When I started learning piano and looking into various VSTs a few years ago, I though much the same. Partly due to the pandemic, partly due to the number of piano VIs on the market, partly due to the increasing costs of making pianos with so many samples and features.Īs others have alluded to, I think that the idea of an 'newer' = 'better" doesn't apply as much to VSTs as one might think, and as we're used to expecting from built in sounds in digital pianos. I don't think many good piano VIs have been released in recent years. VI-Labs has a very popular new upright the sampling and coding seem on point but some people complain about the constraints inherent in an upright piano (vs a concert grand). VSL has some bigger VIs, with some advantages & disadvantages. For example, I don't think anyone offers a piano with 128 recorded sample layers per key and I don't think there is demand for that.įor reference, Garritan CFX samples every key and has about 20 full-length samples per key, that likely are around CD quality I don't recall anyone complaining about the ~20 layers. Over the past decade, as HDD and SDD prices fell, these constraints have been melting away.įrankly, a lot of the old workarounds were very good and still used today, even on 100GB+ VIs. Developers used workarounds such as: compressed samples, shortened samples, didn't sample every key, limited the number of sample layers, reduced pedaling, etc. Not long ago, expensive storage created a significant constraint on piano VIs. But I'm asking from the angle of "how current is the VST and is it outdated?" With advances in technology I'm a little skeptical of buying a VST from 2014 or am I completely wrong about this?Īlso, has anyone given Hammers and Waves a try? Thanks so much for your input. I'm wondering in the world of Piano VST's, have there been any high end ones released in the last 2-3 years? I'm not trying to beat a dead horse as I know the "whats the best VST" thread has been done on this forum a lot. I'm watching Youtube videos of reviews and I don't like pianoTeq it is too artificial.
Looks like Garritan has been out for 8 years, so has Ravenscroft. I noticed VST's like garritan, keyscape, pianoteq and ravenscroft. I can't really tell from youtube videos how they would sound when I play them as my style is very different than people playing them in a video review. I would like a PIano VST with realistic intimate sound in the style of neo-classical/yanni like music., and cost isn't an issue for me.
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