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Happy Piano Day! What are you favourite pianos?
[image via Erased Tapes Piano Day promotion email]
I hear that on the 88th day of the year, Piano Day comes around.
It's got me thinking about pianos.
I'd love to hear what your favourite pianos are, on iOS, and desktop too.
Way back, my favourite was Ravenscroft. Then Ivory in Module Pro, then Pure Piano came along, and I fell in love with it, as I have a passion for felt pianos. Since then, I've stayed pretty much with Pure Piano. I haven't got the Upright version since it came out. Who's got both, and what are the differences?
My main piano passion is felted pianos. So when using Ravenscroft, I used to adjust and add a low pass filter, to felt it up a bit. I converted Winter Felt Piano from PianoBook a couple of years ago, to run in AudioLayer, and it fast became my favourite piano. I still love it, although I love the versatility of Pure Piano.
Are there any other felt pianos I should know about on iOS?
It was my birthday yesterday, and thanks to the Spitfire Audio sale, I received Olafur Arnalds Composer Toolkit, whilst it was on half price sale. I love the felt piano on that, and the selected synth sounds. It's a beautiful toolkit. It would be amazing to be able to get something like this on iOS. I can dream…
The earliest piano of any sort in the digital world that grabbed my attention, was Felt Instruments Wolno free piano, swiftly followed by (on another birthday) Lekko. Lekko remains a great passion for me in the plugin world, and I find it hard to beat, as a creative piano tool. It just has the magic for me.
Please, go ahead and share some piano love here today, and tell me what else I'm missing!
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I have a Yamaha Arius YDP-184. It’s has a pretty accurate grand piano sound, and has a great weighted action (although it doesn’t feel quite accurate on very high notes).
No apps come near it, so that’s my go-to piano every time.
That sounds like a lovely luxury to have Michael, enjoy!
Piano is where I cut my teeth into music. Been playing since I was wee little lad. I am a bit partial to Pure Piano and Pure Upright myself. I like Ravenscroft as well. I also like some of the piano samples in Lo-Fi Tape. Honorable mention to Korg Module Pro as well. Those are what I use most for piano fodder.
Ah, I didn't mention it, but I'm quite fond of Lo-Fi Tape as well. I'm glad to hear you enjoy Pure Upright too. Does it have a felt option, like Pure Piano does? Me being a bit of a felt fanatic…
I love to have a real grand piano but its way out of my commoner price range.
Digitally I got an 10 year old Yamaha YDP-161 and use pianoteq or samplers. The Yamaha YDP's are like old Volvo's in the digital piano world.
I might get Roland hammer action keyboard with midi 2.0 when my Yamaha dies on me.
I love Native Instruments’ Noire and have resampled it as a velocity-layered instrument into AudioLayer so that I can have a nice felt piano on my iPad.
There’s a good felt in StaffPad
Now that's a plugin piano that's high on my wishlist. Also, Piano Colors from Native Instruments.
Nice move sampling Noire into AudioLayer. Was that easy to do? Did it take long? I have to admit that I had help from the mighty Marcus Anderson in converting the PianoBook Winter Felt samples for my AudioLayer installation (it was before the Decent Sampler edition came out).
Does anyone here have Piano Colors?
I'm still selecting the last of my birthday present purchases, and I have Noire, Piano Colors, and Steinberg Padshop 2 on the top of my list, along with Scaler 2. But choosing between those two lovely pianos and a great pad maker is challenging. I can only choose one of the three for now. Scaler 2 is sorted.
I've heard that, yes.
AudioLayer has a built-in auto-sampler. So, the process was straightforward once I figured out a good way to capture the audio.
Looks like I need to do some homework!
Scaler 2 and Decent Sampler are two that spring to mind for felted.
Of all time?
The Bechstein piano that was in Trident Studios.
It’s the one you hear on Hunky Dory, Ziggy, Tranformer, Electric Warrior, Slider, and early Queen records.
now that is good information! I'm off to pianoteq a bechstein now.
The JAX pianos, though sadly mired in drama and controversy, have totally filled my needs. I've stopped looking beyond these and are removing others except for a couple of lightweight Sound Fonts to keep around in case the CPU load is too much.
(Spoken from a guitar player, not anyone that knows diddly squat about piano tone beyond what pleases my own ear.)
A lovely Piano Day playlist from Nils Frahm on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2v022joEJ1ZUPi99NHDVNm?si=1f0d901412a24272
“Pleasing the ear” is the criteria that matters for me… these apps are used to avoid the requirement to
Mic up a real instrument to get a decent piano sound.
I too like the JAX series of pianos. I bought all three using the pre-order feature which I think was the only path to getting all three as it turned out. Such a shame because the 3rd (JAX Emperior) is my favorite.
Imperior has a profound hammer attack unlike anything else on IOS. @espiegel123 shared his settings with me for simulating a felted piano.
He also flat lines the velocity curve menu:
Very few piano apps provide so much control over these details of the sound since few use modeling techniques which brings us back to waiting for PianoTeq. Of course, to really tweak PianoTeq you have to pay a lot more for the privilege.