People also love Keyscape, but while that also includes some nice acoustics, the package includes a whole slew of excellent vintage electric piano and mechanical keyboard emulations. It's probably worth signing up to the newsletter for. That one is indeed FREE, but they only make a limited number of copies available for a short period every once in a while. The only one I own is the Sonic Couture Hammersmith free, which is a sample-based piano that's really quite lovely, that I use occasionally when Logic/Mainstage's own somehow don't cut it. Not sure how it compares to the others these days. The Synthogy Ivory II is an old favourite for a lot of people. These are on heavy discount pricing every once in a while. I've played the Pianoteq physical modelling piano and was really impressed. There are tons - the keyboard guys over at Music Player Network seem to love the Ravenscroft 275 ( ), which is also available in an iOS version. I'm really not so much of a connoisseur of piano VSTs - I have an upright and a CP70 here for the "piano" toolbox, and until recently had access to a gorgeous Petrof concert grand if I needed that.
But they're tweakable with EQ/comp/reverb to be useful.
Not too much, just a bit of depth.Īnother thing to note is that depending on what you do, EQ and compressor may get the piano sounding exactly in the direction you want, but expose the limitations of the samples - the Logic pianos themselves just aren't terribly good to begin with. Note that compressor and EQ interact, as compressors will react differently when different frequencies of the original signal are pushed, so you may be going back and forth a bit between the two.Īlso key is a bit of nice stage or plate reverb at the end of the chain.
Those are good starting points to get you going.Īlso, experiment with adding a compressor behind the EQ (try the presets here, as well). Note also that the Logic EQ has several useful presets specifically for piano (click in the "Factory Default" drop down menu at the top of the EQ window). If and when it sounds good to you, it IS good. Hehe, I like that you make it sound like "that's all there is to it".īasically, yes, the idea is to tweak until it sounds good. So it's reasonable to just tweak all the anchor points, until it sounds right? There's no need to do/learn any more than that?
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