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Put Stunning Electric Pianos in Your Pro Tools Rig!

Note: This is a specially priced update to Avid Velvet 1.3 for current owners of Velvet. Please call your Sales Engineer for details.

What an amazing instrument! Avid's Velvet electric piano virtual instrument faithfully reproduces the sound and feel of classic Rhodes and Wurlitzer electric pianos and packages them nicely in an easy-to-use graphic interface. You get over 100 presets, and sounds can easily be tweaked with controls for overall timbre, dynamic response, and velocity curve of each model. Velvet gives you a ton of built-in processors to tailor the sound to your desires with a preamp featuring tube overdrive, compression, and 3-band EQ, along with distortion, wah/filter, modulation, and Echoplex delay. Play great classic electric pianos right into your Pro Tools rig with Avid's Velvet!

Velvet employs proprietary dynamic modeling, a unique combination of optimized sampling and modeling techniques, allowing it to achieve incredibly accurate recreations of classic electric piano sounds with superior playing feel and dynamic response. You can even pull off sounds you'd normally only hear when playing the real instrument, from the faintness of the lightest pianissimo to the note splat of the strongest fortissimo. 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. Craft your ideal sound using the built-in multi-effects processing engine, and adjust the tuning. Even mix in the sound of pedal and other keyboard mechanical noises to recreate a truly realistic electric piano feel.

Use one of the over 100 included professional-sounding electric piano presets or create something unique. Dialing up the perfect electric piano sound is easy. The plug-in's graphic user interface is reminiscent of classic electric pianos, making it familiar if you've ever played the real deal. And its controls work virtually like the originals, allowing you to easily modify sounds at the twist of a knob or notch of a slider.

Velvet's powerful preamp section lets you shape your electric piano sound, and includes tube overdrive, compression, and a custom 3-band EQ with a parametric mid band. Process your sound further using a wide range of distortion, wah/filter, chorus, flanger, phaser, and tape delay effects — modeled after the classic originals — to emulate a vintage sound or forge something new. You can even capture the perfect vibe by adding tremolo and autopan effects.

Avid Velvet Electric Piano Virtual Instrument Features at a Glance:

• Highly accurate emulations of four legendary electric pianos: The Fender Rhodes Suitcase, Fender Rhodes MK I and MK II Stage Pianos, and the Wurlitzer A200
  
• Unique combination of high-definition sampling and a proprietary dynamic modeling technique delivers the ultimate electric piano experience
  
• Groundbreaking proprietary engine allows for unprecedented dynamic resolution and response
  
• Faithful reproductions of electric pianos, including signature sounds when keys are hit forcefully
  
• Unprecedented control over the sound characteristics, including the unique ability to add the sound of the keyboard mechanics to the output signal
  
• Easily adjust the overall timbre, dynamic response, and velocity curve of each model for a range of classic and contemporary electric piano sounds
  
• Powerful preamp section with tube overdrive, compression, and custom 3-band EQ with a parametric mid band
  
• Flexible, dedicated tremolo and autopan effects precisely modeled after those on the original Rhodes and Wurlitzer electric pianos
  
• Built-in professional multi-effects processing engine features stunningly realistic reproductions of vintage distortion, wah/filter, modulation, amplifier, and delay effects-including an emulation of the classic Echoplex delay
  
• Over 100 electric piano presets build a basis for faithful reproductions of the legendary classic-as well as modern-electric piano sounds.
  
• MIDI Learn functionality allows for easily mapping plug-in parameters to MIDI instruments and controllers
  
• Familiar, easy-to-use graphic user interface reminiscent of the classic electric pianos
  
• Highly optimized RTAS instrument for Pro Tools HD 7, Pro Tools LE 7, and Pro Tools M-Powered 7 software

Avid Velvet virtual electric piano lets you play classic electric pianos right in your Pro Tools system!

Specification Detail Software Type Software Instrument Bundle Supported Computer Format Mac, PC Supported Plug-In Formats RTAS Hardware Requirements - Mac Avid-qualified Apple computer, 1GB RAM Hardware Requirements - PC Avid-qualified Windows-based computer, 1GB RAM OS Requirements - Mac Mac OS X 10.5 or later OS Requirements - PC Windows XP, Windows Vista Notes iLok required, not included Manufacturer Part Number 8115-61727-00