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How to choose the right piano sound for your track

Choose a piano.

GEAR EXPO 2024: Whether you’re working in the sample and plugin domain, or lucky enough to have an acoustic instrument to use, your perfect piano type is largely determined by your chosen genre of music or production. Here’s how to pick a piano… 

Modern acoustic pianos largely fall into one of two categories: grand or upright. Without wishing to state the obvious, upright pianos are the ones that you might see against a wall, in an upright position, while grand pianos are the larger instruments, which take up a greater amount of floor space. 

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