My descent into piano VI madness

[progger]

I also meant to mention here: the past few days I've been mainly practicing with the Acousticsamples C7, and that may be my vote for "most underrated piano VI on forums." It's fantastic. Especially if you take the time to dial it in for your own tastes and preferences.

[Ashermusic]

(The Korg acoustic piano sounds from the M1 and Triton are cool in their own way, but of course no substitute for proper modern piano VIs like Modern D.)

Funny you say that. The M1 was my gigging axe for several years and I liked a lot of the sounds, but hated the piano sound. I eventually replaced it with a Kurzweil PC88 and it had so much better piano and strings but then I missed the M1's nylon string guitar and atmospheric type sounds.

[RobS]

OK I finally got the Dexibell T2L piano plug-in. Is it better than all the other modeled and sampled pianos I own? No. Is it's bragged about realism more than the others? No. Will I be using it a lot. Yes.

Here's why:
1. These days I am back to most of what I do being writing, recording and playing my pop songs live. And since my keyboards are Dexibell Vivos, there is a distinct advantage for me to have my backing tracks, which are sans lead vocal and piano, sound almost exactly like my recordings when I play live without third party FX or Logicc Pro FX. And I do really like the piano sounds in my Vivo S7 and S1.

2. On my keyboards, I can only have 1 "Platinum" piano library loaded and keep a compliment of other sounds, since the RAM is limited and they are big. But in the plug-in, I can have them all, and go between them USA, Japan, German, Italian, French, upright, ragtime and honky tonk and the plug-in is super efficient and puts no strain on my Mac even in a full template.

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It also has all kinds of tweaks and controls you can adjust to your personal taste.

For scoring work, I almost certainly may turn to some of my others but this is going to make my song work simpler and Moree consistent, and at this stage of my life, that's a plus.

But obviously, this is very specific to me and my needs, so if you have ones you really like, I get why you would pass on this one.

thanks for reporting your experience Jay, useful to know