EastWest Quantum Leap Pianos

[sergiogarcia86]

Congratulations from Spain!

[TheAdriGerritsen]

What speakers are you using and how are they connected to the sound card? Looks not like ordinary stuff you buy in the local computer store ...

Are the speakers connected to an amplifier?

Nice playing!

[mariusfelix]

It should be mentioned, that this instrument has a severe CC64 hanging note BUG, which I told the support one year ago and it's not yet fixed. It's like a super car with dammaged breaks...I can't use it live nor as a daily composers work instrument. Nice sound, but helas, with this BUG useless...the BUG occurs on all of my three computers, it starts in Cubase after a certain amount of played notes...

[thebasedrummer]

sounds great! what keyboard is that? (:

[ditroiamusic]

The piano sample and your playing is very nice!

[pianoking]

yeah! real acoustic sounds. better than synthogy

[robdrums69]

you should try 4front - True Pianos, you may just like those too :)

[nicromis]

Hey there!

Nice playing, I really liked it. Did you anything to the recording like automations in your sequencer (or just pressing the sustain pedal or something)? Or is everything I hear exactly what I see you doing just with your fingers?

I ordered Pianos a few days ago, but I won't be able to use it before christmas...

[MarkoRuzinOfficial]

I totally prefer eastwest pianos to the "akoustik" pianos of NI ( guess they call it the grand collection now) , maybe they did a higher quality sampling, but when it comes to the best I would go for galaxy pianos. Or alternatively synthogy, but still :s

[GRAFq]

@MarkoRuzinOfficial

Yeah, Akoustik Piano isn't all that great. EWQL Pianos are nice. Imperfect Samples make amazing piano sample libraries as well.

[IEOUAMS]

Wonderful..." playsomeboards ", Thank you very much for this video extraordinary and magnificent...

[dmana3172]

Wow, sounds beautiful and very sad. *sniff* :~(

[premium518]

is the piano original that good or did you add reverb and eqs etc to improve the sound? if so what do you recommend to get that quality sound for a piano as afar as mixing not vst suggestion

[101Licious]

Great melody. =)

[shortbusoneohone]

Good Lord, you're incredibly talented i wish i could play piano....5yrs of guitar and i'm thinkin piano is next in line

[mavs972]

@shortbusoneohone This is just a 1, 4, 5,4 1 progression throughout the entire song piece. It will fool the average Joe tho. :)

[shortbusoneohone]

@mavs972 i'm easily classified as an average Joe but kudos my friend

[Organasum]

Hi there, thanks for sharing that loverly music, could you tell me what monitor speakers you use with your keyboards, I am currently using an amp and I hate it far too washed out with the bass I would love to get some better speakers.

Thanks

[freerunboy]

amaazing!!

[curramaru]

Very well you have excited me, also I use COLOSSUS but I/you/they have not succeeded in feeling the plan in this way you tell me that type of master uses and as you amplify the everything, Good regards from Anthony ITALY

[somersaultsofa]

Well, I believe that no matter how much they charge, it's immoral to torrent. It's not like they're the sole providers of some necessary staple, like food- getting this software is a luxury, and as such they should be able to charge however much they want for it. If you don't like their prices, don't buy it! No need to torrent.

[andrzejszczecina]

great great great

[marclee82]

Okay Okay i was the biggest and i mean biggest illegitimate supporter of quantum leap pianos for about 2yrs now. but i have to change my story. Yes it sounds awesome Yes its detailed to a T but i didn't realize how much feel weights into the occasion until i tried PIANOTEQ3 its a real instrument not samples at all,stupid low on resources and it may not be modeled after the favorite pianos but the ones it created are stunning i can stop playing just try it

[FLSMusicProducer]

I give U Subscribe when you send me midi file to this cover :D sry for my bad english :(

[praestant8]

A little Debussy on the Bösendorfer set will really show you what this thing can do.

[mdaleo]

Just curious, would you mind listing your computer setup?

[aldy32]

This is embarassing, but I installed all 35 cds only to realize that the sample libraries were installed incorrectly in the end. So I had to reinstall everything...

Btw, has anyone of you encountered some sort of sustain pedal issue?? It works perfectly fine on the PLAY Standalone interface, but when I try to use it in cubase 4, the sound cuts off when i release the sustain pedal...T_T

Perhaps its my DAW which only runs on 32 bit...??

[danofsydney]

@aldy32 it could be the combination of massive sample library AND cubase is too much for your computer, Try using a compact vst host like Cantabile or Minihost and then when playing live your computer want be stretched so much

[JSpraya]

well played man ,but do u think i should get EW piano's that comes in

"The Complete Composers Collection "

-it comes with Symphonic Orchestra Gold

EastWest/Quantum Leap Pianos Gold

Symphonic Choirs Quantum Leap Goliath Stormdrum 2 Voices of Passion

Quantum Leap RA

but i already have a korg triton , and a tone of VSTI's that have piano's in them . Please Message me this comment took like 5 minutes to write (lol) ty

[elvataiwan]

Good playing! Quantum leap pianos freaking suck. You have to buy the stupid piece of crap ilock key that cost 40 freaking dollars. The installation instructions suck. They should write on the box that it is a pain in the but to install and it takes four freaking days. I was so pissed off that I wanted to burn that piece of crap software but then I would waste 400 dollars. I want to break all of the discs and shove them down the throat of the man who sold it to me at guitar center.

[PelPix]

Before anyone flames him, what he's saying is that the samples and sounds are fantastic, but the management for the registration system is a piece of shit.

I agree.

[hitobedut]

@PelPix , I use it all the time and it isnt---shit

[elvataiwan]

yes, true. The sounds are amazing as well as the video. I was just mad that day because it took me probably five days to figure out the installation problems.I just needed an ilock key. I am all set now :)

[FartingPenguinProd]

why did it take 4 days to install? Maybe you need to get a better system.. - FPP

[elvataiwan]

well, I didnt know that I needed an ilock key at first and I do need a better system. My computer is really slow especially for that software

[FartingPenguinProd]

EWQL systems are very demanding, I have symphonic orchestra silver, running on a duel core imac with 3gb ram and it still lags out

[3TnT]

Very nice sound !

[IcechickenSr]

I've hear from Torlie's videos that I guess they Didn't include the massive grand steinway piano? Thats the one i'm so fond of sound wise, and if it dose indeed have it, I might spring for the Pack. Beautiful playing and sounds sir! Lovely sound, just lovely. Cheers fuckers, IC.

[spdyvkng]

Check out which player it is bundled with. Some sell the Play edition (the most modern, and what Torley have) and some sell the Kontakt edition. BUT according to some posts people have trouble with the Play edition, so do some research.

[IcechickenSr]

Well personally I'm not very fond of NI's Kontakt/romptackt/stomptakt,du­nktakt crap they keep comming out with lol. It was a good engine but hell My engine I have for my old Librarys of smphponic choir/orchestra isn't even the new Kontakt, it's the older Kompakt lol if thats a toung twister. The Play engine can operate in 64 bit,which makes the world for me.The samples for Play have been beefed up quite a bit,so one needs a good computer to play with play lol so it can be problimatic right ther

[spdyvkng]

Hrmf, something happened, it lost my first part of my post:

I was saying the CCC comes with piano, but Torley chose to exchange those he had with something else, which you can do at the soundsonline.

I was also going to say that I've seen the CCC at European online stores, at lower prices. And then my reply above makes sense, with some context.

The august promo is mostly still on so it seems that is what the streetprice will be for the future. Perhaps something new is on the horizon.

[Guakingo]

As for the piano, I use Ivory Italian grand which is nice but doesn´t quite have the natural string resonance I hear in this video. (But then, there is an important difference in price.) As for the question of software piracy, there´s no need for it because there is so much freeware software on the net. (Try KVR-VST). In fact the only two commercial products I have is Ivory and Cubase Essential! It works fine for me and I have no need to buy new stuff at the moment.

[jimbobg65]

Sounds equisite. I use the Synthogy Ivory Pianos, but they lack realism in the higher dynamic range. I still have to find a decent linear piano weighted controller keyboard though, as I'm currently playing on an Access Virus TI which has synth weighted keys.

[SofiaBlueSky]

Nice sound

[KeyboardFox]

Lovely sound, I got QL Pianos a couple months back and I love it; the Bechstein is awesome too. I disagree with what Maraja said, I thought you had some nice harmonies going on there, it creates some nice ambience. Nice work!

[krazykid2002k]

any torrents

[Mudshower]

yea, this is the most important :D

[GT1amuse22k]

I got one suggestion for you kid, go get a fucking job and stop pirating! No wonder music is going down hill because of this wanna be producers around.

[jimbobg65]

If companies adopted a different strategy, and the world didn't revolve around profit margains, then the companies could offer the technology to the majority of people. They would find they'd make serious profits compared to only offering it to 'professionals' at a higher price. This is why people download, as they don't see the benefit of paying for something they'll most likely not use to make money. My phisolophy: "We're here for an experience, not to make money or gain control."

[jimbobg65]

If it's possible to exploit technology in order to progress society in some way or another, then why not do so? Why does it always have to revolve around whether people are being paid. We have enough technology and resources flowing round society at the moment to provide the whole world with whatever they need to sustain a decent standard of living, but yet we still decide to buy into the idea that it's 'only' about keeping the 'economy' afloat.

[Azden392]

I believe making money is important, because in this day and age, if you don't till a field of corn, paddy of rice or farm any kind of food, you'd be hard pressed to live comfortably. So that is why money is crucial as a requirement to survive.

Do you know the amount of money spent on developing these kinds of software? Months of work, hiring top musicians to play the instruments, the studios that cost millions to build?

[Azden392]

Sometimes, people just have to be rewarded for they effort and dedication in something so much so that they are willing to introduce this unique products to the world.

The price is not for everyone, but for people who respect what they have sacrificed and are continuing to sacrifice for these things enough to pay the price for them. And that is how they are even more motivated to develop more of these software.

Cheers :)

[IcechickenSr]

but in alot of cases how much money making is enough? millions upon millions of proffit? I'm not taking sides here, just pointing out other ways of looking at what the other fellos up there wre saying. So in that case there is more than enough to go round, and those big companys will continue to go on making millions. Sure they are losing money to pirating, and I understand your view very well and agree, just on the other hand as I said thier still making money, don't kid yourself lol. Cheers IC

[darkbrother1337]

I wanna be musician and i've got no money, i need to do that mistake as well... (pirating) The way i think about it makes de difference when i think they work for make these amazing softwares and, one day, i hope i could pay to them the software that i actualy use and abuse... I respect them, but show must go on

[hitobedut]

@darkbrother1337 Hey Bro, Have faith and BUY the software, you wont regret it and as well you support those who made it and you get good karma for doing so. I highly recommend all the EastWest Products

[maraja21]

good sound quantum leap piano... but you have to study harmony and better positions... do study harmony! open positions ect.

[DennisPalm85]

What's the name of the song you play? =)

[Octaviuus]

Very nice.

Great sound for soundtrack music.

I have the Steinway D of EWQL but I would like to know what reverb plugin or settings you used on this video.

(Sorry for my english I'm french)

[seankeevermusic]

Damn!!! east west has done it again

[emirworks]

i love it 5 stars!

[dsheezy0325]

are you working with/promoting ewql or no?

[DhanShirian]

very nice bro. touched my heart. :) I wish i could play like you. How did you learn playing so nice! :)

[toshiroo]

nice :)

i have ewql Bosendorfer 290

i don't find this kind of piano sound

can u tell me exactly thename of product ? thanks

[reservenotes]

Nice man you got skills. What key are you playing that song in?

[playsomeboards]

Thanks, it's in the key of C When ever I'm just noodling I tend to stay in C because I'm not that great at noodling in other keys.

[jamez123123]

Good man!

[subby33]

Funny. Whenever I sit down at the keyboard (i'm not very great) I play in some type of like . . . c minor suspended. I dont even know what it is. THen when I try to learn something in a more major key, i have a lot of problems making my hands go there. I'm way better at guitar.

[GastroGreen]

@playsomeboards thaza lotta noodlin!

[IceBoxDD]

kinda boring...

nice playing

[reddupo]

how is this boring its amazing

not the playing..the sound quality of the piano... you can have the crappiest keyboard in the world and still have the sound be a rich full grand in a big room...

thats what this video is demonstrating in case you didnt know. A sampled Piano VSTi.

[jamez123123]

its nice :)

[marabino18]

Hi sir ,wow great, What do you think about the M-audio Oxygen 61? it's good for record?? thanks

[playsomeboards]

It would be fine, but if you're looking to learn & play piano I would go for something with 88 and semi-weighted

[mrsarun]

@marabino18 M-Audio Keystation 88es is a great and cheap semi-weighted midiboard!

About the same price as Oxygen 61, but without knobs etc!

If you got the money I'd suggest a Akai MPK88! Full range with knobs and samplerpads :) (3 times the price of the other 2 in this post)

[IlldianX]

Amazing....

and 270G......amazing too

[dickda]

let me just ask .. is it possible to choose

between the VST's to be installed, so i don't

have to bust my hard drive on a 263GB library?!

or does it just come in a package so i'd have

to go for all or none of em? :D

since i can easily live without boesendorfers

extended claviature.

[jamez123123]

yeh! why have they stopped making all of these things now :( ?

i just had enough money to buy choirs!!

[reddupo]

they stopped?

[jamez123123]

maybe not this, but they stopped some ochestra ones and choirs i think!

i tried to buy, but it didnt work...have a look!

[reddupo]

they just have new versions...called PLAY versions and they've discontinued their old products...But its the same thing with new wrapping and some new buttons.

just go to sounds online dot com

[mysticradio]

is that the PLAY engine?

[VremuriMaiBune]

one question : how many keys should a good keyboard have ? for to learn to play and do very many things with it

thank you!

[playsomeboards]

88 keys is a must if you're wanting to learn piano on a "piano style keyboard"

[dmana3172]

Quantum Leap Pianos is alittle better than Ivory, not much. But Pianoteq is far better than either, and is the only piano software that sounds exactly like the real thing.

[davedvdy]

That's interesting...I found Quantum Leap and Ivory to sound much more like the real thing, cause Pianoteq doesn't use recorded samples of pianos, it uses modeling.

[RL82]

Wow, Pianoteq sounded terrible when I tried it, I don't see how anyone could say it's better than Ivory AND Quantum Leap, the latter being the best sampled piano I've heard so far.

[glasspig]

hmmm

is Galaxy II pianos better than this ?

[audiotracer1]

EWQL piano for this song ? it's like .. killing a fly with Nuclear

[weaponEX]

Is this the 200GB piano library? It sounds indistinguishably realistic, of course, but is it worth the hard drive space? Does it come with loads of damper pedal samples and things (which most people don't use)?

Any advice is valuable - I'm about to get a Receptor so I might as well get the best there is!

[ordellsmith]

The pianos in Omnisphere are better than this.

[playsomeboards]

Thanks, I will have to find some demos. I'm actually not all that happy with EWQL Pianos these days. I seem to constantly get drop outs even on a very powerful computer with the light version of the pianos. I'm actually back to using my S90ES piano sound for most everything.

[fourbarposer]

great, you should re-do the waters edge piece with this piano and without drums.

[playsomeboards]

Yeah, I really should just delete waters edge :) It was kind of a hacked together piece and one of my first.

[mightystar55]

hi I'm wondering what speakers you use to play with these soft pianos?

[playsomeboards]

I use Rokit 5's and Rokit V8's

[TorturedXeno]

Lucky bum... you have a keyboard with modulation, and it looks expensive too. I can't start building my own studio until I have some kind of way to control the modulation and distortion and stuff.

[RL82]

uhm, buy a cheap 88 key studiologic controller.

[iamacomposer]

If you think Ivory is better than this collection check out the comparison demos at their website ... EW/QL Pianos blows Ivory away!

[speezythaking]

east west studios has the most realistic/highest quality sounds out of any other vst i have/or have ever heard.....a must have for all producers

[calien007]

wow QL pianos is defly the best piano library at the moment.

[metabog]

Synthogy Ivory sounds way better!

[nb2rock]

no way in hell does ivory sound better than this

ivory is good, don't get me wrong... but calling it superior to something twice its size is ridiculous.

the video doesn't do this thing justice because of youtube's compression

[metabog]

I agree the sound is somewhat better, but lugging around 263gbs of piano is metaphorically heavier than lugging a real one.

[Arecibo]

nb2rock: Using size as the basis of comparison is a completely ass-backwards and incorrect way of comparing libraries.

Ivory and QLP are roughly equal, though I prefer Ivory both sound-wise, and the fact that the library is much more compact. I also like VSL's orchestral libraries much more than EWQL, where the size difference actually translates audibly.

East West is great, but it's not the greatest; just very solid pick. An exception is Ethno World 4, which is tops in my book.

[Superphilipp]

Ivory is compact? I'm bothered by the 20 GB of Acoustik Piano already. :-D

[Arecibo]

It's a hell of a lot more compact than QLP (which is growing on me). If you're playing solo, I can see how people can go for QLP. In a mix, though, there's no advantage to it.

[Superphilipp]

I still don't think I'll switch from AP. First of all $450 is a hefty price to pay for a set of samples that will only really be done justice by the most expensive and high fidelity of all PAs. Secondly you also have to have a dual-core, high-end, 4GB-RAM notebook, which I imagine not a lot of musicians can afford. And I won't even start about the hassle of installing a 90 GB piano.

So is it impressive, stunningly realistic and the new reference? Most certainly yes! Is it practical? Not yet.

[glasspig]

GOD i keep getting different answers about Ivory and EastWest!!!

which is better???...for doing classical piano??????

[Visoronez]

+1

ivory is better!!!!

[kreature06]

And i'm sure you'd say poop is better tasting then pizza.

[flyboi708]

WOW this does sound way better than NI

[Phutureproducer]

which one is better: eastwest quantum leap pianos or native instruments akoustik piano?

thanks

[playsomeboards]

Eastwest Quantum Leap Pianos by far!

[DementeHom0]

no problem..! I own a few products from east west my self, the steinway included, and I have to admit, the sound in these instruments really surprised me.. Really really good quality. but they use alot of memory on larger compilations where multiple instrument are used.. :/

[akaimpc1000]

can you compare this to synthogy ivory? which one is better in your opinion? thx in advance

[playsomeboards]

Definitely better than ivory. If you go to my website (listed in my profile) I think I have a demo of Ivory up there. Also, these videos have much better sound quality on my website so you can get a better idea.

[DementeHom0]

you really know to play a keyboard! nice work :)

[playsomeboards]

Thank you, you are very kind!