Gospel Musicians

The MKSensation Xtreme is a continuation of our famous MKSensation plugin library.

WARNING: This is a 50+ GB Library!!

At it’s core it represents the highest quality and the most accurate sampled representation of the classic MKS-20 piano module. You see, coming from a gospel musicians background this MKS sound is a staple of the gospel sound and has been featured in some of the top gospel albums throughout the years. For years you would see gospel musician’s rack filled with the MKS-20 module and a ton of other vintage racks such as the JV-Series, Motifs, and other auxiliary brass, strings, and bell sounds. This would create a complex and massive MIDI setup of the thickest stacked sounds imaginable with the ability to control the levels of each on the fly for a very fluid and dynamic concert experience with minimal sound switching, because the layers can be easily controlled with one or two controllers. So what we did was recreate this entire experience in one plugin to replace decades of modules.  

Bonus P-330 Sounds

A little known secret is that many gospel musicians who thought they were listening to a record containing the classic MKS Piano 1 sound, were actually hearing the P-330 piano sounds. For the most part, the MKS’s sounds are more richer and thicker than the P330, with an odd exception of the Piano 1 sound. The P330 Piano sounds cut through the mix a lot better than the MKS and to our ears, was a tad bit thicker and vintage sounding. So as an added bonus, not only do we include two different versions of the MKS sounds sampled using different Mic Pres for different flavors, we have also included an amazingly accurate version of the P330 Piano 1 and Piano 2 sounds as well. 

Presets

The presets we created are unapologetically gospel and urban in nature—representing all of the classic stacks of a gospel, R&B, Hip-Hop, and live band arrangement sounds one could ever need. We have created the most incredible stacks with a ton of mod wheel filter cutoff with pads and strings. We have also not forgotten about the Tine lovers, so we created a ton of layered EPs that would never be possible without a ton of hardware racks. For example, try mixing a JD Crystal EP, an MKS-EP 2 Chorus, an FM TX816 with a warm pad. You would need a ton of hardware to do this, but our MKSensation has all of the emulations of the hardware in one plugin. 

Specs

• 51 GB Library Size ( 20GB Lossless Compression)
• 23,419 Samples
• 362 Sampled Sounds
• 21 Analog Modeled Wavetables
• 14 Analog VA Waveforms
• 74 Presets
• 26 High Quality Effects Featuring Overloud’s VKFX

Highlights

• Ability to Load Plugins in place of Sound Slots
• 8-Fully independent Sound Sources with their own independent (AMP, Filter, LFO, Mod, and effects)
• Seamless Sound Switching
• Two versions of Power Grand
• Live-Set Mode with MIDI CC Program Change
• Dedicated Mute and Solo on the buttons
• Dedicated Split Screen
• Quick Control functions for easy access of important parameters
• All knobs, sliders, and buttons are MIDI Learnable
• Two different MIDI CC Program Change modes for quickly switching to presets via your controller 
• Low CPU 8-Layers = 20%
• 2-Second max load times per set. 
• Ability to Receive on Separate MIDI channels per sound for multi-timbral stacks and layers
• Global Mictotune, Transpose, Octave, and Velocity Curve. 
• Dedicated large volume sliders on front of interface. 
• Ability to Copy/Paste Single or All parameters across sound-sources

Neo-Soul Keys Studio 2 is the next evolution in electric piano sounds and effects from Gospel Musicians

WARNING: This is a 50+ GB Library!!

It features a complete architecture overhaul using our Pure Synth structure and licensed VKFX effects from Overloud. Our goal with version 2 was to make an all encompassing electric piano and effects library that will complete all of your electric piano sound and digital effects needs.

Don’t think of Neo-Soul Keys Studio 2 as just a sample library only. Is is actually a complete EP Library and effects plugin featuring not only Overloud’s VKFX library and factory presets, but 17 brand new effects that seamlessly integrates together with shared effects preset recall from within the library and plugin. The interface has a complete overhaul and designed for ease of use for novices, and extensive control for power users.

Finally, we up’d the ante with 8-Brand new electric pianos that features the clean and well manicured side of your EP experience.

Don’t worry, we still have the dirt and grit that you liked from version 1, but now you have the ability to dial in your own grit given that each of the 6 sound slots are completely programmable, which allows you to load any sound into any slot. You even have the option to load the same sound into multiple slots for a vast amount of layering possibilities.

8 New Electric Pianos

Our goal this time around was to represent the cleaner side of the electric piano spectrum. We know all previous versions represented the dirty side, so that is still there as well. We wanted to find rare pianos that represent different and unique nuances in sound, with the goal of extreme playability as the utmost importance. This is why many of our high end piano sounds have up to 1,000 samples, representing up to 30 velocity levels. So now you have both clean and dirty sounds in one library. We are also used very sophisticated Spectral Isolation techniques for our mechanical effects. By using spectral synthesis, we were able to, more precisely, isolate things such as tines, dirt, hits, clunks, and other mechanical noises from the actual pianos. This way you can add as much mechanical noises and, tines as you wish:

1. Nu Suitcase: A well tuned and manicured suitcase that represents the clean and beautiful side, with beautiful bell tine noises in the low velocities. This EP was sampled from the DI, suitcase speakers, and mic’d ambient harp. It comes in a DI and fully concatenated stereo version with all of the tonal goodness from each source.
2. Suitcase 88: This is another clean suitcase with a very unique and interesting tine attack. This is great for tine lovers.
3. Nu Mark I Stage: This is a very clean and dark sounding Stage EP. The uniqueness in this piano lies its deep and rich lows with a ton of bark and expression.
4. Dilluh Stage: – Sampled from JFILT from Very Sick Beats who one of the top Neo-Soul Hip-Hop producers on YouTube. This EP is great for Hip-Hop Jazz, Neo-Soul, and that J-Dilla, Roots/Slum vibe. It is clean with well placed quarks, which makes it ideal for that dirty stuff.
5. Nu Mark V: We updated our Mark V with a super clean and chocolate sound. The expression is deep and barks tremendously.
6. Mark III Tines: This is for tine lovers who absolutely love the sound of tines, which is reminiscent of a Mark III EK sound.
7. Nu Wurly: This is a well manicured, maintained, and serviced Wurly piano that can fit with any type of genre.
8. D’Ang CP70: There would be no soul, without the sound of recording artist D’Angelo, who often performs live on a Yamaha CP70 Electric Grand. A CP70 sample library is a rare find and could easily cost half the price of this library alone, so we sampled a well manicured and serviced version, which sounds very authentic. The sources sampled were the DI, AMP, and an XY Mic for the ambient tone. The result is a beautifully sampled version that will give you that classic D’Angelo live sound.

New Sound Control Features

• Mega Detune – Ability to slightly detune each key group, which immediately makes each sound warmer, phatter and more realistic sounding.
• Quick Mute and Solo for each sound for easy mixing.
• New Sound selection that allows you to quickly scroll through sounds, search, and mark sounds as favorites.
• Auto-Preset Sound Select – When a sound is selected, an optimal programming parameter is chosen, so you don’t have to do programming each time.
• Ability to load any sound to any slot.
• Ability to load the same sound twice for thick stacking and detuning.
• Global micro-tuning, transpose, octave, and velocity curve for heavy hands.
• Random playmode option to randomly play the sounds for more realism, especially for mechanical effects.
• Autosave function to never loose changes on a preset.
• Range and Velocity zones with crossfading and different curve options.
• Velocity amount control with different volume curve options.

New Effects & Features

• 17 New Effects.
• Imported all factory VKFX Effects.
• Able to read VKFX presets.
• Ability to load and save presets from within the actual plugin, so you can choose a sound and a quick effect preset for easy sound creation.
• FX presets are shared with standalone plugin and piano library.
• Two new algorithmic reverbs and lush impulse reverb with tons of halls, rooms, and spaces, instead of just a Spring Reverb.
• New Combo Amp effect.
• New Stereo Spread effects.
• New Sub Harmonic effect.
• New Detuning effect.
• New highly customizable rotary effect.
• 11-Band EQ per sound.
• New SVF filter per voice and full filter envelopes for sounds 1-2 for great expression.