MOTU Electric Keys Vintage Electric Keyboard Instrument

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.

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. It’s easy, fast and fun to play and layer professional, authentic electric keyboard sounds.

Key Features

• 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

Technical Specifications

Plug-in formats
MAS
AU
AAX
RTAS
VST
standalone application
Electric Keys 1.0.1 and later has the following system requirements:
A minimum of 1 GB of RAM is required. However, since Electric Keys loads samples (or a portion of the samples) into the computer's RAM add as much RAM as possible to your computer; 2 GB is recommended.
Large hard drive(s). See below for Mac and Windows specific hard drive requirements.
A free USB port for the iLok USB key. Note that if you have multiple products which use iLoks for authorization you can consolidate multiple authorizations onto a single iLok; see this tech note.
A CD/DVD disk drive for installation.

For Mac:
G4 1 GHz Power Mac or faster, with multiple processors/cores highly recommended; a G5 or Intel Mac is recommended
Mac OS X version 10.8, 10.7, 10.6, 10.5, or 10.4; Electric Keys 1.0.2 or later requires Mac OS X v10.4.11 or later.
Hard drive(s) with at least 42 GB free to hold the sound files, plug-in, and application. The drive(s) must be formatted as Mac OS Extended (also known as HFS+); journalling can be on or off.
An audio sequencer software package that hosts MAS, AU, VST, or RTAS instrument plug-ins. As Electric Keys has 34 outputs (stereo main outs + 16 stereo aux outputs), the host needs to support instruments with greater than 32 outputs. Alternatively, Electric Keys can be used as a standalone application.

For Windows:
Pentium 4 1 GHz or faster (or AMD equivalent), with multiple processors or multiple cores highly recommended. For native 64-bIt'support, a 64-bit processor is required.
Windows 8, Windows 7, Vista, or XP. For native 64-bIt'support, a 64-bit version of Windows 7 or Windows Vista is required.
Hard drive(s) with at least 42 GB free to hold the sound files, plug-in, and application. The drive(s) must be formatted as NTFS.
An audio sequencer package that hosts VST or RTAS instrument plug-ins. As Electric Keys has 34 outputs (stereo main outs + 16 stereo aux outputs), the host needs to support instruments with greater than 32 outputs. Alternatively, Electric Keys can be used as a standalone application.