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Modulating the keyboards

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Modulating the keyboards

Modulation has been used on keyboards almost from the time they were invented. Adding a bit can take a boring mono instrument and make it more interesting as well as make it thicker and wider sounding. In this video, we'll look at different ways that modulation effects can be use on electric piano. First thing we'll do is we'll solo up this electric piano and have a listen to it just by itself. (Music playing) I can hear it has a little bit of tremolo on it, just to differentiate tremolo is a variation in volume while vibrato is a variation in pitch. Most instruments have the variation in volumes so it's tremolo, even though they may be called vibrato, what it usually is, is tremolo and that's what is in this case. So the first thing we're going to do is try a chorus plug-in, so we're going to go down in Modulation, go to our AIR Chorus and let's have listen. (Music playing) You can hear it widens it out very nicely. Some nice wide thickening effect. Let's listen to what it does in…

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