Scarbee RSP 73

I've been making music for about 15-years, but only playing keys for about 1 year.

I play in a dance performance band & a folk-rock group.

I play the RSP 73 out of Logic on a PowerBook G4, and have used the library for about 5 months.

I've heard the library through everything from my studio monitors, various live PAs (including CBGB's), my KB3, & a few guitar amps.

I think this sample library was definitely worth the price if you're looking for an ultra-realistic rhodes. If you prefer a cleaner rhodes or don't care that much about authenticity, much better deals can be had - but the RSP takes the cake for being true to the original instrument.

The Electric Piano that comes w/ GarageBand (a uneditable version of the EVP88), is phenominal - but is too even, clean, & bright when played next the the RSP.

The other Rhodes sample libraries I've played are very stiff and lifeless compared to this.

I've also played Lounge Lizard, and while it was good - it didn't really do it for me. It was somewhere in between the reality of the RSP & the "digitalness" of the EVP88...

My only complaint is that I need more RAM!!! I run the 12V-Lite version along with the 16V-Lite versio of the WEP and a few other libraries on my live rig... and I'm basially at the max of what my machine can handle. If you have 1GB of RAM or better, this will be fine.

Playing guitar for about 20yrs - doing the project studio and keyboard bit for approx. a quarter of the time.
Music taste tend to swing to jazz, R&B, funk, hip-hop and more melodic funkier rock/folk stuff.

My main comment is add a different perspective to the previous writer - which in my humble opinion is pretty onesided, I would say that this Rhodes sound copy is pretty much what one would expect in a classy sound library.

I have several different modules - Roland and Korg mostly and even played the "board" for someone that owns an actual Rhodes - they were blown away.
Monitoring via headphones, studio monitors and good old hi-fi - put on an old Crusaders CD and compare the sound - you'll love this library instantly.

As for the playability of the sound depending on keyboard response - I do not use a weighted keyboard - so maybe there's some issues - but for standard non-weighted action as is typical on Korg M1, Roland Fantom X - and combined with Halion 3 - the sounds follows my emotion pretty decently.

Compared to offerings by Wizoo and the standard module (including Roland, who own the Rhodes brand name)stuff - this library is definitely a cut above the rest.

Price is a little steep - but read the detail in the time it took to prepare the library and then maybe it doesn't seem so rough...just?!

I bought the Scarbee RSP 73 sample pack because I wanted a good Fender Rhodes piano simulation I could use
on my computer. It is JUST a sample pack (ie .wav files) and nothing more. To run it you need a samplgin
program of some sort. The version I bought worked with Kontakt & HALion, I used Kontakt ver 1.2 to run it.
I've played it through two different MIDI controllers (weighted & unweighted) on headphones and through a set
of JBL 4208's. My comp is an AMD 1600 with 768 megs of DDR RAM, using an M Audio 1010LT soundcard.

The install was simple, just copy the wav files from the CDs to the appropriate directory. Using an unweighted
keyboard sounded horrible. There are 4 different versions you can use, they vary in the number of velocity
samples, ranging from 12 to 4. No effects. (Kontakt's effects on the Rhodes sounded like ass) A fully weighted
keyboard definately gets a pretty decent sounding Rhodes, but the velocity samples IMO were set too sensitive;
(or maybe I play too hard) it was difficult to make use of the different velocity layers (unless you turned it up
realy loud and played very gently) No manual for this one, just wav files.


very dissapointing. According to my task manager, I was only using 300 some odd megs of RAM out of 768 to
run this thing, and yet it still has quite a problem when you use the sustain pedal. It claims 64 note polyphony,
but mine would poop out at 32 and make crackling noises if I held the sustain down too long. I've had my doubts
about using samples for this sort of thing instead of software modeling, this really nails it for me. Having a
computer hold a bunch of really long wav files in memory does not work if you are serious about playing the
piano. It is obviously a realistic sample bank of a Rhodes but it just doesn't work right.


Definately not worth the money. There are cheaper options for a virtual Rhodes for your computer that use
software modeling instead of samples. It can handle light playing with relatively little fuss, but the fact that
anyone trying to play it like a real piano (using all ten fingers and the sustain pedal at once) will run into
problems. There's no way it's taxing my computer too much, it uses less than half my RAM and a third of my
CPU.