What is the most realistic grand piano that comes with X2?

True piano.

I use the Steinway Piano with Dim Pro. I usually "freeze" it before I do a final mix as it can be a bit of a resource hog.

I'm not crazy about either the True Pianos or the pianos in Dim Pro, altho I use them cause I can't afford one of the "good" piano programs... or I'll use my keyboard piano and use fx on it.

tomixornot


True piano.

True Piano is my go-to piano; it's got a beautiful attack and tone, but the decay is a bit weird...it takes like forever for the note to decay. If it weren't for that, it could sound convincing. 

True Piano is the best included with SONAR, but it's not the best on the market. There's a huge selection of 3rd-party piano virtual instruments at different price ranges.

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I was wondering how true pianos stood up against maybe some piano I haven't discovered yet that comes with X2. I was recording last night and the keyboardist (who's day job is tuning pianos)Didn't have a complaint about it. He was actually commenting /surprised on how the high string note groups are slightly out of tune just like a real piano. I guess it is hard to get the high strings perfect and keep them there and that attributes to the "real" sound true pianos has. Cool.

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I was wondering how true pianos stood up against maybe some piano I haven't discovered yet that comes with X2. I was recording last night and the keyboardist (who's day job is tuning pianos)Didn't have a complaint about it. He was actually commenting /surprised on how the high string note groups are slightly out of tune just like a real piano. I guess it is hard to get the high strings perfect and keep them there and that attributes to the "real" sound true pianos has. Cool.

Each octave has twice as many frequencies as the one below it so I guess that means more opportunity to be out of tune, or at least make it more noticeable.

True Piano's sounds really nice stand alone ... but I find it hard to get it to fit in to a mix with other instruments, especially once I start EQ'ing it. Cutting the lows can reveal some funky artifacts in the high end. I usually layer it with my old Korg X5 Piano patch and get some excellent results.

I never tried layering it with a Dim Pro piano ... might give that a try.

Unfortunatly the True Pianos "Amber" model that is bundled with Sonar is (IMHO of course) the worst of the models in the full version. "Atlantis" is my favourite.