Dehli Musikk Midnight Wurli

Midnight Wurli is a Wurlitzer 200A electric piano sampled the way it sounds when you play it quietly, late. Two sources were recorded at once: the direct line output, and a contact microphone fixed to the instrument that picks up the mechanics like key clicks, the sound of a key returning and the damper pedal going down and coming up.

A Proximity control crossfades between the two, from a clean distant line signal to an intimate close-up where the mechanism is part of the sound. Release noise and damper noise have their own levels on top of that.

The full mode holds 36 samples per key: 18 note-on and 18 release with round robins inside each velocity layer, plus 28 damper pedal samples. A Lite mode drops to one sample per velocity layer and switches the impulse responses off, for lower CPU and RAM.

The effects follow the original signal path:

The instrument’s own tremolo (labelled vibrato on a real 200A).
Tape echo.
Four amplifier impulse responses, each captured with a Shure SM57 and a Royer R-121:
- Fender Twin Reverb.
- Vox AC15H1TV.
- Roland JC-120.
- Tandberg Model 2 T.
Stereo room reverb.

2332 samples at 48 kHz / 24-bit. Only the selected mode is decoded into RAM.

Features

Wurlitzer 200A sampled at low volume, from the line out and a contact microphone simultaneously.
Proximity knob crossfading from a distant line signal to close-up mechanical detail.
36 samples per key in the full mode: 18 note-on and 18 release, round-robined inside each velocity layer.
28 damper pedal samples.
Separate levels for key-release noise and damper noise.
Lite mode for lower CPU and RAM use.
Tremolo modelled on the instrument’s own modulation circuit.
Four amplifier impulse responses: American (Fender Twin Reverb), British (Vox AC15H1TV), Japanese (Roland JC-120) and Norwegian (Tandberg Model 2 T).
Tape echo and stereo room reverb impulse responses.
2332 samples at 48 kHz / 24-bit, embedded losslessly (1.20 GB source library).