The instrument
The Rhodes brand name was sold to Roland by Fender in 1987 for $20,000. The VK-1000, a tonewheel organ emulator, with 76 weighted keys, drawbars for realtime control of the organ tones, and additional patches that included other piano/synth tones and Rhodes sounds from the Rhodes Roland MK-80.
Details
Sounds: 13 drawbars (9 x sound, 4 x percussion), four organ presets, pipe organ, electric piano, chime and lead sounds (various sawtooth, square and noise waveforms), vibraphone.
Sound editing: 9-way adjustable SA synthesis using harmonic bars, pitch bend/modulation lever
Effects: reverb, 3-band EQ, synth wah, rotary, overdrive, distortion, three faders (freely assignable)
Connections: MIDI in/out, expression pedal, memory card, connection for MIDI bass pedal (PK-5)