Virtual Piano Software Recs?

[mojobone]

You are fine wit Ivory. I suspect it has something to do with what the other guys are saying, maybe your MIDI velocities are too consistent from note to note, making it sound artificial.

Maybe find an example of a piano MIDI file online and import it into your machine. Compare yours to theirs? See how the velocities differ.

Yeah, it might be as simple as using too much quantization; if you're programming as opposed to playing, having everything hit exactly on the downbeat won't sound right, and if you're playing, try not to over-correct. A little percentage quantize can go a long way.

[Russell Landwehr]

My favorite playable sampled piano VI is Alicia's Keys, but I haven't used it in sooooo long... I found something that is much more versatile.

Pianoteq

It's a modeling VI, but well worth the $$.

And it has a TON of other instruments available that I use consistently in my signed cues.

Russell

[wendylanders]

Thanks Keithl

I will do that.

[MBantle]

I think we are all looking for the Holy Grail of Piano VIs but I would not be surprised if the standard piano in Logic, Cubase you name it was used in major productions... I think you can only tell whether one piano is better than the other by juxtaposing them... which usually does not happen when you listen to a song that is arranged and mixed well... If the song is great who's gonna ever know whether you deliberately or simply out of desperation chose that over-compressed simplistic piano sound?
Cheers,
Matt