WURLITZER TOOLKIT
The SOUND DUST ethos is always to try and push things beyond the norm, Wurlitzer Toolkit takes a beloved instrument* and lovingly does new and loving things to it...not always that loving!
At the rougher, more 'organic' end of the electric piano spectrum, a real fully working Wurlitzer is a rare and wonderful beast. This Wurlitzer 200 is particularly special, it belongs to ex Sheryl Crowe, Oasis and current Noel G keyboard player Mikey Rowe, and it can be heard on records by all of the above. It also has the rare tremolo speed mod, so it does things that most Wurlis can only dream of.
Wurlitzer Toolkit is a toolkit because it's recorded/misused in 4 different ways and then poured into 4 different instances of an expanded version of the DRIFT engine. It can easily do the 'usual' electric piano stuff - but more interestingly it emanates beautiful organic textures and mellow cinematics with a subtle suggestion of a charming and melancholic nostalgia.
Wurlitzer Toolkit is both immediately recognizable and slightly strange - which has to be a good thing.
*Marvin Gaye, Ray Charles, The Beatles, Beck, Queen, Supertramp, Steely Dan etc etc...
the INSTRUMENTS FOUR WAYS OF MESSING UP A CLASSIC
BAD WURLITZER
Pushed through the terrible live pitch shifting algorithm of an AKAI MPC 100.
Pitched down it sounds rather wonderful.
12 velocity layers ranging from one octave down to one semitone down
CHAOTIC WURLITZER
Trem speed knobs wiggled in real time.
Chaotic Wurlitzer has 3 velocity layers where every note has differently evolving wobble speed - speeding up, slowing down - whatever took my fancy at that moment.
FUZZY WURLITZER
Each note is recorded through the Dust Cloud Drive pedal by SzCz.
This is a gorgeous and brutal custom pedal made with salvaged original parts based on an Arbiter Fuzz Face.
GOOD WURLITZER
There has to be a proper version I suppose.
7 pristine velocity layers recorded straight into nice preamps with 'interesting' loops.
terrible WURLITZER
Upward MPC pitch shifting is even more GHASTLY than the classy downwards shifting.
Free version has 1 velocity layer, no presets and much less of the snazzy controls
the interface
Some handy controls to build your universe
FX SWITCHES
each snapshot is wired differently - mod wheel controls movement - use GUI switches or key switches for live triggering
MORPHING EQ
100 presets
MORPHING ADSR
100 presets
REVERB
70 custom impulses
DRIFT
unreliable tape like burble and flutter
TREMOLO
2 trem engines in series for complex throb
all the Wurlitzers
What's Inside ?
4 Kontakt instrument (for FULL 6.7.1 or above)
220 snapshots
1.4 GB uncompressed samples.
LOTS of good stuff
