Fine-tuning pitch for software instruments?

i recorded a song today, and all my instruments had been tuned according to my real piano, which, apparently, is a little bit flat. so, obviously, when i went to lay down a piano track with the software piano, it came out sharp. obviously auto-tuning everything but the piano would both sound bad and be dumb, so is there a way to fine-tune the pitch of the software piano?

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Can anyone tell me how to fine-tune a software instrument that's a little sharp for my audio track? Is there an easy way to do that?

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