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Hi everyone, i am creating electronic music (dance,house etc), and i am looking for a good plugins to create great piano sounds, i dont have money right now to spend on a plugin, but in other time maybe i can buy one but if you can, tell me any plugins, paid or no, for now i want only free but you can tell some plugins even if it is paid. i am using ableton and logic pro, on fl studio the fl keys seems nice but i dont use fl studio, and now i want a plugin to run in logic pro and ableton, i was searching a lot for piano plugins and i saw a little of them, but i dont see too much, if anyone can advise me for goods piano/electric piano plugins it would be great.

Thanks community

Costs money but Native Instruments kontakt package has some amazing pianos, as well as other concert instruments (trumpets, violins, horns, etc...)

Dan13LP wrote:Costs money but Native Instruments kontakt package has some amazing pianos, as well as other concert instruments (trumpets, violins, horns, etc...)

There is also a free version of the Kontakt Sampler (Kontakt player) with some of their sounds for free.
- http://www.native-instruments.com/#/en/ ... 8-players/ -

From Ik-Multimedia there is the "SampleTank free" sample player with a package of free sounds.
- http://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/sa ... l-versions -

Yellowtools offers the "Independence free" with 2 Gigabyte of sounds.
- http://www.yellowtools.us/cp21/cms/index.php?id=842 -

From Camel Audio > "Alchemy Player is a free software instrument with an inspiring 1GB sample library and 200 instrument sounds including evolving soundscapes, lush pads, and pulsing arpeggios... _ ... Alchemy Player can play back highly detailed SFZ sample libraries of acoustic instruments"
- http://www.camelaudio.com/AlchemyPlayer.php -

On this site you will find a lot of free piano samples, some are in the sfz format which the alchemy player seems to be able to load.
- http://bedroomproducersblog.com/2010/07 ... oy-pianos/ -


to be continued ...

Cheers, palmer

yeh i saw kontakt player it is free and i will try it for now, later maybe i can buy the full version of kontakt.

Palmer Eldritch it is a big big suggestion, really love it, will check all the plugins and chose the bests for me, thank you so much.

Thanks for both the answer

my favorite so far is
PIANOTEQ

http://www.pianoteq.com/home

they do have a demo

this is not a sampled piano
it is a synth
but i think it sounds great

i got the rock collection
Electric pianos add-on
Clavinet add-on
Rock piano add-on

love it

devobtch

when you are ready to make the purchase, I highly recommend you check out Ivory by synthogy

http://www.synthogy.com/

I was looking for the same thing and found a couple of good ones in Ableton's free Partner Instruments packs. Just look for free stuff in the library. They've included some pieces of paid versions of Ableton piano plugins. They will appear in your library after the installation. I personnaly prefere this solution because I don't like to be overwhelmed with different third party plugins and samples that are spread all over the computer. If I can keep it simple that's the way to go for me.

The ones in the ableton library are fine. Especially for dance tracks IMO.

As someone else mentioned
Pianoteq
http://www.pianoteq.com/

It has an actual sound of a piano, but the demo lasts for only so long.

Ivory II by Synthogy is without doubt the best one ive heard...and im a Korg piano user.

Everything else is not quite up there....

just got an email from synthogy about their brand new Concert D grand piano. I know it is way overkill for what the OP was asking for ... but check out these specs!

• 1951 New York Steinway D selected by Steinway & Sons for artist promotion
• Includes the Award-winning Ivory II piano engine
• 49GB Core Library
• Up to 20 Velocity Layers
• Harmonic Resonance Modeling for True Sympathetic String Resonance
• Custom Soundboard Emulation DSP
• Half-pedaling
• Pedal Noise Enhancements
• Release samples triggered by velocity and duration
• Una Corda (soft pedal) samples at multiple velocities
• Native 64 Bit Support
• Timbre-shifting, Parametric EQ and Synth Layer controls for powerful sound sculpting capabilities
• Incorporates exclusive Sample Interpolation Technology used for ultra-smooth velocity and note transitions
• World class digital FX including Real Ambience, Chorus and EQ
• Customizable User Controls for Timbre, Stereo Width and Perspective, Velocity Response, Mechanical Key Noise, Lid Position and more
• Tuning Tables
• Dozens of new programs and effects presets

Dan13LP wrote:Costs money but Native Instruments kontakt package has some amazing pianos, as well as other concert instruments (trumpets, violins, horns, etc...)

I've got the New York Concert Grand pack, absolutely lovely sounding piano library. It's nice to play but maybe a bit too "proper" for dance music?

It would be a great addition to my collection of instruments since I can personalize the sound as I go. OP should better buy his own electronic piano so he can personally customize the sound as he goes.

pianoteq +1

To sort of answer the question, its not the straight up piano I assume you're looking for, but the TAL-U-NO-LX is a Juno60 emulation, and it sounds good for a free synth. http://kunz.corrupt.ch/products/tal-u-no-lx

Check out Music Radar, they do a series on free software, theres a lot of cool plugs in there. http://beta.musicradar.com/news/tech/fr ... t-255880/2

Korg Legacy when you're ready to buy, for dance you're probably gonna want the M1, its pretty solid. Though I'd recommend just saving a bit more and getting a legit M1, or the rack version for like $200 less. Software sucks, just compare popular dance tracks using piano these days, with some of that classic italo house which largely used M1s for the leads. I know the M1 is a digital synth, but comparing them both side by side, the physical one sounds loads better to me, maybe its a placebo effect.