AIR Music Technology Velvet 2 Vintage Electric Piano

Explore the classic, velvety tones of five electric pianos from the Rhodes Suitcase to the Hohner Pianet-T. 

What it is:
A collection of the five legendary electric pianos to define the 60s and 70s. 

How we use it: 
Add smooth, mellow pads to your tracks or overdrive the preamp for fierce leads. 

Why it's cool: 
Each keyboard is infinitely adjustable so you can achieve a nice hybrid of new and old.  Five Legendary Electric Pianos

Velvet is a virtual electronic piano that combines five legendary electric pianos from the 60s and 70s into one versatile instrument. Based on the Fender Rhodes Suitcase, Fender Rhodes MK I and MK II Stage Pianos, Wurlitzer 200A and Hohner Pianet-T, Velvet accurately emulates the sound quality, response, and nuances of each original instrument to bring your piano tracks to life. Additionally, Velvet features a pallet of onboard effects and allows you to control every aspect of the sound for unparalleled realism: 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; and mix in the sound of pedal and other keyboard mechanical noises to recreate an authentic electric piano track.

Tap Into Timeless Sounds

Using proprietary dynamic modeling, a unique combination of optimized sampling and modeling techniques, Velvet is capable of producing highly realistic recreations of classic electric piano sounds with superior fidelity and dynamic response. Additionally, Velvet features the revolutionary Vintage Mode that allows you to tap into the timeless sounds heard on countless classic recordings. Vintage Mode intelligently tweaks the timbre setting to readjust the sonic character of Velvet to match these electric pianos from the past. With the Vintage Mode, you can sound just like your favorite electric piano players.

Classic Effects

Velvet features a built-in preamp and an array of effects to add crunch, ambience, or tremolo to your electric piano track. Its powerful preamp section includes tube overdrive, compression, and a custom 3-band EQ with a parametric mid band to shape your sound. Process your sound further using a wide range of distortion, wah/filter, chorus, flanger, phaser, and tape delay effects to emulate a vintage sound or forge something new. The Ambience, Spring, and Room reverbs can add an expansive ambience to create otherworldly effects, or a small room reverb to add a bit of color to your performance. You can also add tremolo and autopan effects; the former is modeled after those on the original electric pianos.

Professional Presets

Velvet includes 350+ professional presets meticulously programmed by AIR Music Technology's sound designers that make it easy to call up authentic electric piano sounds. You can even create your own unique presets by dialing into Velvet’s powerful controls. The graphic user interface is reminiscent of vintage electric pianos, and its controls are modeled after the originals, allowing you to easily modify sounds at the twist of a knob or notch of a slider.

• A virtual electronic piano instrument with built-in effects that captures the character and response five legendary instruments
• Realistic emulations of five Fender, Wurlizter, and Hohner electric pianos:
  • Fender Rhodes® Suitcase
  • Fender Rhodes MK I Stage Piano
  • Fender Rhodes MK II Stage Piano
  • Wurlitzer® 200A
  • Hohner® Pianet-T
• Dynamic modeling and proprietary engine deliver unprecedented sound quality and dynamic response
• Tweak the timbre, dynamic response, and velocity curve of each model
• Mix in the sound of the keyboard and pedal noise for mechanical realism
• Powerful preamp section with tube overdrive and compression for a crunchy tone
• Onboard 3-band EQ with a parametric mid band for quick tone shaping
• Authentic tremolo and autopan effects deliver classic expression
• Vintage distortion, wah/filter, modulation, and amplifier effects
• High-quality reverb effects include Ambience, Spring, and Room settings
• Delay effects featuring a classic tape echo
• MIDI Learn functionality allows easy mapping to MIDI controllers
• 350 ready-to-play presets that can be tweaked to your taste
• Intuitive graphic user interface reminiscent of each classic electric piano

Compatibility

• System Requirements
  • VST (32 bit and 64 bit) qualified for:
    • Ableton Live, Cubase, Arsenal
  • AU (64 bit only) qualified for:
    • Logic Pro X
  • AAX qualified for:
    • ProTools 10.3 (32 bit), ProTools 11.x (64 bit)
  • PC: Windows 10, 8 or Windows 7 Service Pack 1; Minimum Dual Core 2GHz (Intel Core i5 or i7 Recommended)
  • Mac: Mac OS X 10.8.5-10.12; Core Duo Processor (Core i5 or i7 Recommended)
  • Minimum RAM 4GB (8GB or more recommended)
  • 3GB free hard drive space (Download and Installation)
  • Internet Access (Download and Authorization)
• *Notes
  • No physical iLok key required - an iLok account is required, however.

Installation Instructions

1. Open the install file emailed to you by Reverb SYNC.
   
2. Double-click the Setup app.
   
3. Allow your computer time to verify (this may take a few minutes).
   
4. Follow the on-screen installation prompts.
   
5. After installation, open your DAW.
   
6. Velvet 2 will open an authentication window.
   
7. Click "Activate" and input the serial number emailed to you by Reverb SYNC.
   
8. If you have an iLok account, input the email associated with your account and skip to step 11.
   
9. If you don't have an iLok account, click "Why?" and click the "Create new iLok.com account" link.
   
10. After creating an iLok account, input your iLok account email.
    
11. Choose whether to store your license on your computer or iLok.
    
12. You're good to go!

General Instructions:

• We auto-detect your computer operating system, so just click the download button above.
• Find the downloaded plugin (it's in your computer's download folder, or wherever you've chosen to save it) and double click the installer.
• A plugin installer window will open. Simply go through the installation process.
• We will also send you an email with a link to re-download in case you need it.

How to use installed plugins in Ableton Live: https://youtu.be/N2VjFjUhlR4

1. If Ableton Live is closed, open it and skip to #5.
2. If Ableton Live is already open, go to Preferences.
3. Go to Files & Folder.
4. Click "Rescan plugins".
5. Find the plugin in the Ableton plugins folder in the sidebar.
6. Drag-and-drop the plugin onto your track at the bottom of the screen.

How to use installed plugins in Logic Pro X: https://youtu.be/H_dhy1wSIdI

1. Open Logic Pro X. Newly installed plugins should be detected automatically every time Logic is opened.
2. If you've downloaded an effect or utility plugin, these can be used on an insert for any track in the mixer.
3. Create a software instrument track if you downloaded a virtual instrument plugin.
4. Under Default Patch, go to AU Instruments and choose the plugin you just installed.

How to use installed plugins in Avid Pro Tools: https://youtu.be/Pm5QZ48MtuA

1. Open Pro Tools. Newly installed plugins should be detected automatically every time Pro Tools is opened.
2. If you've downloaded an effect or utility plugin, these can be used on an insert for many types of tracks (Audio, Aux, Instrument, Master Fader...)
3. If you’ve downloaded a software instrument, create a new Instrument track.
4. Navigate to the Mixer and locate the newly created Instrument track.
5. Select the desired instrument plugin by clicking on any of the Inserts on the Instrument track.

How to Install plugins to Garage Band: https://youtu.be/W_NmmTYMNhQ

1. Go to the Reverb SYNC Software and plugin Collection.
2. Choose your desired plugin.
3. Reverb will auto-detect your platform, so simply click the download button.
4. Continue the installation process by following the prompt.
5. Hover your mouse over the smart control button.
6. Click Show Inspector icon.
7. Click on plugins and choose your desired plugin.