All user reviews for the Modartt Pianoteq 2

- How long have you use it?

The first version a few months, the second a few hours!

- What is so special that you like most and least?

It simply exeptionnel.J I bought my first electric piano ago ... 25 years
and all these years I thought us "pianists" had to take, and take our part, this frustration (that do not know the other instruments), to be satisfied with what we had: the clones more or less coarse expectations.

Some frustrated ... like me, had more disability of being totally left and use their right hand for a single thing their whole life .... improvise .... now it is really possible with extreme accuracy (velocity curve) to tone our lines with the desired stamp (work on pens) and to channel the strength of our wonderful support "harmonico-rhythm" that you all you friends envied us pianites right-handed!

The Handbook of thirty page is a valuable asset for a few hours to realize the enormous potential of the software, the multitude of effective parameters
with a little patience and experience will guide you to a musical coherence evident.

The assignment of parameters to controllers at noon (right click on the parameter), while playing a file or your twelve o'clock is excellent ... it's great art!

- How would you rate the quality / price?

I benefited from the buying group (a second would probably be welcome for various reasons) and an update report gratuite.Avec hindsight is ultimately ... very good.

Have you tried and / or (purchased) many other models before buying it?

Crumar, Honer clavinet, yamaha cp 80, k2500x kurzweil, roland rd, boendendorfer290, galaxy steinway, Synthogy ... true piano ...
- With experience, you do again this choice?.

What a question ... it is a "gem" ... Modartt reinvents the piano ... congratulations.

I just bought this version after a few hours on the demo. I tested a lot the previous version, see my mixed feelings about the v1.

The digital v1 sounded, this one not: it was the failure to blur, taking bets. I quickly immersed in the sound, with two or three settings I managed to find what I was looking like sound. Note anyway that I replayed the previous version of the C1, C2 I prefer by far.

Other models tested digital pianos: Yamaha P90, artvista virtual grand piano. The first piano did not sound so good on the live but not for recording. The second, like all the sampled pianos, was too greedy for my Mac G4 laptop, and the sound was average, with no life ...

The quality is there, that's what counts. I think the price still a bit high, but hey, it's important to have sound ... so not much hesitation either.

I do it again this choice, in fact there is no competition in this soft ... and then given the rapidly changing, I think it's a great value that will only improve with time. But here, already, that he ask for?

I just spent nearly three hours at the piano after loading my PC trial version! I am truly amazed! Gone technical problems, the persistence, the stories sound card not powerful enough, the external drive always "limit" in transfer speed, in short all those things that break the pleasure of playing while in the end I always came back the basic version of my Yamaha GranTouch. But, I must say that only responsible, Pianoteq is operational, the presets are efficient, almost no modification to fit his game and his taste and hop so close to reality! Missing is the vibration in his fingertips. It is not an acoustic piano but it is close the now very seriously.

We have created a virtual instrument whose boundaries are far ahead: how changes in a few months!

Yes, there are still developments to be done to add to a preset sound like a particular piano existing preset and then to invent an instrument that "glue" to an author etc. ..

Now we must also measure this first impression by his "the room" feel the behavior, the nature of the instruments created but no longer in doubt, this is a wonderful invention which its authors can be legitimately very proud!

In short, there is still work, but I am sure this software is now that we must choose!

This is more a testimony that a detailed opinion ... With AF, I downloaded the demo Pianotek 2, it has been two days since I tirelessly taps. I am simply amazed by the result! This software sets the stage for the wildest dreams: the realism, flexibility, control samples without lours!

I had not been sufficiently excited by the dedicated soft type or Native Steinberg to invest. I find the sound of the Steinway and Yamaha Logic quite realistic, however, defects still appear significant: dynamics capricious, lack of sympathetic resonance, too soft or too settled, etc.. Add to this the weight makes crazy my PowerBook.

PianoTek with the revolution! The sound is very balanced across the keyboard, the computer does not crash, polyphony is generous, the settings are very impressive, it is understandable with a lot of us souplessse the piano is. Standalone, small recorder is a good idea to jot down ideas. The headphone is beautiful!

Finally, to get better, there is the acoustic piano (not any).

Congratulations! The app of the year in my opinion.

I used the demo to compare Pianoteq2 my Yamaha P140 (which is good without being a killer).
I begin with what I like: having modeled a piano (no samples). One can acknowledge this work and the low weight of this app. Many régléages but do not change much (notably the eq which is useless).
And then we come to what I dislike:
Sound, simply, very sour (especially the octave 4), with no real depth and emotion. I do not understand the aficionados of this app. Akoustic the grand piano and do not have to worry about for now.
In addition there was no need to do a test of 10 pages for so little. Especially in view of the tester notes which I find greatly exaggerated.
But I hope that we will deliver Modartt persist and in some years more realistic modeling. it must be a beginning to everything.
I put 5 / 10 for the ambition of this app.

I downloaded the demo, and I use it for a week. I am trained pianist, and I always hated playing on synthesizer with piano sounds. I thought it was due in part to touch the keyboard ...

Now I'm in heaven! I understand people who post negative reviews here: one must have the patience to make fine adjustments so that the sound is well suited to the acoustics of the room, the speakers ... But above all to his liking! It's amazing how everyone has a very personal concept of how a piano should sound (see the discussions in the forum). We must also think that the sound from the speakers can hardly mimic the one that comes out of the trunk of a real piano.

Here, the feeling of the game is fantastic: I do not mean the sound of a perspective "sample", but the feeling of the game I can finally play classic without blushing, expressiveness permitted by this software is impressive. We can afford to recreate the sound effects of a real piano, so much so that I found fun to play on my midi controller!

To say that it sounds like a sound card is unfair: I own a Roland digital piano of good quality (the high-end homes), and I use it as a controller for Pianoteq, and there is no picture: Pianoteq is much higher, even in terms of its simple, you see the difference with his eyes closed from the first note pressed. So no, no, no it sounds very well, review the settings.

But I agree that the price is too high, paying € 250 to 8MB, it hurts. Just on principle because it's stupid, I thought € 250 was a normal price for 10 GB of samples of piano! But after listening to the mp3 sites, I think the Pianoteq outperforms in terms of rendering. That said, I agree with some users that if there is an improvement, it will be on the part of the attack with a high velocity in the midrange or bass (the highs are very good), but very correct in my opinion. I think I'll buy it, just wait the end!

Ha, too, for the CPU: I'm on a Mac with a Core Duo at 2Ghz, and normal, it consumes between 10 and 20% of CPU. If I press the pedal a long time to keep all the resonances in As, it's not up to 30-45%, so anything I find very greedy. And of course all that disk space ...

I used the Black and Grand Sampletekk of the Akoustik Piano.
For three months, I bought the Pianoteq. And since 3 months I no longer use the other pianos.

Other piano sounds are probably best in the ruffed and sharp, but they are also much less alive.

And most importantly, Pianoteq is lightweight: trs boot faster, lower latency, much better polyphony.

Ngatifs points: the piano sound is not as varied as what one might expect from a physical modlisation (when a real piano right?). The harpsichord is preset got my abominable. And lack of a better quality rverb (I'd like to be that of the "studio" in Akoustik Piano).

PS: I am republishing this opinion because I had published a much more STRID about the first version of Pianoteq. Highly version 3!

I use Pianoteq for 1 year after testing the demo, no keyboard, only from the computer (HP Pavilion Laptop 1.3 Ghz). As a neophyte and living in Jordan, away from opportunities our country, I'm beginning to gather gallery at first and then run it all.
Slowly I gathered the material ad hoc ie not bulky, robust and powerful!
I use Pianoteq with 1 keyboard KORG SP 250, an interface EDIROL UM-1, an external sound card Echo Indigo PCMCIA Type I / O (no noticeable latency).
I use the Korg audio (but it has no audio input, I had to add one for a small intervention in the device. The input signals are readily identifiable and retrievable only output potentiometers for volume).
Once all well versed on the side gear, big disappointment! Sounds mid / high metallic sound very artificial and not at all similar to the sounds that I tested on headphones with the demo version. I tested all kinds of combination, I wrote to Pianoteq (immediate, warm (thanks Julian!) And accurate) but nothing to do, its always the damn unpleasant to the point, tired, I preferred to return to Piano 2 (bank 2) of the Korg, far superior and realistic.
Until one day, wondering about the exceptional quality of his Korg and the impossibility to reproduce with Pianoteq (which is a shame given the large number of parameters and combinations that can generate infinite) I noticed that unison is set large enough, certainly much more "measured" in the presets of Pianoteq. I run on my computer, substantially increases the parameter unison and miraculously, the sound is more metallic or artificial but very alive! I do not know why this setting I had missed yet visible (there are too many settings for a beginner and you get lost, affecting everything to chance!) I have since changed course many other parameters but, I repeat, this parameter is critical to the starting point settings (using presets). Then it's matter of taste and trial and error and ... patience.
Now I have one (of!) Piano for my taste with which I really really enjoy.
Some find the price to pay 245 euros for a small software! Obviously it depends on the budget of each but I think it's small price to pay for a product so great and so promising for what will become of it after being qques years already so efficient small!

(Originally written by Seith/translated from Audiofanzine FR)
I just bought this virtual instrument without previously testing it.

The application is small, the installation very simple and the setting very quick.

I previously tested Grand 2, Akoustik Piano, Ivory, Boesendorfer 290.

The value for money could be better: the price is high for 15 MB...

Yes, I wouldn't hesitate it because the sound is awesome. In my opinion, it sounds much better than all other products previously mentioned, but I'm not a purist so I don't play with my ears directly in front of the speakers to know if blablabla... It sounds excellent in a mix, much better than the Boesendorfer or the Grand (although Ivory is really something for purists!). Pianoteq is a very good piano software, much better than most hardware digital pianos...