Can An Electric Piano Sound BETTER Than a VST? - Nord Vs. Keyscape Vs. Ravel Grand

hello and welcome to anthony's tv my name is jeff duck spree and his name is d bingers hey dad are you doing okay? We have this modesty screen here because Dan keeps taking his clothes off, no it's there because we have There are going to be a lot of blindfolded videos coming out and I want you to see how good he is without being blindfolded and also this idea makes sense for this, which is that it has a Nord Grand in front. of it, but you won't know, dan, it's a bit like a blind date and you won't know what

sound

you're playing either. uh we're going to switch Taylor's in the room and we're also going to switch between the internal

sound

s of the

nord

. and two software instruments that I have here, but you won't know which one you're playing.

Okay, we'll reveal that at the end we won't let you know what Dan is playing until the end, but without further ado, Let's start with the first sound, here we go, it sounds really beautiful, man, I wish I could see what you're doing so I could steal something for later. How about we move on to sound two without further ado? Okay, it sounds too, wait. your thoughts for a second let's fly through these and I think when we get back to the round let's chat about it in sound three, can't you give me the ruddy hornsby?

I think we should take a little break. Can you high five me? The screen is right on three one two three Daniel, have you organized your thoughts? Yeah, um, it's um, yeah, I was out there. Was there anything in that first play up to uh one, two or three that you thought would stick? um or not, do you know what it is? This is actually quite difficult because all three were fair, um, for everyone, pretty similar, very high level, so, once I played the next one and got into that one, hard to remember, I don't know, It's hard because they're all, they're all so good that it might be worth changing a situation to see, yeah, the nuance is hard because you have it without both of us.

I've been doing others blindfolded and you get that change in feeling. um I don't think you shouldn't be hard on yourself even here in the room like Taylor. They sound, uh, they all sound really cool. To me, the interesting thing I think is that obviously two of the sounds are created by a computer, so you haven't been able to discern anything in the difference in performance, right? No, no, and that surprises me, but why would I. Normally, I think that's a real question answered for a lot of people: how can they be used in a live environment or especially in the studio?

And to go over it again, this is a MacBook Pro, it has an i9 and I'm running all the samples on this record and we're using Luna Shout with universal audio from this Apollo Twin and I haven't fiddled with anything and it's playing, they don't feel any different on none of the answers, right? Yeah, yeah, it's amazing, right, would you like to nominate one, two or three, that you'd like to come back to?, uh, let's go back to number two. Sounds two, okay, let's quickly move on to the next one. Which one do you want? Hey, let's go to number one, okay?

Well, number one, go ahead, number three, I have to pressure you. Is there anything that stands out as a favorite so far? Yeah, number two, sorry, so what was the last one I picked? That was the number, you were playing with the number three then. yeah, number two, number two, that's been so far and there's something two number, I think two number two, that's it, whatever, it's just the sound, well, and it's particularly in this kind of upper range of the

piano

, you can just I don't know, I just don't know, like I said, they're all amazing, but just look at the nuances of how the top ends, would you like to go back to number two? um, yeah, number two, here you are. and then, and then after this, tell us where you want to go and I'll make you choose a final decision, okay, beautiful player, mate, something similar in another, yeah, cool, so this is which number is this, now which one do you want?

Me, number one, go ahead, yeah, cool, okay, I'll push you to place an order, um, so that's whoever comes in third, I think last, so number three actually comes in third, OK? got number three third place second place number one and above are pops number two stay for the reveal uh can we hug dan let's hug the screen in three one two three pause if we lift it together are you ready dan if we lift it all together It's beautiful, thank you very much, right, you said that in third position it was the correct number three sound, which was the

keyscape

oh interesting, how do you feel about that?

Probably on the Internet, but you personally have the keyscope at home, right? key view at home um and the thing is the thing is with this with these scores and this leaderboard is that it's very close and it's and um it could be because of how I hear it here and all this and the patch that I chose and the patch , so I went with the default patch, eh, that's the c7

grand

piano

patch and obviously everyone's like, oh, you could modify it or whatever. I tried to follow what the manufacturer put first because I always think.

They're trying to put in the best they can, um, but we'll move through the scores and then maybe show some of the other patches. Secondly, you chose the ua instrument called revel. Okay, that was second place. anything between them that you were like you said they're so close, yeah, that's it, at this level, it's going to depend on personal preference and again, kind of a patch that modifies the way you hear it, it's like you know they're all. something like nine out of ten, it's just those increments, but I loved how it is, but maybe it was because we now know that the winner in the first place was the built-in display that you have in the northern grounds, which was the

grand

royal palace. 3d xl is the one it ships with right now on the back and maybe that connection because sonically for me here I loved some of the stuff that was in the other samples, like I loved it, it revealed that it had a lot of noise of pedal and character.

Yes, but what you feel is that agility of the built-in sample. Yes, I feel like it's inevitable. I mean, not really. I couldn't really discern at the time what there was. You know I had no idea. but maybe, subconsciously and subliminally, there is one thing and you know, I'm used to

nord

s, not this one at all. This is the first time I've played one of these, so I'm very surprised that you like the action. but it's a fantastic display I mean you know it is too but yeah I really like this action yeah it's amazing I really want one uh as long as we're there we can see each other and I haven't seen it. him for years uh let's get to this reveal I want to hear from you so yeah you know the deal now the Nord is there but I'm sure you have your own opinions.

I just want to show some of these other sounds. in reveal and hear you through it, there are some presets here that I'm going to show, so check this out, this is the reverse piano and I can turn up the room mics here, well, it's got a, it's a hell, it's a . it doesn't have much to do with it uh it's pretty basic in terms of all the options but I love it it's funny that it won over

keyscape

for you but in keyscape land if we go here you said you had a favorite preset on this moment in keyscape, right, yeah, I love cinema, right, let's get to it, let's get to it, cinematic dan bingham, hit me bro, it's just amazing, right?

I love it, unreal and uh, that's probably the end of the video here thanks for joining me dan for me. It's nice to keep an eye out for the other videos we're making. We have a whole day of Dan. Hopefully we'll include it more, so if you have any. Other suggestions for these types of blindfold comparisons or anything else you want to see from Dan. I'm going to try to share them so I can figure out what he's doing, um, but you preferred that first sound. Would you do us? honor sir for playing us yeah no problem thanks for joining us guys so thanks taytay for editing all this man.