What is your favorite sounding electric piano package?

I'm interested in learning what your favorite sounding electric piano package is?
 
I'm not looking for pretty good for cheap, but rather hoping to learn which ones you think were really good and worth every penny. (even if they turn out to be cheap) :-)
 
Thanks!

While I luv's me some Lounge Lizard...and use it more often than not.  And while Scarbee is nice.  The thing that sounds closest to my Rhodes Suitcase or Stage is NeoSoul Keys.

I have the ones mentioned above, and each has its place, but my goto is still the original Scarbee RSP73.

I just went and read about Lounge Lizard EP4 and I can't quite figure out if it is AAX x64 compatible.
 
Yes? No?

I had never heard of Broken Wurli... yikes those demos sound really great!

Scarbee for samples and Pianoteq for modeling.

I have not tried all the options but I like Scarbee Vintage Keys, particularly the Wurlie and Rhodes. There is also Pianet and Clavinet but I think that the Sampletekk ST Clavi is a cut above the Scarbee one.
 
What ever you use Overloud's VKFX effects suite makes a big difference. I seldom have an EP track without having it in FX bin.
 
For less common EPs I like Hollow Sun's CP70 and RMI Electrapiano. Unlike IK, Steve Howell never managed to sample the RMI at multiple velocities, I wonder why that was .
 
 
 

mike_mccue
How does Pianoteq package work?
 
Do you need to buy Pianoteq as a "player" and then also add the Electric Piano instrument?

Exactly. Doesn't matter which version of Pianoteq you start with AFAIK. Version 5 just came out which is meant to be even better than 4.5. Being able to add the Bluthner model is a nice bonus! It's very "demo-able" - full download is under 30MB (not a typo) if memory serves, and just a few keys are disabled.

Don't forget the GSI Mr. Ray 73. I used the crap out of that thing for the longest time. It seems to have a bigger sound than 22. You do have to use another FX plug for the chorusing/panning FX. Right now, out of convenience, I'm using Lounge Lizard.

I'm telling you, Broken Wurli is special with an attitude. Couple that with VKFX and wow!

That's the essential difference between Lounge Lizard and NeoSoul Keys...one is modeled and the other is sampled. Like I said, I use LL for most everything due to it's versatility and ease of programming. But to get the "true" sound of my actual suitcase and stage Rhodes...it's Neo Soul.

Monkey23

yorolpal
That's the essential difference between Lounge Lizard and NeoSoul Keys...one is modeled and the other is sampled. Like I said, I use LL for most everything due to it's versatility and ease of programming. But to get the "true" sound of my actual suitcase and stage Rhodes...it's Neo Soul.

Oh, I don't doubt it. If i had Neo Soul as a plug it would definately be my "go to" electric piano sound. And to be clear, LL is still great and can be inspiring under the right conditions (love the wah-style effects), but for a straight rhodes sound, I still just usually use Mr Ray.

Note that MrRay is modelled rather than sampled too.

I'm just figuring out that MrRay73 Mark II is 32bit only.
 
:-(
 
They have some great sounding demo files.

Mr. Ray73 and 22 being 32 bit is why I jumped to XLN AKS and Lounge Lizard. I wanted to get everything possible over to 64 bit. Addictive Keys is a CPU hog with all the bells and whistles turned on so I'm learning to like LL. I still love the GSI stuff. I agree the Lounge Lizard that comes with X3 is pretty good. My main gripe is the velocity layers are kind of finicky but it works well enough.

I mis-spoke! You are correct. I meant to say the response from soft sounding to aggressive playing is not as smooth as what I would like. It seems to be either soft, mellow, up to a certain point and then when it switches it is very aggressive. There is little smoothness switching between the two. Of course, I'm still experimenting around with it. It is still very useable.