Best piano for Reason ?

[mashers]

Radical Piano can sound good in some cases, but I know what people mean, when they want something that sounds more natural or kind of "right". I did about 15 patches for Radical Piano, by trying to find convincing settings for it. Remember that all the patches inside the Refills usually introduce a "model" sound and almost always need to be tweaked a bit.

Ah, it's not such a problem in my genre if it doesn't sound totally realistic. Though it has never stood out to me personally as sounding artificial.

[Heigen5]

This song started from of this thread, as I wanted to use Radical Piano, for the piano parts, after we had this discussion here. Mostly used our Dopetank patches here.

[two shoes]

Pianotec was a laughing stock when it was introduced and the last time i tried it a couple years ago it still wasn't capable of a believable grand piano sound - either physical modeling isn't quite there yet for an instrument as complex as a piano or Pianotec just aren't doing it right. Despite their goofy names for their sounds and amateurish gui Truepianos is one of the better values out there for piano plugins imo - there are only two plugins i think are better in some respects and in both cases you pay much more for a marginal improvement. Truepiano is kind of the Miroslav of sampled pianos in that it still just sounds better than most of the newer competition years after it should have become obsolete. i think creating great sounding, authentic feeling instruments from samples or hybrid sampling/modeling must be as much an art as a science as it continues to elude some of the biggest companies with the most resources.

[ltbrunt00]

Waves Rhapsody Piano is cheap and has a nice sound to it. You can get it on one of Waves many sales for 29.99 throughout the year.

[mcatalao]

After about 10 years, i still use Reason Pianos.

[sleep1979]

I got an upright piano from detunized its pretty nice

[Garven]

Waves Rhapsody Piano is cheap and has a nice sound to it. You can get it on one of Waves many sales for 29.99 throughout the year.

In fact, it's on sale right now for $29. Sale ends tonight.

[sleep1979]

Im enjoying this lately could be one of the best for reason nnxt ( in fact its for many samplers) https://detunized.com/downloads/upright-piano/

[bossa]

In some cases the spitfire audio "soft piano vst" is very useful!
https://www.spitfireaudio.com/labs

[reddust]

This song started from of this thread, as I wanted to use Radical Piano, for the piano parts, after we had this discussion here. Mostly used our Dopetank patches here.

For that song style I think you could get very nice results by using xln audio studio grand or modern upright, there is a guy from ebay US that sells xln licenses at very good prices, not even 20 bucks, and as far as I know is legit. I put the link here, so maybe somebody can tell if these licenses are legit or not, because the regular price of these plugins is above 80€ each and this one is selling two licenses for 25 dollars

https://www.ebay.com/itm/XLN-Audio-ADDI ... Swp7FacHxH

BTW, you can listen to xln audio demos here:
https://www.xlnaudio.com/products/addictive_keys

[sleep1979]

This song started from of this thread, as I wanted to use Radical Piano, for the piano parts, after we had this discussion here. Mostly used our Dopetank patches here.

For that song style I think you could get very nice results by using xln audio studio grand or modern upright, there is a guy from ebay US that sells xln licenses at very good prices, not even 20 bucks, and as far as I know is legit. I put the link here, so maybe somebody can tell if these licenses are legit or not, because the regular price of these plugins is above 80€ each and this one is selling two licenses for 25 dollars

https://www.ebay.com/itm/XLN-Audio-ADDI ... Swp7FacHxH

BTW, you can listen to xln audio demos here:
https://www.xlnaudio.com/products/addictive_keys

Probably are legit he probably had a load of old focusrite stuff and made multiple accounts as everyone who has an account can get a free licence.

[Creativemind]

The best Piano in Reason is for me the NN-XT default patch "B Grand Piano 1.0." Don`t like the Reason Piano Refill and I don`t like Radical Piano.

Yeah Radical Piano is awful imo lol!

Yeah probably agree that B Grand Piano NN-XT patch is pretty decent and the Concert Grand Combi (which uses the NN-XT A Grand Piano) patch within Reason itself.

As for Pianoteq...just checked it out through headphones on You Tube, wow, gorgeous.

Heard people rave about this as well (think Avicii used it) but not used it myself but sounds excellent on You Tube....

[Noplan]

Yeah Radical Piano is awful imo lol!

I've changed my mind about Radical Piano by now. It's not as bad as I thought.

[esselfortium]

The B Grand Piano (from the Reason 2.0 days!) can be useful for retro electronic stuff I suppose, but for anything else I don't think it holds up well. It doesn't sound much like a real piano to me.

Radical Piano is alright and I'd call it a lot better than its reputation around here.

Nowadays I mostly use the Walker 1955 Concert D, from Embertone: https://www.embertone.com/instruments/concertD.php
The Lite version is quite affordable and sounds fantastic to me, and surprisingly it's compatible with the free Kontakt Player.

[two shoes]

The best Piano in Reason is for me the NN-XT default patch "B Grand Piano 1.0." Don`t like the Reason Piano Refill and I don`t like Radical Piano.

Yeah Radical Piano is awful imo lol!

Yeah probably agree that B Grand Piano NN-XT patch is pretty decent and the Concert Grand Combi (which uses the NN-XT A Grand Piano) patch within Reason itself.

As for Pianoteq...just checked it out through headphones on You Tube, wow, gorgeous.

Heard people rave about this as well (think Avicii used it) but not used it myself but sounds excellent on You Tube....

Pianoteq has come a long way since the last time I heard it but I still don't think it's even in the same league as Truepianos - one sounds a lot like a nice piano - the other sounds like an early 90s cheeseboard patch slathered in mediocre algo reverb. I'm used to hearing recorded/produced pianos though not pianos irl from a pianobench so maybe it's my idea of what a piano sounds like that's wrong...

[ZiuMelle]

Get every vst and refill you can.

[reddust]

Probably are legit he probably had a load of old focusrite stuff and made multiple accounts as everyone who has an account can get a free licence.

Yes, sounds like that could be it. I was also thinking of purchasing a focusrite sound device newly and saw that I would get xln audio licenses for instruments I already own, so I can imagine that happening quite frequently

[sleep1979]

The B Grand Piano (from the Reason 2.0 days!) can be useful for retro electronic stuff I suppose, but for anything else I don't think it holds up well. It doesn't sound much like a real piano to me.

Radical Piano is alright and I'd call it a lot better than its reputation around here.

Nowadays I mostly use the Walker 1955 Concert D, from Embertone: https://www.embertone.com/instruments/concertD.php
The Lite version is quite affordable and sounds fantastic to me, and surprisingly it's compatible with the free Kontakt Player.

That b grand piano isnt even the best piano in reason the id8 ones are if you filter them a bit , im really liking a piani i got from detunized the upright mybe not the greatest but its doing me atm have you tried it ?

[Termigator]

Unless I need a real piano, I’m gonna go rogue and say my favorite grand piano in Reason is ID8, which is taken from Reason Pianos. I have a few personal samples of upright pianos I use when I want a “less than grand” sound.


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