What is Abbey Road Keyboards?
The classic instruments.
Recorded with the original mics.
In the original room.
With the original equipment.
This is Abbey Road in a box.
Demos
Naturally, the Abbey Road Keyboards ReFill gives you endless possibilities as how to use them in your songs, but to inspire you and give you an idea of how they sound in a finished production, here are a few of the Abbey Road Keyboards demo songs. To hear samples of the individual instruments, please check out the instruments page.
I'm in here
Josh Mobley and Woody Ranere
Stay
The Dora Steins
Sugar's star
Pete Adams
Pop destruct
Brian LeBartonContents
These are the featured instruments in the Abbey Road Keyboards ReFill:
- Steinway Upright - the Mrs. Mills piano
- Challen Studio Piano
- Hammond RT-3
- Mannborg Harmonium
- Schiedmayer Celeste
- Mellotron M400
- Tubular Bells
More information about the individual Abbey Road Keyboards instruments can be found on the Instruments page.
In the Studio
Being what is perhaps the most famous recording studio on the face of the earth, Abbey Road is synonymous with Number One hits and historical pop recordings. But there's more to Abbey Road than all the name artists who have recorded there. In our book, it's all about the sound. The Abbey Road sound.
All instruments featured in the Abbey Road Keyboards ReFill were recorded in Abbey Road's Studio Two, a spacious, first-class recording room with excellent acoustical qualities. In order to fully capture the magic of Studio Two, all instruments were recorded not only up close, but also from a considerable distance, allowing them to benefit from the room acoustics.
We've made a point of recording these keyboards in a way that will make them sound just as good in your Reason system as they do in real life. Using original vintage microphones, preamps and outboard gear from Studio Two - together with the expertise provided by the Abbey Road engineers - we have captured these instruments in the way they were back in the day. The result is Abbey Road - its instruments, its technology, its acoustics - in a box.
ReFill features
Preset patches
Combinator patches for various mic blends.
Style patches
Processed combinator patches.
Template patches
Empty, pre-wired user patches.
40-page full color booklet
Enclosed in the Abbey Road Keyboards ReFill box is Guide to Abbey Road Keyboards, a 40-page booklet by author by Mark Vail. Jam-packed with full color pictures and descriptive session diagrams, this book gives you in-depth info on the featured instruments and the Abbey Road technology used to record them.