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Good ambient pianos?
I’m curious as to what people like to use for ambient piano these days. I found a few threads about ambient instruments from 2021 and earlier but figured it would be worth looking into again.
I like Ravenscroft Mona Lisa a lot but am curious what other iOS pianos might be useful for a nice ambient sound.
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I love Pure Piano. It has a great sound and lovely, accessible effects that lend itself to ambient easily IMO.
https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/pure-piano/id1336486618
I keep getting tempted by Pianoteq 8, but I haven't been able to justify the cost yet.
I’m a big fan of the MU Waverley pianos, especially the one called Big Softy.
Mellopiano Big Softy to be precise.
I personally love the Ivory Grand pack in Module Pro. That's what I usually reach for when crafting Ambient with a piano element. (Then again, @rottencat 's Ambient far exceeds mine, so I'm definitely going to take a glance at Big Softy. 😗 🎶 )
Decent sampler with winter piano from pianobook.
Could I ask you where I can find it? I probably found a developer page but there is nothing like "Mello" or "Big softy" there. Maybe it is included in Waverley XL or Waverley Tables apps?
I generally use any piano I want through any reverb I want lol always does the trick for me.
Thanks, everybody! Lots of interesting recommendations that I look forward to checking out.
A related question: Are any of these pianos soft or felt pianos that would be good for ambient music?
Pianoteq has a ton of felt pianos you can demo for free as an AUV3.
Winter piano is a felted piano, you can also download other felted pianos from the pianobook site, you're bound to find one you like and they are all free
this is a good one:
https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/tatak-felt-piano/
One can make pretty much any piano sound ‘ambient’ with the correct EQ, reverb, delay etc.
It’s an IAP as part of Mood Units. See pic below:
Thanks!
Thank you for the recommendation, I've never heard of it and quite liked it!
This is soooo soft…
The pad version is sublime too
https://vi-control.net/community/threads/christians-free-triple-felt-piano.64178/
One remarkable, and remarkably cheap, option is Retro Piano (AudioKit). I use it a lot, because it just fits beautifully in a lot of mixes.
I’m glad that, with the assistance of @ik2000, you found it.
And I’m glad that you liked it! 🙂
What specific settings do you recommend?
I recommend messing around with various settings until it sounds how you like it.
But start with some cavernous reverb and roll off some highs. If you have a way of softening the attack of the piano slightly that can also work well.
I would say any piano can be used. If you want to soften it, run it through an ADSR and reduce the attack, or put a huge reverb on it and use more of the wet signal than dry.
Any piano should be fine though - listen to the piano on Music for Airports - not a great deal of processing on that really.
Also if you have Scaler 2, it has a really good felt piano.
I was going to suggest the same. Not sure if waverly XL or Waverly Tables has piano sounds but I believe all Rob Jackson apps are still discounted.