Thoughts, feelings, accusations of heresy? Let me know.
Perhaps also purists might object (those who know me can take a guess how much I care) but honestly, weighing up all the pros and cons, it feels like this is the best thing for me, especially right now.įor anyone who is unfamiliar with how Pianoteq sounds, you can check some recordings on the site, I recommend the Grotrian. So, really, I ask myself, what am I missing with acoustic? Perhaps there are some minutiae that get missed and perhaps there is a slight fakeness to the sound. A lot of elements are quite excellent too, the quality of the sound is really good and leagues above any piano I've really been able to play. I can edit and create it so much more easily, it's a technology that will only get better, I don't have to pay for tuning, I don't have to really worry about maintenance at all. I've gotten to the point that after a disastrous recording session where I was convinced that a pedal clicking sound wouldn't be noticeable (and it turned out to be insufferable) I feel like until I can actually operate at the level where I can have a great piano, a great set of mics, a great engineer and a lot of time maybe it's better to just make my music with Pianoteq. I've just got the Stage version and it seems great so far, I was able to fix the latency to the point where I don't notice it at all and feel like there's immediate feedback, the only real disadvantage is that I have to rely on my Roland, which is good but not quite as good a touch as an acoustic (the return is a bit lousy too) Without headphones, all the instruments sound authentically acoustic and all are very playable to the degree I no longer want an actual acoustic.So, I'm curious to know how people feel about Pianoteq. I find, on headphones, many off-putting sounds, or colours with many of the pianos this seems to change day by day, but the best performers are invariably the Grotrian, and the Bluthner. We're only human that's why the world is as it is. I believe a combination of our imperfect brains and imperfect auditory memory, price perception bias etc will always play a part, along with the real limitations of the virtual instruments. I expect a certain number of listeners brains will tell them they are listening to something inferior. This is inevitable with absolutely anyone's modelling technology, even if it ever gets to be actually perfect and indistinguishable from the real thing in blind tests. I don't have a history of listening to (or playing) real grand pianos in real rooms, that is other than those caught with microphones on commercial recordings. I've caught myself hearing artefacts in real classical piano recordings from the 60s - 90s that to me sound like Pianoteq! - that's not to say that recordings of real instruments are the perfect reference in that stereo format with the limitations of microphones such as they are, and engineering choices made on the recordings. It seems they have a negative view on all Modartt does with modelled technology.Įxpectation bias indeed. I'm just thinking how the few negative folks will bash Version 8 on the first day.
Pianoteq forum upgrade#
I haven't tested what happens to the upgrade option by entering a license code, as the last thing I want to do is bork or brick something that Modartt has to fix on top of whatever else they're valiantly coping with behind the scenes, but I still-as of writing-have an upgrade to Version 8 option in the user area.Įxcuse me, Where is that official announcement? I can not find it
Pianoteq forum code#
With the intense speculation that an iOS offering could be involved in this, Modartt might be in the middle of restructuring their entire order system to support App Store integration which stands to be an absolute nightmare to seamlessly add that to already functional, deployed code exclusively for activation on desktop OSes. It makes further sense to deploy these changes over a weekend, as site traffic will naturally be lower. I don't think it was a mistake my bet is that changes to the upgrade/activation backend code required deployment that altered text descriptions the removal of purchase options was a further attempt to insulate a new account/activation system on the main site as OTQ is unaffected but new PTQ licenses, instrument packs, etc. It's further possible that the release is causing technical challenges if new OSes are involved, changes to method of activation or number of slots, etc. I'd guess a two week time-frame or less-probably a lot less. This is purely speculation, but with the official announcement of a delay to the annual video contest, it's presumable that this is genuine and imminent.
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