Chroma Upright Piano vs Allure Modern Upright

These two upright piano VSTs differentiate primarily through their specialized articulations and approach to sound design, despite both aiming for warm, intimate upright tones. Sonuscore's Chroma Upright Piano focuses on a wider array of distinct playing techniques, while Heavyocity's Allure Modern Upright incorporates a more extensive sound design layer with unique prepared articulations.

Chroma Upright Piano offers five unique articulations—felt, muted, plucked, flageolet, and bowed—alongside 27 velocity layers for detailed dynamic control. In contrast, Allure Modern Upright, built from a Kawai K-800, emphasizes "prepared articulations" using brushes, twine, and mallets, integrating these with Heavyocity's signature sound manipulation tools. Allure also mentions an arpeggiator feature for creating complex patterns, which is not highlighted in Chroma.

Choose Sonuscore's Chroma Upright Piano if you prioritize a traditional upright sound with specific, nuanced playing techniques and extensive dynamic range for recordings and film scoring. Choose Heavyocity's Allure Modern Upright if your workflow leans towards ambient textures, sound design, and experimental applications, leveraging its prepared articulations and advanced sound-shaping capabilities.

Products Compared

• Chroma Upright Piano
• Allure Modern Upright

Insights from Real-World Use

Chroma Upright Piano

• Chroma Upright Piano has a very full character.
• The story from Sonuscore is that a team was sampling a high quality grand piano, but were drawn to an “unassuming upright” in the same studio. So having completed the initial job, decided they should
• Key takeaways: - Fantastic out-of-the-box sound and the velocity curve works well for me by default (can be customized) - 4 mic positions turned into useful piano presets like Bright Upright, Cinema
• If you like its sound, you should buy Chroma Upright Piano; it sounds, feels, and looks great.
• I was able to match Ryuichi Sakamoto piano recordings 100% identical to Noire with all of the smallest details. I don't know how anything could get more realistic and is my main practice and player pi

Allure Modern Upright

• Allure is a fantastic piano for cinematic scoring.
• Surprisingly prefer the vulnerable and balanced natural sound of Allure Modern Upright.
• Five out of five stars, beautiful upright with amazing sound design, warm and melodic.
• Likely the best natural upright sound heard.
• It is my pleasure, this one is definitely a keeper!