11 Amazing Piano VSTs and Libraries (Sound Comparison) 

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0:45 Keyscape 2:14 Addictive Keys 3:43 Ravencroft 275 5:12 Walker 1955 Concert D 6:44 Cinematic Studio Piano 8:13 Una Corda 9:40 Emotional Piano 11:10 The Gentleman 12:38 The Giant 14:07 The Grandeur 15:35 Alicia's Keys

*Mid Range Timestamps:* 1:26 Keyscape 2:56 Addictive Keys 4:24 Ravencroft 275 5:54 Walker 1955 Concert D 7:26 Cinematic Studio Piano 8:54 Una Corda 10:22 Emotional Piano 11:51 The Gentleman 13:20 The Giant 14:48 The Grandeur 16:17 Alicia's Keys

This is the best piano vst comparison ive seen on youtube, i love that you show the SAME RECORDING with different pianos and especially that you show them in different uses. Very helpful thank you.

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This is fantastic. Thanks for putting in the time to do this.

Thank you very useful! awaited a complete VST review for other instruments such as strings, drums, guitars, basses☺

Thank you again for your great videos. I am using The gentleman, and this was a great resources to hear other options.

I've played piano since 1993. Love the evolution of VST:s. Beautiful sounding pianos. My current favourites are; Garritan CFX, Ravenscroft 275 and Fazioli Ebony Concert Grand. 🙌

For me the Emotional Piano sounded best for my taste. But there is a piano that should be here also. Very detailed and truly inspiring and realistic. The Pearl Concert Grand by Impact Soundworks. Amazing software. I've been using it for the last 5 yrs and it is still perfect for my work.

They all sound good. it's mind blowing how piano plugins sounds so good and real.

Thanks for video man!

for me addictive keys, keycap and specially walker 1955 wow!!! at mid range and high range his sounds is very emotional for me

I have them all and I preferred Walker 1955 Concert D. But then... I bought Concert D-274 from Vienna Symphonic Library and I was overwhelmed: this is the best by far.

Thanks for this useful comparison.

Great video, thank you!

The Walker really stood out to me. I kind of liked the Cinematic Studio Piano as well. Pianoteq has some great stuff. For the money Waves Grand Rhapsody Piano is really nice too.

Thank you for featuring our Emotional Piano library!

I see you are so humble in the comment section. What a nice man. I was just beggining to love music especialy filmscoring. I would love to see more of your incoming vids sir!

Maybe because I've listened to M.-A. Hamelin's recordings on Steinway D "too much," Walker 1955 Concert D sounds really familiar to me, and some day, I'm going to purchase this.

Walker! I put this on in the background, forgot about it, but paid attention when Walker came on

For professional usage I do think Addictive Keys could be a pretty neat choice But I think The Grandeur would practically fits my production tasks and many more music previews / demonstrations And I would like to go get The Giant and see what funny things I can have with this preset~

Thank you so much for this video! I've been trying to look for good sounding piano VSTs for so long

Thanx for video, Mikael :3

Interesting video. Because I am a bit disappointed by the somewhat dull speaker sound of my Kawai CA59, I was looking for ways to improve it. When comparing these sounds on the headphones with a digital recording of the SK Concert Grand in the CA59, I realized that all of these VSTs sound great, but so does the Kawai! Just different... Each of these pianos has its own character. So for me, it is confirmed that it is really the speaker system only, and not necessarily the rendering. I might start with adding a good amp+speakers, and then look into VSTs later.

i love how they al lsound and i would say they are different tools for different applications. i own a couple of them and use them in different ways.

I loved the 1 2 5 6

good review 😍

Very nice video, I like the gentleman and keyscape

My favorites are Ravenscroft 275, The Gentleman, and The Grandeur but there were some close seconds!

Thank you Mike.

Soo great sir ..

All of these sounds great. But Walker 1955... This mix of resonances... It makes this library sound really catching and true

The walker 1955 sounded incredible but it did have a considerable amount of reverb on it so that might have something to do with it.

I feel a lot of them actually might have the sound I'm looking for, if tweeked or another preset is ready to go. Otherwise, only una corda was strkingly different and extreme quality, although I have the gentleman and you can get so much more out of that soundbank that I wonder how much more is lost, because a real presentation would show their presets a bit more but it would make it into an hour long video. Worth it still ;)

I was set to buy The Grandeur but after hearing this, I'm seriously considering The Walker; it's full and beautiful, Thank you for the comparison.

Thank you SO MUCH for these comparisons. I was able to listen to same passages, played with each. Some clear winners for me. Cinematic sounds most 'real' on these imperfect (muffled a bit) headphones Gentleman, Walker and Ravenscraft also seem responsive to your playing. Others have flaws, some even sound like sine waves in the sustain (yuck). THANKS !!!!

Walker 1955 like more than others. Very lively sound!

missing synthogy there..expecially the "american concert d". a beautiful piece of art. thank you for your work:)

Keyscape 1:26 Addictive Keys 2:56 Ravenscroft 4:24 Walker 5:54 Cinematic studio piano 7:26 Una Corda 8:54 Emotional piano 10:23 Gentleman 11:51 Giant 13:20 Grandeur 14:48 Alicia's Keys 16:17

I missed the best One of ALL... The Gartian CFX but great video :)

Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I want to ask where to buy a keycape piano vst. thank you sir.

Not being a kbd player I choose by how it fits in a mix. I've only tried 4 of these. Based on that experience I would pick the Grandeur.

didnt know addictive keys was this good! I think Ill get one soon

Beautiful sounds! The Walker 1955 catch me, it's magic for my ears.

Very Nice chords

You could have tested the trial version of "SONiVOX Eighty Eight Ensemble 2.5...recreation of the Steinway 9-foot CD 327 grand piano."

They all sound very good. Can't tell the difference.

I think you should have put Walker in 36 velocities not just 12. Thank you for the comparison, I personally vote for embertone’s piano, unfortunately you can not upgrade from the lite version :(

I have the NI piano packages. I'm using a digital piano through Um1 audio interface. I can't get a full piano sound with the vst. Any suggestions?

Addictive keys is now my 😍

Out of all of these to me the best is the Walker 1955. It is the most balanced and most realistic without too much echo.

I wanna know what mid-range test is from... sounds calm, i wish there was a full song of it!

i personally use garritan and abbey road studios CFX Grand and I love it, i recommend you review it!

The Una Corda sounds incredible

THE GRANDEUR IS THE BEST ONE! YOU CAN SET OPENED OR CLOSED LID AND TONE THE COLOR OF TIMBRE FROM SOFT TO HARD PLUS ADJUST SIZE OF THE ROOM AND DISTANCE OF REVERB

actually i like addictive keys and emotional piano

Hi-octave keys of "Emotional Piano" deserve many adjectives!! Crispy, silk, most beautiful, etc. Reminds lovely raindrop sounding chords in hi-octave😍. Sadly the mid-octave keys of "Emotional Piano" are blurry, and not crystal like its hi-octave keys. Most other pianos have bite sound in mid-octave keys, but "The Gentlemen" had some clarity and silk even in its mid-octave keys. Its hi-octave keys are also good. However both "Emotional Piano" & "The Gentlemen" are Kontakt libraries, and has little customization options (unlike "Addictive keys" & "Keyscape").

my current best are : VSL D274 , CFX and The Grandeur

Can you do more of those video's very nice. Personally i like Keyscape but the rest are alsof powerfull cheers 👍🏿

There is another amazing piano: Studio Grand by 8DIO!!!

very good.

The Una Corda is BEAUTIFUL

Have you tried the imperfect samples Fazioli? The best IMO

I got synthogy Ivory American concert D and Keyscape.. Both highly recommended.. On my wishlist: pianoteq 6 and garritan CFX

Walker 1955 Concert D Cinematic Studio Piano i like it)

Today, for me, it is the ascend piano from heavyocity without any hesitation!

I bought a Roland FP-30X to finally learn the piano at 28 (not trying to produce music etc.). In your opinion, which is the best plugin to take the Roland’s sound to the next level? Just started learning about all the available plugins, but I heard about Garritan CFX, Keyscape’s C7, Ravenscroft 275, Pianoteq (to mention a few), are great. What’s your opinion? Also, trying to load Garritan CFX on a Roland FP-30X connected to a desktop PC but I can feel the latency affecting my playing. I can around 2 ms latency but it still feels “slow”. Don’t know if my brain is making this up. How do you load the plugin (VST, Standalone)? How can someone “eliminate” latency, to replicate the feel of a real piano? What is the most responsive (lowest latency) plugin in your experience? Maybe Pianoteq? Currently using Reaper as my choice of DAW (tried Ableton too), I’ve set the Sample Rate to the maximum of 384 kHz that my Chord Mojo DAC supports, which lowered the latency instantly, and now I’m experimenting with the Buffer size, around 128-256 samples, keeping in mind how my system responds, so as to avoid cracks and pops. I’ve also got a Ryzen 3600 system, which handles all this pretty fine I’d say. Still feels kinda slow.

Cual serian los vst y cual las librerias?

Does it matter what midi keyboard you use? I have m audio keystation 44.

Nice video. Do you mind share the music scores used for testing? Really like the mid-ranges one.

I have many of the list (many come with komplete, but i also have cinematic studio piano e.g.)... they are all good in their own right. however, i recently tried the Arturia Piano V.. While i was very suspicious about arturia being able to create a convincing piano (they are more a synth company than anything else)... But i have to say: it's quite wonderful audio wise. No samples, just physical modeling. it's very authentic sounding. (even pedal noises and key noises when playing softly.

Una corda sounds really unique i think it has more depth than others, really liked it.

I wonder why piano sounds make us so comfortable...... beautiful

hey bro, which software support automatic sustain? i'm newbie

What are the notes from 14:25 to 14:48? What is the name of the part?

Emotional piano its Amazing!!!

Obrigado que maravilhas

Native Instru,ents The Noire is amazing

The Grandeur!

I use arturia piano V2 Its good for trap/hiphop music

Wie werden diese Plug-ins instaliert? Ich habe Cubase 10.5

where i can get alicia's keys?

sir,how to do step recording in fl studio 20.plz help me,plz sir make one video.

I personally liked 3rd and 10th one for me preference

I like the keyscape and ravenscroft ,they sound good every where cause there are less muddy , they dont block inspiration

I would like to buy this vst, is it compatible with reason 11? what is the link to buy this piano vst?

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Pianoteq best. Simple, fast, realistic (half damper, repedalling etc.). modelling is the future :)

Which in your opinion is the most rich and warm in sound?

Hello friends. Does anyone have the full keyscape working without errors? Could you pass me the download link or the solution to the errors? Thank you. Greetings from Colombia.

I would like to know your opinion about NOIRE.

10, 2, 4, and 8

V v nice great sir...I need kontakt piano free libraries sir uploading please??

walker 1955 concert D

Take a look at some pianos from VSL. They have the most expensive libraries, but deeply sampled with sympathetic resonance and realism like no other.

All sounds good for me..

Where can I get these vst plugins?

Keyscape and Walker D sounds the best for me

Why do so few of these have mic positions?