What are you trying to improve? That is the question! Would connecting to Pianoteq VST + external speakers (I have JBL 305s that I can connect) make significant improvement to sound quality / feel?
#Pianoteq sound vs. acoustic free
But it’s easy enough to give it a try: there’s a generous free trial, and the best way to see if it’s for you is to play it.I have a P515, using mostly the onboard CFX sounds. I’m absolutely in the former camp, utterly addicted to it, as one of the few instruments I demand on my machine at all times. I know Pianoteq can divide people: they either immediately take to it, or not. I rather like having all of them, however, and it’s not a horribly expensive proposition – and as I said, takes up almost no drive space. You can also buy the models you want, choosing acoustic, electric, or chromatic (think vibraphone). In other words, this is closer to how you’d mic things in the acoustic environment. This wasn’t as much of a strong suit in previous versions, so it’s welcome – you get fifteen mic models for directional sound, and the ability to rotate them in 3D or attach them together, with polarity/proximity effect controls. Bechstein (1899).īetter directional mic models. Broadwood (1796), and grand pianos, including an I.
These are rather fun to try out with, especially with Pianoteq’s various point-and-click tuning models, even if you aren’t trying to reproduce 18th- and 19th-century music. The Kremsegg Schloss Museum has devoted some new historical instruments. I’d been mostly defaulting to the Steinway (never been a Yamaha piano fan), so I’m keen to spend some time with this one.
The Grand Piano K2, apparently modeled on the popular Kawaii, nonetheless combines several source instruments.
#Pianoteq sound vs. acoustic software
Here’s the thing: software models of pianos, whether sampled or using physical models or some combination, are becoming their own instruments. It certainly sounds clearer, in a nice way. Now, the developers have gone after two of the most significant details – the attack of notes, and the way the soundboard resonates. Gradually, slowly, Pianoteq has improved its sound. Whatever comparisons you could make about sound, Pianoteq always felt alive in a way software instruments often didn’t.Īnd now, following an aggressive cadence of releases, Pianoteq 5 makes the software new all over again: You can modify the models to do impossible things.Īnd most importantly, what I’ve always found with Pianoteq was a selection of instruments I really loved to play. And because it uses models, you can also load any number of wild and oddball historical models and other instruments if you like, without having to clear half your drive. It’ll run on Linux – I’ve gotten it running convincingly on a netbook. Whereas others gobble hard drive space, Pianoteq uses sophisticated modeling techniques that skip the samples, meaning it can fit onto a flash drive. You can even have a ridiculously-tall upright. You can have new pianos, old pianos, countless Steinway samples. You can load massive instances of Kontakt with different recorded sounds for every note, every articulation. You can buy entire hard drives just to store the gigabytes of samples. You can have increasingly-good models and samples in hardware, but you can really get a fake piano on your computer. If you want a fake piano, you can have a fake piano.
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