I am looking for a piano, and not a grand or straight piano, but rather more along the lines of what Felt Instruments is doing, but not that far out. A little dust, a litte grain, a little character to the piano. Arturia’s got some stuff going, but they’re a little bit dull.
Any advice is welcome. Essentially, the @rephazer OP-1 Field piano patches but in a plug (sorry rephazer, had to pull you in eventually)
On the priciest side of things, Keyscape is a great all-things-keys plugin.
I’d say you coild eventually get a kick out of Omnisphere…but it has a learning curve.
I have yet to try to make sampler instruments out of @rephazer packs in Logic Sampler.
They do sound pretty cool.
Pianoteq? Physically modelled BUT with proper reverb, it will warm up. It is a universal app btw and you can try it for free on iPad with a few randomly dropped notes here and there after the 20mins full trial.
I would just use one of the NI pianos (Noire is great) and slap on a plugin like Tape Mello-Fi or SketchCassette, then adjust the mix to taste. One of my favorite character pianos is Delicate Piano from Berlin Orchestra Inspire 2. Another one I recently tried is New York L 1926 from Boz Digital Labs, and that has some nice character to it. Max Richter Piano is also supposed to be quite good and is currently on intro sale.
Safe bet here would be Noire. The other NI one that has a lot of interesting piano+fx sounds is Una Corda, which is an upright where you can dial in things like mechanical or textural sounds. Noire also has a lovely felt option as well, both useful.
This combination of loop and track recording side by side, simultaneously, is just stupid powerful. I’ve used the 1010 Tangerine with the OP-1 Field to do exactly this, and this is the Logic version of that setup. Works silly well.
This is why Ableton doesn’t click for me. The seamless movement between grid and linearity is where my brain’s at.
Try Pianoteq. It’s a physically-modeled piano with lots of adjustable parameters to make felt pianos, out-of-tune pianos, and otherwise-degraded sounds. It’s also, for me, the most responsive piano, which really feels like playing an instrument.
Have you tried any of the spitfire instruments? They have a LOT of pianos including a felt piano. I’ve got a couple of their instrument libraries (mainly free ones) and they cover a lot of different styles
I have not. But will now. I saw they had some stuff with that Icelandic guy who I’m just really into. Feels like you get a free pass as soon as you’re from Iceland and make music, which I think is unfair to the rest of us. But on the other hand, they got volcanoes. So I guess it evens out.