*No issues in this context, means that the end result sounds amazing, and I have no issue with that, but getting there is sometimes difficult as it is with all samples pianos. Noire is mostly useful for its felt samples and noise samples, in its normal mode it cannot keep up with the other alternatives and lacks dynamics. There's hardly a piano VST that is more divisive on here, some love it dearly, some hate it.

I personally think its playability is great if you spend the time to configure it, but the sound will always sound synthetic and fake to me. The piano itself is extremely clean, and the mic chooses a bit cold to my ears, specially compared to the Garritan. Every time I play Pianoteq and move back to a sampled piano it always feels soo good. That, combined with a lack of a real velocity curve in the plug-in, makes it too hard to control. VSL Steinway is the most deeply sampled of them all, but IMO has a lot of other issues, main one beeing a wierd dynamic response which makes it sound unnecessarily hard compared to te countless real Steinway D:s I’ve had the pleasure to play. Other good ones in your list are Walker, very deeply sampled, sounds great and a vibtage Steinway with lots of character, but for most of my uses it sounds a bit too vintage. It’s definitely on the cleaner side, so some would probably say that it lacks character. Piano World Home Page Forums Our Most Popular Forums Digital Pianos - Electronic Pianos - Synths & Keyboards Ravenscroft 275 vs. It’s extremely good scripted, deeply sampled and the Abbey road room sounds like a million dollars. As a matter of fact I’ve just finished a piano album in a neo classical style, and have no issues* with using Garritan together with a 22 piece live orchestra, even when the piano is central in all the songs. The best VSTs have excellent realistic tone, but when you play them you can be conscious that you're triggering independent samples, and there is not always the interaction between notes that you can get with a modelled piano.

I mostly use Garritan CFX for solo work, and am very happy with it. Pianoteq behaves realistically in its response to how you play and the resonances it produces, but its tone is artificial.

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