Playing my Favourite 10 Piano Libraries 🎹 🎹 🎹

[@jadziaskye8228]

I've been through my Classical piano learning years and teaching for the longest time, and I am still quite new in the production world and you are such an inspiration to me, Dom! I love your playing and the sounds you picked on the piano! I don't like many piano sounds out there, and I have no idea in how to get a more cinematic piano sound! I love your piano sounds! Especially your own Cinematic piano sound with those lovely pedal sounds! SOOO realistic!

[@zaoc1]

The best piano in this was Dom himself... Masterful!

[@DomSigalas]

❤️❤️❤️

[@gauekogoni]

I stay with Emotional Piano. You show that you enjoy music, I can see your passion. The best for you.

[@ofri925]

Honestly, your playing is what made them all sound great. Awesome skills.

[@ChrisLeverMusic]

excellent piano skills Dom!

[@DileepaMangala]

Hey Dom. Wishes for year 2021. Please do a video on the “Imagine Piano”. 😍

[@Byron101_]

Update: and now... the great VELVET felt Piano in Cubase 12 ♥️

[@arnaudg1832]

yes yes yes for the "Imagine" piano, you 're the best. Best Wishes !

[@randypiano11]

Dom, great demo! Glad i stumbled on your channel. Great player! Thanks!

[@warwalker4828]

Would love to see the "Imagine" video, Dom.

Great video.

[@margotmuller2893]

thank you for that - its delicious to listen to you playing piano that way!!!

[@reziahamed6654]

AWESOME is an understatement for all your efforts and talent Dom... Just love your reviews and humble presentation of these invaluable content... Pls keep these goingbon and wish you nothing but the BEST.. 🎉🎉🎉

[@mariusjansen3528]

Great Video Dom. Good hints what to buy. Thanks.

[@wadebay]

Thank you! Would enjoy the imagine piano creation in Cubase video.

[@veloCity127-g6m]

"Imagine" please!

[@ajaychib036]

great bro i luv keyscape and emotnl piano

[@Pauluz_The_Web_Gnome]

15:50 And Yes! He can also SING! at higher registers woooooooow!

[@steverosbotham6403]

Great video. Excellent playing. Big yes to the Lennon piano sound video.

[@IroLidorikioti]

Pianos!!!! My favourite!

[@asiercosme3678]

Hello Dom, I would like to see your Komplete kontrol keyboard integrate with Cubase, you have recently made a video about Maschine, I would like to see something like this with the S series of keyboard, would it be possible? I love the value you bring to Cubase users

[@DomSigalas]

Noted!

[@holgerblum938]

Oh that would be great. I use the S88 and love it (like my Nord Stage 3). From you I would surely learn to use it much more better with Cubase. The Using with Komplete Kontrol is easier as with Kontakt. I miss the lightcolor line in Kontakt. Is this possible? I would prefer to use Kontakt in Cubase ? Thank you 😘

[@busted_sky]

Cool! Love your videos! Thanks

[@Simon-qr7ur]

I'm interested to know your opinion about Pianoteq. Maybe in a next video ?😀

[@frank4712]

Great video !! How about the Pianoteq libraries ? Would like to see compared to the other libraries.

[@ulfb5467]

Great playing and inspiring 🙏

[@grahamwitcher105]

Just fabulous Dom.

[@wolfpackpresets]

Superb, Dom! 👍

[@giacomoal]

Wow such a ninja of piano there! Congrats!

[@thwelly]

How you play piano is absolute amassing , I like it. I have started to learn it better now too but I guess I will never come to this level! You also give some exercise to learn to play like Videos or something? If you teach piano like you show the plugins and tools, I think I would like it :)

[@peterrostgaardbojesen5790]

Dom, I had no idea you played so well (and that bad ass soprano you threw in... wauv :-)) Yes please for Imagine piano. Keep up the cool videos!

[@Kingchord2000]

Hi Dom! How about XLN Audio Addictive Keys? Please do a video on that Imagine John Lennon Piano.

[@jenshaberkorn7777]

And again, a beautiful video. I hear you like Chopin as much as I do. I really like your piano playing. Best wishes for 2021!

[@jenshaberkorn7777]

I'm looking forward to the Reqiuem video!

[@TheDerider]

Definite go with the Imagine sound video, Maestro. 😎

[@ProggerPA]

Hi, Dom! Thanks for another great video! It was a real joy watching you play, and seeing your enthusiasm. Like many others have commented, I'd love to see a video on the John Lennon "Imagine" piano. Wishing you all the best in 2021!

[@douga8296]

Yes, please do a video on the "Imagine" piano.

[@moresbandofficial]

great video (as usual), I own 2 of these pianos, but my choice is with no doubt pianoteq 7( with 10 different pianos), second keyscape for pop music, third noire (finally a good native instrument piano), of course my opinion

[@pjdahmen]

Great tutorial

[@ronlootens]

Dom, Best wishes for you and the Yamaha team. Thanks for this comparison. With you're playing 'every' piano sounds excellent. When it comes to personal Favourites there's one that I like more then all others: It's the Imperfect Samples "1908 Walnut Concert Grand". It has a very very nice Upright warm sound with beautiful overtones and resonance! keep going with your nice videos, like them!

[@Querenciatv]

Incredible Work 👍

[@-l5905]

Great Vid! Can you please do a video on some processed pianos? Such as, UVI - Augmented Piano or Noire. I don't know of any others... Thank you brother.

[@palebluedotstudios]

Thanks for the tips, Dom! I picked up the Composer Cloud deal based off of this! Great stuff.

[@keithgilmore4101]

Dom... fantastic pianos... played beautifully with passion... many thanks... Cubase wise... we are spoilt... there is Raven too.... but have you looked at the pianobook project... Christian Henson recently uploaded a piano hybrid instrument that you may enjoy...

[@keithgilmore4101]

Dom... do you know what 4knob PopD is like? It's on offer atm... thnx...

[@bertrandguilloteau7980]

Well dom again ! You really are the best at making us wanna make music.

[@rafik2910ify]

You are a piano killer !

[@ScottsSynthStuff]

Fabulous sounds and fabulous playing, Dom! I need to investigate some of these....

[@coscrupi]

Totally agree about the Steinway. I use Production Voices- Steinway D Concert Grand. Versatile for many genres.

[@zhanicaudio]

Wow, you have a nice voice!

[@kevholmes4531]

Hi Dom. Great as always. I would really like a video on how to adapt the Montage\MODX CFX for different styles. How to thicken it for solo work or EQ in better to sit in a band mix. I think that would be useful for all owners. Keep up the great work and have a great 2021

[@666JGNotts]

great video, many thanks. Would love to see you do an Imagine piano

[@Bogdan_Tolm]

Hey Dom, do you have video like “How to setup Cubase for live performance” or have you think about this video?

[@benoitpiret9065]

how about Hanz Zimmer Piano??? and the Grand?

[@istefk]

thanks for this demo, always interesting. best to you in 2021. (yep, spill the secret on the imagine piano please).

Noire is my personal number one piano, followed by Sampletank's Yamaha C7. If you have a chance, give sampletank's C7 a try. It's wonderful instrument.

[@ianwright6605]

Hi Dom. That was a great video. It shows how much variation there is with different piano libraries. It would be great to find out how to make the Imagine piano sound in Cubase.

[@Cap10NRGMusic]

Dom my friend! I hope you are doing great - great video as usual

[@enifx]

give me a tip: How I configure my Worlde easycontrol in cubase 10.5? Did you do any video about it? Best regards Dom

[@contraspower6302]

What you think about addictive keys by xln audio?

[@SoftMkeys]

Yes Imagine ...Wish you Happy New Year 2021

[@michaelhurst354]

Hi Dom - nice video and cool playing - thank you! Would like to hear some more about the best configuration / drivers / audio interfaces to allow problem free playing with the software library versions, also any tips on best keyboards to use for these.

[@atharvakasar5135]

I'm excited for Komplete 13 Noire sound

[@xXValomatXx]

The Spectrasonic Keyscape Library is actually the most versatile Piano and E- Piano collection in the market. You forgot to mention that. You can twist and tweak the sound to everything in the piano realm that you can imagine... All the best for 2021 and a save transition. :D

[@project1265ffo]

Nice Dom !! Novel Piano love it , together with Cinergy and also with Project SAM, even por a non real piano person like me, all sound pretty decent i think :) great video. Happy 2021 and thanks once again those videos ;)

[@soroushdehbastiandpiano9136]

Hi Domenic, thank you very much, great video and you played it very well, I use Noire most of the time and one of the best for me was Noire.

[@benoittissier58]

Very good video ! Do you have some personal settings for each plugin. ! I'm actually looking for a good piano sound for a Linux system. So far, only Pianoteq seems to tick the boxes.

[@PurpleMusicProductions]

Really great video Dom! I swear you keep me inspired musically and from a Cubase perspective. Those piano sounds were really good. I'm a Yamaha fan boy for piano as well. To me they make the best in the business. I'm a student of the instrument and I sharpen my teeth on the Yamaha P515. I have Keyscape for producing and it is a beast and I love it, but my first library was Arturia Piano V2 I believe. What are your thoughts on that library?

[@stefanoziggiotti]

Hi Dom! Do you know the Xperimenta Due? They are interesting

[@Keyboardnut99]

Happy New Year Dom have a great one!

[@yorgenbelledonne]

Happy new year Dom ! And please continue with tons of new great videos like this one in 2021 !

[@mikaelzakrisson5514]

Yes! Imagine Dom doing a video about making a Lennon piano... :)

[@elrapper7606]

Incredible as usual. Thank you . I’m about to set up a small studio. I just bought the latest cubase pro and my question is, what kind of computer set up would be best. I really like Iconica Opus so keeping that in mind since that’s such a large file, what would you recommend? I also bought a Steinburg interface. What do you recommend for a microphone and how do you set it all up. I really like cubase and it’s softwares as well. However any advise on different softwares would also be nice. You have a very nice set up and I guess that’s the direction I want to go with. What are you’re tips for this. Thank you

[@merchannel7762]

How do I get Elton John and 70s disco piano sounds?

[@FrankLorenz23]

Most of the time, I use either Addictive Keys or NI Grandeur - how do you rate these?

[@yashgarg.official]

Are you by any chance planning to release any courses made by you in near future? If that's so, I'd love to check them out :)

[@DomSigalas]

Yes! Working on it but it takes time- I want them to be simply awesome 😍

[@yashgarg.official]

@@DomSigalas amazing man, gonna check them out for sure once you release :)

[@holgerblum938]

Great! I go with you! Another Piano I love is Bösendorfer, VSL - a great Piano for Beethoven Sonaten - I love it - How do you integrate the great Montage in Cubase? Could you make sometimes eventually a little video to this?

[@DomSigalas]

Hey Holger! I honestly mostly straight up record it! Like I do with all my synths . I know it sounds plain and simple but I’ve found that it helps me be more productive when I commit to audio as soon as possible :)

[@holgerblum938]

@@DomSigalas Ahhhh - o.k. - Thankyou! So I will do it the same way. For Christmas I bought me Montage 7 in white, because you love it ;) - Fabulous instrument! And a Pianosound I never expected on a Synth.

[@SharmankaMusic]

Красота 👍

[@warwalker4828]

This might be a dumb question, but I have always wondered what, exactly, inside the physical piano is "broken" and causing the very distinctive tonal difference clearly evident in virtual instruments like the featured "broken" Granny piano? Thanks for the videos, Dom, your passion and knowledge are both wonderful.

[@DomSigalas]

Aaaah many things can be broken! The hammers, the felt might be completely off or even the actual strings might be broken. For each note of a piano you have 3 strings - if one of them is in bad shape or out of tune you get some really interesting sounds ;)

[@DM-hv6sc]

Oh yes. Please a video about Imagine Piano.

[@DomSigalas]

It’s out now :)

[@DM-hv6sc]

@@DomSigalas Thank you.

[@superlitbeats6068]

that montage piano sounds super good. happy new year, Dom ! PS: would be great if you could do a tutorial on how to achieve that MPC Swing in Cubase

[@briannicepianoworship8944]

Dom, do you prefer the Yamaha montage or the $5000 nord stage 3 for piano?

[@quincunxleafling]

Your T-Shirt!!!! I see what you did there.

[@DomSigalas]

Hehehe!

[@winddealer1]

Yes, for the "Imagine" piano for both Montage Performance and Cubase :)

[@giuseppesalvio2823]

Manu thanks Dom and my best wishes for 2021. About cinematica piano Is It Be downloaded somewhere also for Modx?

[@DomSigalas]

It will be on your MODX if you upgrade to the latest OS, I sound designed for both OS2.0 and 2.5 :)

[@enifx]

what songs do you play in each piano sound? one I reconigze over the rainbow...Magic 2012 DOMMM

[@MillieandMaxMusic]

Yes!

[@TheScottrw2002]

Hey Dom, I love your videos and your playing - You're my first stop for all things Montage. I have a question - I have the opportunity to buy a Montage at a great price and I am close to pulling the trigger, the thing that is preventing me is the upcoming NAMM product announcements. I know you wont be able to tell me anything specifically, but would you hold off on the Montage for now or is it safe to buy? Also, when Yamaha replace a product, do they continue to support the older hardware with updates and patches etc?

[@tonycarpenter-Makzimia]

Hey Dom, can we get your Cinematic patch for Montage, or was it in 3.50 and I'm just slack enough (overwhelmed) and missed it?.. :)

[@DomSigalas]

It’s in the Montage since V3.0 :) search for scoring melancholy :) it’s also in the “best of pianos” LiveSet :)

[@tonycarpenter-Makzimia]

@@DomSigalas See... I knew it!! LOL, sorry Dom, I have been buried in so much lately... I can't believe I missed it...

[@hwbierce6548]

1685: Bach Handel Scarlatti. That was a good year.

[@JohnChandlerEdmonton]

Yes

[@mantaproject]

Best wishes for 2021! - Do you tried pianoteq? - I love the Kronos piano's, though Montage sounds also amazing - Love to see the imagine piano settings in cubase.

[@DomSigalas]

Yes I’ve tried the Pianoteq it’s a very nice piano! I still like the dirt that samples provide but on first chance I get I want to try their latest version :)

[@stefanosmakris5641]

The emotional piano sounded great. Surprised that no Synthogy piano was not on the list....

[@theaudioeng]

Just caught up on this Dom! Nice mix of piano libraries. I've MODX and Ravenscroft 275 VSTi, along with EZ Keys Electric Grand, etc. Seen Soniccouture's Hammersmith Model D on sale (looks to be recorded c.2015) - have you played that one? If so, what is velocity levels response/consistency?, your opinion?, etc. 🍻's! 👍

[@DomSigalas]

I have been eyeing the Ravenscroft for too long! Is it worth it? I haven’t tried the Hammersmith yet!

[@theaudioeng]

@@DomSigalas Ahh, okay wondered if you had. Yes, Ravenscroft 275 VSTi is very 'playable' Dom, with a really clean organic tone no doubt helped by the unique employment of titanium strings. Personally would highly recommend it. On discount at 'mo....

[@GalantGoStudio]

Where is Pianoteq on your list ? anyway Happy new year 🥰

[@Tsietsithelele]

Couldn't help but notice that you didn't have any libraries or vsts from Steinberg Cubase, I was really hoping to see any of them actually but then maybe it's just what it is, they didn't make the list

[@elliottmoore4835]

What type of speaker are we hearing this through?

[@ManontheBroadcast]

Which software would you suggest for instant switching sounds on stage? Camelot Pro or MainStage or maybe something different?

[@DomSigalas]

Camelot Pro :) Otherwise what I do, is load all my sounds in Cubase and just go next sound-next channel :) But Camelot can do so much more ;)

[@pavelponomaryov]

Yamaha CFX is definitely the winner, nothing comes even close

[@cgtspl]

yes

[@JohnLeger]

Yes...Yes...Yes!!

[@ElenaMarinaki]

😍😍😍

[@SadhanaKhawas]

How are you able to improvise in such a classical fashion?

[@DomSigalas]

Hey Sadhana! I've been listening to classical music from a very young age! But it needs practice, good knowledge of the scales and keys and the style. I think once you get to the point that you "hear" what you're about to play without having played it yet is where you win the game. It's like speech. With speech we think what we're going to say in a split second and then just say it. If you master the same thing with music you're there :)

[@SadhanaKhawas]

@@DomSigalas Wow! That's great! But can you suggest me some tips on how to improvise in such a fashion? As I haven't really listened to classical music from a very young age so...