Five Legendary Electric Pianos

Velvet is a virtual electronic piano that combines five legendary electric pianos from the 60s and 70s into one versatile instrument. Based on the Fender Rhodes Suitcase, Fender Rhodes MK I and MK II Stage Pianos, Wurlitzer 200A and Hohner Pianet-T, Velvet accurately emulates the sound quality, response, and nuances of each original instrument to bring your piano tracks to life. Additionally, Velvet features a pallet of onboard effects and allows you to control every aspect of the sound for unparalleled realism: turn up the tube drive controls in the preamp section to warm up your tone; adjust the timbre, dynamic response, and velocity curve to customize the playing feel; and mix in the sound of pedal and other keyboard mechanical noises to recreate an authentic electric piano track.

Tap Into Timeless Sounds

Using proprietary dynamic modeling, a unique combination of optimized sampling and modeling techniques, Velvet is capable of producing highly realistic recreations of classic electric piano sounds with superior fidelity and dynamic response. Additionally, Velvet features the revolutionary Vintage Mode that allows you to tap into the timeless sounds heard on countless classic recordings. Vintage Mode intelligently tweaks the timbre setting to readjust the sonic character of Velvet to match these electric pianos from the past. With the Vintage Mode, you can sound just like your favorite electric piano players.

Classic Effects

Velvet features a built-in preamp and an array of effects to add crunch, ambience, or tremolo to your electric piano track. Its powerful preamp section includes tube overdrive, compression, and a custom 3-band EQ with a parametric mid band to shape your sound. Process your sound further using a wide range of distortion, wah/filter, chorus, flanger, phaser, and tape delay effects to emulate a vintage sound or forge something new. The Ambience, Spring, and Room reverbs can add an expansive ambience to create otherworldly effects, or a small room reverb to add a bit of color to your performance. You can also add tremolo and autopan effects; the former is modeled after those on the original electric pianos.

Professional Presets

Velvet includes 350+ professional presets meticulously programmed by AIR Music Technology's sound designers that make it easy to call up authentic electric piano sounds. You can even create your own unique presets by dialing into Velvet’s powerful controls. The graphic user interface is reminiscent of vintage electric pianos, and its controls are modeled after the originals, allowing you to easily modify sounds at the twist of a knob or notch of a slider.

Features

A virtual electronic piano instrument with built-in effects that captures the character and response five legendary instruments
Realistic emulations of five Fender, Wurlizter, and Hohner electric pianos:
Fender Rhodes® Suitcase
Fender Rhodes MK I Stage Piano
Fender Rhodes MK II Stage Piano
Wurlitzer® 200A
Hohner® Pianet-T
Dynamic modeling and proprietary engine deliver unprecedented sound quality and dynamic response
Tweak the timbre, dynamic response, and velocity curve of each model
Mix in the sound of the keyboard and pedal noise for mechanical realism
Powerful preamp section with tube overdrive and compression for a crunchy tone
Onboard 3-band EQ with a parametric mid band for quick tone shaping
Authentic tremolo and autopan effects deliver classic expression
Vintage distortion, wah/filter, modulation, and amplifier effects
High-quality reverb effects include Ambience, Spring, and Room settings
Delay effects featuring a classic tape echo
MIDI Learn functionality allows easy mapping to MIDI controllers
350 ready-to-play presets that can be tweaked to your taste
Intuitive graphic user interface reminiscent of each classic electric piano

System Requirements

VST (32 bit and 64 bit) qualified for Ableton Live, Cubase, Arsenal
AU (64 bit only) qualified for Logic Pro X
AAX qualified for ProTools 10.3 (32 bit), ProTools 11.x (64 bit)
PC: Windows 8 (64 bit), Windows 7 (64 bit); Minimum Dual Core 2GHz (Intel Core i5 or i7 Recommended)
Mac: Mac OS X 10.8.5-10.10; Core Duo Processor (Intel Core i5 or i7 Recommended)
Minimum RAM 4GB (8GB or more recommended)
3GB free hard drive space (Download and Installation)
Internet Access (Download and Authorization)

iLok License Manager required for supported computer or iLok (gen 2/3) hardware key authorization.