Native Instruments NOIRE piano demo - Lots of playing!

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Demo and first impressions review of the new release of Native Instruments Noire piano. This is a Kontakt sample library of a Yamaha CFX Concert grand piano belonging to Nils Frahm and recorded in the legendary Funkhaus studios in Berlin We'll do a demo and walkthrough of the features and sounds, plus lots of playing with an Elton John theme!

[@VIC-20_Synthwave]

Great playing Woody! Man this sounds amazing. Super tempted to buy this.

[@XavierRadix]

I'm surprised how great this sounds! NI really did a fabulous job on this one.

[@jonrosenblum8371]

To me, this sounds amazing! Thanks for the video!

[@sargelester7351]

Great demo of this NI software Woody. I've been diving into scads of you tube reviews trying to find the right choice, and I think i've finally found it! Thank you for putting this out for all of us to hear!!

[@pointsurrender]

What a gorgeous piano. Wonderfully presented Woody.

[@chelseyjoymusic]

I'm so excited to get this piano. It's exactly what I've been wanting. I usually put delay with some diffusion, but it never quite hits the mark. This does. Thanks for the demo.

[@DallinJeppsonMusic]

So beautiful! Nice sounds and nice playing!

[@tearsofsoy4091]

This was a real pleasure to watch, all 32 mins :)

[@DDoom33]

Your production quality is up there. This channel deserves more subs. Keep it up mate 👌💯 Sweet playing as well. Can't wait to get my hand on NOIRE when K13 comes out 🎩🎶

[@macawdad2003]

Beautiful playing through a wonderful sounding VST all while using a $200 controller. Very informative. Thank you. We are living in a glorious time for music production.

[@VickersDoorter]

Great presentation and very refreshing to hear it delivered without a deluge of awesomes and cools! I have just purchased it on the basis of seeing this.

[@WoodyPianoShack]

thank you and congratulations, i have no doubt you will enjoy!

[@SiggeSvahn]

Sounds fabulous. Well played!

[@lewchaney2138]

Great performance and video Woody.

[@pianolover5417]

Finally I find my library after trying more than 50 piano library!

[@neoinfinity]

Sounds real nice, loved some of those presets as well. Unrelated to the music but love the watch and strap combo as well.

[@paulchapman112]

Great playing and demo!

[@jhstudio749]

Good job demonstrating this amazing piano.

[@michaelekwulugo8659]

This is the best I’ve ever heard you play Woody 😄👏🏾🔥🔥

[@dalelaushman8749]

Your playing and the Piano Noire sounds great on my Grado headphones too! Thanks for doing this review!

[@abcoates]

I watched to the end! :-) Certainly creates beautiful sounds.

[@loopop]

Beautiful video and piano!

[@muzikman2008]

Love Yamaha Pianos...stand out from the rest to my ears.Nice playing too Woody.

[@artstrings]

I see a lots of joy in her face. This library is perfect! 😭

[@YahelChabsDJ]

Excellent thanks for demo !

[@briankatona]

Very helpful review-thank you!

[@grigioviola8523]

lovely demo !!! good man

[@ThePainWhisperer]

Great walk through. Thank you.

[@alanrad5]

Now thats how to do a demo. Thank you, great video. Nice guy.

[@mojtabab.a.994]

Wow, I'm really impressed

[@hartleygabolinscy3152]

Brilliant Woody. 👍👍👍

[@azharfahry_]

I just love how he decided to use a mirror for the facecam. Nice review sir.

[@claudeolivie4468]

Great Demo Thank you

[@TerenceKearns]

That was great. Very enjoyable.

[@amirprog]

Very inspiring sounds.

[@mousehouse4617]

This was a joy to listen to. Some great piano sounds/playing and got real insight to what's possible with Noire. Nice one Woody

[@fcojaviertorrente4775]

Absolutely delicious, thank you very much.

[@2chrisward]

Great playing and vid! Unreleased NI products? Nice! Good choice on Sir Elton to demo the piano. It's so balanced. Thanks for showing the FX, it has great versatility. NI seems to have hit this one out of the park.The felt version, just wow.

[@ahiva1353]

Fuaaaaaaaaa! que hermosura, hermano. Muchas gracias por mostrar como suena !

[@sautsitumorangkpk]

awesomely mate !

[@cinebient5343]

Woah! Fantastic piano plug-in! I love Keyscape but mainly use the Wing Tack, Upright Piano and Toy Pianos for characterful lines. But Noire is in a class of its own. Love the particle part really as well. Wonderful for ambient and film stuff.

[@Krim04]

Made it to the end. And this Library with all it's features sounds amazing. I need to practice more to get to a point where I can justify buying this as well as a controller.

[@m.p.958]

Such a wonderfull video ! Thanks a lot !! Greetings from germany !

[@cube206]

Thank You for this presentation :)

[@Melonical]

It's great video! Your play and explanation were very helpful for me, Thank you! I'll subscribe!

[@HybridChoky]

Wow,not gonna lie,that sounds AMAZING!

[@phranquepeasant5688]

"Did you make it thus far?" It wasn't torture, the way I felt it. Would you be so kind to make even longer videos? For instance with Elton's entire oeuvre? ☺

[@RelaxEnjoyMusic]

The Sound is incredible good.

[@chordfunc3072]

Gad damn woody xD buying the plugin right now! Great video 💸

[@LighthalzenSS]

My dream came true, I wanted a Yamaha CFX by Native Intruments.

[@davidlion974]

very good Thank you !

[@johnb6029]

Woody! What a fantastic tour of Noire! Your abilities are amazing. I could listen to you play Elton's catalog in Noire all day long! (you should consider doing that and publishing an album!) Cheers!

[@jasoncorder7110]

the felt on this sounds really great. the pure sounds a bit like a sampler piano(on the louder notes).. but when he turns down the color to darken the pure one, it sounds quite fabulous.

[@ancapaveldamilano5167]

Wonderful man

[@sonjamedic634]

Great presentation, thanks! On my headphones (beyerdynamic DT 990 Pro) it sounds heavenly. Your playing AND the Noire.

[@StefanPiano]

Your enthousiasm for music is amazing, definitely made the video much more enjoyable to watch! I was looking for a good starter piano VST and this looks and sounds amazing. Although the price of 150 is a bit steep to me, I think I will be very pleased with it if I decide to get it!

[@mr_floydst]

This sounds incredible. More piano-like than an actual piano, if that is even possible. :-) Great playing, also.

[@Robin_S78]

Big thumbs up, think the Noire playing on my Kawai MP11SE will be an amazing experience.

[@MarioBertram1992]

Awsome Piano... I have NI Komplete 13 since yesterday.... I love NOIRE to the Moon and back! ;-)) Cheers Mario

[@WoodyPianoShack]

congrats, enjoy!

[@cahenglish]

Wow, amazing instrument! Beautiful, simply, beautiful. I'm so glad that the majors like NI are including you for reviews. (I'm nuts about almost everything NI do.) I trust your presentations and love your style. And, of course, you can't lose with Elton's music. :) Saw him live in 1974, YBR, and will never forget it. That particle engine thingy is a "salesman's patch," meaning a wow patch for selling an instrument. Even owning Keyscape, I would consider adding Noire to my arsenal. When you opened with, "Who's the most famous Yamaha ..." my very first thought was, "Well, not Elton, he's Baldwin." Oops. Maybe he used to be Baldwin? Anyway, another wonderful review, of a very wonderful plugin, Woody. Kudos.

[@WoodyPianoShack]

hi cliff, thanks as always for the comment, yamaha teamed up with yamaha for a huge ad campaign for a uk retailer, pretty sure he's in their camp these days! it was just an tenuous excuse anyway to play some elton riffs :)

[@octopath480]

You look so happy playing :)

[@WoodyPianoShack]

i guess we all play music because we enjoy it!

[@Sapfu100]

Gotta love a man who appreciates a nice pair of Grados :D

[@OverdriveMusic]

Nice Grado headphones. Great review!

[@Lorenzomusic05]

Candle in the wind and Face in the mirror was my favorite !!!

[@WarrenPostma]

Super nice. if Komplete went on sale soon and had this thrown in, I'd buy Komplete. Killer great playing Woody.

[@timweinheimer1]

This Software Piano sounds great I have The Arturia Piano V2 one. I think the Spectrasonics Keyscape is the best one I heard just my opionon, These Piano demo videos are very relaxing help relax keep up the good work Woody great Piano playing as well very inspiring Thanks.

[@theflyingpiano4547]

Usually the true colours of a piano library come out when you play a fast paced song with sudden switch to a slow paced one. The libraries that can't handle that "too much reverb" when we are playing a fast paced song, they just aren't meant to be played like that, which means? They aren't versatile. I feel Garritan's CFX is still the best out there, emotional songs, pop, rock, you name it. It sounds astonishing with amazing versatility. I've tried keyscape, I love the cinematic preset and also the Dark Score preset. They're lovely for creating emotional tracks. :) The noire does look good to me and looking forward to more reviews of this on KZbin.

[@kaisfp]

I love Garritan but only for stuff like Ghibli Studio piano stuff and such, I can't use it for pop because hearing the big size studio when playing longer notes bothers my ears too much. If you play some staccato short note atuff, some pop or funk or even some shorter note rock riffs, they sound good, but when you start playing with pedal, especially longer chords, you will hear the big size studio, and it will feel like you are playing a piano that switches places/rooms when playing shorter notes VS playing long sustain chords. That's a no-no to my ears at least, but for big hall piano sound Garritan CFX is one of the best that is still relatively reasonably priced (relative to the VSL pianos prices).

[@omarsharif927]

It's a little bit funny this feeling aside..... I recognized the song love this vid and your playing

[@T.H.W.O.T.H]

Nice shirt Woody. It's great to see a man in the prime of life looking so sharp. 🎹

[@WoodyPianoShack]

that's hilarious, but i'll take the compliment

[@JPDC624]

Super great demo as usual Woody. You play so smoothly, a touch that many are missing. I honestly think the Ravenscroft 275 has met its match, or if you ask me, the R275 and the Noire are all you need piano-wise. This may sound crazy but the Noire to me sounds better when you use the MODX6 compared the the NI keyboard! Last, I'm still cracking up over the 30-second segment starting at 31:33. ;-D

[@juliebabygirl]

Did I hear some 'Together in electric dreams' playing? :D This piano sounds amazing!

[@dougross2256]

That is really amazing sound piano. I think it even sounds better than some of the Korg and Yamaha products

[@No-to4kd]

Noire is amaaaazing

[@Alexedoff]

Очень интересный звук и гибкое управление !!!Вуди как всегда - на высоте!!!

[@fabioc.9577]

Very good Piano player👍🏻

[@mixanyar2742]

i love this vst love it like it's a part of me

[@marcusheier7577]

nice thanks for sharing :)

[@FrancisMaxino]

Una Corda was in actual fact a pedal effect on early prototype grand pianos that pulled the hammers right to the side so they would only impact one of the wires in both the triple and double wired notes. Duo Corda is now a common pedal in grand piano lyres that do the same thing but only reduce the triples to two and I think the doubles in mid range to one.

[@WoodyPianoShack]

interesting factoid! thx for sharing :)

[@JustAReminder]

IMO this is one of the best VSTs ever

[@m.p.958]

Your video is gonna to let me buy it !! W O N D E R F U L L Sound - and: You are a fantastic musician !!!

[@ringodingo6945]

Excellent Review as always mate. Well done cobber!! Love the Mirror effect. I bet those crows feet are just old dry beds of past smiles eh.... Just kidding mate.

[@patriciaoudart1508]

Particles seams to use resonnance harmonics, like as according manualy, triplet stings of a real piano that you hear as harmonic resonnance, there used to move discret strings particles. The Yamaha here has no wood cover so the artist ear these Harmonics, and he lives with them!.... So very fine idea from Native to have upload them as a modular effect!

[@patriciaoudart1508]

Les particules semblent utiliser la résonance harmoniques des cordes voisines, comme on peut l'entendre quand on accorde manuellement un piano véritable, cela m'est arrivé par le passé, et c'est un vrai plaisir sur un piano de tourner très légèrement une clé et entendre se développer ces harmoniques! Je suppose que l'idée vient de là? D'ailleurs dans le mail que m'a envoyé NATIVE aujourd'hui, ils expliquent que l'intérêt de ce piano Yamaha réside dans l'accordage très particulier qu'a souhaité ce musicien, et je le comprends comme ça, parce que j'ai toujours été envoutée moi-même par la richesse des désaccordages infimes des triplettes ou des doubles cordes qui font entrer dans un monde magique!. Il me semble que Keith Jarret faisait procéder de la sorte pour préparer son piano. En tout cas, je vais me procurer la démo, je viens de recevoir aujourd'hui mon clavier STUDIOLOGIC SL88, clavier FATAR studio, Ce Plugin me plaît beaucoup. J'ai un Jupiter 50 avec des pianos natural sound, mais ici, le son est juste ce que je recherche, une richesse incroyable. J'aimais déjà beaucoup le Unacord, mais si en plus il est livré avec? Le Unacord, c'est un peu le principe inverse, une écoute des harmoniques des cordes voisines à partir d'une seule vibration qui se développe!

[@scottt9382]

I wish you would review all known VSTs - excellent job!!

[@JustAReminder]

Nice trick with the mirror dude

[@robertmichalscheck3072]

Yeah,he should turn it around,so we don’t have to look at him.

[@ErnestoAvilez92]

Great video, this sample piano sounds amazing and i would love a comparison between the Noire and the Grandeur, and maybe the MODX.

[@JBrm]

I'd be interested in a comparison with the Keyscape C7 and Vienna Instruments Yamaha CFX, since they are all Yamahas, while as the Grandeur is a Steinway.

[@JBrm]

Is it just me or does this blow away the Keyscape C7? For the first time in years I'm actually impressed by something NI did! Thanks for the nice demo, Woody!

[@zenyklayi8748]

Well to be fair Keyscape´s C7 is not a top noch sampled piano it doesnt even have proper release samples..Top pianos (at least for classical) are still VI Labs Ravenscroft, Garritan CFX, Ivory II, maybe also the VSL CFX just to name a few that absolutely make Keyscape sound like a joke.The electric pianos of Keyscape are gems! But the C7 is so limited in a lot of ways.

[@JBrm]

@@zenyklayi8748 I agree, Keyscape's Wurlitzer 140B makes my heart melt. I hardly play the C7 at all. What's most interesting for me is that the Ravenscroft has by far the smallest sample library of all the "big names". Especially the VSL grand pianos in comparison reside in the 80-100 GB range while Ravenscroft states somewhat around 5-6 gigs on their homepage.

[@zenyklayi8748]

@@JBrm Yes, i also love that Wurli and the CP80 also, regarding the small footprint of the Ravenscroft that proves that you dont need those huge libraries or vst´s to have an almost perfect Piano VST.But for me personally , the Garritan CFX is the best one, i even like the playability more in the garritan CFX than in Pianoteq, i cant stand the artificial sound of Pianoteq.When i sit on my Kawai Digital piano and listen to the Garritan CFX i get inspired every single time.(I own Keyscape, Ravenscroft ,Pianoteq Stage and Garritan CFX).

[@sebastienkeys]

I have all native instruments pianos, I really like how the grandeur sounds, but the Keyscape's C7 sound much better when you play chords than the grandeur, actually I've never heard any kontakt piano sound as good as keyscape when you play chords, I don't know why, the grandeur sounds great when you play singles notes, but when you play a chord, there's something wrong.

[@motherbrain2000]

full-time pro-pianist here and I picked "The Grandeur" in a blind test of 20 plus virtual pianos. I was totally surprised. I take their stuff more seriously now.

[@markjaylandes]

Sounds pretty rich

[@issiewizzie]

UVI just brought one out .. we have ksyscape and the NI series and now Noire

[@caspermaster-com]

Insane, always a good sign when you get lost in the music and inspiration

[@whitepearlprodwhitepearlpr7842]

Hello from France 🇫🇷 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@pianokaraokecz]

Nice video :) Can you tell me, how do you make your sound so loud in this video? I have the same piano plugin, but after upload on youtube it has no volume like that. Thank you :)

[@WoodyPianoShack]

please search my channel for video about how to normalize loudness for yt videos! tell you all you need to know!

[@stirupstudio2666]

THE MIRROR...GREAT !

[@kevinkelly8301]

I think Mr Elton will be proud

[@charliexu5013]

I think the cinematic vibe can compete with Keyscape

[@vlogswithankitnayakvlogs]

Nice

[@user-mz8en3dr7m]

This piano is very interesting.

[@DJBenniboy]

Hey mate, this piano is lovely I have all but alecia keys! I don't think it gets any better than the granduer it's very similar, and i feel the granular synthesis methods in that cloud idea, great demo mate, hope you are well mate :)

[@Physicks499]

Have you tried the galaxy steinway

[@theaudioeng]

👍. Sounds lovely though difficult to justify yet another VI Piano as have CFX in MODX and Eric's Keyscape C7 grand ....

[@mickymc3067]

Hello, thank you for the demo. Some questions, at the beginning I see that you record under cubase, is the piano or 3 tracks at the same time, if yes how to have 3 different sounds that I seem to hear? On the piano itself, is not it annoying not to have a heavy keyboard, it seems that you use a MODX 7 if I see well? Finally, what advice to amplify and have a good sound for the piano, monitoring speakers or something else? if not indiscreet what are you using and did not you add a plugin compressor or other for the demo? thank you for everything . and congratulations again.

[@haraldamsterdam1988]

Hello Woody! Jag lär mig Svenska för 2-3 år sedan, det är en tillfällighet du bor i Sverige, så hej! och det var en bra video! Since a couple of days i found your channel because of the Yamaha dx7 that had my interest. I’ve seen a couple of your videos since then and subscribed to your channel. I like the way you explain things easily, with humor, and motivational. And yes i watched this video to the end, and i liked this “Reginald/Elton” software. Im a guitar player (you will see on my channel) but since i want to play some more piano/synthesizer one day, perhaps you can think of a video with your experiences on good midi controllers keyboards/software/synths for beginners? To help us making music as your channel says 😃 (I have an old cheap alesis q49 midi controller via garageband, which doesn’t satisfy me anymore). Tack så mycket på förhand! Looking forward to the next video. Hej då! Harald

[@bobneptune]

So nice! Expensive (for me at least) but perhaps worth it.

[@winterheat]

3:09 Woody has the humor of using a mirror