#IVORY II VS PIANOTEQ 5 VS GALAXY VINTAGE D FULL#
If you want to hear them at their full resolution (highly recommended), you can download the high-resolution WAV files, either in a Pro Tools session or as a folder of audio files, and listen to them in your own studio. The tracks were recorded as 24-bit/96kHz WAV files and are presented here as 328k MP3s. I also didn’t change settings for pedal noise, tuning, dynamic range, voicing, or any other parameters. Because the options for mics and mic placement are so numerous in several programs, I didn’t change any of those from their stock presets. Since reverb volumes vary widely on the instruments, I tried to make the reverb level uniform between instruments. The velocity of the notes in the performances ranges from as low as 24 to as high as 127. Then I took that uniform MIDI data and performed the piece on each instrument with no adjustments. They were performed on a Korg Kronos, and the MIDI data was captured live.
I created three original pieces titled “Em Jam,” “Jazz Ballad,” and “Sonata Dupre” that I composed just for this comparison. Here’s Jacob to fill in the rest of the details. Jacob Dupre, Sweetwater’s Keyboard Artist, composed and recorded three solo piano performances in different styles and then played the same MIDI performance through a host of virtual pianos. To help simplify the auditioning process for you, we chose several leading brands of virtual pianos and performed the same composition on each to give you a simple comparison between instruments, where you listen to them all in one sitting. Levels, reverb, performances - the variables are all over the map.
The problem with that approach is that there is no uniformity to the presentation. With so many virtual pianos on the market, how can you know how the different pianos sound? Well you can try hopping from website to website auditioning the sounds or listening to YouTube videos uploaded by different users. So we’re delighted to present our Virtual Piano Shootout. It was a fascinating exercise and a real revelation in terms of the sound of the different pianos. We installed a big collection of virtual piano programs and listened to them all. But how many people have taken the time to compare them side by side? Not many, so we decided we should do it.
Virtual pianos and sample libraries have improved drastically in the past few decades. When we recorded the Digital Piano Shootout, several people asked, “What about virtual pianos?” That was a great idea so we decided to audition a group of VIs (Virtual Instruments).
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