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    Stage 73-V

    Arturia stages state-of-the-art software comeback of esteemed electric piano classics

     

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    GRENOBLE, FRANCE: music software and hardware developer Arturia is proud to announce availability of Stage-73 V — an authentic-sounding software simulation of the Seventies- vintage Stage and Sixties-vintage Suitcase 73-key electric pianos — as of May 19...

    Stage-73 V successfully transports past technologies to the present-day desktop. It’s the sound of the Sixties, the sound of the Seventies... the sound of today, the sound of tomorrow. This can now be anyone’s sound on stages and in studios anywhere in the world, working both as a standalone instrument on Mac OS X and Windows and as a plug-in in all major formats inside any DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) with easy MIDI-learn functionality for hands-on control of many of its parameters and automation support for considerable creative control (in plug-in mode). Naturally, Native Instruments’ new NKS® (NATIVE KONTROL STANDARD) — allowing advanced integration with third-party software instruments — is in its DNA.

    Do you want to sound like The Beatles (‘Get Back’) or Stevie Wonder (‘You Are The Sunshine Of My Life’)? Or simply sound like yourself? Stage-73 V physically models those indispensable instruments that made a million love songs sound lovelier by emulating electromechanical characteristics of the tine-based electric pianos designed by Harold Rhodes. Rods or metal bars generated a tone which was captured by a pickup and fed into an amplified speaker. Sounds that were warmer, richer, and fuller than their only serious contemporary competitor, the Wurlitzer, flowed forth. Electronic reverb, chorus, phase shifter, or delay modifications allowed artists to create even more distinctive sounds that could be readily identified on record and on the radio. ‘Riders On The Storm’ stormed the charts as a direct result, opening many musical doors for The Doors, for example.

    A keyboard classic had been born, brilliantly making its musical mark on the pop, soul, and jazz genres with which it quickly found favour. A keyboard classic which would become fit for Arturia’s Analog Classics family of virtual instruments that recreate hard-to-source synthesizers and classic keyboards, having survived the digital onslaught of a certain early-Eighties-era Japanese synthesizer that (temporarily) took the music-making world by storm.

    Stage-73 V saw Arturia analysing the physical and mechanical properties of both the Stage and Suitcase versions of the still-sought-after instrument in question. Everything was modelled — from the resonance of the tines to the way that the composition of the hammers affects the tone. The electrical characteristics of every version of every component — from pickups to preamps — was faithfully recreated using original schematics. Arturia constantly compared its results with physical units it had close at hand to make adjustments accordingly. An IR (Impulse Response) recording of the spring reverb of the Deluxe Reverb amplifier popularly paired with those electric pianos makes for a thrilling end result!

    Recreating an instrument in software gave Arturia an opportunity to add a number of more advanced features fit for truly 21st Century usage. Ultimately, Stage-73 V delivers on all counts, offering superb-sounding Stage and Suitcase simulations at the flip of a (virtual) switch. Instant access to tone-shaping features that were once ‘under the hood’ and usually maintained by trained technicians come courtesy of a resizable (Retina/4K-compatible) GUI (Graphical User Interface) that’s as easy on the eye as it is to use. Users can also access several simulated stomp-box effects units with variable routing order.

    On the face of it, then, Stage-73 V really rocks, ready to be literally taken to anywhere anyone wants to take their music. Follow in the fine footsteps of the pop, soul, and jazz greats of yesteryear through to today. Follow your bliss!

    The AAX-, AU-, VST2-, and VST3-compatible Stage-73 V is available to purchase as a boxed version from any authorised Arturia dealer or online as a download directly from Arturia for €199.00 EUR/$199.00 USD here: https://www.arturia.com/products/stage-73-v/buy

    Stage-73 V is included in Arturia’s simultaneously-available V Collection 5 bundle of 17 legendary keyboards (plus Analog Lab 2), available to purchase as a boxed version from any authorised Arturia dealer or online as a boxed version or download directly from Arturia for an introductory promotional price of €399.00 EUR/$399.00 USD — rising thereafter to €499.00 EUR/$499.00 USD — here: https://www.arturia.com/products/v-collection/buy (Existing Arturia customers additionally benefit from preferential pricing according to the number of qualifying products that they already own.)

    For more in-depth information, please visit the dedicated Stage-73 V product webpage here: https://www.arturia.com/products/analog-classics/stage-73-v/overview

    Watch Arturia’s Stage 73-V introduction tutorial video here:

     
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    About Arturia (www.arturia.com)

    Founded in Grenoble, France, in 1999, Arturia specialises in the development of music software and hardware for professional and amateur musicians alike. Focusing on innovation, the company strives to integrate the latest advances in computer music research and technology into its products.This involves working closely with partner research institutions, such as IRCAM France, in the development of cutting-edge musical instruments and software, which have gone on to be used in making many hit records and Hollywood soundtracks. One of Arturia’s core technologies is TAE® (True Analog Emulation), an advanced proprietary technology allowing accurate modelling of analogue circuitry behaviour on personal computers. Developed by Arturia’s in-house Signal Processing team, this technology has been employed to successfully recreate the sounds produced by many classic analogue synthesizers. Having successfully launched Origin, its first hardware synthesizer (housing several synth classics and associated components in one powerful, no-holds-barred DSP-based modular system), and the hybrid hardware/software SPARK Creative Drum Machine (cleverly combining analogue synthesis, physical modelling, and samples with the intuitive workflow of a hardware drum machine), 2012 saw Arturia introducing the cost-conscious MiniBrute, an amazingly compact and bijou analogue monosynth (boasting MIDI, USB, and CV connectivity together with a host of unique features). Having already broadened its appeal further still by successfully entering the iOS soft synth market and building upon its analogue synth and hybrid hardware/software successes, 2016 sees Arturia making a grand entrance into the audio interface market with its next-generation AudioFuse.

    © 2016 Arturia




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