That being said, Keyscape is what I keep coming back to. I do have to say (with only good intentions, I promise!) that posting on VIC asking about 'what's the best piano?' is kind of like going to Gearspace and asking 'what's the best microphone?' 😬 It will take archeologists years to excavate the amount of debate on this topic! It's the 'Jazz Mellow' and the 'Classical Mellow' preset: The piano effects you hear are by the engine.ĮDIT: Here's also my shitty interpretation of Blackbird and an improvised march to show off the 'normal' sound. It uses the winter sun preset or whatever it was called.

it just sounds so great, especially when you mix them. The key sounds and pedal sounds are recorded, too for realism and what I love most: They also recorded a bunch of experimental techniques, like bowed strings, plucked strings, chains, dampened strings, etc. On top of the normal presets that thing has an engine that offers a whole lot of great effects. It sounds so much more natural than the very limited pianos by Cinematic Studio Samples or EastWest which only have like 5 or so. The Chroma has 23 velocity layers which is insane. It's also only 150€ and I got it with a discount for just 99€. If you want a good piano for soundtracks, jazz and in limited capacity also classical music then this is it.

It was surprisingly decent but then I switched to Sonuscore Chroma and the difference was night and day. Click to expand.I have the Hammer 88 Pro, too and used the minigrand vst that was bundled with it for a long time.

Piano v vst