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Which Piano do you Prefer? (Registered Users Only)

William Coakley's Perfect Piano D359
William Coakley's Fantom XR Perfect Piano
Coakley Fantom XR Perfect Piano Vol 1
Synthogy's Ivory Steinway
Synthogy's Ivory Boesendorfer 290
Post Instrument's Bosendorfer 290
CakeWalk Dimension Pro
Roland Fantom XR Ultimate Grand
NI Akoustik Piano Steinway Concert
NI Akoustik Piano Boesendorfer 290
NI Akoustik Piano Bechstein D 280
Kurzweil PC2x Piano
Roland SRX-11 Complete Piano
PianoTeq Modeled Piano
Steinberg Grand 2
PMI Old Lady 2
SampleTekk White Grand
4Front TruePianos - Diamond Module
4Front TruePianos - Emerald Module



Results
Polls

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Roland Fantom-X
This is one of Roland's finest 88-key split stereo-sampled piano, with each note individually sampled at multiple velocities.  Roland doesn't acknowledge what piano these samples are from to my knowledge.  Listen for yourself maybe you can discern.  Also available in a rack version which is very popular. A very special thanks to Nathan Sheldon for his contributions.   Comment on the pianos in the forums. 
Ultimate Grand Patch
This is the original patch  Ultimate Grand from the stock Roland.   All were recorded digitally with  no post-processing or external effects in 44.1 kHz 16-bit format then converted to 192 kbps MP3s

Demo1 Roland UltimatGrand (2.4MB)

Demo2 Roland UltimatGrand (5.0MB)

Demo5 Roland UltimatGrand (4.2MB)


 Fantom-X
Ultimate Grand+
Nathan has took the stock UltimatGrnd patch and modified some parameters to improve velocity switching.  Here are the demos rendered with his patch which is free located here.   Thanks Nathan!

Demo1 UltimatGrnd+ (2.4MB)
Demo2 UltimatGrnd+ (5.0MB)
Demo5 UltimatGrnd+ (4.2MB)
DrkUltmtGrnd
This piano again is a modification of the Ultimate Grand stock patch by Nathan.  It alters the color of the piano sound (and stereo separation) by using samples of the keys 4 half-steps down from the one you hit and shifting the pitch of that sample up to match the key you hit.  This causes the piano to sound much warmer and darker and widens the stereo image.  Feel free to discuss this in the forums.

Demo1 DrkUltimtGrnd (2.4MB)
Demo2 DrkUltimtGrnd (5.0MB)
Demo5 DrkUltimtGrnd (4.2MB)

 
 


 
 
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