Modartt Pianoteq 5 Stage

I tried this v5 this week and I fell for the Internship release.

This plugin is excellent, almost flawless. Not a single bug (actually, there was one in which the AU version does not work internship with VEP5, and I have not even had time noticing that it was already set to 5.0.1 Bravo .

Sound quality that now competes with sample banks already (I EW QL Pianos bank which still 175Go!), I tested the previous versions and I had not been totally convinced, musicality the quality of banks (not just acoustic piano) and features (see below) eventually seduce me.

Although still qq micro details that are not totally jokingly say that for me it verges on 99% of realism.
(1% is in quibble on the middle octave pedal off only in that on or simple staccato chords which sometimes sound a little harpsichord (ie plucked rather than struck strings), musicality and dynamic (not only testing the demos I have a good answer 10aine ideas): this is not an ordinary piano simulation but a real musical instrument.

For features, everything is super well thought out (except maybe the choice of some keyboard shortcuts to switch banks or presets): MIDI Learn, management optional banks (installation, can hide the demos), integrated effects quality tweaking of any kind (for normal versions, but also for the Pro Training Version), numerous and functional factory preset. The Stage version is affordable but is not a cheap version already delight many musicians (who are not necessarily technician / piano maker).

The killer feature: the ability to age any model piano (Mint = fresh as a roach = Worn threadbare)

As a bonus, the standalone version, a small MIDI recorder. Ca not look but it is controllable via MMC (or any MIDI controller via MIDI Learn), but mostly it records all incoming MIDI sequences in history (with the possibility to save MIDI file). The icing on the cake because it is the function I'm looking for years and only 1 synth in the world (Ensoniq) moved record MIDI in background.

I also loved as the other banks (electric piano, clavinet, vibraphone, celesta, marimba, etc.) and therefore difficult to choose the two banks choose to buy (I still took 2 piano D4 K2 and basic).

For the consolidated CPU, I have not tried with an old computer, or on projects loaded but with my i7 quad core (macmini 2012) no problem (buffer @ 128 or 256 samples / Fs @ 44.1 kHz).