A Good Piano VST

I recently moved and had to sell my spinet piano, as there is no space for it in my new apartment.

So.. any recommendations for good piano software?

I use Logic Pro with an AXIOM 49 for now -> and the bundled piano sounds, while decent, aren't real enough sounding.

Pianoteq

  On 12/18/2010 at 10:00 PM, Adam Beker said:

Pianoteq

yup, it seems pretty much to be the obvious choice. if my memory is right, it's kind of expensive though...

  On 12/18/2010 at 10:00 PM, Adam Beker said:

Pianoteq

yeah this is the only non-sample based on that i have used that didn't annoy me

iirc you can get a stripped down version for ~$100

stereo steinway.dll

here i think

any hassles, i've got the dll.

  On 12/18/2010 at 10:00 PM, Adam Beker said:

Pianoteq

Came to post this.

And me too, finally got round to ditching my dodgy copy of Pianoteq 2 to buy a legit copy of Pianoteq 3 back in the summer. The difference is phenomenal, such a bloody ace VSTi.

what the fuck igor!

anyone help me find a reputable 'dealer' for pianoteq 3 *winkwink*

Pianoteq 3 is not even cracked as far as i know.

Yeah and exactly the reason I bit the bullet and bought it. I have no idea what the reason is but no cracking group (as far as I'm aware) has tackled 'fixing' Pianoteq 3 at all - and believe me, I'd searched many many places !

PianoTeq_v2.3___Addons___Presets.rar|35152 works great, sound much lively and is way more versatile than the stock Reason pianos

I am not filled with the dread post having read this thread

Three thumbs way up

... Oh the third ones not a thumb

I know it's pricey (wink wink) but you could also try Kontakt with the full libraries. Not sure how it stacks up to pianoteq...

  On 12/24/2010 at 1:17 PM, acidphakist said:

I know it's pricey (wink wink) but you could also try Kontakt with the full libraries. Not sure how it stacks up to pianoteq...

^This.

Or (and this is going to sound retarded but...) Alicia's Keys (the Kontakt plugin) sounds fucking lush. And it's PINK!

they're not sampled based??

The Kontakt plugins? Yeah, they're sample based.

oh i thought everything that was posted on this thread was non sampled based, main reason i asked was because i never had listened such a good synthesized piano like pianoteq, i didn't even know it was possible lol i´ve been pretty out of the music making business lately

Yeah pianoteq is physically modelled rather than sample based hence the really tiny install footprint ( the latest version being about 25mb). It's insane what they've managed to do as a result - for instance rather than having just a few samples for some velocity levels ( eg a recording at pp, p, mf, f, ff) pianoteq will have a different sound for the way the strings vibrate for all 128 midi velocity levels. Also if you hold down a chord then with those notes still held tap another note, you can hear those held strings resonating in the background. And loads of other stuff like exact angle of the piano lid, size of the piano etc. which would be near impossible with just a sampled piano ( well it would be possible just it would have about a 5 terrabyte installation). And the jump in realism between v2 and 3 is quite phenomenal too.

niiiiiice

I am very very pleased with the sounds and feel of Pianoteq v2. I can't imagine how good v3 must be if there really is a dramatic difference.

Anyone else get the keygen to work I want to check this out, but the one in the .nfo doesn't work.

(Mcbpete say: oops sorry man, I removed the serial number (even though it doesn't work it's still dodgy posting it) but it mucked up your post so I had to reconstruct it from memory)

uhh I have the same rip and used that exact response key & it worked fine. dunno. I would post my NFO file but apparently yours shouldn't be any different. You read that it said that the protection bypass is buggy and always pops an error when you load the Pianoteq and just to hit ignore right?

yeah, i don't get that far, i just keep getting the activation tool ..oh well.

someone crack pianoteq 3 gud damn I can't spend 300 dollarz on it but I want its sexyness so bad

This is by far my favorite:

http://www.imperfectsamples.com/website/samples/fazioliconcertgrand/index.php

Sounds way better than any of the other sampled pianos I've used, and I tried quite a few.