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BlackWinny · Post by **BlackWinny** » Tue Jun 03, 2014 12:57 pm

Peace to the good souls...

bharris22 · Post by **bharris22** » Tue Jun 03, 2014 1:15 pm

Agree. I went for Standard, and the amount of tweaking and tone variations possible is really astounding.

Now I just need to buy the upright

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Integratron · Post by **Integratron** » Tue Jun 03, 2014 2:05 pm

I love Pianoteq - A visit to their site is an education in classical music and the evolution of the pianoforte! These are the most exquisite instrument models I've ever heard... nothing can top it IMHO although AAS does a nice job on the electrics with Lounge Lizard 4.

Krakatau · Post by **Krakatau** » Tue Jun 03, 2014 2:50 pm

Integratron wrote:I love Pianoteq These are the most exquisite instrument models I've ever heard... nothing can top it IMHO although AAS does a nice job on the electrics with Lounge Lizard 4.

Undoubtely and that's the key :

- Except for a minority of parameters : the "blooming" ones , the mallet bounce and a few others depending on the add-on model's specificity (Aliquot strings for Blüthner, Pickups for Clavinet), most of them are basically focused on the acoustic piano modeling

The electric piano add ons might certainly rivals in accuracy with LL4 but not when considering their tweakability because of the reason i just pointed at...

Krakatau · Post by **Krakatau** » Tue Jun 03, 2014 2:51 pm

double post...

ImNotDedYet · Post by **ImNotDedYet** » Tue Jun 03, 2014 4:43 pm

Just a thank you to all you cats responding on this thread. I've been looking for something that actually replicated an actual piano, but hadn't found anything until I played around with Pianoteq based on this thread. I've been really impressed with what I've seen from it so far and I haven't even reached into some of the tweaking modifications possible within Standard yet.

Integratron · Post by **Integratron** » Tue Jun 03, 2014 4:57 pm

I will one day have a license for Pianoteq - I've just been spending too much lately and just shelled out $850 on a new computer so...

Krakatau · Post by **Krakatau** » Tue Jun 03, 2014 5:07 pm

ImNotDedYet wrote:Just a thank you to all you cats responding on this thread. I've been looking for something that actually replicated an actual piano, but hadn't found anything until I played around with Pianoteq based on this thread. I've been really impressed with what I've seen from it so far and I haven't even reached into some of the tweaking modifications possible within Standard yet.

As an easy beginning i suggest you to explore only the condition parameter for instance
...or right-click the random parameter giving slight randomizations of overall parameters, (less realistic results than the condition changes though...)

BlackWinny · Post by **BlackWinny** » Fri Jun 06, 2014 3:40 pm

For those who would not be still convinced by the awesome quality of Pianoteq 5, here is a new demo uploaded yesterday by one of our french friends on the french Audiofanzine:

Integratron · Post by **Integratron** » Fri Jun 06, 2014 4:50 pm

Very nice - thanks for sharing!

tristan- · Post by **tristan-** » Thu Aug 13, 2015 12:11 pm

I don't understand, can't find the info anywhere.
If I buy Pianoteq, any version. I get 2 "free" instrument packs, let say I choose electric piano + clavinet. Will Pianoteq have any acoustic piano sound at all? I don't see anything on the site regarding built in sounds which are not part of any instrument expansion. Is there any?

evilantal · Post by **evilantal** » Thu Aug 13, 2015 12:53 pm

tristan- wrote:I don't understand, can't find the info anywhere.
If I buy Pianoteq, any version. I get 2 "free" instrument packs, let say I choose electric piano + clavinet. Will Pianoteq have any acoustic piano sound at all? I don't see anything on the site regarding built in sounds which are not part of any instrument expansion. Is there any?

No, you choose which "flavor" of models you want with your initial purchase and these are then the sounds it comes with.
If you choose the Electric Piano + Clavinet flavor, it will not have any acoustic piano models except in demo mode.

If you want acoustic pianos you should choose the D4 + K2 version.

tristan- · Post by **tristan-** » Thu Aug 13, 2015 1:00 pm

evilantal wrote:
tristan- wrote:I don't understand, can't find the info anywhere.
If I buy Pianoteq, any version. I get 2 "free" instrument packs, let say I choose electric piano + clavinet. Will Pianoteq have any acoustic piano sound at all? I don't see anything on the site regarding built in sounds which are not part of any instrument expansion. Is there any?
No, you choose which "flavor" of models you want with your initial purchase and these are then the sounds it comes with.
If you choose the Electric Piano + Clavinet flavor, it will not have any acoustic piano models except in demo mode.

If you want acoustic pianos you should choose the D4 + K2 version.

So basically for the price of 99/250/500 (stage, standard, pro) you get a naked program with no sounds at all? (and they claim you get 2 instrument packs for free, but without them you have silence)

RIDICULOUS!

vic_france · Post by **vic_france** » Thu Aug 13, 2015 1:16 pm

tristan- wrote: So basically for the price of 99/250/500 (stage, standard, pro) you get a naked program with no sounds at all? (and they claim you get 2 instrument packs for free, but without them you have silence)

RIDICULOUS!

But you won't be "without them"

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Spitfire31 · Post by **Spitfire31** » Thu Aug 13, 2015 1:17 pm

tristan- wrote:
evilantal wrote:
tristan- wrote:I don't understand, can't find the info anywhere.
If I buy Pianoteq, any version. I get 2 "free" instrument packs, let say I choose electric piano + clavinet. Will Pianoteq have any acoustic piano sound at all? I don't see anything on the site regarding built in sounds which are not part of any instrument expansion. Is there any?
No, you choose which "flavor" of models you want with your initial purchase and these are then the sounds it comes with.
If you choose the Electric Piano + Clavinet flavor, it will not have any acoustic piano models except in demo mode.

If you want acoustic pianos you should choose the D4 + K2 version.
So basically for the price of 99/250/500 (stage, standard, pro) you get a naked program with no sounds at all? (and they claim you get 2 instrument packs for free, but without them you have silence)

RIDICULOUS!

You didn't understand, apparently.

For 99/250/500 you get two complete instrument packages but you have three choices (as clearly explained on the Pianoteq website (https://pianoteq.com/pianoteq5):

"Two instrument packs are chosen during the purchase and confirmed during registration. The possible choices are: D4 + K2 grand pianos, or Electric pianos + Hohner Collection, or Vibes + Xylophone/Marimba."

Where did you get the "naked program with no sounds at all" from? There's nothing "ridiculous" about Pianoteq.

/Joachim

Pianoteq 5 is out!