Verve by Steinberg

Overview

Verve is a felt piano instrument featuring beautiful and warm tones, recorded with precision for a unique playing experience.

Key Features

• Felt piano tones
• Cinematic textures
• Robot-assisted sampling
• Accurate velocity capture
• Multiple cinematic textures
• Textures from metal, glass, dry ice
• Textures from electromagnetic pickups
• Textures from orchestral strings
• 66 texture presets
• Layering with additional textures

Technical Specifications

Presets

66 presets (for textures)

Plugin Formats

AU, AAX

Standalone

Yes

Ideal Use Cases

• Film composers seeking a soft, intimate piano sound for delicate scenes.
• Producers crafting ambient soundscapes who need a gentle, evolving piano texture.
• Songwriters wanting to add a warm, muted piano layer to their acoustic tracks.
• Beatmakers looking for a distinctive, lo-fi piano character to use in their productions.
• Hobbyist musicians exploring new sonic palettes for personal creative projects.

Included Presets

• 66 presets

Review Snippets

• Verve is inspiring, promotes creativity, and helps songwriting ideas snowball.
• Verve is a beautiful felt piano with nice atmospheres, delicious, and enjoyable.
• Verve is a really nice felt piano with beautiful sounds, preferable to other pianos.
• Verve piano is a new favorite, sounds very good, sets mood instantly, and has crisp samples.
• Verve's sound is soft, warm, beautiful, and silky, offering a unique felt piano character.
• Never has a felt piano been so poetic, so beautifully warm, dreamy and melancholic. Verve was developed to tell stories and create emotions
• Verve is beautiful because it works well in many different environments like film, TV, or blending into a track.
• High-quality pianos are now a mobile reality; Verve provides warmth and emotional character.
• Mapping the octave knob to the mod wheel makes it easy to thicken sounds in real time.
• Verve is a fantasy piano with ambient texture and reverb.
• I was surprised how good Verve is. I have to say, this is very nice and that's coming from someone who has roughly 8-10 felt piano VSTs.
• Verve offers extensive control over the piano's tone, release, and reverb.
• Verve is so beautiful to play!
• Hi, my personal experience is that playability is great, definitely better than e.g. True Keys.. I don't have any really high-end libraries so cannot compare to those. Didn't notice any mismatching levels, but of course the overall sound is definitely not for boogie woogie or Rachmaninov.
• This is a lot of fun right out of the box, and—unlike with some other tone generators—you can just set this one, trigger it, and forget it. Cubase Pro Verve (

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Verve require a Kontakt library or other host software?

No, Verve functions as a standalone instrument and also supports AU, AAX, and VST 3 plugin formats. It is compatible with HALion Sonic 7 and HALion 7 as well.

Is Verve a sampled or modeled piano instrument?

Verve is a sampled felt piano instrument. Its sounds were captured with robot-assisted sampling for precision.

What operating systems are compatible with Verve?

Verve is compatible with Mac (macOS Big Sur to macOS Tahoe, including Apple silicon) and Windows (Windows 10 64-bit and Windows 11 Version 21H2 or higher).

What genres is Verve best suited for?

Verve is ideal for classical, pop, film/scoring, ambient, and soul/r&b genres. It is particularly well-suited for film scoring, ambient, sound design, and songwriting.

Does Verve come with presets?

Yes, Verve includes 66 texture presets. These allow for layering with additional textures such as metal, glass, dry ice, electromagnetic pickups, and orchestral strings.

What is the price of Verve?

Verve is available for $119.99 USD.

Are there any special features regarding the pedaling in Verve?

Not specified by the vendor / sources in our database.