VI Labs successfully created a cheaper competitor to the Ivory series. What I love about Ravenscroft is the versatility it offers, keeping up with jazz, pop, and classical genres with ease. It has around 17,000 samples that provide hefty dynamic contours and react to one another in real time. While this lacks some of the user-defined settings of more expensive options, it boasts unique features such as silent strike and pedal resonance. Putting on quality headphones and practicing using this plugin will transport you to another world. No iLok authorization required.Īddictive Keys makes four digital piano plugins, each with totally unique sounds.
My favorite is the Studio Grand, which was recorded in a large recording studio at the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation.
This studio is famous for being extremely quiet and having a controlled acoustic ambience, making the piano sounds tight and airy. Whether you’re just practicing for a concert or you’re recording quality tracks to demo on your SoundCloud, this plugin makes you feel like you’ve teleported to one of Sweden’s premiere recording facilities. I love the ability to preview the different sounds with recordings without having to load them and actually play something.
