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Piano Collection
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Product Piano Collection
Developer Sonic Reality
Primary Type Piano Module
Price (MSRP) $79
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Receptor - The Ultimate Synth & Sampler Module
Piano Collection
  • A fully featured sample library for use in the included SampleTank LE Sound Module/Sample Player

  • Various Acoustic Concert Grand Pianos, Baby Grand, Upright, Rhodes, Wurlitzer, Clav, Effected Pianos, Electric Grand, Tack Piano and more!
  • Can be used on it's own as a Piano module VSTi or MAS plug-in or as an expansion sound library to add to your Sonic Synth or Sampletank sound collection.

  • Sampler/Synth synthesis engine with 32 bit floating point processing
  • 128 notes polyphony (CPU dependent)
  • 4 midi channels per instance
  • 1 stereo output per instance
  • 4 effects per voice selectable among 20 DSP effects including Reverb, Delays, Chorus, Distortion, EQ & Compression, Wah Wah, Auto Pan, Tremolo, Rotary Speaker Simulation and more!
  • Expandable with any Sample Tank format sound libraries
  • Fully compatible with any other Sample Tank product including Sample Tank XL for expanding your Sample Tank system

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By CadeBryant
On 26th January 2004
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I received Piano Collection as part of a 3-module bundle from Esoundz.com. It has proven itself a welcome addition to my sound library. Even if you already have some good piano samples, you will find this collection very useful.

One thing I've learned as a composer/arranger is that you can never have too many piano sounds (or any other "staple" sound for that matter). No matter how good your existing library is, you will probably eventually grow bored and uninspired with your sound set, and your songs will start to sound the same, unless you continue to expand your library. (At least I've found that to be true for me). At only $79 a pop (much less if you get it in a bundle), Piano Collection is too good of a deal to pass up. Its sound quality rivals many more expensive libraries.

First of all, you get some good Steinway samples. The "Steinway Concert Grand" patch is an excellent classical piano with a warm tone, whereas the "Shimmering Stnwy" has a brighter tone, making it useful for pop and rock. Though I wouldn't quite compare them to gigabyte-sized streaming sampled pianos, I was still inspired by the sound quality, and I think they would fit perfectly into certain settings.

In addition, a decent Yamaha grand is included. It has the classic bright Yamaha sound; while I probably wouldn't use this for a classical arrangement, it would work fine in a pop or jazz piece.

The baby grand was nice too, but I wasn't too impressed with the upright. As far as electric pianos go, the Rhodes is very mellifluous and musical - the only weakness being an overly abrupt velocity-layer switch. The Wurly is usable, but thin-sounding and lacking dynamism (as far as I could tell, there is no velocity switching). There is also an FM-style electric, which I didn't care for (too bright and thin.......besides, if you're like most keyboardists, you probably already have dozens of "DX Rhodes" style patches).

Overall, a great deal - especially if you get it in a bundle. I got mine with the Acoustic Drums and Symphony Strings, both of which are also excellent, and which I will review separately.
 
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By SonicVI
On 19th April 2002
Version: 1.14

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There's not much to say about this one really. All I can say is that if you need good piano sounds then you should go to www.esoundz.com right now and buy this. You will not find better piano sounds and so many of them for anywhere near this price, or probably even twice this price, unless maybe you use Gigasampler. For less than $80 you get about 500 Megs of piano and keyboard samples including an amazing pristine 85 Meg Steinway and Yamaha C7, a baby grand and upright for those times when you don't need a perfect concert grand, a clavinet, a couple of great Rhodes and Wurlitzers, and a harpsichord, and some variations of these. And don't think that becasue it's cheap it can't be good. These are pro quality samples. You also get a lot of really cool DSP effects in Sample Tank LE that you can apply to the presets, like eq, filters, compression, reverb, delay, and several modulation fx. This makes it much easier to tweak the sounds to your taste and create some other cool sounds like Leslie piano, or electric piano with an LFO controlled filter, or wah wah clavinet, without having to load up any other plugins.

Sample Tank LE has been very stable for me under Logic. Not a single crash that I can remember.

As far a customer support goes, Dave from Sonic Reality (aka Squids) is the tops. You'll never have a question or problem go unanswered or unfixed. That's worth a couple bucks of the price right there :)

 
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By Funkybot
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I must say that I am inclined to believe that this is the absolute most perfect collection of piano sounds available in a native format. The patches are varried and just of a high calliber throughout. What really makes these stand out though, is how well they sit in a mix. Sonic Reality knows how to program sounds so that they don't need any processing to get them to sit will in a mix. I've yet to EQ anything on this collection when it comes to the mixing stage. Another thing is these pianos don't sound like digital pianos. Digital pianos while sound great to play but sound awful in a recording not a problem here. These are both fantastic to play as well as record with. I really can't say enough nice things about this collection. Did I mention the extra EPs you get as well? It's always nice to have some extra Rhodes, Wurly, Clav, etc patches. The only better thing in this collection other than the sounds, is the price. Everyone can actually afford it, and even though it's an expansion ROM, you don't need Sonic Synth to buy it. As for anyone who's ever needed to e-mail Squids or spent any time in this forum knows that he's great with answering questions and helping out. If there's ever the slightest chance that you'll need piano sounds in your music go out and buy this collection.
 
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