highest quality piano and guitar plugins & effects

[UniFly]

Hi guys,

Sometimes I need classical instruments.
Can anyone suggest plugins and effects to reach highest quality/analog sounding piano, electric and acoustic guitar ? I know there are many stuff for this, but I need as high as possible quality.

I'm using Ableton. I can use Instrument Racks, 3rd party VST/AU plugins for instruments and effects.
Ableton has completed Instrument Racks with guitars and pianos, but hey man,,,, quality is sh*t.

[wub]

Piano - http://www.native-instruments.com/en/pr ... cias-keys/

Guitar - http://www.spectrasonics.net/products/trilian.php (couple of awesome guitar patches in this)

(NB - for freeware guitar synths, have a look at these - http://blog.reddogmusic.co.uk/2012/12/1 ... -yourmind/ )

[Sharmaji]

realGuitar and RealStrat both sound great.

there's tons of good pianos out there; even the basic one in garageband can sound nice with a decent short reverb on it.

re: Wub's links, the anvil amp sounds great for heavy tones. be aware that it'll throw your signal out of phase, so you'll have to correct that if using it in parallel.

[UniFly]

Thank you guys, I'll try your plugins. And what do you think about effects part ? Are you using Lexicon Reverb ? I found it as great sounding reverb like alternative for analog reverb. What else do I need ? What do you think about Waves mastering ? I want to complete my Instrument + Effect Rack.

[UniFly]

P.S. Offtopic: Sharmaji, congratulations it is your 5000'th post !

[mthrfnk]

Applied Acoustics make some good guitar modelling synths, realSamples also do some good Kontakt packs with real recorded guitars.

PianoONE is a decent free piano VST, Amore Grand Piano is also a good piano for Kontakt.

For reverb try epicVerb or any of the Valhalla poducts - I love Valhalla Vintage Verb.

As for Waves products, some are good, some not so - try the demos/read reviews etc. first.