Members tmurray Posted November 27, 2014 Members Share Posted November 27, 2014 Hello all, I'm primarily a guitarist and lately I've been busy recording some of my songs, adding bass and creating digital drum parts. I would like to incorporate keyboard accompaniment with a fairly specific sound - somewhere between a rhodes piano and an organ. It's hard to describe but please check out the tunes below for a better idea: I can play piano ok, but I'm a real novice when it comes to keyboard and synth sounds. How best to create this kind of a sound? Any way it can be done with free software instead of investing in new gear?? Any and all advice would be very much appreciated! Oh and by the way, I record using audacity and/or garageband on a macbook pro, I have a yamaha electric piano with midi output and an alesis external soundcard that I can connect everything to my computer with. Thanks in advance!!! Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 1001gear Posted November 28, 2014 Members Share Posted November 28, 2014 Try slowing down recordings of sounds you like to around 30% see if you hear anything you like. You can then sample the slowed down tones you need for your parts.Incidentally the first one sounds like some kind of Farfisa based sound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wesg Posted November 28, 2014 Members Share Posted November 28, 2014 First one sounds like a pair of flutes to me. Not the organ kind, the kind that go flat if you don't blow hard enough...which is how I think they may have been recorded. Second one sounds like a piano with some reverb and a bit of chorus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tmurray Posted November 30, 2014 Author Members Share Posted November 30, 2014 Hi guys, thanks for your comments! That's an interesting idea to slow down the sound and sample it. Will have a go now. Also, I checked out some farfisa demos on youtube - that could come fairly close with a bit of tweaking I think! I actually had never heard of that type of organ before... Seems like it's what Ray Manzarek was using with the Doors. Finally, I hadn't considered that this type of sound could be created by adding effects to piano. I have all my guitar pedals with which I can experiment in that direction too. Thanks for the ideas Anyone had success getting these type of sounds via midi plugins? Which ones worked well for you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RockPianoman Posted December 7, 2014 Members Share Posted December 7, 2014 tmurray....email me at rockpianoman at yahoo dot com.......I have something that will help I forgot you can send here.....I'll message you....I sent it to all three of you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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