Reply To: If You Could Only Choose One Piano Sample Library / Plugin, Which Would It Be?

[peter]

These are my picks:

• Grand Piano: Orange Tree Samples Evolution Rosewood Grand
  While I came up with the question, this is a really difficult one for me to answer, because I own a lot of piano sample libraries and plugins. I love NI Noire for gentle music and especially for its felt piano samples. However, it isn’t great at cutting through loud rock band arrangements, which I love to do. Evolution Rosewood Grand sounds great for gentle / quieter arrangements. It has a felt piano that sounds great. So, it’s more versatile. I recently picked up IK Pianoverse, which I quickly fell in love with, especially the Hamburg grand piano, but there are other Pianoverse pianos that I also love nearly as much. Weighing versatility — because the idea is that I can only choose one piano, I would want that piano to be versatile enough to work in a wide variety of situations, so I am choosing Evolution Rosewood Grand.
• Upright Piano: EZkeys Upright Piano
  This is another very difficult choice. I can’t say that I have a single upright piano sample library that I use as a go-to, but I use EZkeys Upright Piano a lot. I also use their Vintage Upright a lot. Other upright piano libraries I often turn to include e-instruments Upright Piano, NI Gentleman, and Sampletekk Rain Piano. I may change this later, but offhand, I’m going to go with the EZkeys Upright Piano.
• Prepared Piano: Xperimenta Preperata Free
  I have several prepared sample libraries that I love almost equally. Xperimenta Preperato Free, Production Voices Death Piano Free and 8Dio Prepared Piano. It’s hard to believe how good Preperato and Death Piano are for free. The truth is, I could pick any one of those three libraries.

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