Rhodes Chroma Demo, Part 2

Here's the second installment of our Rhodes Chroma demo. The Chroma originally had one bank of 50 patches, but the CC+ CPU upgrade expands the memory to allow 4 banks of 50 patches. This demo is all the second bank (which we've been referring to as "Bank B"). This time it's just me playing. One thing I really love about the Chroma is the velocity sensitivity, especially for envelope-controlled filter effects. You can see this demonstrated here in some of the patches where I just used the left hand. That (combined with the weighted real wood keys) really makes the Chroma a blast to play. I can't say enough good things about this synth. Seriously. Can't wait to get the Expander going!

Check out http://www.formusiciansonly.com/blog to see pictures of our vintage keyboard studio.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Rhodes
• Chroma
• ARP
• polyphonic
• synthesizer
• analog
• poly
• synth
• ARP 2600
• ARP Odyssey
• Solina string
• Philip Dodds
• Yamaha CS-80
• Jupiter 8
• memorymoog
• minimoog
• Moog
• Oberheim
• OB-Xa
• Sequential Circuits
• Prophet 5

[audiotrax2000]

What an amazing sounding keyboard! Lot's of Tony Banks type sounds in there, and your playing is very nice.

Why don't they just make things like this again? How hard can it be to make a real analog synth? It doesn't even have any knobs. It can't cost THAT much to reproduce these with modern hardware.

[lordoid]

Well there are a lot of modern real analog monophonic Synths out there (even Modulars). Polyphonic only a hand full. (Sunsynth, Andromeda, Prophet 08) They are really expensive to produce and there isn't really a "mass market" for these products. But they exist. But why we all love that Vintage Beasts is the special sound. Every one of them sounds different. It's nearly impossible to produce a analog copy of let's say a chroma cause the exact Parts they used back in the day didn't exist no more.

[gingervytis]

man i forgot all about that old box. i have a minimoog in the closet, a 1963 B3 in the living room, and a siamese cat.

[FlametopFred]

A very rare keyboard - especially with the expansion box on top. I had the 16-Voice ARP Piano and that was pretty cool as well. A shame that ARP crumbled right around this time. Very cool demo for sure.

[Tonewheeldude]

We just restored one.Have you got any good WAV file sounds to load in,apart for the Factory ones?Like Rhodes Piano,Brass,ect

[xnonsuchx]

Well, ARP originally designed this and Tony Banks used a few ARPs (esp. the heavy use of the Quadra on albums like DUKE and ABACAB).

[rondroyd]

is here some fx used by recording ????

some sounds like its chorus / reverb

indeed incredable obie alike synth ...even better

[yermyahu]

chilling! I had an offer to buy one of these back in 1996 for $700...I'm kind of glad I didn't as problematic as their reputation, but they're really beautiful sounding!

[jacobkay]

a real analog synth cannot emulate a piano/acoustic instruments as well as a dx7/various ROMPLER ect. People make things for demand, Mr. Joe Blogs is usually after some machine that can replicate these acoustic sounds.. MY FAITH IN HUMANITY IS LOST. I'm sure we're just in a slump at the moment, there's always something interesting coming out. I cannot imagine korg/yam/roland making something like an Alesis A6 these days though.

[omghai2u]

this sounds beautiful, holy shit