VST PlugIn vs Real Grand Piano - KEYSCAPE, EW QL, HZP, GRANDEUR, STEINWAY etc... - As Time Goes By

there is a way to add to keyscape or others plugin called pianotech8 or something like that, it adds all missing overtones from potentially not muted strings

The Winner: The Real thing. And the best sound VST "Grandeur", but with less decay time. The actual decay of the sound is too large compared with the real thing.

Software instruments sound compressed and in your face. The real thing sounds dynamic and alive.

Grandeur is like best of both worlds. EWQL has some very noticeable imaging. They lack the treble bite of the real thing.

Amazing comparison with a steinway ! Ha ha ... thank you

Thanks! That was nice. The real piano sounds the best, despite being slightly out of tune. 🙂

The commentaries are funny. People who are used to that bright and unreal tone of VST's pianos, always prefer these bright samples. For those who are familiar with grand piano recording, the first one (Eastwest?) is the closest one (or, the less artificial).

This actually isnt far.. This guy plays so damn good.. Every Plugin sounds amazing...lol

I bought a Roland FP-30X to finally learn the piano at 28 (not trying to produce music etc.). In your opinion, which is the best plugin to take the Roland’s sound to the next level? Just started learning about all the available plugins, but I heard about Garritan CFX, Keyscape’s C7, Ravenscroft 275, Pianoteq (to mention a few), are great. What’s your opinion?

Also, trying to load Garritan CFX on a Roland FP-30X connected to a desktop PC but I can feel the latency affecting my playing. I can around 2 ms latency but it still feels “slow”. Don’t know if my brain is making this up. How do you load the plugin (VST, Standalone)? How can someone “eliminate” latency, to replicate the feel of a real piano?

What is the most responsive (lowest latency) plugin in your experience? Maybe Pianoteq?

Currently using Reaper as my choice of DAW (tried Ableton too), I’ve set the Sample Rate to the maximum of 384 kHz that my Chord Mojo DAC supports, which lowered the latency instantly, and now I’m experimenting with the Buffer size, around 128-256 samples, keeping in mind how my system responds, so as to avoid cracks and pops. I’ve also got a Ryzen 3600 system, which handles all this pretty fine I’d say. Still feels kinda slow.

1.Real Grand Piano 2.KEYSCAPE 3.GRANDEUR 4.EW

The real one is out of tune! :D

I like all of them.
They all have very unique sounding timbres.

Grandeur, keyscape and the real piano sounded the best

Nice presentation. I prefered the Eastwest Piano, closer to the real piano i heared on my monitors.
Subjective but that's what i heared. Thank you.

you cant touch the sonic quality of real thing, ever....

Grandeur vst and acoustic fosho

Hi I would like to say thank you for this great comparison !

I have the Eastwest Piano Diamond collection and the amount of varying presets and controls for each Piano is unbelievable.
Mic positions, open or closed, recording environment etc the list goes on it literally creates thousands of recording possibilities.
I think you can make it match what ever you need if you spend the time experimenting.
Technology has taken us along way.

Nice playing! there’s no latency at all from the computer?

amazing demonstration, and with a real piano also, all demos needs to be like this

STEINWAY vélocité , dynamique , harmonique, sympathie +++ REAL

For me Keyscape wins, thanks Jorg

Keyscape and grandeur kills every other vst and the real one is the king

Nice piano pice, i like it

The real one.. Omg it's like black and white..

what is the name of music?

Of all the plugins... the Grandeur sounded the fullest.

Real Grand Piano wildly the best.

The Grandeur surprised me. Sounds very good. Keyscape too.

QL and Keyescape for me (and of course the real one at the ending). Great playing btw =)

EW-QL and Keyscape are very nice👍

I think the real one sounds the worst 🤡

You can hear Keyscape on Someone You Loved - Peter Capaldi. That says a lot.

keys

Very nice playing and thank you for comparing them with the real piano. May I ask, what were your gain settings for the mic preamps of your RME interface? I have the UCX, but it feels like my recordings aren't as clean as this. Thanks in advance.

The Grandeur and Keyscape

Very nice! I used the video for a blind test and my favorite was the Grandeur, followed by the acoustic one. I'm very happy now, thanks for sharing!

Hans Zimmer piano is so fake