Ultimate Piano VST Comparison: Keyscape, Spitfire, NI, Logic, Musio with the StudioLogic SL88 Grand
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ค. 2024
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In this video I compare piano VST plug-ins both free and paid played on the StudioLogic SL88|Grand. Which ones work best with the Fatar TP400/Wood hammer action? Could free piano VSTs actually work for your compositions with a good controller?
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FREE:
Get the free Spitfire Labs Autograph Grand here: bit.ly/AutographGrand
Pianobook Instruments for free here: www.pianobook.co.uk/instrumen...
BBC Symphony Orchestra Discover & Piano: www.spitfireaudio.com/bbc-sym...
Try Musio for FREE! : musio.com/
Get a FREE TRIAL for Apple Logic Pro: www.apple.com/logic-pro/
LINKS TO OTHER PIANOS IN THIS VIDEO:
Get the StudioLogic SL88|Grand. I love mine and highly recommend for accurate piano VST control and real piano feel! sweetwater.sjv.io/y23YXb
Get Keyscape. My recommended professional piano VST. sweetwater.sjv.io/3exVGy
Other pianos mentioned in this video:
Native Instruments The Granduer: (Just under Keyscape for realism!) sweetwater.sjv.io/LXqzQ3
Native Instruments Noire: sweetwater.sjv.io/3exVGy
Native Instruments The Maverick: sweetwater.sjv.io/Mmx0Zn
Garritan Pianos: sweetwater.sjv.io/vN3oLL
Timestamps:
0:00 - The Kawaii Baby Grand
1:25 - My New SL88|Grand
2:43 - Spitfire Labs Autograph Grand
5:21 - Logic Bosendorfer Piano
7:20 - Native Instruments Noire
9:47 - A Noire Love Story
10:38 - Keyscape Yamaha C7
12:52 - Garritan Concert D
15:10 - Music Cinepiano
18:29 - Native Instruments The Grandeur
20:24 - Logic Yamaha Piano
22:26 - Native Instruments The Maverick
23:53 - Musio Session Grand
25:12 - Yamaha C7 PianoBook
27:18 - The Dolan Piano PianoBook
29:00 - BBCSO Piano
31:10 - Piano VST Wrap Up
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Give me your thoughts on your favorite Piano VSTs! Use any of these?
A great review - Many thanks.
My pleasure!
Brilliant review!
Thank you!
As I am waiting for my SL Grand to arrive, I came across your video. Thank you for this very informative video!! Very much appreciated!
Excited to know that you think. It's been the answer for me.
@@HelloComposers The SL Grand is no doubt the most velocity sensitive masterkeyboard I have ever laid my hands on. Besides that it just feels extremely comfortable. Playing the SL Grand is a true treat! It is hard to finish a production because you just want to keep on playing :-) I think the SL Grand is at the top of the short list of true piano-like masterkeyboards. Now I have still got your list of piano's to check out, since a this keyboard deserves a really nice piano. Thank you once again for this nice list and your professional discussion and opinion. (I am very impressed by your playing skills BTW!)
Very helpful review! thank you!
Thanks for watching
Noire is my goto for when I want to just sit down and play a nice piano by itself, with Garritan CFX a close second. Both have many dynamic sample layers and are highly customizable with multiple mic positions and timbre controls. Both are based on the Yamaha CFX grand, which I like the more delicate sound of, compared to VSTs based on the Steinway D grand, which I find too brash. I also have all of the Native Intruments pianos from Komplete 14, including Grandeur, Giant, Gentlemen, Maverick, Uni Corda, and Alicia Keys. They're ok, but I'm not wild about them. Piano Colors is also based on the Yamaha CFX, but I don't like the plain piano sound as much as Noire or Garritan. Noire, Piano Colors and Arturia's Augmented Pianos come with elaborate customizable ambiant layer engines, which sound amazing and could be useful, but I mainly am interested in the core piano sound. I have heard from many sources that PianoTeq, Vienna, and Keyscapes are all excellent, but I can't justify the cost, as I have so many piano VSTs already.
Same. I really need to try PianoTeq as many ppl suggest.
Great overview! If ever you do a part 2, it would be interesting to get your opinion on modeled pianos. I've been using Pianoteq and liking it a lot! 🎹🎶
Yes this is an obvious omission but just went with what I had. Also want to make sure people hear Ivory. I used it for a decade before I got Keyscape. There are other free ones too!
Nice review! I myself usually use the AcousticSamples C7 piano, but am also very fond of the Spitfire Jangle Box piano, for a very different sort of character.
For me, it’s Pianoteq then Keyscape. I’ve been exploring Ivory3 and Pianoverse lately but my go to is Pianoteq!
I love those also, I have been playing around with the True Pianos and Ravenscroft 275 and now added them.
Great video
Thanks!
Thanks. Interesting comparison. A varied selection, demonstrating how different piano samples can sound, in their dynamics, ambience and tone. The only thing I would add is one needs a really good listening environment, or headphones (preferably with crosstalk refinement) to hear these differences. Each with their own quirks. The Dolan was interesting, if a bit noisy.
Yes, all those Piano book sounds are going to have a lot of "personality".
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Eric! I also like The Giant from NI. I used it in my Klavier Momente - Album.
I also use sometimes Augmented Piano from Arturia.
Nice! I was really going after more grand pianos and I think the giant is a upright, correct?
@@HelloComposers Yes. You are right it is the worlds biggest upright.
That Keyscape C7 sounds wonderful - exactly how a real Yamaha C7 piano professionally recorded in a studio would sound. 🎹 👌
I think so!
This was excellent! I wish you could have added native instruments the gentleman and my absolute favorite pianoteq
Great video! I can’t chord a grand piano, but this piano you are using sounds great, but was thinking of the Native Kontakt SL88 grand. Maybe making the wrong choice but what do you think? Love the Keyscape. Don’t have it!
Kontakt pianos are my go to. I also mix piano samples in kontakt to get the sound I want.
I like the sound of the maverick, grandeur, and the upright (which I've forgotten the name just now 😂)
The Kontakt Kawai piano I like too.
I have keyscape which is great, but I wish they hadn't just focused on the Yamaha piano and had included a bechstein too. Garritan is OK but not the sound I go for personally. Cinepiano is good but with my keyboard I find it less responsive than say keyscape which is very responsive. I'm with you on the reverb. So many samples have the room sound which you can't turn off. The Ravel is notorious for this. You can turn off reverb but it still sounds like reverb.
I like as dry as possible piano sound that I can add reverb or room sound to. I'm more into 70's pop piano. Listen to albums like Elton John, Jackson brown and you won't hear loads of reverb, but a dryer more intimate piano sound which I love. Too many vst creators use reverb to mask the poor quality of their samples.
Love your playing BTW. 👍
I like Grandeur for sure and could probably get by with it if I didn’t have Keyscape. I’m a Yamaha guy, and think it cuts best in pop and jazz. But who knows what I will get into with the new SL88Grand and some of the samples.
Great and thorough presentation. I also enjoy Keyscape and use the Giant from NI. But my piano of choice is Ravenscroft 275. My controller is the Kawai MP11se (I had to rebuild the end of key pads myself - the ones that come from Kawai become "sticky"). When I do solo piano, I use a VST for the same reason you do - the difficulty of recording an acoustic piano!! What interface do you use? I use Focusrite Claret - but it does color the sound .... a little. Whatever you are using to do this video - the sound is great; you can really hear the difference between each piano. Thanks again - job well done!!
Almost reviewed the Giant but was sticking to grand pianos. Gonna have to try Ravenscroft. I have a PreSonus Revelator io24. Thanks so much!
@@HelloComposers Thanks for your response. Just to let you know, the sound quality that you have on your video is amazing. It really allows the listener to differentiate the various nuances from one vst to the next. Great sound - don't touch a thing ...
Thank you! I will be doing more of these video to help composers know their options with sounds, especially free and inexpensive ones.
I have an acoustic Yamaha grand C1s silent with midi. I also have a nord grand with krk 6 and sub krk7s. My focus is piano. What amplification do you use. Personally can’t get the sound like my grand Yamaha. Am I expecting too much?
What samples or program are you using for Piano? I wish I could get my Kawai baby grand to play silent and send midi.
Hi, On my Nord Grand, I use the piano's installed. They sound great from TH-cam demo's, but live at home they sound like Toys. Using samples using my Yahama Grrand C1S in midi recording is better than Acoustic. I have used Keyscape, Cubase and others high end software, all sound great except playing live using my KRK6 and KRK sub. I also have a Fender Amp, Peavey , still sound will never satisfty after playing My C1s. I am going to try my Local Supplier for the Kawai KVS 10s Hybrid's and the New Yamaha's.
Yeah it’s going to be hard to duplicate “hearing” and “feeling” a piano sound through speakers, versus when your re playing the actually instrument and getting the vibrations through the piano and through your fingers. It’s a visceral thing not just an audio one.
You’ll likely feel and hear it more by wearing headphones. I am Team Keyscape right now, but a lot of folks say to try Pianoteq. But for your particular issue, try wearing headphones while you play the C1s and Keyscape.
Keyscape’s Yammie C7 is fantastic for studio work but on stage I use the “Live CSX” patch on a Yamaha YC61 paired with a 88 key Numa X (non GT model, used only as a midi controller).
PIANOTEQ.
VSL pianos are the best 🥇