You’ll find many classics here as they are so well put together that they are not easily replaced by more modern attempts. The search for the perfect, most authentic and expressive virtual piano continues and in our list you’ll find a range of excellent Piano VSTs that could be the one you’re looking for. It isn't that expensive so I guess that's alright.Computers have the power to conjure up incredibly detailed and emotive piano sounds.
I've had fun playing some (by now) medium large sampled instrument libraries, so I understand it can be nice to play some notes and hear the magic of a piano tone you like, but making a musical instrument requires some more for my taste.
VI LABS RAVENSCROFT 275 PRO
I wanted to try out a demo with another high standard audio interface, maybe at a pro 96kHz sample rate on my big monitoring system, which I suspected would not make me suddenly change my mind, but there's no demo version. I listened to some of the main web page demos on a very good DAC on my trusted mid sized bi amped monitors and cannot but conclude the main faults that make me put many sound programs aside are the main reason I don't feel terribly excited about this 44.1kHz sampled piano: no sample reconstruction error compensation, no stable spatial dimension recognition on any chord, and nothing to make me feel tone couplings in chords have been properly prepared, or resonances in the instrument can respond lie any regular piano. Unless you like a certain IMO rather perverted sound element strife for taking on the sonic picture incessantly, I don't get it why the bit whiny, dynamically rather imaginationless tone of this plugin/program should be praised above so many (maybe big) sample set based offerings. I think I simply used different EQ downstream, like what Steve Nathan suggests. It can take some time to tweak it just right, listening within the context of the mix, but that's only because I'm a perfectionist.Īs for a more aggressive sound for Ravenscroft for rock, I think usually what people mean by this is a more prominent note attack, which generally means focusing a bit more on the close mics, but as I prefer a high ratio of close mics even for jazz and classical, I'm not sure if I did anything all that different for rock tracks in that regard. A miracle of a plug-in (like most of PSP's products).
VI LABS RAVENSCROFT 275 PSP
PSP Pianoverb II gets used at the track production level. I still use a spatial reverb during the mix, as a traditional aux send. Think of this as more of a string resonance enhancer than a traditional room reverb it really helps bring a 3D sound to the piano itself, making it more "real" sounding and less like a "recording". Michael Wright, SamuelBLupowitz, David Emm, Joe MuscaraĪn extra bit of advice on PSP Pianoverb, which I still use even on the VSL pianos. I expect I’ll fire up the laptop to run this even if I’m just practicing, which is not something I usually would want to do: “as few power switches as possible between me and playing” is my typical motto.įor $140, I’m kicking myself for not taking the plunge sooner. I’m sure they all have their differences, but from what I was coming from, the Ravenscroft feels like a holy grail of piano sound. I know I’ve read countless conversations here and other places about whether or not people like this piano, Pianoteq, and a bunch of others. I quick dialed in one or two sounds that I like, and spent a bunch of hours this morning just playing. It’s just so “alive” sounding, with clear and real-feeling tone all across the instrument. Wow! I had no idea how much I disliked my current sound until I started playing with the Ravenscroft. I’ve got a big project coming up (basically, recording a musical for streaming, along with tracks to facilitate remote rehearsing and filming), and thought I’d treat myself. So I’ve been using Logic’s stock pianos a lot in the last month or so. It’s fine, but for a lot of stuff I’ve been doing, it’s just been more convenient to midi into the computer and keep it all in the DAW without sending midi back out to the Integra. Wow! My primary piano sound for a few years now has come from a Roland Integra (or the PX5S, which is my gigging board that’s been standing in as a studio board for too long at this point).