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Posted by Evolve140 on Dec-10-2011 02:06:

Seeking a couple new sounds

I have gone a very long time without having piano or strings in my DAW. Can anyone recommend a couple plugins with nice piano sounds that I can deploy into my productions? And perhaps one for strings as well. Thank you!

Posted by Fuxzz on Dec-10-2011 04:35:

For strings I usually use Spectrasonics Atmosphere. For piano Pianoteq.

Posted by Vernon Wanderer on Dec-10-2011 16:47:

For the Piano I use Acoustica's Pianissimo.

Strings - Miroslav Philharmonik.

They are very good for what I need, but there are better ones(and way more expensive) surely.

Posted by jlea on Dec-10-2011 17:16:

East West have a 2 for 1 sale on at the minute-some decent pianos and strings in there.
Also some of the native instruments pianos are pretty good. Haven't tried their session strings though

Posted by tehlord on Dec-10-2011 18:57:

If you haven't already got Kontakt I'd recommend starting with that. There's a few nice pianos in there as standard and plenty in the way of strings and pads too. You'll also need it for the majority of the better sample libraries out there.

One very good standalone piano plugin is Truepianos.

Posted by Looney4Clooney on Dec-10-2011 20:23:

get the Komplete thing from NI.

best deal out there really.

Posted by cryophonik on Dec-10-2011 21:25:

+1 for Kontakt and/or Komplete.

The EWQL 2-for-1 sale is still going AFAIK, so you could go for Piano and Symphonic Gold, but that's probably overkill if you just want it for EDM.

Posted by Evolve140 on Dec-12-2011 13:44:

Cool, thanks. Many considerations. Any chorus you guys use in particular that you enjoy to get it nice sounding on your pianos?

Posted by cryophonik on Dec-12-2011 18:15:

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Originally posted by Evolve140
ny chorus you guys use in particular that you enjoy to get it nice sounding on your pianos?

For a freebie, you could try to find the Kjaerhus Classic chorus, or got with Blue Cat Audio's free chorus.

Tone2 WarmVerb (not free) has some excellent chorus modules, as well as dozens of other effects - very good for extremely "wet" sounding FX.

Valhalla �berMod will be released soon, so you might want to keep that on your radar. I'm guessing it will be in the same price range as the other excellent Valhalla products (~$50 USD).