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Though the acoustic piano isn't exactly Paul White's forte, he (fortunately) knows rather more about miking it up than about playing it...
Sampled piano aficionados know the particular problems involved in constructing a good loop of this essential instrument. Craig Anderton passes on a personal solution.
The ROLI Piano, AI Assistant and Airwave together form the ROLI Piano System, an advanced platform designed to revolutionise piano learning and creative expression.
The latest sample library from Sonuscore contrasts their recent grand piano offering with a lovingly restored vintage upright.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5 Stars. Prolific composer Max Richter turns his hand to sample libraries, recording a world‑beating Steinway D‑274 concert grand.
Crosstalk Piano takes a new approach to piano libraries, combining faithfully captured recordings with a collection of processed multi-samples.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5 Stars. Sampled from a Kawai GX grand piano using quality condenser mics, Saturn Hybrid Piano is the debut plug‑in from Sample Factory.
These audio files accompany the Better MIDI Pianos article in SOS August 2023 edition.
Spitfire's latest release captures the sound of a Steinway Model D grand piano in Maida Vale Studio One, and has been designed to blend seamlessly with the BBCSO library as well as functioning as a new, standalone instument.
Yamaha's latest portable stage keyboards build on the sucess of the CP and YC series, and come packed with a wide range of built-in sounds, hands-on control and sound design capabilites.
Spitfire Audio have teamed up with legendary composer Philip Glass (!) to record his personal baby grand piano, at his home in Manhattan NYC.
Sampleson’s modelled Wurlitzer ticks all the right electric piano boxes.
You can now play Abbey Road's 1905 Steinway, as used by the Beatles, in your DAW — for just £29.
How do you record a piano and drum kit in a modest live room, at the same time? Our engineer explains his approach...
Our engineer tracks and comps some piano and vocal performances, before overdubbing both real and sampled string parts.
Watch this 2-part Video series where GSI Studios' Head Engineer Josh Giunta lifts the lid on his recording and miking process for capturing the sound of the piano and making it as lifelike as possible.
Not all piano-roll editors are created equal — Cubase’s boasts some very handy chord-programming tools.
The brief for supplying a sound system for a youth piano concert was to make the rig look and sound as transparent as possible...
Spitfire Audio delve deep into a legendary film composer’s favourite piano.
Three grand pianos jostle for supremacy in VI Labs' deep-sampled, secrecy-shrouded True Keys Pianos package.