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raccoonboy · Post by **raccoonboy** » Sat Oct 28, 2017 4:59 pm

Hi everyone.

New around here.

I'm not massively knowledgable on different sample companies/packs etc. I'm just looking for for some really clean piano samples of different notes/velocities. The most important thing is that they are really peaky (uncompressed). I'm wanting to envelope follow the natural transients.

Where should I look? It doesn't need to be a huge library or anything. A few different velocities for each note would be fine.

thanks

Dan

raccoonboy · Post by **raccoonboy** » Sat Oct 28, 2017 5:16 pm

I guess I should add, quite short notes without too much sustain. Doesn't need to be super staccato or anything.

jancivil · Post by **jancivil** » Sat Oct 28, 2017 7:52 pm

Most things will be clean and regular good dynamics. If you have Kontakt, you already have a fairly good one (not the deepest sampled, 'a few layers' to do the trick, not ideal but decent IMO), the August Foerster grand. There are numerous threads in this subforum regarding piano.

jancivil · Post by **jancivil** » Sat Oct 28, 2017 7:58 pm

raccoonboy wrote:quite short notes without too much sustain.

Piano strings decay fairly rapidly, hence the 'sustain pedal'. The note duration will be as a short as you determine it is, so what you want is enough volume & dynamic, one supposes.

The Native Instruments grand pianos are 99 bucks, would probably suit your seemingly modest needs and then some. You're probably about to get everybody's preferred piano, and then 'don't use samples, Pianoteq is superior'. I like Piano in Blue by Cinesamples (just googled it, '$69, in stock').

chili beans · Post by **chili beans** » Sat Oct 28, 2017 8:45 pm

Just download Sampletank 3 custom shop for free http://www.ikmultimedia.com/mobile/prod ... pletankcs/ It comes with a hq quality piano and a lot of other instruments. Did I mention that it's FREE?

raccoonboy · Post by **raccoonboy** » Sun Oct 29, 2017 12:31 pm

jancivil wrote:You're probably about to get everybody's preferred piano, and then 'don't use samples, Pianoteq is superior'.

thanks for all the suggestions guys.

I looked up Pianoteq and now realise it's a modeller. Which gave me the idea of using RadicalPiano which I have for Reason. Never thought of this for some reason. It's sample/modeller and you have complete control over the dynamics and can even add quite noisy 'keydown mechanics' to add to the transient even more.

Will be fine for my purposes as all I'm wanting is to follow the perfect piano envelope, now I get to choose the exact envelope

Cleanest Peakiest piano sounds