What are some of the best piano Vsts ?

[soultensionbenjamin]

Hey guys long time no post How are y'all?

anyways im about 17 and this will probably be my last Christmas where i get tons of cash from family, so in your opinion what are some of the best piano vsts money can buy thanks to everyone that leaves a response. =3

[cyrricky]

If you use Reason, the Radical Piano rack extension is pretty, erm, radical.

[Nine Volt]

Totally radical yo
:3

[itroitnyah]

FL Keys is OK, but it has limited presets and affects, but it's free and all so whatever. I don't know of any synths that are piano synths besides FL Keys and I guess the one mentioned above by Cyrricky. My best advice would be to get Kontakt and find a good piano library on there.

[Lavender_Harmony]

It depends what you want. If you want some expressive, Pianos Gold, from East West, Emotional Piano from Soundiron and The Giant from Native Instruments are all good choices. Native Instruments also do a bunch of studio grade piano's, one of which I recommend is Alicia's Keys, lot's of very nice natural scripting in it to make it very playable, but sits well in a studio mix.

I've had a listen to FL Keys.. it sounds awful.


Piano's Gold Bosendorfer demo


The Giant demo


Emotional Piano demo


Alicia's Keys demo

[Lavender_Harmony]

Oh, this is free, too:

http://www.xlnaudio.com/products/view/3 ... grand-free

And the full thing isn't that expensive, and it sounds pretty nice.

[Dr_Dissonance]

I always tend to use Emotional Piano in my works, but I occasionally switch to the F Grand when I want something with more oomph:
http://www.uvisoundsource.com/acoustic- ... ucts_id/55
(You will need an iLok for it! Beware!)

A friend of mine keeps recommending the Ebony Concert Grand, which looks and sounds quite nice.
The most expensive one has 127 layers as well...wtf, that must have been so painfully boring to make.
http://www.imperfectsamples.com/website ... /index.php
(You will need the full version of Kontakt for it! Beware!)

[Fimbulin]

Here you go. Standalone VST that sounds AMAZING. FREE too!
http://www.supremepiano.com/product/piano1.html

[SticktheFigure]

I personally go with FL Keys. I find that it, with some EQ'ing, gets that job done.

[Lavender_Harmony]

I personally go with FL Keys. I find that it, with some EQ'ing, gets that job done.

The title of the post is "What are some of the best piano VSTs."

Getting the job done ≠ The best. FL Keys is also rubbish.

[JayB]

I've recently discovered Addictive Keys (Lavender posted this) for me. They offer a 49 keys demo version which is already well usable and sounds amazingly warm and pure.

[Foxtrot89]

I own EZkeys Grand Piano, and it's pretty nice. For the cheapest though, it seems that NI's libraries are good and have the lowest cost. Alicia's Keys and The Giant sound good and are just over $100 which is pretty cheap for Sample libraries.

FL Keys really is garbage as an aside. I used to use it all the time while I worked up the cash for better things, but it's just awful otherwise. EQ/effects can't polish a turd. Crap in, crap out as the saying goes.

Also, EZkeys has the added bonus of having a few simplistic midi progressions that you can switch the key of however you choose. It's pretty lazy, but if you want to bang out a piano track that you want to sing along to, it's great/convenient. Just don't rely on it to write the next great song for you.

[cloudshovit]

Korg M1. 2 words. Piano House

[Lavender_Harmony]

Korg M1. 2 words. Piano House

Word.

I'd never want one, though, the M1 is a HEAVY bastard xD

[MRPPony]

I'm surprised no one mentioned S1 Piano (http://www.cubic-audio.info/node/3)
Personally, I say this is something you should try out. Its a 'bright' sounding piano. S1P is free but since you're looking for something to buy, Evolution all the way! Its not a dedicated piano but the piano sounds is absolutely amazing!
(http://www.cubic-audio.info/Evolution)

[cloudshovit]

Korg M1. 2 words. Piano House

Word.

I'd never want one, though, the M1 is a HEAVY bastard xD

The Korg bundle is a good deal. I think you can get it for free from one of their midi controllers which are also decent.

[JayB]

Korg M1. 2 words. Piano House

Pah. Yamaha CP80. Dance Piano.

[SticktheFigure]

FL Keys is also rubbish.

FL Keys really is garbage as an aside. I used to use it all the time while I worked up the cash for better things, but it's just awful otherwise. EQ/effects can't polish a turd. Crap in, crap out as the saying goes.

Ooh, ouch. My pride.
My wallet.
All right, fine. I'll give in and finally try out some free VSTs.

[Elmorya]

Id say sonik synth 2 if anything. Its not strictly piano but it has some really nice sounds in it. On the other hand it comes with a pretty big price tag =/

http://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/soniksynth/

[Lavender_Harmony]

Korg M1. 2 words. Piano House

Pah. Yamaha CP80. Dance Piano.

CP80 is gorgeous if you process it right. I use either a transient shaper to add release, or put a wet reverb on it, then apply a hard compressor. Gives it a really sharp attack and sounds wonderfully crisp when layered with an acoustic piano. Listen to Arrivederci if you want an example of that. <3

And when I said the M1 was heavy, i meant the actual keyboard, the real thing. I used to have one on loan in college, and it was really, really heavy to carry around!

[cloudshovit]

Korg M1. 2 words. Piano House

And when I said the M1 was heavy, i meant the actual keyboard, the real thing. I used to have one on loan in college, and it was really, really heavy to carry around!

yeah I figured. Also like some Dx7 piano sounds as well. If I had the money and want some realistic pianos, I'd go for the Berlin piano for Kontakt. It just sounds so soft....

[eClypse]

Alicias Keys is great when it comes to the price-performance ratio IMO.

First I got FL Keys too because it came free with the FL Bundle and it definitely is crap, you can't fix that with EQing and stuff. If you put a wonderful flower on shit, it's still shit.

Later I got the mda Piano, a free vst and I warn you to not get it. It sounded better than FL Keys but every second time I opened a projectfile with an instance of it, the file crashed. This was just really really bugging.

[K3WRO]

I personally go with FL Keys. I find that it, with some EQ'ing, gets that job done.

The title of the post is "What are some of the best piano VSTs."

Getting the job done ≠ The best. FL Keys is also rubbish.

You think everything in FL Studio is Rubbish

Here you go. Standalone VST that sounds AMAZING. FREE too!
http://www.supremepiano.com/product/piano1.html

Dammit, I was going to suggest that!

[Fimbulin]

Here you go. Standalone VST that sounds AMAZING. FREE too!
http://www.supremepiano.com/product/piano1.html

Dammit, I was going to suggest that!

Glad to know that I wasn't ignored!

[ChocolateChicken]

Alicia's Keys were mentioned, as well as The Giant, but what about any of the other pianos from NI? Are they nowhere near as good as Alicia's Keys or The Giant?