That’s why we jumped at the chance to sample a piano from my old stomping grounds. Denver is where I went to college to study music. But Denver is the city where Echo Sound Works started. Why Denver? It’s admittedly not the first city you think of when you picture a grand piano. The ESW team sampled this piano about 6 months ago, and we decided to make a high quality, modern sounding free piano library. So we decided to release our very own free piano, The Denver Grand. Most of them aren't even useable, let alone good. So no UAD in this list.Īs we were putting together this list of the best free pianos, we quickly realized something. We have also omitted any reverb plugins that can't run on native processing. Echo Sound Works is not affiliated with any of the companies listed below. It took a couple of months, but we think it was all worth it because, honestly, it's a great-sounding, versatile piano.ĭISCLAIMER: This is NOT a paid review. We ended up finding about 5-7 that we liked and we think you'll like as well! To our surprise, the majority of the pianos we downloaded were hardly useable, let alone good. We graded each piano on sound quality, ease of use, and playability. We downloaded over 20 pianos and tested them out, putting each one through a litany of tests. That's why we wanted to round up the best FREE piano libraries and plugins. To make matters worse, the pianos that come with a lot of popular DAWS like Logic X and Ableton sound dated and thin.
Unfortunately, a lot of the paid piano libraries from companies like Native Instruments, Spectrasonics, UVI, Spitfire, and more, can all cost upwards of $100 and, in some cases, much more. It's one of the few instruments that shows up in nearly every genre of music. Piano is an essential tool or sound in any producer's sonic toolbox.
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