Topic by Silentman

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Topic: Wurly, please write down your opinions.

Hello there friends at Pianoteq Forum, I have this main question to you.

The Wurlitzer doesn't feel good in my ears, I am trying and trying different setups, both presets and modified and I can't get the bark of the real one and maybe the timbre, the whole tone color, I used to love the Wurlitzer on my old Nord Electro 2 Rack, when I used to play it on a fatar keybed, am I missing something? Also a teacher of mine with big experience with vintage instruments found the NI Kontakt Wurly more identical to the real thing. Also which model has been modelled to create this one? The A-200? Your opinions please.

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Reply by EvilDragon

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Re: Wurly, please write down your opinions.

It's the 200A, yes.


There's plenty of bark in Pianoteq's model... if you need more, increase hammer hardness for piano/mezzoforte/forte, and tweak pickup symmetry and distance. If you have only Pianoteq Stage, then upgrade to Standard so you can tweak this

Hard work and guts!

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Re: Wurly, please write down your opinions.

I'm dissatisfied with the R1 and R2 pianos. When I go to play the R1 basic, the bandwidth of the voice sounds to thick, too many low beefy overtones. I've spent hours experimenting, and I couldn't get the sound I wanted - something close to the samples I have on my Yamaha arranger and Roland DP.

When I got Lounge Lizard, the first voice you hear when you turn on the software is a Rhodes, and it sounds perfect, and there are dozens of other great presets.

I'm not a Wurly expert, and IMO, the Pianoteq Wurly sounds just fine. I noticed that with some of the Lounge Lizard Wurlys, they sound really good, but in the top of a real Wurly's octave range, it starts sounding like a Rhodes. Lounge Lizard uses the same sound engine to model its Rhodes and Wurlys.

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