Perhaps in the following month Piano in Blue. Now, I have a lot of what it exists, then my Gear Acquisition Syndrom is lowered (my SSD is getting more and more full, I prefer to reserve the space for a future VSL : this helps !). Afterward, Ivory which didn’t disappoint me. When I have started, I tried Pianoteq 5 (not the best sounding), Truekeys (some irritating clicks), EWQL (felt in love with Bechstein, but irratated by its velocity layer gaps). Yes, quite expensive, but the expense has been spread among multiple years. The second one is based on my preset, I think, or at least something sounding very close to that. *) In L 's great comparison work, he included two Noire renderings. Long story short: if a piano, real or virtual, isn't capable of making individual notes sound lovely, it lacks the essential basic integrity to make music, however minimalistic or complex.Ĭheers and happy selecting of instruments of integrity, I find Noire surprisingly useful for that, but won't use it as a piano very much - if at all).
(So now I use Noire with a touch of its interesting sub-bass "microphone" to figure out double pass pieces and then take what I learn to my (not-yet-double) bass to play.
PIANOTEQ PIANISSIMO FULL
Yet, apart from left of middle C or thereabouts, I don't really enjoy playing it because - and here this long ramble goes full circle - the individual notes right of middle C just don't stand their own ground in sounding a beautiful piano. Not willing to give up easily I worked it and worked it and worked it some more and now have a preset that makes it as natural as (I think) it gets*).
PIANOTEQ PIANISSIMO INSTALL
However after first install and first playing using the defaults, I was truly shocked and thought it an immediate write-off. In that region, I like its low region more than in almost, if not all, other libraries. I like Noire for its gorgeous low end, up to close to middle-C. Playing Modern U, this (generally) works very well because (most of) its notes/samples sound truly lovely - individually as well as in harmony and resonance with eachother. Making such a piece sound really good for its whole ten-minute duration is a true test for instrument and player alike. I also like to experiment with minimalistic music such as "Spiegel im Spiegel" by Arvo Pärt. To me this becomes obvious rather quickly, because I can enjoy just playing a key and listen to what it gives, enjoy a beautiful sustain and release all on its own and so on. But when really listening to what a virtual piano has to offer in pure, real per-note beauty, many or even most of them sadly fail in real life. So these last weeks it occurred to me that a virtual piano is a lot sooner acceptable or even nice when pieces with many notes and richer harmonies are demoed, concealing the imperfections and sometimes (or often?!) downright ugliness of individual notes/samples. All in all I learned a lot of valuable things from that whole integration process.īack to what navindra said. So I started with Modern U instead, which is rather fortunate: had it been Noire first I would have stopped my virtual piano attempts right there and then, while Modern U surprised me in a good way and gave me "something useable" and even inspired my two layer/two amp/six speaker setup which is quite enjoyable. It was almost going to be my first paid virtual piano, hadn't it been for B showing VI Labs' Modern U on PW and me stumbling upon the thread he created. by and Simeon Amburgey, I got interested in it more than a year ago. I think I learned this from purchasing and using a Black Friday NI Noire license. (Resulting in virtual landfills full of piano libraries, as some of us have.)
Over these last few weeks, I finally start to get why I/we am/are easily fooled by VSTi piano demos/videos into thinking they sound wonderful or at least quite acceptable, and perhaps then even buy them and are disappointed the moment I/we start playing it ourselves. Navindra The funny thing is, if you pick any any regular piano, and you play a single note, you may well find the sound of that single note is intensely ugly all by itself
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