My Favorite Free Piano Vst
This article will list a selection of quality and unique piano plugins available to you for free, right now, as you’re reading this, wasting time on digesting my words instead of running out and grabbing everything on this list because it’s free and it’s great. 6 Of The Best Free Piano VST/MIDI Keyboard Software (2020) 1.
The famous Fender Rhodes Mark II stage 73 electric piano!
Essential if you plan to do funk-jazz, deep house, or any soulul music.
The Rhodes keys can be heard on countless tracks, from Herbie Hancock to Stevie Wonder, the Doors & Ray Charles, Chick corea & JojoLapin.
- My 10 Favorite VST Instruments and Effects. You see, a great piano VST captures all the human aspects of the sound, and The Grandeur has definitely got your back here. If you want to find more free VST instruments, I recommend you take a look at this article that I wrote.
- Prism Audio’s Atmos Piano is yet one more considered one of our favourite well-rated free piano VST merchandise on-line. The product options 341 samples of ambiance piano taking part in, which had been recorded utilizing a microphone positioned within the corridor and the primary microphone positioned on the piano.
- If you want some more options you can check out my favorite MIDI keyboards here. Once you have a MIDI controller, you can search for piano VST's to use. While a great piece of software will cost money, you can find some solid ones for free. We’ll help narrow them down for you.
- Keyzone Classic Piano. This free Piano plugin is one of my favorite plugins, not only does it have the tradition Rhodes piano sound but it also features the grand piano and 80’s E-Piano. This is awesome if you like that old school sound in your music production. Check out the review video below to hear exactly what this VST Plugin has to.
- Be sure to check out my top 10 list of my favorite VST instruments as well. You can find it here. Strezov Sampling Freebies. I found Strezov when I was looking for ethnic woodwind VSTs. And their Xiao is maybe the best free VST flute I’ve ever heard.
It’s funky, soulful, deep, smooth, jazzy, lounge, groovy.
Here are the best FREE VST emulations of the e-piano:
1. MrRay73 & MrRay22 VST by Guido Scognamiglio
MrRay 2.2 ! rhodes 4 ever
These two VSTi are donationware.
and they are pure synthesis, no sample involved.
The sound is very good, Mr Ray 73 VST gives you that funky feeling when you play it.
Mr Ray 22 has more parameters and some good classic effects : a chorus, a wah wah, a tremolo/autopan, a distortion and a stereo delay.
Mr Ray Charles:
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Mr-Ray-Charles-Shake-a-Tail-Feather.mp3
stormy !
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/riders-on-the-storm-mrray22.mp3
straight Rhodes e-piano
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/mrray73.mp3
soft deep house chords
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/mrray22.soft_.mp3 Fre vst lofi.
Rhodes piano through wah wah effect!
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/mrray22.wahwah.mp3
2. MDA ePiano
Based on a small but clever wavetable, the antique MDA ePiano still sounds fresh in 2014!
and since MDA plugins became open source, you can also find version for Mac & Linux, and also 64 bit versions => http://sourceforge.net/projects/mda-vst/files/mda-vst/mda-vst-src 20100214/
MDA ePiano VST is simple & effective, of course it’s more limited than Mr Ray, but sounds great!
riders on the storm!
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/riders-on-the-storm-mda-epiano.mp3
Ray Charles – Shake a Tail Feather
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Ray-Charles-shake-a-mda-epiano.mp3
3. EP-Station VST by Big Tick audio
EP station : more groovy keys
A very nice FM modeled electric piano. EP-station is now freeware.
The plugin is not a straight emulation of a Rhodes piano.
It can also do the ” DX 7 e-piano “, the famous FM piano as heard on 95% of the pop / ballad / tv show theme / etc. tracks produced between 1983 & 1989.
The EP-station also features a chorus & a phaser effect.
smooth sound for deep house
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ep-station1.mp3
phased Fender Rhodes !
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ep-station2.mp3
ultra smooth Deep house Rhodes+phaser
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ep-station3-effectrhodes.mp3
FM pop piano ! the sound of the 80’s
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ep-station4-dxpop.mp3
4. 4Front R-Piano VST
Based on samples, but not only, this emulation gives you a clean sound.
It comes for Windows 32 & 64 bit, and Mac OS X.
4Front R-piano also include a reverb.
soft e-piano for lounge house
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/4frontrpiano.mp3
plucked style
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/4frontrpiano2.mp3
5. LazySnake VST by Andreas Ersson
Lazy Snake VST
Back to a 100% synthesis emulation !
The Lazy Snake electric piano gives you this lounge and mellow sound.
The synth is easy to tweak, and you have a tremolo + wah wah effect.
It’s not really a Rhodes piano emulation, but it’s perfect for deep house chord.
soft clean deep house chord
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/lazysnake-smooth.mp3
wah wah effect!
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/lazysnake-wah.mp3
Ray Charles shake a snake
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Ray-Charles-shake-a-snake.mp3
6. Orange Lounge 2004A by StarrFish Lab
A funky japanese VSTi , created with Synthdit.
It’s not a Rhodes MK2 emulation, but it’s also groovy, and well suited for that deep house feeling.
We can feel the FM modulation but it’s nice!
pretty hard tremolo effect for this e-piano
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/orangelounge-deep1.mp3
funky !!
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/orangelounge-deep2.mp3
7. SFZ + Learjeff jRhodes3 soundfont
SFZ+ soundfont player
SFZ+ + Learjeff Rhodes soundfont
There are some nice free Rhodes multisample bank around the interweb. So you can pick your favorite sf2 capable VST player and load a Rhodes piano soundfont into it!
Here i choosed the SFZ+ player by RGCAudio and the jRhodes sf2 , that’s the best combo!
(november 17 2014 update !!)
8. RhodyMK1 by Wahnsyn
A Synthedit VST plugin from Plugindex German website : it has a clean sound, i think it’s based on a soundfont / wav bank. It’s very usable. Unlike the other “classic” emulations, it features a vibrato effect instead of a tremolo effect, it’s strange but that makes unusual sounds!
9. Clavia Lab by Simple Media
Clavia Lab VST
My Favorite Free Piano Vst Downloads
This plugin is intended for e-piano sounds and also organ and clavinet / harpsichord sounds.