As you may have realized, I am reselling my Toontrack licenses
For bass & drums I am done with UJAM basses and Jamstick, and I have also AAS Lounge Lizard for electric pianos, and VB-III for the Hammond, but I need a piano
I bought some time ago the Sampleson Metapiano, but the sound is dull, very dull, so can somebody suggest a way to make it shining with external effects?
Or, do you know a good alternative that doesn’t rely on KK, is not a RAM-sucker, is stable on Ableton Live 11 and Cantabile, and doesn’t cost me a kidney?
Arturia Piano V3 is the excellent choice, not KK, on sale several times a year. Currently $124, but occasionnaly goes for $79 or so. I have been used it for many years. The sound is great, there are many pianos, from classic to electric (see image).
Well, I think that I’ll go for the 2 UJAM pianos because the RAM sucked is low: about 5 GB jamming in Cantabile with one UJAM piano, one UJAM bass, and one UJAM drums
and also because I can play them by hand (well, one hand only, while Scaler send chords) and I can play them with more or less help using precooked riffs
The general problem with many, if not all the plugins, is that the demo songs are misleading because they rely more or less deeply on external effects
This is why I read that Pro musicians usually listen plugins raw, i.e. without any effect on, when devs leave them to remove internal effects, clearly…
The Arturia is a good example: the demo songs shine, but the plugin output is dull, very dull compared to Pianoteq that is considered one of the best by many keyboard players that populate the Cantabile or other fora
The Arturia has another severe issue BTW: only the interface can be enlarged, not the fonts; so if I enlarge the GUI enough to read the text, the GUI comes out of my screen
The Korg M1 plugin has no demo apparently, so I didn’t test it
@ClaudioPorcellana This is the link to my test with several piano presets from Arturia Piano 3.
As I mentioned, I am beginner on piano so there are errors, but I wanted to give you an idea how Piano V3 might sound. There are dozens of presets and these are only a few.
Yes, it seems to me also that UJAM pianos suck more
Anyway, I followed the Studio-dbfx tip, and it worked: the Metapiano sound is way better with a few effects onto it, so I think I’ll keep it for now, waiting some big discount for another, likely Pianoteq
The problem with Arturia Piano V3 is that its fonts are barely readable for me
If you don’t need detailed control over the Piano sound, you could just use Arturia Analog Lab. It’s even cheaper and it contains a few Arturia Piano presets (and a lot of other synths as well). You can only fiddle with some predefined macro knobs, though. Since the UI is very simplified, maybe it suits you better?
I meant the total RAM needed for my hybrid system
It is not dedicated to music, but I use it for work and for fun, so there are always other pieces of software that suck part of the available RAM
