Product Reviews by KVR Members

Great instrument. A range of pianos, electric pianos, organs, synth keys, marimba, strings and choirs. The pianos and organs have great attack portions and less successful sustains sounding quite synthy. The strings and vocal patches are more like a synth version from the early 2000s.

If you're looking for pianos, this is not Pianoteq or even T2L Piano out of the box. They would work for staccato pieces or buried fairly deep in a mix. The organs and electric pianos are better because they have a simpler sustain.

They have an add on (Stage D) piano @ €99 (€49 black friday) which is a lot better quality. To my ear it sounds less full and darker than the pianoteq NY Steinway D. The pianoteq version also seems to resonate in a more natural way. Stage D is on the same par at least with dynamics handling: pizzicato passages are great. The normal price for Stage D is 2/3 of the lowest cost option for pianoteq which includes two pianos or Dexibell's T2L Piano which comes with eight pianos. It still might be worth it for an extra piano flavor, if you're a piano nut like me.

They seem to use a similar technique to Dexibell: sampled attacks and modeled sustains. From examples installed with Numa Player, it seems Dexibell do it better with acoustic pianos but Pianoteq outperforms both.

Numa player is free. The included instruments are fair quality and a large range and definitely useful in a mix.

It works well on Linux.

Great piano plugin.

I have pianoteq studio and a bunch of sampled pianos and this compares well.

It uses a combination of samples and physical modeling and so has a small footprint of about 4.6G. It loads in around 4-5 seconds on my pretty fast system with an annoying interstitial that is probably there to cover up the startup time. Once loaded it's been super stable for me with the native Linux version.

It's not currently extendable in the way pianoteq is or as editable but it does provide a capable set of piano presets from fairly straight laced german grands through to honky tonk. It claims 8 separate piano models in total.

It includes an effect rack, with a competent reverb and enough other effects to turn the sound into something more synthlike. Most of the controls are automatable and it's available as clap, lv2, vst, vst3 and standalone. If you are just looking for a practice piano and have a keyboard, it would work well and it will work with most DAWs.

It's light on CPU but seems to load everything into memory, which probably explains the startup time, so expect each instance to take 4.6G. In comparison Pianteq normally takes under 1G of memory and is leaner on CPU. It's probable that a lot of code is shared with Dexibell's hardware and in that situation you probably want everything in memory. There's no arm version except for Apple.

It's currently $199 but I bought it for $99. I assume it will hit that price again and at that price it's worth every cent.