Steinberg Scarbee R.S.P. 73 Operation Manual

							
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
User’s 
Manual 
 
Version 1.0 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
						

							
Table Of Contents 
 
 
User’s........................................................................\
.........1 
Manual........................................................................\
........1 
Table Of Contents.................................................................2 
1. Introduction.....................................................................3 
2. Register Scarbee R.S.P. ’73................................................5 
3. User Licence Agreement....................................................6 
4. Install........................................................................\
.....7 
4.1 Optimizing System Performance...................................7 
4.2 Copying of files..........................................................8 
5. History........................................................................\
..10 
6. Preparing The Piano........................................................12 
7. The R.S.P. ‘73 “feel”........................................................14 
8. The Beta Test Team........................................................16 
9. Sampler Formats............................................................17 
09.1. 24 bit Kontakt, EXS24 MK II and Halion....................17 
09.2. 16 bit Giga...........................................................20 
10. The “Classic”sound – EQ................................................23 
10.1 Cubase SX.............................................................24 
10.2 Cubase VST...........................................................25 
10.3 Logic....................................................................26 
11. Production Credits and Thank You’s.................................27 
11.1 Production Credits..................................................27 
11.2 Thank You’s...........................................................28 
12. Troubleshooting............................................................29 
12.1 Kontakt.................................................................29 
12.2 Halion...................................................................30 
12.3 EXS24 MK II..........................................................33 
12.4 Mac OS9 Users.......................................................36 
13. Copyright Disclaimer.....................................................37 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Copyright 2003, SCARBEE - Denmark  
 
2  
						

							
1. Introduction 
 
Scarbee is proud to present to you the Scarbee R.S.P.’ 73, the 
most comprehensively sampled Rhodes® piano on earth. 
The depth and sophistication of this sampling project has allowed 
us to finally capture the elusive ’soul’ of this classic keyboard. 
 
The R.S.P.’73 consists of a collection of truly authentic ‘deeply 
sampled’ renderings of the Fender Rhodes® Stage Piano MK I - 
’73, captured in high definition 24 bit quality. Ingenious Danish 
programming has resulted in both the 24 bit Kontakt, EXS24 mk 
II and 24 bit Halion editions of the library being included in the 
same 4 CD set. The same programming system allows 
purchasers of the 2 CD set 16 bit Gigastudio edition to download 
small files which will allow installation of both the 16 bit Emagic 
EXS24 MK II and Steinberg Halion editions at no extra charge. 
This new delivery system should prove to be a major boon to 
both users who need to switch sample platforms from time to 
time, and dealers - who will be able to supply the library for any 
of several popular samplers simply by stocking two multi 
platform editions. 
 
The R.S.P.’ 73 was recorded at 24 bit resolution through a 
Mindprint En-Voice preamp (without any use of EQ, tube 
saturation or compression), and then digitally transferred to a 
Nuendo AudioLink 96 audio card. The piano sound was captured 
directly from the harp, bypassing the passive tone control on the 
front panel, in order to capture the full frequency range of the 
instrument and minimise unwanted noise. All sample editing - 
including noise reduction and normalizing was also done at 24 bit 
resolution. 
 
How much detail is there in the instrument? 
To start with, all samples are full length and unlooped. Each of 
the 73 keys of the Mark 1 was sampled at 12 different velocities - 
ranging from 0 to -26 dB - but this is only half the story. In order 
to capture that magical feel of really ‘playing’ a Rhodes®, we 
also recorded ‘release’ samples for each of the 12 velocities, at 
Copyright 2003, SCARBEE - Denmark  
 
3  
						

							
the exact same level as the corresponding 12 sustain samples. 
The release tone - a sound created when a damper bounces 
against the tine as a key is released, is an intrinsic element of 
what musicians recognise as the original ‘Rhodes® Sound’. 
 
To accommodate systems with RAM limitations, several ‘Lite’ 
versions of the R.S.P. ‘73 are included. Lite versions contain the 
samples of the white keys, which are stretched down a semitone 
to cover adjacent black keys. Lite versions come in 12, 8 and 4 
velocity layer flavours. 
 
For that duller ‘old school’ sound, a special Hi-cut version of each 
program (Giga version only) is also included. 
 
In response to a number of requests, all programs are available 
in both Equal and Stretch tunings. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Copyright 2003, SCARBEE - Denmark  
 
4  
						

							
2. Register Scarbee R.S.P. ’73 
  
Enclosed with this product you’ll find a R.S.P. ‘73 Serial Number; 
please take time to register on our site www.scarbee.com to gain 
full access many extra features. 
By registering you’ll be able to get: 
- Free technical support 
- Free updates 
- Free upgrades for other native sampler formats 
- Extra documentation and files 
- Special offers for upgrades 
- Free info service that keeps you up to date 
 
Also, on our site www.scarbee.com you will be able to listen to 
and download some amazing demo songs, check out the other 
libraries from us and access the Scarbee Web-Shop to 
immediately acquire them from everywhere on Earth. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Copyright 2003, SCARBEE - Denmark  
 
5  
						

							
3. User Licence Agreement 
 
License Agreement    
Copyright © 2003 SCARBEE. 
All rights reserved. All sounds created by and property of SCARBEE. 
The enclosed digitally recorded sounds are licensed, not sold to users by 
SCARBEE. 
All samples are the property of SCARBEE, and are licensed to you only for 
use as part of a musical performance, live or recorded, or for use in audio 
postproduction. 
This license expressly forbids resale or other distribution of these sounds, 
either as they exist on this disc, reformatted, or mixed, filtered, 
resynthesized or otherwise edited, for use as sounds, multi-sounds, 
samples, multisamples, programs or patches in a sampler or a sample 
playback unit. You cannot sell them or give them away for use by others in 
their sampling or sample playback units or computers. 
These sounds cannot be posted electronically without written permission 
from SCARBEE. 
These sounds cannot be used in any library/encyclopaedia DVD/CD-Audio or 
DVD/CD-ROM type products without written permission from SCARBEE. 
Information about licensing can be obtained by contacting SCARBEE. 
Any use of SCARBEE samples on commercially released audio products must 
contain credit for the samples used. 
This credit must include: SCARBEE & name of title used. We would also 
appreciate being notified of such use.  
 
Copyright 2003, SCARBEE - Denmark  
 
6  
						

							
4. Install 
 
4.1 Optimizing System Performance 
 
R.S.P. ‘73. is a demanding library made up of 1.752 – 24 Bit 
samples and since it is a keyboard Instrument and you want to 
play many notes rapidly or with sustain pedal down some 
additional care must be taken in order to get the best out of it. 
- It is best to do a ‘Defrag’ or ‘Speed Disk’ pass on destination 
Hard Drive prior to installation 
- On PCs: check if your System has DMA access enabled for 
all of the attached mass-storage peripherals 
- If you have more than one Volume or Partition on 
destination Hard Drive, please use the highest one if 
possible: this choice makes sure that you will be using the 
fastest part of the physical Hard Disk 
- Make sure you have all Virus checkers and background tasks 
disabled, both during install and when using R.S.P. ‘73 
- Be careful to disable Fast Find background task usually 
installed by Microsoft Office on some machines 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Copyright 2003, SCARBEE - Denmark  
 
7  
						

							
4.2 Copying of files 
 
Installing R.S.P. ’73 (EXS 24 mk II) from CD: 
 
- Insert CD 1 
- Copy the “Scarbee R.S.P. ‘73” folder to the destination Hard 
Disk 
- Drag & Drop all the files and folders from CD 2, 3 and 4 into 
the Scarbee R.S.P. ‘73/24 Bit samples folder 
- Copy the folder “Scarbee R.S.P. ‘73.” inside the EXS24 mk 
II/ Sampler Instruments folder to your Emagic/Logic 6/ 
Sampler Instruments 
 
Installing R.S.P. ’73 (Kontakt + Halion) from CD: 
 
- Insert CD 1 
- Copy the “Scarbee R.S.P. ‘73” folder to the destination Hard 
Disk 
- Drag & Drop all the files and folders from CD 2, 3 and 4 into 
the Scarbee R.S.P. ‘73/24 Bit samples folder 
 
Now you’re done installing R.S.P. ‘73! 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Copyright 2003, SCARBEE - Denmark  
 
8  
						

							
Installing R.S.P. ’73 (EXS 24 mk II) from DVD: 
 
- Insert DVD 
- Copy the “Scarbee R.S.P. ‘73” folder to the destination Hard 
Disk 
- Copy the folder “Scarbee R.S.P. ‘73” inside the EXS24 mk 
II/ Sampler Instruments folder to your Emagic/Logic 6/ 
Sampler Instruments 
 
Installing R.S.P. ’73 (Kontakt + Halion) from CD: 
 
- Insert DVD  
- Copy the “Scarbee R.S.P. ‘73” folder to the destination Hard 
Disk 
 
Now you’re done installing R.S.P. ‘73! 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Copyright 2003, SCARBEE - Denmark  
 
9  
						

							
5. History 
 
Written by Rick Chadwick 
 
If necessity is the mother of invention, Harold Rhodes and 
necessity must be the parents of the Rhodes® piano. 
The seeds of this unique musical instrument were sown in World 
War II. In private life Harold had owned several music schools 
and developed his own music teaching system. In 1942, after 
joining the Army Air Corps, he saw the therapeutic potential of a 
portable musical instrument which could used to teach 
convalescing troops how to play piano. After scavenging 
aluminium piping from old B-17 bombers, Rhodes came up with a 
two and a half octave celeste-like acoustic instrument, which 
could sit on the players lap, requiring no power. The instrument 
was very popular, being used by about 150,000 troops during the 
war. 
 
After the war, Rhodes used the tines (metal rods) of a chiming 
clock to build an electric version of his Army Air Corps Piano, 
which he called the ‘Pre Piano’. In the 1950s Leo Fender bought 
into the venture and created a new company - Fender Rhodes®, 
which released its first product, the Rhodes® Bass, made famous 
by the deft left hand of The Doors’ Ray Manzarek, in 1960. 
 
Like many good ideas, the Rhodes® mechanism is a simple one. 
Each key on the keyboard has a corresponding asymmetrical 
tuning fork consisting of a tine and tonebar. When a wooden key 
is struck two things happen. 1) A damper is lifted from the tines 
and 2) a piano like hammer is thrown at, and strikes, the tine. 
The tine vibrates very close to an electromagnetic pickup similar 
to that found in an electric guitar. This signal is then available to 
be amplified in much the same way. 
 
After CBS purchased Fender in 1965, the first full sized electric 
Rhodes® piano was unleashed on an unsuspecting music 
industry - the Suitcase 88. 
 
Music would never sound the same again... 
Copyright 2003, SCARBEE - Denmark  
 
10