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Spend time finding the optimum velocity setting to match your keyboard. It adds some 'imperfect' qualities to the tone which help with authenticity of tone. To overcome this I recommend adjusting the condition slider to around 15-20. There are differing views on the realism of the Pianoteq pianos, and I partly agree with some of the criticism that all the models at default settings have a sameness to the tone, and a slight artificial/plastic quality. Low memory footprint & CPU overhead are another positive. The playability, response, pedalling behaviour is as close as you get to the real thing in the virtual piano world at present.
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Petrof models, so I know it well.Įach update brings the sound closer to an acoustic piano.
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I've been using Pianoteq since purchasing a boxed version of V.1.5 many years ago, have regularly bought updates since then, and have been on several beta testing teams, as well as contributing demos for the Steingraeber, Steinway B & Ant. I found a negative timbre shift helps somewhat, it is very configurable. While it has a very clear sound it also has a metallic twang and coldness I never liked so much that comes through in that recording. I leave you with this recording for classical, do you like it ? If so, it is probably for you because the virtual version sounds very similar. I own both pteq and ravens I have my phases with the ravenscroft because it has something, and it is nice to play in the end of the day, but the timbre is not my ideal piano sound, It sounds nothing like Steinway or anything else, even though the very first original concept came from a revamped Steinway. Personally I think it is better suited to pop, jazz, but not classical so much. I have heard recordings of the real deal and a lot of the characteristics of the ravenscroft are unique to that instrument. The ravenscroft has been sampled very well. I would add that something that stuck with me CyberGene said ages ago, ask yourself, "Are you a timbre man", if accuracy and authenticity in timbre is important, then pianoteq will not be for you, unless you happen to have ears that happen to convince you the timbre is real (versus synthetic and somewhat harsh and fatigue prone how it seems to me), then you are in luck and will likely love it. Honestly, if you HAVE to get a VST then just get Garritan CFX Lite instead. In the stage version, you cannot change the volume of those, in the Standard version you could. And some notes were way too loud or hurt my ears on my setup, in my case that were the highest four or five or so keys. That won't be possible with the stage version. Some notes had a really annoying nasal and metallic sound (even more nasal and metallic than all the others), and the only way to fix that was to change the string length a little bit. That means you will also not be able to change string length, and you won't get note edit for volume. The thing of note here though is that the stage version doesn't allow you to fine tune the instrument beyond the preset choice. Every time I play Pianoteq and move back to a sampled piano it always feels soo good. I personally think its playability is great if you spend the time to configure it, but the sound will always sound synthetic and fake to me. There's hardly a piano VST that is more divisive on here, some love it dearly, some hate it.
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Wait for some other people's opinion about this though, as I said there's people who really like it. Even after hours of fiddling with it, I couldn't configure it so that it would feel natural when playing, and I couldn't get the dynamic range to be large enough for loud notes to really feel loudly. The worst thing about it is that it has several settings for volume/velocity/sensitivity (or whatever exact terms they used). The Ravenscroft has some fans on here, they often cite it as one of their top 3 or top 5 piano VSTs.