Description
Lounge Lizard EP‑4 is an electric piano like no other. With its authentic tone, action, and feel it delivers authentic vintage electric piano sounds in an everything-you-need package.
This is an instrument that is perfect for the Jazz, Fusion, Hip Hop, R&B, House Music and much more!
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Lounge Lizard EP‑4 just sounds fantastic and sparks ideas on the spot, it is also packed with a host of effects and playing customisation options to let you tailor to it your individual playing needs!
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The electric piano was invented by Harold Rhodes (1910‑2000) during the forties when he was in the army. The first instruments he built were made of aircraft pieces and were intended to entertain army servicemen.
The electric piano as we know it today grew out of a partnership between Harold Rhodes and Leo Fender who released a 32-note version of the instrument. But it is not until 1965, after the takeover of Fender by CBS, that the instrument really came to life when a 73-note model was released. From then different models were introduced including the Mark series as well as the two 88-note Suitcase and Stage models until 1984 when production ceased.
Harold Rhodes was not the only one to work on the electric piano. In the thirties, the inventor Ben Meissner had developed an electrostatic pickup design he used to amplify a conventional upright piano. The Wurlitzer company became interested in this idea but replaced the piano strings by metal reeds. In 1955, the EP-100 piano was released and followed by many other models until 1984.
The electric piano, with its distinctive sound, has marked the history or rock and jazz in the sixties and seventies. It has been popularised in thousands of songs by legendary musicians and bands such as Ray Charles, Joe Zawinul, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Stevie Wonder, Steely Dan, Supertramp and many others. In the recent years, the electric piano has enjoyed a resurgence through its extensive use in rock, jazz, fusion, hip hop, R&B, and house.
Lounge Lizard models the components of an electric piano: the hammer, the fork, the damper and the pickup.
All these elements have been carefully modelled in order to allow for a very accurate reproduction of the tone and dynamics of electric pianos resulting in an authentic recreation of their action and feel.
The engine also includes an EQ to shape the tone and an adjustable stereo tremolo, effects that were built-in with specific piano models.
Hammer, tone, tine, pickup—Lounge Lizard is built around the modeling of real piano components. Custom pianos can be created with just a few tweaks, a job that took hours of painstaking work on real-life instruments.
The feeling of playing a real instrument, live or in the Studio.
You’ll love the pure raw sound of Lounge Lizard EP‑4, but the built-in effects will bring it to so many places that you’ll enjoy having them on hand. And you have a chock-full of them to choose from: compressor, equalizer, delay, distortion, phaser, chorus, flanger, wah wah and notch filters, and reverb.
With its authentic tone, action, and feel “Lounge Lizard EP-4” delivers authentic vintage electric piano sounds in an everything-you-need package.
This is an instrument that is perfect for the following music genres:
For more in-depth information read the user manual HERE.
Note: Please be aware you will be required to visit an external website in order to create an account, redeem and download your product. We do not host the download at VSTBuzz!
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Deal Expired"Lounge Lizard EP-4 is equally at home in the studio and on the gig. It is CPU efficient and runs well on a reasonably fast laptop. It offers far greater programmability then sample-based electric pianos, and there are no streaming or RAM issues. If you're looking for a virtual electric piano, this is the one."
Electronic Musician
"The finest software electric piano emulation to date, simple as that. It even looks vintage too!!
Music Industy Blog
"This supremely playable emulation also features a lifelike set of presets and a wealth of suitable effects for getting authentic 70s sounds out of your DAW."
Music Industy Blog