AIR Velvet 2

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 modelling, a unique combination of optimized sampling and modelling 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 favourite 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 colour to your performance. You can also add tremolo and autopan effects; the former is modelled 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 Format-AUthentic electric piano sounds. You can even create your own unique presets by dialling 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.

Features

• 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 modelling 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
• An intuitive graphic user interface reminiscent of each classic electric piano

System Requirements

• MacOS 10.10 Yosemite - 11 Big Sur (Intel only)
• Windows 7 SP1, 8, or 10
• Dual Core 2GHz CPU or better (Intel Core i5 or i7 Recommended)
• 4GB RAM or more (8GB or more recommended)
• 200MB free storage space
• Internet access for download and authorization

Plugin Formats

• VST (32 bit and 64 bit)
• AU (64 bit only) 
• AAX Native qualified for: Pro Tools 10.3 (32 bit), Pro Tools 11.x (64 bit), Pro Tools 12 and Pro Tools 2020