The consensus was that these were a part of the abandoned "Gospel Piano" release promised for NAMM 2017 http://soundtechuk.blogspot.com/2017/01 ... ntage.html.
But though these are foundational sounds for a lot of gospel and worship music, they're also all over late 80s and early 90s popular music. The association with church music may well have put a lot of you off trying out what are - in fact - excellent sounds.
So I did a bunch of short demos for you, which may spark your interest in these very specific, beautifully recorded, and fun to play "secret" pianos. I've used a touch of chorus 1 and a touch of "soft stage" reverb from my NE5D - I used a Kawai VPC1 to trigger the sound. There's no additional processing, and (other than the sound) the same settings are used for each recording. I start each time with the same sustained chord, and then play something that seems to fit the sound for about 30 seconds.
The Roland MKS20 was a rack unit that featured very early attempts at digitally modelling piano and rhodes (Epiano1) sounds, plus a digital piano (Epiano2)
The Roland Rhodes Mk80 was a very controversial "digital Rhodes" from the short period when the trademark was owned by Roland. It used similar technology to the MKS20 to provide what were, at the time, very expressive and realistic piano and rhodes (Epiano1) sounds, plus a very familar digital piano sound (Epiano2) and a combination of the two (Epiano3).
The JD800 was a 1991 Roland digital synth that featured a very bright (like, ridiculously bright) dyno-rhodes sound called "Crystal Rhodes".
