VST piano instruments played with a royalty free MIDI, test includes free, DSK music’s Acoustik Keys, General and Prova Piano from Safwan Matni, 4front Piano module from Yohng, along with the MIDI recorded using the trial versions of True Pianos (Diamond module) and Acoustica’s Pianissimo (Solo Grand Piano mode) (btw, I used Synthfont to generate these demos,  using 128 bit rate mp3 encoding for less size ) I couldn’t generate songs from C V piano and Yannleo Acceentor, discussed in the link above, mainly because of a virtual MIDI driver problem, or the latest versions of DAW’s I am using, cause it worked earlier, will try again later, but if you could get C V piano to work, it’s the best free piano VSTi out there

and if you check the soundfont and vsti comparison on the freeware market, the soundfonts listed here are a better choice than VSTi  IMHO 

Grand Piano VSTi – Test/Demo by blueinfos

please feel free to post ur fav free Grand Piano VSTi, I would really like to test all the available ones out there, thanks

here’s some good free grand piano soundfonts/giga sampler format

1 ) Maestro Grand Piano – (337 MB) unzipped size (about 900 MB )
Sampled Yamaha CF3 Grand Piano
This is actually in giga sampler format but can be played with the free donation-ware Synthfont (www.synthfont.com)

Download : http://sonimusicae.free.fr/matshelgesson-maestro-en.html

2) Splendid Grand Piano Soundfont (250 MB)

Download : http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9L7S3FIB

3) Acoustic Grand Piano Soundfont (Yamaha Disklavier Pro ) (132 MB )

116 samples, 44100Hz, 16bit

there’s also a small grand piano version available ( 37 MB)

Download : http://zenvoid.org/audio.html

Here’s the samples created with a royalty free MIDI obtained from Partners In Rhyme

soundfonts-test by blueinfos

DSK Sound Font Player VSTi plugin  ( 4 MB )

Download : http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PGE5OFFE

Check the basics for MIDI recording here

1 ) Pianoteq

(Trial – but good for 20 mins MIDI recording for all keys, but in playback mode certain black keys are disabled (25 MB)

Since it’s easy to record, you can record your MIDI data using this and process the data with other VSTi’s listed here, (if ur composition contains those non-working black keys )

www.pianoteq.com

2) Yannleo Accentor (50 MB)

http://rapidshare.com/files/52866793/YANNLEO_ACCENTOR_X-1GP1.rar

3 ) General Piano (Safwan Matni) (60 MB ) (no settings )

http://smatni.tripod.com/safwanmatnivstplugins/

4) 1 ) CV Piano ( Tascam ) (160 MB )

http://www.vst4free.com/vstftp.php?win32=CVPiano.zip

5 ) Prova (Safwan Matni ) ( 27 MB) (no settings )

http://smatni.tripod.com/safwanmatnivstplugins/

7 ) DSK Akoustik Keys (20 MB )

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UJKNJXUE

7 ) 4f Piano (30 MB ) (no settings )

http://www.yohng.com/software/piano.html

Other trial versions to check, True Pianos, Pianissimo  etc

There’s also some great Piano Soundfonts out there, will post about it next time and will add sample renderings too

Free High Quality Virtual Music Instruments from the Giants in the market (Official release )

Native Instruments ( http://www.native-instruments.com )

Native instruments gives free player for it’s products which have got some good sound samples which can be manipulated and loaded into you digital workstations

One such software is the Free Kontakt Player (about 1 GB download inc sample ) after loading it with Factory samples we can use it on a DAW’s or Live record from Audio stream

Other free downloads includes Reaktor Player with Carbon Synthesizer as Factory samples, Kore Player, Mikro Prism , and Guitar Rig, though free it requires registraion via internet

IK Multimedia ( www.ikmultimedia.com )

Sample Tank another collection of great free sound samples vsti’s ( about 500 MB  ) works just like the above mentioned Native Instrument software, needs free registration via internet