BBCSO Piano opinions?

I didn’t know they released a companion piano for BBCSO. I’m not fond of Spitfire in general - I don’t like Kontakt, and Spitfire libraries are often boutique composer collections, but BBCSO is my main stay. I use Ivory Piano as my main piano which is nearly perfect, but how is the BBCSO piano, worth getting?

One question: Ivory is a bit like Note Performer in that it always sounds good. It doesn’t seem like you’re playing raw samples - there’s no CC work needed (or even possible maybe), it mirrors a real piano beautifully from velocity only I think. BBCSO is a CC library (as you’d want it to be) - what about the piano? Does it sound good out the box or does it need any massaging?

I own all Ivory grand pianos and BBCSO Professional as well. BBCSO is recorded in situ, which makes the sound to sit in place inside the orchestra. In my opinion it’s not worth it out of the box or after some adjusting: you will get a good experience by continuing to use Ivory.

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yes – I think it depends on whether you want a piano to fit in with the BBC SO such as for concerto writing. In that case, it sounds nice to me but I didn’t buy it as what piano music I do write is mostly in a chamber context and for that I prefer something like the VSL Vienna Imperial (the Ivory is good as well)

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I’m mainly using it as an orchestral piano. Sounds like you two are talking about solo/concerto type use. So @hannuala and @dko22 for pure orchestral - in situ - use, how do you rate BBCSO piano?

BBCSO Piano blends well within the orchestral setting.

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Sorry, by ‘it’ you mean BBCSO Piano? Other than blending do you like working with the piano?

For me I mostly work with Ivory. BBC Piano is there as an item I use very rarely since I work a lot with pop music projects instead of purely classical orchestration. I don’t like the BBC Piano as much as Ivory: yes, it works in its orchestral context, but I don’t have an immediate wow effect using it like I have with Ivory.

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