#REVIEW OF PIANOTEQ 6 SOFTWARE#

Then I could always later think about using a software piano. If money wasn't an issue, I'd probably bought the V-Piano anyway. So I went over to the V-Piano and tested it against Pianoteq, and while the V-Piano had something Pianoteq doesn't have, something to do with the ambience, hard to explain, the Pianoteq tone was actually a step up from the V-Piano (V-Piano Evolution vs. It felt good! It felt like a piano, and with the PHA-II keybed, a much better one than my trusty achoustic upright at home. It took a bit of tweaking with the presets and velocity curves, but I was really surprised at the result. However, armed with a laptop and my new-found knowledge that real-time playing is different I went to the shop again two weekends ago and tested Pianoteq on a Roland LX-10. I have been sending MIDI files from the e-Piano competition through Pianoteq, but always found the tone lacking at some point. But instead I went home and considered Pianoteq again. If Roland hadn't been so aggresive with the price, they'd probably made a sale. I think it makes a big difference when you're thump'ing the keys live compared to listening to a recording.

Now, I spent some time listening to the tone of the V-Piano this time and while it's not as good as a sample, it really didn't matter as much to me when actually playing it. Next thing I knew, a sales guy interrupted me because the shop was closing, I'd spent almost an hour on the V-Piano.

I thought that maybe I was just too negative about the digital world, so I went over to the V-Piano on display and tried that.ДЄnd it was like night and day. After more than an hour, I was really down. At the place in the Waldstein sonata where the big octaves are ringing and the piano is supposed to sing, it just died between my hands. It left me with the same bad feeling as the HP-207 did last year. How did it sound? Roland has obviously upped themselves, the new tweakability and incorporated noises are nice.Д«ut still, I was disappointed. I played the HP-307 for more than an hour. And these are really personal opinions, we're all obviously sensitive to different things. Some background - I tested the pianos with classical pieces only and head phones. Last year I concluded that V-Piano might be good enough, none of the other digitals I tried at that time felt good enough, and I haven't heard any demos online either since that could convince me. I went out and tried the new HP-307 three weekends ago to see if it really had incorporated some of the nice features of the V-Piano. I'm not sure I can contribute new observations to the old rats here, but I thought I'd write up my impressions so far anyway.

Review of pianoteq 6