Best Free Piano VST 2021 Part 2: No Kontakt!

wow holy !$@# that is wow that's incredible! today  we're going back to the best free vst piano well   except this time no Kontakt  allowed let's get right into it so lucky me apparently today is piano day   over at pianobook.co.uk and it has released a  brand new claustrophobic piano let's take a listen yeah there's a lot of pedal tone  in this sound which could be great   for an authentic raw feel and a soundtrack all in all this is a great character piano that  i will reach for during scoring and making loops   but it never gets brighter or more direct  than this so we need something more   all around for our kind of  day-to-day lord of the pianos i'm also going to review the basic piano from  decent sampler because that's the default patch   that comes with it and a viewer said  they really liked it so here it goes this sounds quite bright compared to  claustrophobic piano funny because   when i initially fired it up earlier it  sounded like one of the darkest pianos   so it has a tone dial on it  let's check this out hmm oh okay it doesn't really seem to do  anything to the last ten percent here   and ah okay in case you want no tone you have  that option i'm not sure why you'd want to go   any darker than the default setting if  i wanted something darker i'd switch to   a claustrophobic piano or something like that  let's see what lowering the reverb sounds like right yeah so you can tell the reverb definitely  gives it a little bit more body and presence i'd   say most of these free pianos they always benefit  from a decent reverb anyway and you can tell   pretty much all these patches they always throw  a reverb on which is fine but uh in your mixes i   would warn not to go too nuts on the reverb uh  trying to spruce up a not great piano because   you could destroy the mono compatibility of that  piano and there's a free nag from uncle jeremy next is dsk the grand he actually has a ton of  free stuff on his site including dsk overture a   free orchestra plugin i'm going to check out  from my no contact free vst orchestra video   stay tuned anyway let's listen well  it certainly is chunkier and brighter hmm check out that cutoff on the stain pedal  so i'm going to hold it that's the cutoff you hear that unnatural sound between chords i mean yeah there's almost no point in having  sustained pedals going to sound like that   you know what this would be  good for though 90s house here's upright piano by 99 sounds this features  some less common piano effects like tremolo   perhaps they're going for a lo-fi thing let's see okay this sounds decent overall  leaning towards the average again   what i'm noticing is some of the higher  velocities jump out at me on certain   notes it sounds unnatural a  little jarring let's see here it's a little pitchy here and there to  be expected from a random upright piano   let's try out the tremolo because  everyone wants tremolo an acoustic piano so it starts off oh okay so tremolo is vibrato   i want that even less on a piano  let's see here's a here's a drop down switch to expression right so expression equals tremolo or amplitude  modulation so that's kind of what i think when i   hear tremolo that's what i'm thinking of yeah  i don't know why anyone would want to do this   at the instrument level these effects are so easy  to do in your daw and that's how i would do it so   so i don't know this is kind of pitchy  overall um i'd say grab this if you   need to mimic someone playing at a huge  retirement home not my favorite but passable   so just for fun i thought i'd grab one of the  oldest piano vsts out there mda plugins mda piano let's see how it holds up i mean it's very very simple sounding but i it sounds pretty forceful like i'm  kind of surprised i expected this sound   a lot worse i mean what is this vst  size let's take a look here mda piano 3.6 megabytes that's 3.6 megabytes of sound  is it a sample or is it just synthesized here   i wonder anyways so i mean there's no  interface to this so that's kind of fun looks like the stereo width you can hear that hass effect kicking  and i wouldn't go too crazy on that   you change your polyphony i'm on a 2019  imac here so i'm just going to crank it i'm hearing a bit of that unnatural cut off here i like these low notes though   i like that it's not bad i wonder what this  sounds like a little bit of reverb this is   the only plugin here that doesn't come with  its own reverb i think so let's just add a bit yeah i mean it sounds kind of  fake it makes me think of uh   you know pianos from the 90s but for  something that has been out for like 21 years   is three megs and free this  is not bad i kind of like it so here we are the legendary keyzone classic vst   this is the one i got in trouble for  not reviewing so let's check it out wow holy [ __ ] that is wow that's incredible  this is a very bright broad brave piano   it's forcing me to play to new heights  it has a really adventurous quality to it   okay well i can see why all my subscribers  recommended it geez let's take a listen okay so i really like this keyzone classic uh  let's switch back to another piano just for fun back to key zone wow right well there is no comparison there  really to him well there can be no doubt   keys on classic for the win you were right who  needs contact anyway i will say that some of the   free contact instruments my other video link  up above are very high quality with a couple   having smoother sonic profiles than key zone i  don't think any of them have the unbridled power   of key zone classic though so well done i highly  recommend key zone classic for especially pop   hip hop and rockwork this is a real treat thank  you for watching now i didn't profile every free   piano vst i could find because i wanted to keep  this short and most of them kind of sucked anyway   did i miss anything significant do you agree  about key zone classic let me know in the   comments below as always if you like 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Length: 12min 33sec (753 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 14 2021