Applied Acoustic Technologies Lounge Lizard EP-3
Virtual Electric Pianos

Unanimously acclaimed by the industry's top publications and musicians as "one of the most impressive virtual instruments" available today, the Lounge Lizard's "punchy, organic" tone and "unbeatable value" have made it the electric piano of choice for many of the world's top studios.

Reaffirming their commitment to producing high quality virtual instruments based on their own award winning physical modeling technology, Applied Acoustics Systems is pleased to announce the release of the Lounge Lizard EP-3 Electric Piano for Mac OS X and Windows PC, an unprecedented recreation of the classic electric piano sound, and a "uniquely adaptable" solution for the creation of "living, breathing" custom tones.

Applied Acoustic Technologies Lounge Lizard EP-3 New Features

• Now includes key release model for even greater realism
• A new pick-up model for additional tonal control
• All effects modulation and stereo delays sync to host tempo
• Support for MIDI program change for hands-free operation
• MIDI controller range mapping
• New browser interface makes finding presets quick and easy
• Optimized DSP engine for 3 times greater CPU performance
• Dynamic voice allocation
• Support for OS X
• Support for Digidesign's RTAS plug-in format on Mac OS X

Modeling an Electric Piano: How Applied Acoustic Technologies Lounge Lizard EP-3 works

The electric piano was invented by Harold Rhodes (1910-2000) during the forties when he was in the army. The first instruments he built were made of aircraft pieces and were intended to entertain army servicemen. It became a very popular instrument in jazz and rock, and has enjoyed a resurgence in recent years through it's extensive use by the world's top hip hop, R&B, and house producers.

The mechanism of the electric piano is, in fact, quite simple. A note played on the keyboard activates a hammer that hits a fork. The sound of that fork is then amplified by a magnetic coil pick up and sent to the output, very much like an electric guitar.

The AAS Models
Physical modeling provides great advantages in recreating the sound generating properties of electromechanical and acoustic instruments, accurately mimicking their nuances in a manner simply not possible by other synthesis methods or sampling. For example, because the sound is calculated in real time in accordance with the controls it receives from your MIDI keyboard and on screen knob movements, the Applied Acoustic Technologies Lounge Lizard EP-3 will produce a slightly different sound if the tine is in motion than when it is at rest.

Great care was taken in the development of Applied Acoustic Technologies Lounge Lizard EP-3 to provide access to all of the various components in an intuitive manner, giving you the power to tweak your sound in a way that would have taken many painstaking hours with a screwdriver, and incredible patience to accomplish with the real thing. Far from being just a collection of good presets, the Lounge Lizard is a custom sound designing tool sure to please any discerning keyboard enthusiast.

While the various models give you the ability to create unparalleled reproductions of classic electric piano sounds, all of the various parameters can also be pushed far beyond the range of their hardware equivalents, opening up a completely new realm of sonic possibility.

Using an external MIDI knob box or continuous controller messages (cc envelopes) from your host sequencer, this idea can be taken even further, allowing you to modulate various on screen parameters in real time, creating ever changing tones, from the sublime to the ridiculous!

Applied Acoustic Technologies Lounge Lizard EP-3 Sound Examples

Cyberfunked Ultra Analog - Acid Jazz (2.1MB MP3)
Ultra Analog sounds except for the drums, EVD6 clavinet, and Lounge Lizard. By our friend Robert Voelk at Cyberfunk.

Bluesette - Jazz (1.5MB MP3)
So What - Jazz (1.7MB MP3)
Youvecha - Solo (2.2MB MP3)
Performed and arranged by Philippe Dérogis

New Gear Fun - Funk Rock (1.5MB MP3)
Composed and recorded by Nick Ketter

EP-3 Demo 1 - R&B (3.8MB MP3)
EP-3 Demo 2 - R&B (2.8MB MP3)
Composed and recorded by Jetro DaSilva

Stage 1 - Classic Funk (0.8MB MP3)
Wurli 1 - Classic Funk (0.7MB MP3)
Composed, played and recorded by Pat Frazer (patris@sympatico.ca)

Vodkice Xmas Publicity - Funk Pop (0.6MB MP3)
Music by George Fok. Video of the publicity can be found here.

Chaise - Ambient (5.0MB MP3)
Composed by jdg. jdg.em411.com

Lounge House - House (2.5MB MP3)
Composed by Juana B. Moroder.

Little Stevie - Classic Funk (0.8MB MP3)
Composed by Simeon Amburgey
www.soundcreationsinc.com
(simeon@soundcreationsinc.com)

This Lizard Barks - Hip Hop (0.8MB MP3)
Composed by Chops. Chops appears courtesy of Vocab/Goodvibe Records. (chops@magnificientbutcher.com)

Disk Haus - Funk Rock (1.0MB MP3)
Liz - Funk Rock (0.8MB MP3)
Composed by Steve Bernard for Sample and Hold productions. (sample_hold@hotmail.com)

Solo 1 - Solo (3.2MB MP3)
Solo 2 - Solo (3.2MB MP3)
Impovised by Sylvain Gubian, our friend at Arturia. "The sound is excellent, like a real ep, but with further possibilities. The effects are really good."
www.arturia.com
(sylvain.gubian@arturia.com)

Applied Acoustic Technologies Lounge Lizard EP-3 System Requirements

Applied Acoustic Technologies Lounge Lizard EP-3 PC Requirements

• Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP
• Pentium III 500MHz
• 64MB RAM
• ASIO, MME
• VST, DXi

Applied Acoustic Technologies Lounge Lizard EP-3 MAC Requirements

• Mac OS 10.2 and higher
• G3
• 128MB RAM
• CoreAudio
• VST, AU, RTAS