Good piano samples

Anyone got a good list of piano samples out there? I'm not talking VSTs like pianoteq either, I mean real samples. I can't touch my pianoteq *coughdemocough* anymore without cringing at how awful it sounds. I was looking to try gigastudio but apparently that thing not only would be too much for my pc, 1.7ghz with 256mb ram, but it doesn't even work with my pc for some reason.

Yeah if you get access to someone's real piano, you can noodle out ideas for over a dozen songs in at hour or two, I did this for an album a year ago with an H2 Zoom.

Also wanted to mention the piano's in EIC2 aren't that bad, good enough for me.

And back in the day I've made a few songs with Steinbergs "The Grand" which is borderline shit but easily turd polish-able.

tascam cvpiano isn't too bad!

.. though i keep coming back to the mda piano vsti, surprisingly good for such a small download. with a bit of room reverb and dampening it sounds pretty great!

maybe you can find a real one for cheap in your area, piano's are large and when people move or whatever they often sell it for a really low price

korg m1 vsti is great for the old rave piano's

pianos are really all over the place

but i like pianoteq

i've sampled george winston, he's got a few records that are just piano solos.

Kontakt ain't bad.

sampletek's black grand sounds great, its 6gb for the full thing though so my laptop struggles a little bit running it on full spec. 32 samples per note including pedal down etc :)

and you can get it in close medium and ambient recording's, all for about £30, pretty cool. the same company does some much much bigger piano sample libraries as well, some of which are massive and sound really close to an actual piano.

check out truepianos. it's probably the most realistic sounding piano VI that i've heard, especially in terms of playability - it responds and "feels" like a real piano. the best part is that it's mostly modeled - there's some basic sample content, but the bulk of the sound is synthesised. don't let that put you off, though... it's really quite remarkable. i have NI's akoustik piano, ivory, and a few others, but i use truepianos far more.

it's particularly good in the context of a mix, too... doesn't stand out or sound brittle.

it's also easily downloaded since it's not sample-based.

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NI's Akoustik Piano and Kontakt each have a couple of good sampled pianos to choose from. I wouldn't say they're exceptional, but they're nothing to scoff at. Kontakt's sampled Steinway is my personal favorite.

  On 7/12/2009 at 8:55 PM, maus said:

check out truepianos. it's probably the most realistic sounding piano VI that i've heard, especially in terms of playability - it responds and "feels" like a real piano. the best part is that it's mostly modeled - there's some basic sample content, but the bulk of the sound is synthesised.

I tried Truepianos but have recently become a Pianoteq convert, version 3 is just beautiful - http://www.pianoteq.com/listen

New question: what's a good piano sample set that works with HALion?

check this out

http://www.imperfectsamples.com/website/samples/braunschweig/braunschweiguprightpiano.php

the nicest sample piano I've ever heard.