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Nrenier
Published on 06/02/07 at 17:23
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 ...
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 ...