Where can I get the most realistic piano sound?

[Cacoph0ny]

Just a regular acoustic grand piano sound. And feel free to post presets for Reason or Fruity Loops because I honestly don't really feeling like tweaking a sample to find one right now.

Thanks

 

[Zack Uidl]

Right now I am using art vista virtual grand piano. I like it so far (haven't messed with it that much)

 

[Ben Johnson]

EWQL's new piano library is high on my shopping list. At ~260Gb(!), it might be overkill, but as a piano player, I find it very exciting to have that much depth in a sampled instrument.

Synthology Ivory and Galaxy II Grand Piano are a couple other great options.

Right now I'm just using my Yamaha S90 for piano sounds. Throw on a good IR reverb, and it sounds pretty decent.

 

[Zack Uidl]

260GB!?!?! Sick

The owner of the studio that I am a session musician for has that now, but I have yet to hear or use it.

 

[whitedamp]

Have you tried Reason Pianos? You can tweak at will a Steinway D recorded with multiples mics.

 

[noarin]

Edirol orchestral's piano is pretty good.

 

[Aaron Smith]

I have Ivory (by Synthogy), it sounds fantastic.

 

[Metaltastic]

+1 for Ivory, fucking incredible

 

[crillemannen]

Check out http://www.sampletekk.com/ and their black grand and white grand, absolutely fantastic

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

I have heard Ivory and for the price it sounds great.

 

[illegalfireworks]

Edirol orchestral's piano is pretty good.

seriously??

I'm really not a fan of it

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

I like reason's pianos okay, but I would honestly like to hear some of the refills of nicer pianos.

 

[beyond dead]

if you own a mac, get logic, it has tons of software instruments with it, including a very realistic piano sound!

 

[Notuern]

Native Instruments Akoustik Piano is without doubt the best piano-sampler i have ever heard in softwareformat.

 

[LydonB]

These sounds pretty decent to me...

http://garritan.com/steinway_demos.html

 

[madmuso]

For the money its hard to top this.
www.truepiano.com


I also like the east west bosendorfer inst, the N.I. intakt interface is easy and fast.

cheers