the best VST for piano sounds?

pisquano · Post by **pisquano** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 4:14 pm

hi anyone can tell me which is the best free (or cheaP) piano VST to get a true piano sound (not electric piano, standard normal piano)

thanks

abletoff · Post by **abletoff** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 4:17 pm

go 4front...

Lux Libra · Post by **Lux Libra** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 5:19 pm

Check out the mda piano!

http://www.mda-vst.com/

A good sounding basic piano for free with a few adjustable parameters.

or th EVM Grand Piano

http://www.evmsynths.com/free.htm

very basic but has also good sound

pisquano · Post by **pisquano** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 5:24 pm

m:o wrote:Check out the mda piano!

http://www.mda-vst.com/

A good sounding basic piano for free with a few adjustable parameters.

or th EVM Grand Piano

http://www.evmsynths.com/free.htm

very basic but has also good sound

thanks!! really!!

CWoodOne · Post by **CWoodOne** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 6:48 pm

I have to vote for Synthogy's Ivory

pisquano wrote:
m:o wrote:Check out the mda piano!

http://www.mda-vst.com/

A good sounding basic piano for free with a few adjustable parameters.

or th EVM Grand Piano

http://www.evmsynths.com/free.htm

very basic but has also good sound
thanks!! really!!

Sophistik · Post by **Sophistik** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 7:08 pm

http://www.yohng.com/piano.html

You can download it there. Theres no settings or anything to it, but for a freeware device this thing sounds great. Plus, if you know what you are doing you can get a variety of different piano sounds out of it just by subtle use of the correct FX plugins and EQ.

nolus · Post by **nolus** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 7:19 pm

The free version of sample tank has a fairly good piano sound you can download for it.

CWoodOne wrote:I have to vote for Synthogy's Ivory

Ivory sounds beutiful. but it aint cheep (though for what you get, it is), and it needs 40GB of disk space to install. and >= 1GB ram to get the best from it.

Nogi · Post by **Nogi** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 8:27 pm

One more:
I've been getting a lot of use out of the 'Balthor Grand' piano from the KVRAudio developers challenge. Mostly, I use a blend of different instruments depending on the part as they all tend to do a very few things well.

Justin Thyme · Post by **Justin Thyme** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 9:29 pm

Not sure of your definition of cheap, but the Bosendorfer 290 piano is about $100. That's cheaper than a lot of plugins.

majais · Post by **majais** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 12:26 am

Justin Thyme wrote:Not sure of your definition of cheap, but the Bosendorfer 290 piano is about $100. That's cheaper than a lot of plugins.

...and it's a very nice sound as well!!!

CWoodOne · Post by **CWoodOne** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 2:31 am

nolus wrote:The free version of sample tank has a fairly good piano sound you can download for it.

CWoodOne wrote:I have to vote for Synthogy's Ivory
Ivory sounds beutiful. but it aint cheep (though for what you get, it is), and it needs 40GB of disk space to install. and >= 1GB ram to get the best from it.

You're right, I just really like Ivory, and it is cheap compared to a digital piano...

yogz · Post by **yogz** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 3:40 am

I've recetly tryed pianoteq.
sound AMAZING
and most of all, it's using only synthesis (no samples at all), which means also saving a lot of disk space..

have a try

http://www.pianoteq.com/

chrisedmo · Post by **chrisedmo** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 7:50 am

yogz wrote:I've recetly tryed pianoteq.
sound AMAZING
and most of all, it's using only synthesis (no samples at all), which means also saving a lot of disk space..

have a try

http://www.pianoteq.com/

What computer are you on - I tried the demo of that plug in and I found it to be a major CPU HOG!! Sounds Amazing though.

nolus · Post by **nolus** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 8:00 am

try layering pianoteq with a sampled piano, the result is greater than the sum of the parts.

pianoteq is a brilliant concept, the touch sensitivity, sympathetic string resonance, damper noise, and the harmonic pedal are wonderful, but I think they are overdone on most of the patches and midrange sounds very synthetic.

layerd with ivory the result is awsome. you get the beutifully recorded samples of ivory plus a more realistic feal and more realistic pedal sound, etc from pianoteq,

the string resonance in pianoteq is a first for any synthetic piano as far as i know.

pisquano · Post by **pisquano** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 2:11 pm

but what would be the best for general use?
say I want a standard piano and few other cool sounds like hammond or anything like that

??

the best VST for piano sounds?

the best VST for piano sounds?

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