Wurlitzer Sound Which Sounds Right, Novice Options

[carolcox]

Pleae can anyone help a novice as I have only just started this music malarkey having received Reason and Edirol keyboard for Xmas which is linked up to my Mac OS X. I have to say that obsession comes to mind having mastered the basics and I say that loosely!!
I am trying to find the sound that is on trance and house, you know, the one that sounds like a Wurlitzer. I tried the Wurlitzer on NN-XT but it sound nothing like so if any of you experts out there can help a damsel in distress I would be eternally grateful.

Carola

[Levon River]

Carol, I don't do trance and house, but if it's Wurli you want, I know nothing else will do.

Here are some pointers to places to get several varieties of that great grunge:

http://www.thesoundsite.net/sfu_dirlist.tm...%20K%20Thru%20O

Scroll down near the bottom and download "Organ Wurlitzer PSR 740 (2,310KB)". That's a Wurli soundfont that you can load directly into the NN-XT by clicking the "Browse Patch" folder icon and navigating to wherever you've stored the soundfont.

There are also many other organ soundfonts on that page in case you want to try others, since, as Rickenbacker said, it might be a B-3 sound or some other that you're lusting after. I believe that some of the organ soundfonts on that page that have "vintage" in the name also include some other Wurli sounds. Download all you want: they're free!

There's also this commercial Refill package you can order:

http://www.reasonrefills.com/dirtyrelics.html

That's "Dirty Ol' Relics," which has Rhodes, Hammonds, Wurlitzers, and other gritty old keyboard sounds.

Raapie also has a Wurlitzer on one of his commercial CDs you can order:

http://www.raapie.nl/review_retronica.htm

I think there's also an Akai disk called "Vintage Keyboards" that may or may not have been converted to Refill. I don't have time to go searching at the moment, but check around for it. If you're serious about those sounds, you can order the Akai disk and a program (that only runs in OS 9 right now) called "CDXtract." It will convert Akai programs to Soundfonts, which you then can load directly into the NN-XT.

Finally, I'm wondering it you *might* not be thinking of a Rhodes electric piano sound. If so, there are some included with Reason that you might want to try out, and there are quite a few free Rhodes soundfonts and refills around. You just have to do some web surfing to find them. The urls above should give you some jumping-off points. Good luck! Let us know how it goes.