Virtual Pianos Comparison part 2 : Galaxy, Alicia's Keys, Synthogy Ivory

Test of some virtual pianos with Numa Nero and soundcard Edirol UA-1G. For each virtual instrument I've played little exctracts of Beethoven Tempest sonata, etude Op25 No2and valse Op 69 No1 by Chopin. In this secondpart you can ear Best Service Galaxy Vienna, Native Instruments Alicia's Keys and Synthogy Ivory (German/Steinway, Italian/Fazioli).

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Kontakt
• Synthogy
• Ivory
• Italian
• Alicia's
• Keys
• Galaxy

[Thepianopenguin]

I play more often the Galaxy Vintage D (with update 1.2 fixing sustain bugs) but I hope the new version 4 of Pianoteq, coming soon, give us a more realistic sound especially on the attack of the note.

[lamoureux69]

ivory !!! but the real best is east west (but u must have a big computer) and ivory II today

[glovemtb]

This one is easy. Galaxy Vienna Bos. Is really my favorite of all 6 reviewed.

Thanks for doing these ! They are very helpful.

I have Pianoteq and the out of the box has way to much reverb (easy to reduce it) to sound natural. But, once you voice the hammers etc. (you can even change from a plethora of available temperaments.) It truly is a remarkable product & tiny memory footprint compared to the rest. (still Galaxy BosenD is my favorite...if I wanted to give up that much memory&diskSpace.)

[proyb2]

@sanpicolo Oh yeah, how about compare to Galaxy Vintage D?

[proyb2]

@sanpicolo I still wonder what song can I play that sound nice with Italian?

[okaypaco]

none of the pianos respond the same to the midi notes. Every piano sound require different interpretation. Ivory grand and Italian require more velocity for a richer sound, in my opinion. As I listen to the recording i choose: Italian, Alicia's, ivory grand and Galaxy (galaxy sounds like a toy compared to the others).

[sanpicolo]

1 EL IVORY ITALIAN!!!

2 ivory grand

3 Galaxy 2

4 Alicia Okey