The 7 Best Virtual Instruments January 2025

Ranked 1st in our list of recommended virtual instruments and sells for $599.00 (as of 22/01/2019 09:32 PST details ) , more than 100% of the Native Instruments 25721 reviews are positive. With features such as contains more than 50 premium instruments and effects , including kontakt 6, trk 01, and discovery series middle east, plus 10 expansions and production suite 50 instruments and effects, more than 25,000 sounds, and over 170 gb of instruments and effects, it is indeed our top pick among virtual instruments.

In the 2nd place of our top virtual instruments list you'll find the Spectrasonics OMNI2 which garners positive reviews from more than 88% of customers who bought virtual instruments. Priced at $479.00 (as of 15/02/2023 11:55 PST details ) , it is designed for the savvy consumer who don’t mind paying a bit more for quality and best in class features.

Number 3 on the best virtual instruments list is resereved for venerable Spectrasonics 3TRL that has featuers like, intuitive, automatic selection of dynamic legato and release articulations allows for highly realistic hammer ons. With a positive sentiment of 93% for the 3TRL from Spectrasonics, it is a solid purchase that will keep you happy and it can be found online for $279.00 (as of 08/12/2022 00:10 PST details ) .

At $199.00 (as of 26/01/2019 10:47 PST details ) , Native Instruments's Komplete 11 Select is our number 4, which gets 63% approval rate from customers who actually bought it.

A good, solid choice come up at number 5 of virtual instruments reviewed by us. You can find this Synthogy ILIVIG2 for $169.00 (as of 22/01/2019 09:40 PST details ) , and be sure that it will do the work, at least according to more than 86% of people who used it and enjoyed features such as featuring a greatly expanded sound set of the extraordinary 10 foot concert grand piano, and fully integrated with the powerful new ivory ii piano dsp engine with harmonic resonance modeling for true sympathetic string vibration, ivory ii italian grand shines like never before and this exceptional piano is one of the world s greatest and most sought after concert instruments.

If none of the virtual instruments listed above suits you, then perhaps the MOTU 5961 at the 6th place is the right one for you. Costing $255.00 (as of 16/05/2018 01:03 PDT details ) , positive reviews hover around 50%.

Last but not least in the top virtual instruments, we have the good old Native Instruments 21085 which gets great marks by 43% of the reviews posted. It can be bought for $49.00 (as of 24/10/2017 00:39 PDT details ) .