gbuy yourself a piano, huge preamp with a shitload of options, and a great mic... all you need now is a pianist and a nice set of cables and a good pc to record it all.

Probably an multisampled/layered piano vst plugin could help you out.

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he's using reason...no VST's allowed heh. Um...someone awhile ago made a good piano sound like in Robert Miles - Children and put out an rns file for it. I'll see if I have it saved on my comp and you can check out the sample or whatever it may be.

storyteller is right though. if you want a piano that sounds like the one in coldplay's clocks you go out and buy/rent a steinway mini grand, a focusrite preamp, the most expensive cardiod microphone money can buy and a bundle of balanced cables + balanced recording interface. if you use reason then add cubase to that list, rewire and do all the recording through cubase.

bottom line is, you aint going to get a piano that sounds like coldplay without spending loads of wonga.

best thing you are going to get on a budget is synthogy ivory which is a really decent piano rompler with a 30gb sample library for the bargain price of £200.

if you cant afford that then its rgc sfz (free soundfont player) and the steinway model c piano soundfont. there used to be a better one than that for acoustic pianos. like a free 200mb acoustic piano soundfont. i forget the name. but the url kept returning page not found messages years ago.

NI Acoustic Piano vsti. Use it in single mode or use a vsti host, and rewire rebirth to whatever sequencer you like(cubase, Sonar,Logic) you can eaven record directly to .wave from the NI Acoustic piano, and than import into Rebirth.. Or get other acoustic piano vst'i, there is fiew of them available.. Or get a hold of someone with a roland synth, korg triton or yamaha motif, they have very nice multisampled pianos inside those workstations.. or go to your local synth shop, they might eaven let you record what you need there. I use to do that fiew years back, just go to my local music store and record something on their machine and burn it right there.. Bring it home.. done.. but it all depends on the store and it's nice to know the sales people or the menagement.. Or last thing.. rent a synth for a day or a week.. I use to rent stuff as well to sample dieferent things, or to try some equipment.. it's good idea if you don't wanna spend your cash on something and than a week later you find out it'sa not what you had in mind.

Actually, Reason 3.0 has some reeaaly nice piano patches courtesy of the Combinator. Might be worth looking into upgrading...