Vintage Electric Piano Instrument
Five Legendary Electric Pianos – ONE Plugin!
Velvet is a virtual electronic piano that combines five legendary electric pianos from the 60s and 70s into one versatile instrument. Based on the Fender Rhodes Suitcase, Fender Rhodes MK I and MK II Stage Pianos, Wurlitzer 200A and Hohner Pianet-T, Velvet accurately emulates the sound quality, response, and nuances of each original instrument to bring your piano tracks to life.
Additionally, Velvet features a pallet of onboard effects and allows you to control every aspect of the sound for unparalleled realism: turn up the tube drive controls in the preamp section to warm up your tone; adjust the timbre, dynamic response, and velocity curve to customize the playing feel; and mix in the sound of pedal and other keyboard mechanical noises to recreate an authentic electric piano track.


Tap Into Timeless Sounds
Using proprietary dynamic modeling, a unique combination of optimized sampling and modeling techniques, Velvet is capable of producing highly realistic recreations of classic electric piano sounds with superior fidelity and dynamic response.
Additionally, Velvet features the revolutionary Vintage Mode that allows you to tap into the timeless sounds heard on countless classic recordings. Vintage Mode intelligently tweaks the timbre setting to readjust the sonic character of Velvet to match these electric pianos from the past. With the Vintage Mode, you can sound just like your favorite electric piano players.
Classic Effects
Velvet features a built-in preamp and an array of effects to add crunch, ambience, or tremolo to your electric piano track. Its powerful preamp section includes tube overdrive, compression, and a custom 3-band EQ with a parametric mid band to shape your sound. Process your sound further using a wide range of distortion, wah/filter, chorus, flanger, phaser, and tape delay effects to emulate a vintage sound or forge something new. The Ambience, Spring, and Room reverbs can add an expansive ambience to create otherworldly effects, or a small room reverb to add a bit of color to your performance. You can also add tremolo and autopan effects; the former is modeled after those on the original electric pianos.
Professional Presets
Velvet includes 350+ professional presets meticulously programmed by AIR Music Technology’s sound designers that make it easy to call up authentic electric piano sounds. You can even create your own unique presets by dialing into Velvet’s powerful controls. The graphic user interface is reminiscent of vintage electric pianos, and its controls are modeled after the originals, allowing you to easily modify sounds at the twist of a knob or notch of a slider.
KEY Features
- A virtual electronic piano instrument with built-in effects that captures the character and response five legendary instruments.
- Dynamic modeling and proprietary engine deliver unprecedented sound quality and dynamic response.
- Tweak the timbre, dynamic response, and velocity curve of each model.
- Mix in the sound of the keyboard and pedal noise for mechanical realism.
- Powerful preamp section with tube overdrive and compression for a crunchy tone.
- Onboard 3-band EQ with a parametric mid band for quick tone shaping.
- Authentic tremolo and autopan effects deliver classic expression.
- Vintage distortion, wah/filter, modulation, and amplifier effects.
- High-quality reverb effects include Ambience, Spring, and Room settings.
- Delay effects featuring a classic tape echo.
- MIDI Learn functionality allows easy mapping to MIDI controllers.
- 350 ready-to-play presets that can be tweaked to your taste.
- Intuitive graphic user interface reminiscent of each classic electric piano.
SYSTEM Requirements
PC
- Windows 10, 8 or Windows 7 Service Pack 1
- Minimum Dual Core 2GHz (Intel Core i5 or i7 Recommended)
- 4GB RAM (8GB recommended)
- 1 GB free disc space
- ASIO sound driver
Mac
- Mac OS X 10.8.5-10.15 (10.15 Catalina Ready)
- Core Duo Processor (Core i5 or i7 Recommended)
- 4GB RAM (8GB recommended)
- 1 GB free disc space
FORMATS: VST 64-bit, AU 64-bit, AAX (Pro Tools 10.3) 64-bit (Pro Tools 11.x)
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Gigi Marras (verified owner) –
Really fantastic!
Kevin M. (verified owner) –
DOPE
Anonymous (verified owner) –
I think it’s a great yet simple vst with a plethora of different piano sounds.
Kenneth (verified owner) –
Pretty good, obvi not the real thing but a very good sound nonetheless amd worth the meager cost.
Michael H. (verified owner) –
Very nice e-piano plugin with lots of presets that are nice to play and a great basis for tweaks.
Wim V. (verified owner) –
Outstending, good shop
Martin (verified owner) –
AIR products always are a pleasant surprise, especially for the discount prices at which they often can be found. This one is no exception, especially if you are doing GM, 70s/80s retro, or sythwavery. Rich, creamy sound, several emulations, and tons of presets.
Edvinas R. (verified owner) –
Amazing sounds top quality!
Jay Jesse (verified owner) –
Velvet 2 plugin just won’t be recognized in my DAW, cakewalk bandlab. The velvet_x64.dll is in the correct plugin library “programscakewalkplugins but for some reason, cakewalk will not show it in its available plugin list.
Anonymous (verified owner) –
excellent electric piano vst
matthew callahan (verified owner) –
Best Buy of the year , everybody should have this plugin , all the Rhodes sounds you will ever need
matthew (verified owner) –
Wow what a great buy and sounds as good as a real one, so glad I got it, lucky it was on special too, one of the best out there.
Martin Sack (verified owner) –
I was surprised to see the prices especially Velvet. I wondered if it was legit. I decided to purchase. To my amazement all my Avid products from my PC appeared.
Wow I was pleased. So to all plug-in lovers, this site rocks.
Billy Minniefield (verified owner) –
Another one of my favorite plugins
ERIC D. (verified owner) –
Not too bad.
Anonymous (verified owner) –
This is a very useful plugin, and I got it at sales price. I’m very satisfied.
Mark (verified owner) –
Another AIR instrument I was happy to be able to add to my current DAW, since I had used in my old one easy transaction and install!
Kawaguchi N. (verified owner) –
I haven’t mastered it yet, but the sound of mark I is in a good mood.