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While HZP only features one piano, the detail and the amazingly balanced sound is second to none. You get all sorts of blending options to get a more detailed sound that mixes all of the different positions, or home in on a very specific sound, tailored to your mix. The further you move out, the more you get of the wonderful room where the piano was recorded mixed in. There are, for example, close, mid, room and surround options with the close and mid options giving you a slightly brighter sound. You also get microphone positions to also help guide you through the surprisingly varied sound and an amazing 60 different ones were employed during the recording. The collection is set out with folders with different sounds – Warm And Rounded, or Low And Weighted, for example. The piano used is one of Zimmer's favourites – the in-house Steinway Model D grand piano at the Lyndhurst Hall at AIR Studios – which has also inspired many of his soundtracks. Spitfire set out to produce the ultimate sampled grand piano with this and who better at the helm of the project than soundtrack genius Hans Zimmer.

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The care, attention to sonic detail and passion that have been poured into it are palpable at every turn, the huge preset library is an absolute pleasure to wander through, and the deep multisampling employed results in a very high level of playability and stunning sound.

Keyscape is almost impossible not to fall in love with. It's joined by a Wing upright piano from 1900 in two configurations.Īll the instruments sound phenomenal, serving up a versatile melange of flavours, from the super clean LA Custom C7, through the funky, evocative electric pianos and clavs, to the pretty Celeste and other Belltones, and the crusty finish and grit of the toy and tacked pianos. Heading up the Acoustic Pianos category is the LA Custom C7, an 'enhanced' Yamaha C7 that uses 'rare long-fiber virgin wool felt' on its hammers. The presets are listed in the bottom pane, and with over 500 included, most of them come in related sets. The browser lets you select from the ten top-level instrument types (Acoustic Pianos, Clavinets, Electric Pianos, etc), or head straight to one of the 36 specific models. Keyscape's interface is clean and straightforward.

Each instrument has been sampled with up to 32 velocity layers, and uses multiple round-robins per layer for 'human' variation between notes. Spectrasonics endeavoured to capture all the noise, imperfection and quirks of the original keyboards, as well as the full spread of their tonality. It breaks our rules by offering both multisampling and modelling but you'll care not, as the results are stunning. Keyscape is the ultimate keyboard instrument in that it features 36 separately modelled keyboards ranging from Wurlitzers to Fenders, toy pianos to Rhodes with a huge number of pianos. We also have to mention Synthogy Ivory II Studio Grands here as you get two pianos for the price of many other options, both of which sound incredible. Similarly, Garritan's Abbey Road Studios CFX Concert Grand delivers a legendary grand in a legendary setting – an older title but one that still delivers an amazing sound. In this respect, it's hard to overlook Spitfire Audio's Hans Zimmer Grand Piano that delivers all the sound of the super-composer's favourite grand, with meticulous recordings at many different microphone positions. If you are a singer/songwriter with the piano as your main song focus, go for one of the larger multisampled instruments that focus on all of the detail of famous – and expensive – grand pianos. Your choice of piano really comes down to the music you make. If you'd rather get to the products, then keep scrolling. If you'd like to read some in depth buying advice about the best piano VSTs, it's included at the bottom of this guide. And with your DAW as a host, you don't even need to play like a concert pianist to sound like one. But the best thing is that you have access to models of pianos that can costs tens of thousands of dollars/pounds at a tiny fraction of the price. What you can expect from both kinds of instrument are exceptional piano sounds as developers have been perfecting these instruments for many years. Many piano instruments – modelled or sampled – feature effects and can have a number of tweakable parameters like other virtual instruments.

We'll discuss more on these in our buying advice section.

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Software virtual pianos use either modelling algorithms or samples of real instruments to create beautiful emulations.

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