There are other, more general, keyboard collections and piano VSTs out there that cover more varied keys requirements – here's looking at you Addictive Keys, Keyscape and Pianoteq. This article explores the best individual or specific grand piano titles. There are many (many) software grand pianos out there. They take up no room like an acoustic piano – well, maybe a lot of Gigabytes on your hard drive, but you know what we mean – they cost a fraction of the real thing, and your playing is less of an issue when you're using a laptop and DAW to compose with them. However, software recreations of grand pianos have the answers to all of these practical issues. And then you need to be able to play it – using a grand to play 'Chopsticks' does rather feel like driving a Ferrari to the shops to buy a pint of milk. Then you need the cash – these things don't come cheap, with some of the most expensive grands costing well into six figures. *No issues in this context, means that the end result sounds amazing, and I have no issue with that, but getting there is sometimes difficult as it is with all samples pianos.For a start you need space – lots of it – and a matching room, one that helps complement the sound of the instrument. Noire is mostly useful for its felt samples and noise samples, in its normal mode it cannot keep up with the other alternatives and lacks dynamics. The piano itself is extremely clean, and the mic chooses a bit cold to my ears, specially compared to the Garritan. That, combined with a lack of a real velocity curve in the plug-in, makes it too hard to control. VSL Steinway is the most deeply sampled of them all, but IMO has a lot of other issues, main one beeing a wierd dynamic response which makes it sound unnecessarily hard compared to te countless real Steinway D:s I’ve had the pleasure to play.
Other good ones in your list are Walker, very deeply sampled, sounds great and a vibtage Steinway with lots of character, but for most of my uses it sounds a bit too vintage. It’s definitely on the cleaner side, so some would probably say that it lacks character. It’s extremely good scripted, deeply sampled and the Abbey road room sounds like a million dollars. As a matter of fact I’ve just finished a piano album in a neo classical style, and have no issues* with using Garritan together with a 22 piece live orchestra, even when the piano is central in all the songs. I mostly use Garritan CFX for solo work, and am very happy with it.
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