Rhodes Extractor

How to isolate the Rhodes in a song

1. Upload the song. MP3, WAV, M4A or FLAC, up to 10 minutes. You sign in with Google the first time.
2. Press Extract the rhodes. The price is on the button before it runs: 1 credit for each minute of the song. New accounts start with 5 credits.
3. Listen and download. Two reels: Rhodes and Without the rhodes. Click either to hear it by itself, then download it as an MP3 at 320 kbps.

Failed jobs are refunded.

What a Rhodes is

The Rhodes is an electromechanical piano. Each key strikes a small metal tine, and a pickup turns that into sound. The result is soft and bell-like, with a gentle bark when played hard and a slow shimmer when a tremolo effect is on. Think late-night soul, 1970s jazz fusion, neo-soul, soft rock and a lot of modern R&B and lo-fi hip-hop, where the sound is imitated on purpose.

In a track it sits in the middle, playing chords or short comping figures. Because it is gentle, it often ends up half-hidden behind vocals, guitar and bass.

Who wants it alone

• Producers and beat makers who want a chord loop to chop. A Rhodes progression is one of the most sampled sounds in hip-hop.
• Keyboard players learning the voicings, which are often rich, jazzy chords.
• Music students who want to hear exactly what the part is doing.
• Video makers who want the Rhodes quieter under a voice.

If you take the Rhodes file to Audio to MIDI and pick Piano / keys, you get the chords as notes you can drop into your own sampler.

What it gets confused with

Rhodes is often mixed up with the other soft keyboards:

• Other electric pianos. Several instruments share a bell-like tone. The Electric Piano Extractor is the wider net.
• Acoustic piano. Brighter and sharper at the attack. See the Piano Extractor.
• Organ. Held chords with no decay. Try the Organ Extractor.
• Clavinet. Percussive and funky. See the Clavinet Extractor.

If the Rhodes is also playing with other keys, the Keyboard Extractor pulls them all out together.