hey what's going on out there I'm Sean Divine hope you all are doing well today
I'm gonna share with you my top 5 grand piano libraries for contact now many of
you have had questions about which grand pianos I use the most in my own
productions and I've spent many years diving through grand piano libraries
trying to find the instruments that are the most expressive dynamic they fit
well in the mix and they're just playable and inspiring so I'm gonna go
through I'm going to show you some of the interface customizations you have
with these to customize the sound but more importantly I'm gonna play them so
that you can get an idea of what's possible with these great grand piano
libraries so let's dive in and take a listen first library we're gonna take a
look at is the emotional piano from sound iron
as you can hear it has a nice intimate tone a lot of intricacies they're
definitely useful for film scoring there's also some handy controls on the
front panel here you have controls for things like attack
you also have a full effects rack so we can go over here and change things like
the reverb or if we wanted to turn on tape saturation we could do that
very inspiring and cool instrument so check this one out moving on we have the
braunshweig upright this is from imperfect samples not much in the way of
the GUI it is just the straight forward contact interface but the sound is very
cool very unique
next one on the list is Alicia's keys this is really just a staple it's
included with the Native Instruments Komplete pack and it fits in the mix in
a wide variety of different styles of music
so if we switch over to our settings we can control things like our reverb
there's some cool convolution reverb settings there you can also change the
noise of the pedals some different resonant options there so some good
flexibility and just a really great utility piano to have in your library
next piano on the list is the Death Piano this is quite a bit more unconventional
than the other piano libraries I've included it has a lot of different
presets and they're very interesting in their approach but kind of have this
creepy sort of eerie sound to them so let's take a listen to this preset it's
called articulate thoughts
so you can hear as I keep that sustain pedal down we get this cool reverse
effect now if we click our settings you can control different layers that are
included in these different presets and there's also some controls here like if
we want to use LFO on the pitch so this can make for some interesting effects
here let's just turn the LFO amount up a little bit inspiring library and it's
gonna fill some different spaces for your piano needs last but certainly not
least on the list is the studio grand piano le from production voices this is
probably my favorite in the entire list because it ends up in so many of my
productions but let's take a listen here
all right all so that is my list of top 5 grand piano libraries for contact I
hope you'll enjoy these as much as I have they are just incredible
instruments very intricate fit great into the mix and have a lot of dynamics
to them so have fun if you have any questions or comments about the
libraries feel free to leave a comment below please like and subscribe and
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