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Whatever your chosen end of the music production pool it’s likely you’ve ran into the piano in some form. Across pop, EDM and classical to jazz, from raucous rock to the stately ballad, from the hands-in-the-air house banger to the chilling trailer score, the piano remains as omnipresent now as it did following its first appearance a few hundred years back. In our cover feature this month, we’re going to show you how to work with piano in a software production context. We’ll expose how it can be used as a rich mix ingredient and spotlight some of the very best software available right now to simulate the precise tones of those legendary ivories – be they the keys of concert grands or Korg M1s. All-in-all, it’s the ultimate guide to an instrument that very much set the central template for how we approach making music in software. After all, what is a MIDI keyboard if not a shrunk-down simulation of a ‘proper’ piano?