piano

[Renie]

Hi all

I'm looking for advice on getting some great piano samples.

I heard the standard Giga piano - sounds good. Have no use for gigastudio software though.

Have heard the steinberg grand is good but i work in PT and i don't think there's a way to import the samples elsewhere.

I even read that the Mach5 supplies a decent piano sample or two.

I've got Kontakt and Translator, which'll be RTAS ready soon(!), so format isn't a problem.

Any ideas folks?! would like something sounding really impressive...

thanks

Renie

[Ckevperry]

Bardstown Audio's Bosendorfer piano is one of the more popular. Very good sounding ...4 CD's worth of samples!

[area51recording]

My favorite piano right now is the Vintaudio Yamaha C7... incredible detail to the sound and VERY playable.

[Stick]

Yeah, the Bardstown Bosendorfer kills. I just used it on a tune for a record that was piano/vocal/cello only. I actually recorded some wild damper pedal samples to put in appropriatly for a little extra "realism"... you know, the "ffft ffft" sound we try to get rid of when recording the real thing.

And Kip (at Bardstown) is great... I called him to see if he'd recorded the pedal samples from the instrument he sampled... he thought I was funny for wanting to hear the pedal, and said no he hadn't. Too bad. Don't tell, but I'm using some badly recorded pedal samples I grabbed from a "famous" C7 in Malibu... so much for "realism". Sometime I want to do it right and do some velocity switching damper pedals attacks and releases...

Usually,
stick

[C.Lambrechts]

The bosendorfer samples supplied with the MachFive are pretty amazing and as of now the best piano samples I have.

[area51recording]

Another one I really enjoy using is the Post Musical Instruments Bosendorfer. Sounds real nice.