Some years ago I started with sampled piano sounds. In the beginning it was fine, but sometimes it just did not feel right. that's why I moved to a virtual plug-in. Well I m not a big fan of the native instruments versions and even tried some other - but finally I can just recommend pianoteq as really good plug-in.

I know that some other guys who are into trance use pianoteq too, so you may check their test-version.

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Nexus has a piano "Terminator theme piano" or something like that that includes a smooth strings on the preset, add some delay/reverb and not sounds bad

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned it yet, but reason has a realy good refill, can't remember the name of it, but they have hypersampled a steinway grand, steinway upright and one other piano.
You can pick from 5 different mic placements and mix as you see fit.

I love it!

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Originally posted by ralpheeee I'm surprised nobody has mentioned it yet, but reason has a realy good refill, can't remember the name of it, but they have hypersampled a steinway grand, steinway upright and one other piano. You can pick from 5 different mic placements and mix as you see fit. I love it!

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Originally posted by atxbigballer1 I use Reason and Roland xv-5050 for Pianos. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrgJkY9E11s For vst Hyper Sonic 2. (HALionSonic?)

I Did!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrgJkY9E11s
Get the Reason refill unpacker jack the sounds of the refill and use any sampler u want!

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Originally posted by Kysora Disregarding everything bad people say about it, Nexus has some fantastic piano samples

I agree 100% Some of my favorite pianos come from Nexus. My other favorite pianos come from Kontakt 4's stock library, and I recently bought a Kurzweil PC3X, which has the best piano sounds I've ever owned (unfortunately for the OP, it's obviously not a VST).

A few other instruments to consider for trance pianos:

- Dimension Pro (very versatile and tons of pianos)
- Wusikstation
- Omnisphere (has some great factory piano patches, and many other piano samples in the library that can be edited/layered for some excellent trance pianos)

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imo, free 4front piano, tweaked with fx does well.

if u have money, dont be afraid and buy modart pianoteq.

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I use a vst called mda piano, its free and if pretty good if you work it right.

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Originally posted by PlasticSoul 4front piano

im gonna check this one out

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Originally posted by meriter Your primary focus should be making good music. That's all. No one gives a shit how you do it. And the people that do are fags.

QL Pianos > all

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