We spent days - weeks even - combing through every single thread we could find and tallied up the results, so we could put an end to that question once and for all, and get a snapshot of what the best studio headphones are as recommended by musicians from all walks of life. We took one such question, “what studio headphones should I get?,” and turned it into our best studio headphones guide. We noticed that certain threads appear over and over again, with the same questions being asked every two weeks (or more often in some cases).

Some time ago, we noticed a pattern while browsing our favorite forums and musician communities on the web.

To start off, we want to tell you what led to us to want to create this best piano VST guide. Trivial, but stupid: The left & right channels seem to be swapped, so I had to manually configure them in the ASIO driver.The Best Piano VSTs - How We Made This List C being a fairly popular note, I usually have to tune the piano up a 1/2 step and then transpose my MIDI down 1/2 step to avoid it. I wrote to EastWest with the issue, even sent them an MP3 of the sound, but they never replied. An annoyance: The dry sustained 32-63 velocity C below middle C sample sounds like someone dropped something in the studio several seconds into the recording. I have to turn the output volume of the instrument up to +12dB, and even then it barely uses 1/3 of the 16 bit range. Kind of bad: The dynamic range was set obviously for the loudest note, which makes the noise floor rather high when playing normally, particularly if many notes are decaying. If it weren't for the magic of CoolEdit, this product would be completely useless to me.ģ. The pumping noise often sounds grainy, something like truncation noise. I have to apply a fairly agressive noise minimization in CoolEdit before I can boost the treble at all. Fairly bad: The noise floor pumps around depending on how many notes are sustaining. So for me this is a two velocity sample set (pedal up and pedal down) - pathetic.Ģ. No way to tweak this in the sample set AFAIK, otherwise I would definitely take the time to do it. Makes things sound somewhat compressed as you might imagine, wich can sometimes be good, other times bad. So I have to scale my MIDI to stay mostly within this band, and then either hand or bulk edit the remaining notes into this velocity region. Go from velocity 63 to 64 and the volume jumps so much it sounds like someone is banging on that keys. Go from velocity 32 to 31 and the notes practically falls off the edge of the earth. The killer: volume matching between samples, particularly in the upper notes, is very poor. Dry is fairly wet in the upper registers, but it sounds pretty good actually. Wet is way too wet to use, so 1/2 the samples just lay there taking up space on my hard drive.

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