was wondering if someone could point me in the direction of a good trance piano sample or VSTi (preferably samples for kontakt). Im after that typical bright, attacking, glassy piano sound you often hear. I have a few piano samples already but these are very true to a real grand piano and they just dont work in the mix for a trance song. I also checked out truepiano, which is awesome but its not what im after.
The sound im after can be heard during the break down on veracocha -carte blanche.
Any help, advice is greatly appreciated,
cheers,
Apr-06-2010 02:52
Eric J
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Nov 2006
Location:
Carte Blanche used a Korg M1. You can get the Korg M1 VST and its remarkably close to the hardware.
Apr-06-2010 03:13
Kysora
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Aug 2009
Location: Hampshire, IL
Disregarding everything bad people say about it, Nexus has some fantastic piano samples
Apr-06-2010 03:44
kitphillips
is actually a guy.
Registered: May 2006
Location: Sydney, Australia
I use NI akoustic piano. You probably want to turn down any hammer/pedal noise the VST has, then throw a little compression on and pump up the highs above 5k by about 8 dB for air. Use a nice reverb and there you go.
I don't know about vsts , but PSP Piano Verb works well on producing the damper pedal sound. I tried that with FL Keys , and thought it was pretty amazing.
On topic, I like the piano sound in William Orbit's "Water On A Vine Leaf," which is that sort of bright piano mentioned by the OP. Wonder what he used back in 1993 when that track was made.
Apr-06-2010 11:45
madmuso
Senior tranceaddict
Registered: Nov 2009
Location: Melbourne
Thanks for the replies guys!
Eric, So the ol' M1 hey, gotta check out the vst version then!
atxbigballer1, looooooooooooooooooooooove the xv5050, I remember when the xv series came out, great stuff.
I'll check out Nexus too.
Thanks heaps guys!
cheers,
Apr-07-2010 01:55
Icone
In Dreams...
Registered: Nov 2001
Location: Leuven, Belgium
There are also some nice piano samples to be found in Hypersonic 2 - I use it often for piano's.
Some good soundfonts can also be helpful... But real good ones are hard to come by.
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