My Desert Island Piano VST - VI Labs Modern D

pianow

in extreme cases, sometimes i love to compress the volume of the dynamic range so i can play soft parts faster and easier

so i boost the gain curve quite drastically

Hi,

Can the Modern D have the same magical bell sound of the Steinway on this type of piece where you weigh every note and every note?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUw9Mc-rxpM

Regards,

Olivier F

Wow - that VI Steinway sounds amazing - like the perfect modern versatile concert grand, without the harshness of the VSL offers, but a naturalness, clarity and warmth. Also when David Lai and CyberGene say that it plays immaculate I am pretty sure that's the case. I never felt connected to the VSL instruments while playing them, but I am sure that's different for this one.

Just ordered MODERN D

Can't install it on MAC M2 PRO and MAC OS 15.0

VILAbsInstaller have no permission…..just found a solution. not easy…

Need For Pianos Fairheaven welcomes another F1 Competitor. Fabulous! It's like supercar shows! Wow!

pianow

Modern U and Modern D share the same excellent style of user interface. Modern D introduces a few handy newer elements still.

The three TrueKeys pianos and Ravenscroft 275 have the older style.

Cheers and happy tweaking,

HZ

OlivierW

Yes… I remember now that I also ran into that problem months ago when installing Modern U in my M1 mac. But I don't really remember how I solved it. The puzzling thing is that many people seem to not have any problem, and VILabs does not address this in their installation notes… Maybe people with older installations of previous VSTs versions don't suffer from this.

OlivierW

just ordered it i could compare with another video : hope i will not be disapointed. (no demo version…)

Currently download the library….

I am glad I returned the VSL Concert-D 274, because I was not able to get to like it, and this one seems to be the opposite!. I have not yet bought it because of money constraints (damn regional government is holding a payment to me), but will eventually do as soon as some fresh money arrives 😃

Hello,

@OlivierW

@vagfilm

I'm not much at home with Apple, yet I believe there is an "M1 Native" separate download from VI Labs. It may(!) be that the library download isn't diversified but I bet the one for the UVI Workstation is. Herein may lay the solution.

If not, do contact VI Labs directly, surely they'll help you, @OlivierW .

Cheers and best of luck,

HZ

HZPiano no i've found the solution. Currently download the 18 GB.

I could post first demo late in the night

Hope i will not be disapointed

OlivierW make sure you test all the factory presets and start from there. Because some are too nasal and weird. Mine is based on something that sounded like “player full resonance”.

CyberGene

can you share your preset ? i will try it with pleasure 🙂

OlivierW

can't wait for the demos

OlivierW can you share your preset ? i will try it with pleasure 🙂

I’m at work and the preset is on my personal MacBook, however it seems I saved it on the desktop and it is synced through iCloud and appears on my iPhone but I can’t attach it directly, so I zipped it… Whether all that works, not sure. Here it is:

It includes a modified touch response for N1X (with its touch response at the default level). Also includes modified half-pedaling values to suit the N1X. I think you have N1X too? If not, revert those.

porco_rosso I never felt connected to the VSL instruments while playing them

the strange thing about vsl is that even their close mics lack warmth and roundness, and that lack of warmth is quite extreme and weird, I've heard recordings with only a pair of u87s under the lid that sounded complete, flawless, captured all the roundness without losing a tiny bit of clarity, but vsl close mics are a different story, especially with their steinway and yamaha, thin, bright, cold, ane the most important and disappointing: not close enough.

i love their bosendorfers, especially the imperial, it's the best synchron piano imo, the second and third places belong to the 280vc and 130u

all three of them are warm and realistic.

Jose EB5AGV I am glad I returned the VSL Concert-D 274

i wish i could sell it too, I don't even play it as much as the pianoteq demo these days

CyberGene great ! and thanks

yes, i've a N1X. and i love it 🙂

vagfilm Yes… I remember now that I also ran into that problem months ago when installing Modern U in my M1 mac. But I don't really remember how I solved it. The puzzling thing is that many people seem to not have any problem, and VILabs does not address this in their installation notes… Maybe people with older installations of previous VSTs versions don't suffer from this.

I ran into the exact same problem, and it took me almost an hour to figure it out. Basically, before downloading you need to make sure the folder you try to download it to has permissions set to "read and write" for all users. To do this you need to right click on the folder, select "get info," then go to the "Sharing & Permissions" tab at the bottom of the menu and make sure everyone has privileges set to "read and write."

It seems that newer Macs have this setting set to "read only" be default so anyone trying to download on a Mac will run into this problem.

They really should mention this in the download instructions because I have a feeling they are going to get tons of complaints from Mac users claiming that they can't download the files.

jdg78 for MODERN D, just have to go tho security menu in mac M2/sequoia settings (open anyway)