Hi

I need a grand piano vst preferably something cheap or free.

Does Nexus have any decent ones because i am considering getting that. My original decision to get omnisphere was a fail (its wank).

Thanks in advance

Nexus.

lol jesus

Go with anything that uses the Kontakt engine if you want to go samples. Pianoteq is great at sample modelling and TruePianos also sounds rather well. My favourite is Ivory but might be overkill for many.

And nexus is a piece of shit compared to omnisphere. People that use Nexus are hacks,

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It's only useful for it's bass and pianos. Everything else is drowned out with too many FX that make it impossible to incorporate the sound properly. The idiots even still have the FX going when you turn them all off on the face GUI. Even digging deeper and turning off things behind the 8 sub mixes can be futile. Some patches have crazy FX in them and I have absolutely no clue where they are coming from.

Thank you for your responses but i feel that people that say omnisphere is the best and nexus is for commercial crap are just trying to be new and different. I have omnisphere and i am not happy about paying £300 for recordings of a guy flicking a lightbulb and setting a piano on fire when most of sounds on it can be recreated by a very basic synth.

I think they should of approached it like omnisphere. A rompler but almost editable to the point that it is a synth. Omnisphere wasn't meant for plain sounds. It is an incredible product.

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TBH, unless you are planning on recreating a solo piano performance and trying to make it sound as realistic as possible, it doesn't really matter so much what you use as much as how you use it.

I use the free m-audio keyrig synth that came bundled with my keyboard that came with my keyboard and it blows many of those $99 or $199 out of the water.

With regards to nexus....

Omnisphere > nexus

^^^ what M4B said. Kontakt libraries are the way to go. Nexus' pianos are fine for cheesy trance pianos, but not much else.

EWQL has Pianos Gold Edition on sale as part of its AES promotion for €99/$149 (+ shipping/tax/iLok). If you already have any iLok, you don't need to buy another one. The sale was supposed to end yesterday, but they just extended it through Thursday at midnight PST.

EWQL Pianos Gold - Europe

EWQL Pianos Gold - Outside Europe

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There is a piano in nexus... subtle piano or something like this. That rocks, i always add some reverb and tweak it a bit depending on the pads and sounds brilliant. If you want something subtle as the name says, i am curious of the piano that Sean Tyas uses... i like it.

I think Tyas uses something out of the EXS24, not sure what the original source is. If I remember right you can see him noodling around with it in the masterclass he did for FM mag.

I prefer Alicia's Keys by Native Instruments, which is not your typical grand piano well suited for classical pieces. It has a lot of sustain to it, even to much for some people. Sampled from a Yamaha C3 Neo by Scarbee, it's a lot better than the other NI pianos like Berlin Grand or New York Grand.

I use Akoustic Piano from NI. My only issue is that it's not loud enough. lol I actually use it to practice my piano lessons for class every week. I've been wanting to try Alicia's Keys for a while.

http://www.native-instruments.com/#...keys/?page=1370

Alicia key's is horrible. That was a hack sampling job. The ones bundled in with COmplete 7 are ok. Except for alicia key's. I remember the first version had all these programming errors and the update made it barely playable. IT just sounds like a normal piano Eq'd with really bad release tails .

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