Les Productions ZVON

"Prepared Rhodes ($29.95) applies the prepared-piano techniques developped by John Cage to a Rhodes electric piano... Each note has a different mechanical preparation and was recorded for its full duration at several Velocities. These make exceptional semituned percussion instruments. For more conventional playing, 19 presets are provided that map a single sound across the keyboard."

Len Sasso in Electronic Musician, April 2005

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PREPARED RHODES (64 MB, 32 MB download):

VERY IMPORTANT: the Prepared Rhodes has 3 different versions, the Full version, the Light version and the Light and Clean version. The Full version has 4 different packages of formats. The Light version is no longer available by itself but it is still included in the Full version package. This means that there are 5 "Buy Now" buttons on this page. Be sure you click on the want you really want as there are no refunds. Email us first if you are not sure about the button you should click.

It's a real Rhodes that is prepared as John Cage and others prepared an acoustic piano, that means you insert springs, plastic tubes, pins, etc., all kinds of objects inside the piano. These objects when touching the strings or the tines change the sound of each key played. All the notes can be radically different from each other and often you don't even recognize the original sound. You get an instrument that is much more percussive in nature. Read the full description HERE

There are 2 main programs, each key has a different sound, the first one covers 72 keys, the second one 52 keys. Each key has a unique sound with up to 6 velocity layers. Also included are patches made from one sound mapped across the keyboard. The sample set size is 63,2 MB containing 367 samples.

It is available as a soundfont, FXpansion DR-008 and NUSofting DK+ kits, and Vsampler 3 format with the samples as wave files, that means they are ready to be used with any sampler or software that supports wave files. Your order will include the 5 formats. Get the FREE DEMOS on the Free sounds page.

1- MULTI-FORMATS VERSION, all the above formats included, $19.99 US

Available for the Wusiksation and other WE products (174MB, 69 MB download), includes a full bank of 96 presets (in both V1 and V2 formats) designed by ToTc and Zvon for use in the Wusikstation.

2- WUSIKSTATION FORMAT and WE products, $19.99 US

Also available for DashSignature EVE (174MB, 69 MB download), with a bank of 91 presets including 40 designed by Tim Conrardy. More MP3 demos of the EVE version presets HERE

3- EVE FORMAT, $19.99 US

GIGASTUDIO 3 version: 2 banks, 53 instruments, 117 instrument performance files (.gsi). Includes Random, Round robin and Mod wheel dimensions. Note that the GS3 format does not have a Light version but a lot of stuff that the other formats do not have. For detailed info, see the text files in the downloadable demo gig file on the Free sounds page.

4- GIGASTUDIO 3 FORMAT, $19.99 US

Crossgrade offers between the 4 packages are available on request. For details, click HERE

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LIGHT and CLEAN VERSION: Now you can discover and enjoy the sound of the Prepared Rhodes for only $2.99 US. The Light and Clean has 68 sounds compared to 124 for the full version and the regular light version. Its size is 10.3 MB instead of 63.

Available formats: -FXpansion DR-008 -LinPlug RMIV -NUSofting DK+ -Soundfont -Vsampler 3

And you also get the wav files, so it can be used in any sampler.

It's not the same as the Prepared Rhodes light, not only it has fewer sounds but I also cleaned some of the sample's releases. That's where it got "clean" in it's name. This is not better or worse, just different. The noisy releases are an integral part of the original Prepared Rhodes sound but I found that sometimes I could live without them. Even with the cleaned releases, it's still a "dirty" instrument and pretty noisy ;-).

The demo for the Light and Clean version is included in our Freeware sample player Quad Zamp, HERE.

LIGHT and CLEAN Version (10.3 MB) includes all formats, $1.99 US (reg. $2.99)

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There will be no refunds, so please try the demos before buying. All products are downloadable. After we received confirmation of your payment, we will email you the link or links where you can download your products. This will usually be within one business day.

If you live in Canada the 5% GST will be automatically added to your order.