![]() ![]() These are also on sale at present for around $70 USD for the 2 pianos which is a steal. I've found they require more time to tweak the settings to get an optimum result compared to other sampled pianos, but it's worth the effort. I use it often in productions.Īlso, the Xperimenta Due Pianos (Yamaha C7 and C3) suggested above would also be good choices - in particular the C3. It has the rare quality in the sampled piano world of warmth, resonance & clarity (it has real separate sustain pedal down samples which helps). It has 16bit & 24bit versions included when you buy it (16bit is around 12GB, and the 24bit around 29GB) with 4 mic sets. The Impact Soundworks Pearl Concert Grand (Yamaha C7) is another which would work based on the Sigur Rós example. It has a warm & realistic sound, with 3 separate mic sets (Close, Mid, Room) and some decent tone shaping controls, but nowhere near as extensive as Noire. Same reason I suggested Fluffy Audio's Scoring Piano, as it's around 20GB installed and also reasonably light on computer resources. ![]() Given your request for a sampled piano which doesn't take hundreds of GB of disk space, Noire fits the bill coming in at around 16GB, and it runs fine from a 7200rpm HDD too. The Felt & Particle Engine features are an added bonus. Normally single mic perspective sampled pianos such as Noire can be hard to place in different spaces, but it's surprisingly flexible in going from an up-front close & warm tone, to a distant ambient piano with the convolution FX without sounding artificial and weird. It has an extensive range of controls to tweak the tone, character & response, and the built in FX & Reverbs and excellent. I think Noire would be a good fit for the sound you are chasing. There's been plenty of advice offered here so I'm not sure I can add much more. ![]() That said, there are singular instruments out there like Malmsjo, that you should only get if you like the sound of Malmsjo. It's what you do with these pieces of software to bend them to your will. But there are many, many fine piano virtual instruments out there that offer a large level of choice. I happen to like Noire, but one of the reasons I like is it offers so many possibilities. You don't have to own a lot of virtual instruments to create a lot of possibilities. There is no question that you can get a tremendous amount of piano colors out of a single piano virtual instrument. It includes emulations of famous piano recordings from the 1950's through today by artists such as Aretha Franklin, Elton John, Norah Jones, Diana Krall, Donny Hathaway, Chet Baker, Jan Johansson, Ray Charles, John Lewis, Bobby Timmons, Billy Preston, Keith Jarrett, Jackson Browne, Leon Russell, John Legend, Arthur Rubinstein, and Bill Evans. If you read the description of ArtVista's Virtual Grand (I'm not saying this is the answer for you, although I do love it), you will read this:Īrt Vista Virtual Grand Piano 3 is based on recordings of a 1960 Hamburg Steinway Model ”B” and offers stunningly realistic piano presets for every possible recording genre. All the NI pianos have many presets and options for adjustment. And even if they had tried them all and thought deeply about it, their music is not your music.Ģ) There are a lot of controls for the two pianos that come with Noire. Everybody suggests their favorite without having ever done a full comparison. Nobody in this thread owns and regularly uses even the several dozen pianos that are well thought of. Pretty good tone, but my Young Chang that I bought 20 years ago, is just so perfectly recorded/sampled, and it utilizes a DSP block in my Kurzweil algorithm so that I can darken the tone using my Mod Wheel (not just a simple filter), I am so glad I have it.1) There are hundreds of virtual pianos available. The Ivory II should be better than it is (I paid $149 for it). ![]() I just bought Ivory II (American Concert D) and Waves' Grand Rhapsody, too. Amber might be a bit too bright.įor serious piano recording, I still think my Young Chang Grand from Sweetwater (created for my Kurzweil) remains the best. The Amber model tends to be my favorite, but the others (Atlantis, Sapphire, Diamond and Emerald) can be interesting for various reasons. I'm glad to have them to play around with. I had Amber from X3 Producer, and just added the other 4. I paid $90.30 for the additional 4 models. I bought the complete set of TruePianos about a month ago, and they honored a discount I had, I believe for being a Cakewalk X3 Producer owner. Thanks for all the helpful links, I should mention I'm looking to use it outside of Cakewalk, I would have used TruePianos already. ![]()
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