You need a sampler + samples

synths are poo for piano.

I havn't used it my self but the below vst has bee getting a lot of attention.

http://www.truepianos.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsd2SJThgjU

Might be worth checking out.

I've found Steinberg The Grand 2 is the closest software comes

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Originally posted by echosystm You need a sampler + samples synths are poo for piano.

u got some piano samples i could dl for free?

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NI akoustic piano is quite nice...

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Originally posted by Ry Thomas I've found Steinberg The Grand 2 is the closest software comes

haven't used it myself, but a friend of mine has it. i've heard some quite fantastic renders out of it. and its wealth of parameters is certainly worth a mention in the department of realism.

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Agreed, go with samples.

As far as synth VSTs go, Luxonix Purity has some decent sounding piano presets, although nothing like a good sampled piano.

East-West puts out several good piano sample libraries, and the included sample libraries with Kontakt 2 include some quality piano samples.

I also like SampleTekk's "Rain Piano" although my beef with it is that not all notes are sampled. Every 3rd note is sampled, and the sampler presets included simply octivate the samples to cover all notes. This is obviously not the best method, but in the same respect keeps memory and disk utilization down, and a good sampler will handle the octivation well. There is a neat sound to this sample package. It is from a custom-tuned sweedish upright with the center string slightly detuned to give in a unique character.

http://www.sampletekk.com/prodhelpf...heRainPiano.pdf

You might have a look through HammerSound's piano soundfont library, they have some piano soundfonts, although most are generated from synths. Still, you might find something suitable for your project.

http://www.hammersound.com/cgi-bin/...0&ListLength=15

Sampled piano gives a much much more realistic sound, for example i like the grand piano samples is reason 3.0 using the NN XT advanced sampler

If you want a decent piano VST the closest i can name is "Dimension mini piano" this can be run throught SFZ and is a .sfz file but you can use it like any other vst plugin... It is a realstic sounding piano although it may be a bit flat in my opinion, better than any synth piano sound though.

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Try 4Front Piano Module.
http://www.yohng.com/piano.html

It gets the job done and it's free.

best by far from what I've used is the combinator presets in Reason 3...also the piano is sampled so that if you use EQ creatively you can make it sounding any way you want (without it sounding too unrealistic)

the close second is Edirol Orchestral's piano...but you have to use a compressor or maximizer because the output from this VST is always low in volume (atleast for me)...also you get damn good strings as a bonus

Last but not least, you can use SF2 samples, which you can load in various VSTs or reason's NN:XT sampler...if you look for "Steinway SF2" in google I am sure you'll find plenty.
Steinway is a brand of pianos, pretty well established, and pretty much best sounding....but let me be a bit patriotic and let me say that Petrofs sound pretty good as well

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Pianoteq sounds quite amazing:

http://www.pianoteq.com/

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