KVR Audio

jamcat · Post by **jamcat** » Wed Oct 15, 2025 5:29 pm

muzicxs wrote: Wed Oct 15, 2025 3:26 pm Pianoteq 9 is already in my account even though I haven't purchased it

Did you purchase your Pianoteq license within the past year?

muzicxs · Post by **muzicxs** » Wed Oct 15, 2025 5:31 pm

tlvid wrote: Wed Oct 15, 2025 5:26 pm Thanks, all sorted now - it was because I used a custom voucher.

Did you buy Pianoteq recently? I forgot what the time limit is but they'll upgrade you for free if you bought it within the last x months.

Great to hear!

I upgraded to the Studio Bundle last year. It would be the longest grace period I've ever seen, if that's the reason

muzicxs · Post by **muzicxs** » Wed Oct 15, 2025 5:31 pm

jamcat wrote: Wed Oct 15, 2025 5:29 pm Did you purchase your Pianoteq license within the past year?

Yes, last year I upgraded, see post above.

Psuper · Post by **Psuper** » Wed Oct 15, 2025 5:35 pm

muzicxs wrote: Wed Oct 15, 2025 5:31 pm
jamcat wrote: Wed Oct 15, 2025 5:29 pm Did you purchase your Pianoteq license within the past year?
Yes, last year I upgraded, see post above.

Did you upgrade to Studio 9?

I have Pianoteq Studio 8 but their site doesn't seem to allow the upgrade to Studio 9, can only choose to upgrade to 9 standard. Emailed them awaiting to hear back.

muzicxs · Post by **muzicxs** » Wed Oct 15, 2025 5:39 pm

Psuper wrote: Wed Oct 15, 2025 5:35 pm Did you upgrade to Studio 9?

I have Pianoteq Studio 8 but their site doesn't seem to allow the upgrade to Studio 9, can only choose to upgrade to 9 standard. Emailed them awaiting to hear back.

I upgraded to Studio 8 last year, but now Studio 9 is visible in my account.

cryophonik · Post by **cryophonik** » Wed Oct 15, 2025 6:06 pm

Ooh, I also have a free upgrade in my account (I bought it during the BF sale last year). Maybe I'll put that $29 upgrade savings toward an expansion...

jamcat · Post by **jamcat** » Wed Oct 15, 2025 6:14 pm

I would have liked to have seen a mandolin rail added and new model that uses it, like a Wing & Son upright with ‘Instrument Effect’ attachments from circa 1900.

MrJubbly · Post by **MrJubbly** » Wed Oct 15, 2025 6:21 pm

The v9.0.1 installer wouldn't let me deselect "NKS" and it also installed two separate VST3 Pianoteq 9 plugins on my Windows 11 device (without giving me the options for ARM / x86_64).

I had to manually delete the "arm64ec-win" folder from within the \VST3\Pianoteq 9.vst3\Contents\ folder to prevent the two VST3 versions (ARM / x64) from being scanned in FL Studio as duplicate VST3 plugins.

Now, I need to figure out the location where it saved those unwanted NKS preview files to, to likewise delete them.

This is a bit of an atypical and unexpected "janky" installer from Modartt. It was never like this before from that developer, who I had become accustomed to expect better from their product installers in the past.

Their installers were always so clean pre-v9. Now, I need to do such manual post-installation maintenance and clean up? I hope they can change this for future updates.

MrJubbly · Post by **MrJubbly** » Wed Oct 15, 2025 6:38 pm

Psuper wrote: Wed Oct 15, 2025 5:35 pm
muzicxs wrote: Wed Oct 15, 2025 5:31 pm
jamcat wrote: Wed Oct 15, 2025 5:29 pm Did you purchase your Pianoteq license within the past year?
Yes, last year I upgraded, see post above.
Did you upgrade to Studio 9?

I have Pianoteq Studio 8 but their site doesn't seem to allow the upgrade to Studio 9, can only choose to upgrade to 9 standard. Emailed them awaiting to hear back.

Same.

However, the reason it doesn't let us upgrade to Studio 9 is because we already own Studio 8. Those options are intended for users of Stage, Standard, Pro to upgrade from a lower tier to that higher tier (Studio).

You just need to purchase the first 29 Euro option: "Upgrade any version to Pianoteq 9"

After your purchase, your account "Registered Products" area will remember you are a Studio Bundle user and show that you own Pianoteq Studio 9

TheMaestro · Post by **TheMaestro** » Wed Oct 15, 2025 7:31 pm

Sampleconstruct wrote: Wed Oct 15, 2025 5:14 pm Testing the new version of Pianoteq (v9) with a custom morph preset using the Triple Harp and Pan Drum engines. Nice update indeed!

That was awesome.
Now I want Pianoteq 9, but is sooo dang expensive.

fisherKing · Post by **fisherKing** » Wed Oct 15, 2025 7:49 pm

how does it compare to v8?

Funky40 · Post by **Funky40** » Wed Oct 15, 2025 8:34 pm

Sampleconstruct wrote: Wed Oct 15, 2025 5:14 pm Testing the new version of Pianoteq (v9) with a custom morph preset using the Triple Harp and Pan Drum engines.

Nice !

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Wed Oct 15, 2025 9:03 pm

fisherKing wrote: Wed Oct 15, 2025 7:49 pm how does it compare to v8?

The tone of the hammer/pluck/whatever transient is involved can now be modified (also via modulation) and there is a new x/y envelope for decay/cutoff which is very useful.

teilo · Post by **teilo** » Wed Oct 15, 2025 9:03 pm

So the only instrument they added was the triple harp, but that was added to the existing harp pack. So I assume if I upgrade my 8 Studio, that will just show up?

teilo · Post by **teilo** » Wed Oct 15, 2025 9:04 pm

fisherKing wrote: Wed Oct 15, 2025 7:49 pm how does it compare to v8?

It has a better soundboard model, so that should further increase realism.