Artists and producers often use samples and plug-ins to save money, lowering the quality of their final product.
An online session keyboard player that actually has the vintage gear can also save money, yet can deliver the high quality product that only using real instruments produce. Online sessions eliminate cartage, studio time, gear rental fees and transportation costs. With these expenses out of the equation suddenly choosing real vintage instruments becomes equally affordable.
The differences between sample and plug-ins and real instruments are huge.
Samples and plug-ins are one-dimensional and static. Real keyboard instruments have depth, character and movement. They sit nicely in a mix without fighting the other instruments.
There is a reason people still use so much Hammond B3 and analog synths with heavy guitars; they complement them and make them sound better rather than fighting them for the same frequencies in the mix.
The extra dimensions that starts from a B3 tone wheel generator and ends with moving air from spinning speakers of a Leslie simply cannot be reproduced. The imperfection and movement created by analog tone generators cannot be copied.
The tuning imperfections, string resonances, different tones from different degrees of velocity on the keys (how hard you hit the keys), differences in tines, pick-ups, distance from pick-ups, and all sorts of other variables in acoustic pianos, fender rhodes electric pianos, wurlitzer electric pianos, and clavinets, cannot be properly modeled or sampled.
Get your keyboard tracks done online by a keyboardist that has all the important vintage keyboards in his own studio.
