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Anyone using them? What do you think? Would they work well for a guitar player who thinks that the sound of the A Grand Piano in Reason is OK?

I use all the time the two *Abbey Road Reason Refill* pianos.

One is somewhat round or warm, the other is bright.

To my ears, they fit very well for pop, rock or folk music types.
They do have much personnality. IMHO much more personality than the standard Reason Grand piano, which is perhaps a compromise between to much things.

For each of the two pianos you've got choice all sorts of places to listen from : front, rear, above, bottom and ambience. I usualy prefer front.

With a good Studiologic hammer keyboard, a real pleasure to play.
I must say I'm no pianist at all, but vocalist and guitarist.

BTW in the Refill set you get also harmonium, celesta and harpsichord.

I thought about the Abbey Road refill, but I think that the piano sounds have a little too much character. I couldn't see them being everyday pianos.

I have the RPi refill and I use to use it a lot. But now that i have True piano I tend leave RPi out a bit. I pretty long to load and it can get pretty heavy on the CPU. Still can do the job well. The instruments are well sampled but wish I could extract them to use the patch in Mach five instead.

Lately I've put rewire a bit aside...

In the RDK there are slimmed down patches that don't include all of the mics. Do the Pianos have something like that?

Yes but as you can figure out, They are not as good.

rcannonp wrote:Anyone using them? What do you think? Would they work well for a guitar player who thinks that the sound of the A Grand Piano in Reason is OK?

They sound significantly better than the stock pianos that ship with reason. I highly recommend "Reason Pianos".

I was not that impressed with the Abby Road Keyboards.

The reason combinator piano's are really really good.

Distant grand is classic IMO

Thanks for the opinions. I guess I'll have to go pick it up. I keep going back and trying the pianos that shipped with Kontakt 2, and I just can't get inspired to play them.

Hey Rcannonp, have you tried TRUEPIANO? With our Unicornation rebate, it's about the same price, and it's a plug in directly within DP and a standalone app if you need to play just piano. Like I said earlier I use it more than RPi.

I tried the demo a while back and just couldn't get into it. Enough people seem to like it. Maybe I'll give it another shot.

I've been trying to steamline my system, so that I don't have to think so much about my setup. I've spent too much time twiddling knobs in new plugins instead of making music. I've settled on using DP and Reason, and I have templates for both that work together and are easy to start up with. The more that I can integrate into that setup, the better it works out for me.

I've used also the grand piano included in GPO refill.
Perhaps more intended to fit a big orchestra with piano, than a real piano solo, but rather good sounding though.

Well, I'm never going to be a solo, classical pianist. I'm mostly interested in pop/rock stylings. It seems that the GPO Refill is mostly weighted towards strings which I don't really need. I think that I would rather get a refill or VI that's just focused on keys.