusted in level.
· This instruments has been carefully programmed so that it perfectly emulate the feel/volume of various key-zones of the original instrument.