If you are a serious pianist or a producer, being able to tweak the piano setup and microphone positions right for a specific piece of music is great, and much more powerful than the tweaking you could do with an EQ (though EQ, compression, reverb etc. It’s important to note, though, that the string length parameter controls string length specifically, not the size of the entire piano – so making the strings ten meters long will reduce inharmonicity to near zero, but it will not change the whole piano model to an enormous monster with a cabinet and soundboard that would contain strings of that size.
Pianoteq 5 Stage and the D4 user interface. So, if you want to tweak a piano’s setup to get it just right, you can do that, as well as some crazy things like making the strings ten meters long. You can also change some things in the realm of piano design, such as the length of the strings, the impedance of the soundboard and even the relative volume of the first eight overtones. After all, Modartt was founded by a piano tuner turned mathematician. The Standard version adds the ability to configure a lot of sound sculpting parameters, but rather than parameters familiar from synthesizers or effects, you can adjust things that a piano tuner could, such as the hardness of the felt on the hammers, the octave stretch or the width of the unison tuning. The Stage version offers dynamics and effects adjustments, and can load presets. The ability to tweak the sound is where Pianoteq really differs from the sampled competition, and also where the difference between the three versions lies. If a great piano is the main thing you’re after and the ability to sculpt the sound is secondary, the sampling or modeling decision is a matter of personal preference and requires testing. So, if you are in the market for a modern virtual piano, I’d definitely recommend trying the demo version and playing it yourself instead of only listening to audio demos. I also tried playing with it with a low-end 49-key MIDI controller with unweighted keys and audio interface latency set to maximum, and the difference is obvious even then. That makes sense as there are no sampled velocity layers here – the instrument responds differently to each of the possible 127 velocity values, and the response of neighboring notes is consistent. Others have described Pianoteq as feeling responsive, expressive or alive, but being a more technical person I’d say that it’s a feeling of confidence about the volume and tone color of every note as you’re playing it. It feels like it responds more naturally and accurately to velocity than any other piano I have. Playing with Pianoteq, the most impressive thing is how real it feels. More than just pianos, it can also model harps, bells, mallet instruments, harpsichords and even hammered dulcimers. It can work as a standalone application, VST, AU, AAX or RTAS plugin.
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679 EUR gets you Pianoteq Studio which contains the Pro version plus all currently available instruments.
Pianoteq 5.3 is the current version of their piano application, and it comes in three flavors – Stage (99 EUR), Standard (249 EUR) and Pro (399 EUR). Modartt have been developing a completely different approach in parallel – using sophisticated mathematical models to synthesize every note, and relying on samples only for hammer and pedal noises. There’s been quite an arms race in virtual pianos over the past fifteen years, with some sampled pianos now featuring tens of thousands of samples and exceeding 100 GB of data.
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