Though other Rhodes emulations exist, this is the first one created by the company and, as such, is turning heads. READ MORE: KIT Plugins BB N73 review: Does the world need another 1073 emulation?Īlongside the release of Rhodes’ brand new Mk8 Rhodes piano, the revived company has released an official plugin version for the many players who won’t be able to stretch to the £8,000 asking price of the jaw-dropping hardware.Entirely analogue, it could be tuned and tweaked relatively easily and was incredibly responsive to different playing styles. Far more importantly, however, it had a unique sound that would quickly come to be a staple of jazz, rock and pop music. The Rhodes, though itself a serious piece of furniture, was designed to be more portable.
In that pre-digital age, moving keyboard instruments from venue to venue was impractical, since they were either conventional pianos or hefty beasts like Hammond organs with Leslie speakers. The Rhodes electromechanical piano was created in the late 1960s by Harold Rhodes, initially in partnership with Leo Fender.
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