THE BEST PIANO PLUGINS 🎹 (FREE & PAID)

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What's the best Piano Plugin? What's the best FREE Piano Plugin? What qualities does a good Piano Plugin or library have, that might be missing from some options? Join me on this deeeeep dive into Piano VST Instruments!
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00:00 - 0 INTRODUCTION
02:10 - 1 WHAT MAKES A ‘GOOD’ PIANO PLUGIN?  5 TESTS
05:43 - 2 COMPARISON GROUP A: Melda, UVI, XLN & IK
Melda Production - Monastery Grand
Melda Production - Meldway Grand
UVI Model D
XLN Audio - Addictive Keys
IK Multimeida - SampleTank 4 CS - Berlin Grand
06:38 - 2.1 Price, Size & understanding the Chart
07:00 - 2.2 Mic Positions
09:00 - 2.3 Velocity Layers
11:05 - 2.4 Velocity Curves and Volume
15:45 - 2.5 High/ Low Keys Balance
16:50 - 2.6 Release
18:03 - 2.7 Resynthesis in SampleTank
20:19 - 2.8 RECAP: a closer comparison
22:29 - 3 COMPARISON GROUP B: ruling out some options
Bitsonic - Keyzone Classic
AIR Music Tech - Mini Grand
Spitfire LABS - Glass Piano
Orchestral Tools - SINE Factory Ratio
Muze - Mirage
8dio - New 1928 Piano
Soundpaint - 1928 Steinway
23:30 - 3.1 The surprisingly good ‘Mini Grand’
24:53 - 3.2 Cautionary Tale About Muze
27:02 - 3.3 Spitfire LABS
28:27 - 3.4 SINE Factory
29:18 - 3.5 Cool tech without results in Soundpaint
32:17 - 4 COMPARISON GROUP C: Native Instruments & Kontakt
Native Instruments - Noire Pure
Native Instruments - Alicia's Keys
Native Instruments - The Grandeur
Sterzov Sampling - The creative Toolbox: Steinway Grand Piano for Kontakt Player
Ivy Audio - Piano in 162 for full Kontakt or Sforzando
Soniccouture - Hammersmith Free for Kontakt Player
32:20 - 4.1 Demo
35:22 - 4.2 Discussion
37:08 - 5 COMPARISON GROUP D: boz, UJAM, Mixcraft
boz digital labs - Master Keys New York L 1991
UJAM - Virtual Pianist VOGUE
Mixcraft - Pianissimo
Studiologic - NUMA Player
37:18 - 5.1 Key Shift
39:03 - 5.2 UJAM’s Player
40:24 - 5.3 Pianissimo
41:03 - 5.4 Numa Player
42:12 - 6 COMPARISON GROUP E: Physical Modelling
Sampleson - Meta Piano
Soundmagic - Neo Piano Piano One
Modartt - Pianoteq
Arturia - Analog Lab Play American Home Grand
42:29 - 6.1 Meta Piano
44:12 - 6.2 Digression about Layering
45:08 - 6.3 Piano One
46:09 - 6.4 Pianoteq
49:19 - 6.5 Bass Register Comparison
50:31 - 6.6 The best Free Piano?
52:13 - 7 FINAL COMPARISON
55:50 - 8 Conclusion

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@xantux 2 месяца назад

*Some corrections as pointed out by @TamirOrkobysPiano pretaining to NI Pianos: Check out Tamir's Video for demonstrations: ru-vid.comEjow0VKeS1A?si=euE3LEO55w_LW247 - Noire does in fact have Sympathetic Resonance - The Grandeur does in fact have Sympathetic Resonance, Real Pedalling and Silent Key - Alicia's Keys does in fact have Sympathetic Resonance and Silent Key. (I wouldn't count the Half Pedalling, could be argued that there should be a - instead of a x) The three NI Pianos were in my top 5 already, nice that they're even better than I thought.

@streetshamanproductions 3 месяца назад

I had no idea piano vsts had a release sample. Now I want my ableton samples to have a release sample option now

@tetkiktedavi1674 3 месяца назад

Very informative, I learned a lot about pianos, sampling, and modeling.

@djw457 2 месяца назад

Really an epic demo of these options, I came home from work and watched it, then went off to play some of them, then came back and watched the rest.

@bicrome 3 месяца назад

Dude you have the best vst comparison videos by far! I love it :)

@xantux 3 месяца назад

Thank you!

@MreenalMams 3 месяца назад

Very well made video Xantux.. very satisfying watch and very well edited.. 1 hour didn't feel like it at all.. My personal favourite is the Addictive Keys (free with Focusrite interfaces & Novation Keyboards) but i will try Hammersmith & Arturia once more..

@justangel7 3 месяца назад

This video is pure gold

@SoupieJ 3 месяца назад

FINALLYYYYY

@simbaking6338 Месяц назад

Awesome comparison my bro. The Noire & Meldway Grand takes the better sampled based pianos in my opinion (Pity You didnt put Keyscape & Ravenscroft on this list)...For Physical modelled based,... Pianoteq has no competition....keep up the good work., am a new subscriber.

@xantux Месяц назад

I'm collecting more! An updated video will come probably within a year or so 😅

@heretic4521 3 месяца назад

Model D is sort of UVI's throwaway piano library... it would have been interesting if you had also compared this to their Austrian Grand, which is their premium option.

@xantux 3 месяца назад

Yeah, that's true - maybe I'll be able to get it in the future

@NickLeonard 3 месяца назад

I can't believe you didn't include Vienna Symphonic Library, the only good pianos 😎 Great video, I know it took a lot of work!

@xantux 3 месяца назад

Yeah there's many other missing as well, financial and time constraints 😅

@timspencer1 3 месяца назад

Very surprised Production Voices aren't on your list - as I understand it they are amongst the best sampled pianos out there. I also quite rate Spitfire's Intimate Grand. Great video. Thank you! I am not a piano player so this was a bit of an education.!

@m1nnefr3d 3 месяца назад

Danke!

@xantux 2 месяца назад

Danke ebenfalls! Mein erstes Superthanks 🥳

@theiammike123 3 месяца назад

There's also free Production Voices Estate Grand LE. It's sampled from a Kawai GS60.

@mudi2000a 3 месяца назад

Wow this is a real epic comparison video. I especially like the part at the beginning where you explained all the parts of the piano sound that the plugins try to model (or not…). Regarding the UVI Model D, you can get it for free we some hardware or other plugins. Would it stay at 1 star for a free version, or would it go up to 2?

@xantux 3 месяца назад

I actually also got Model D as a free gift with purchase - I think if it was actually free, probably it would deserve 2 stars. But even then I would prefer my mentioned top 3 free pianos

@jeffagoddard 3 месяца назад

Well done and very thorough! I wonder how many viewers will watch this complete video like I did? Did you get free copies or trials of the paid VSTs? Or did you buy some? I’d really like to get a copy of your spreadsheet - if that’s possible? Finally, I use the Logic Bosendorfer, Steinway and Yamaha c3 pianos quite a bit. Not sure how they compare. Thanks for putting in the effort for this comparison 😃

@xantux 3 месяца назад

Thank you! Very nice to hear that there's at least one person out there that watched the whole thing! I was a bit worried about that when the video got longer an longer 😅 Many of plugins I bought over the past couple of years without thinking of this video, the couple I mentioned at the end I got for free from the Devs :) I'm not sure what would be the best way to hand out the spreadsheet - it's all just in a powerpoint, feel free to reach out via instagram or e-mail so I could send that file through there 🤔 or maybe I could add a link to it in the description - I'll think about it!

@zoeyyz 2 месяца назад

How is the sample length? Before it starts to loop the sample, making it feel synthetic .. (?)

@xantux 2 месяца назад

As far as I know, none of these should have any loop points, just whole length sampled piano keystrokes with natural decay

@minihilly 3 месяца назад

fantastic video I use addictive keys steinway, I like its sound and it came bundled with my audio interface free. I'm personally not keen on mini grand, which came with my midi keyboard. Curious what your thoughts are on reason's radical piano?

@xantux 3 месяца назад

Hmm I don't have reason (anymore), I never tried it

@minihilly 3 месяца назад

@@xantux I'm on the fence on whether i want to keep reason+ I like its instruments (synths especially), but don't like the pricing model and its limitations as a DAW.

@Beatsbasteln 3 месяца назад

i'm a bit sad that i like some of the sampled plugins' sounds more than the physical modelling approaches. but that's ok. i like physical modelling for other things

@mudi2000a 3 месяца назад

Nearing the end of the video now … so I think it is no coincidence that the Arturia sounds like Pianoteq as I think they licensed it and either it’s an older version or just stripped down with less controls.

@xantux 3 месяца назад

Really? That makes aot of sense, but is also a bit unbelievable 🤔 very interesting!

@mudi2000a 3 месяца назад

@@xantux I wanted to know it more exactly so I now checked the files installed by Arturia Piano V3. There is a file pianoProcessor.dll and it contains the string Pianoteq 6.0.3. So it is a good assumption that they are using this version (which is from like 5-6 yrs ago apparently).

@Markrspooner 2 месяца назад

⁠It is true, someone looked at the hex values and it says multiple times modartt and pianoteq (it is in a thread on VI-Control with screenshots). I think they use version 2 or 3.

@ArtEntity 3 месяца назад

nice thumbnail

@xantux 3 месяца назад

Thanks!

@matthijshebly 3 месяца назад

Huh? What about LABS Autograph Grand?!?

@xantux 3 месяца назад

😅 yep, it's not there, I prefer the Glass Grand over it

@MreenalMams 3 месяца назад

Xantux intentionally left it out to annoy you..

@matthijshebly 3 месяца назад

@@MreenalMams Bwahahahahahahahahahahaha, I knowwwwwww

@matthijshebly 3 месяца назад

@@MreenalMams I am now creating yet another Autograph Grand demo, just to annoy Xantux

@MreenalMams 3 месяца назад

@@matthijshebly 😂😂😂

@TamirOrkobysPiano 2 месяца назад

Your getting it wrong. All of NI pianos. Got half dumping silent keys. And sympathetic resonance. ru-vid.comEjow0VKeS1A?si=euE3LEO55w_LW247

@xantux 2 месяца назад

I stand behind my test results. Sometimes with half damping, if it's implemented poorly, it will still feel like it doesn't really work. Same with silent key. But they definitely don't have the kind of sympathetic resonance I refer to in the video (see my tests, I don't mean string resonance). With the other two, they might have tried to implement them, but if so, they weren't successful (for some of the pianos)

@TamirOrkobysPiano 2 месяца назад

@@xantux I did video that's proof your wrong about N.I Pianos. I Don't know why you deleted the respond. But I sent you privately the link thrue Instagram. Don't be too proud to admitted you was wrong. The thruth is more important then our ego.

@theiammike123 3 месяца назад

muze is a scam lol

@theiammike123 3 месяца назад

Also, Arturia's Piano V - which has one free preset (American Home Grand) in Analog Lab Play - is literally based on Pianoteq technology.