MOTU Electric Keys Vintage Keys Virtual Instrument Overview:

Electric Keys puts a slice of music history at your fingertips with the most complete collection ever of classic and vintage electric pianos, clavs, organs, strings machines, tape sampler and other electric keyboard instruments.

Electric Keys is a cross-platform virtual instrument that delivers authentic sounds of 50 classic, vintage electric keyboard instruments from the last 40 years. This massive 40GB sound library includes over 20,000 meticulously crafted 24-bit 96 kHz multi-samples of legendary electric pianos, electric organs, clavinets, Wurlitzers, tape samplers, string machines, keyboard basses and other rare and exotic electric keyboard instruments.

Electric Keys version 1.0.6 is now available as a free, downloadable update for all registered Electric Keys users. This maintenance update has numerous enhancements and is recommended for all users. For complete details, see the PDF documentation included in the 1.0.6 updater download.

Recreate the popular keyboard sounds and riffs you know so well from your favorite recordings of the last four decades of rock, pop, funk and jazz, or create your own unique style with an intriguing assortment of rare electric keyboard instruments never before offered in a virtual keyboard product – and sure to delight even vintage keyboard devotees.

Electric Keys is beautiful to look at and easy to use on screen. Load, save and combine factory or custom presets. Use the virtual effects rack to combine, apply and save chained multi-effects, including chorus, reverb, delay and more. Its easy, fast and fun to play and layer professional, authentic electric keyboard sounds.

Sound Quality
Electric Keys sounds have been expertly recorded and mastered to the very highest standards for use in live performance and recording projects of any kind. Fifty well-preserved and maintained vintage instruments were used to create the sounds in Electric Keys, including models from Fender, Yamaha, Korg, Roland, Hammond, Wurlitzer, Hohner, Elka, Farfisa, Mellotron, Moog, RMI, Arp and others.

All skins
Most instrument samples are supplied at 24-bit 96 kHz resolution, but they can be played at any standard sample rate via Electric Keys’ flexible 32-bit UVI playback engine.

Presets consist of carefully crafted multi-samples with multiple velocities, layers and/or release samples, depending on the instrument. Samples are streamed from disk, so even large presets load quickly and conserve computer memory.

Advanced features
While simple and easy to use, Electric Keys offers all the advanced features you’d expect from a state-of-the-art virtual instrument.

Expert Settings
When you want to dig in a little deeper, open the Expert Settings pane. Tweak away with filters, envelopes, modulators, transposition, and more. Load two sounds and assign each a key range to create instant splits or layers.

Expert Settings pane
MIDI control
All parameters can be automated via convenient “MIDI learn”. Simply right-click any control to assign any MIDI controller.

Combis
You can load and save “combis” consisting of a snapshot of the entire plug-in, including effects. Combis can be shared among plug-in formats and the stand-alone version even across computer platforms.

Dozens of factory presets and combis are supplied

Specifications

• Massive 40GB electric keyboard sound library with over 20,000 samples
• Comprehensive collection of 50 classic, rare and exotic electric keyboards from the last 40 years
• Includes electric pianos, electric organs, clavs, tape samplers, string machines and other models
• Includes both classic instruments heard on countless hit recordings and rare instruments never before offered in sampled form
• 11 instrument categories with easy operation and beatifully rendered, authentic look and feel
• Nearly all instruments sampled at 24-bit 96kHz resolution
• Authentic multi-samples carefully crafted and customized for each instrument
• Virtual effects rack separate multi-FX presets allow thousands of FX/instrument combinations
• Individual effect include Delay, Reverb, Filter, Phaser, Flanger, Chorus, Vinyl simulator, and Amp simulator.
• Provides dozens of factory presets, or create, save, and recall your own for unlimited textures
• Combis – save complex variations of the factory presets, choose from hundreds of included combis, or create, save, load and share your own for unlimited layering possibilities
• Individual controls for each instrument, including ADSR envelope, LFO (for tremolo and auto-pan), tone controls, tuning and velocity response
• Superb sound quality with the 32-bit UVI Engine
• Disk streaming for fast preset loading
• 256-note polyphony & ultra-low software latency
• Two sound slots to create layers and splits in seconds
• MIDI Learn for all controls for hands-on operation
• MachFive 2 compatible for unified operation library loads directly into MachFive for consolidated project management

Plug-in formats

• MAS
• AU
• AAX
• RTAS
• VST
• standalone application

Operating Systems

• Mac OS X version 10.8, 10.7, 10.6, 10.5, or 10.4
• Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, or XP, 32 or 64 bit