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Sounds lovely and rich to my ears.

Stop hacking the site. LMAO!
I had lost my hopes of seeing a Bosendorfer in Pianoteq so I am beyond happy this is actually happening.

Wheeeeee! It's available

So... first impressions:

Very positive indeed. This piano has the precision and clarity of the Steingraeber, but there is some character in the sound there, a bit of warmth, and something swirly going on which gives it a very attractive tone.

The bass - which I suspect Modartt really want to show off judging by the two Youtube review videos out there at the moment - is easily the best sounding of any Pianoteq model by some margin. At higher velocities, you can still tell that it's PTQ, but when played between PP and MF, it's got a beautiful rumbly quality.

I really like this one a lot.

https://youtu.be/2xx9G7gRv4M?si=ZlIdLkkggjkOJV-2

https://youtu.be/YX-3y7zKXAA?si=CRD9qB3rJ3bMTyp3

And the great Phil Best:  https://youtu.be/sbZhiUoH5jM?si=Uc5is3C6iIbMdMPx

Bravo... Et le khon je l'ai bien reconnu !...

The attack velocity sounds far too hard.

Bucket loads in the original with much softer attack. Perhaps adjusting microphone positioning could help.

Edit personally out of the box I found the hammer hardness when played softly seemed unrealistically hard on the model - not enough variation in the sound of the attack at different velocity levels, making it sound too synthetic to me. I reduced this a little and to my amateur ears more like a real Piano. I then brought a little brightness back with a slight tweak to the EQ.

For this model I'm glad I've got Standard
rather than just Stage. I'm sure they will refine the tuning though. This model sounds superb, I was just a little bit surprised not like the sound from the presets without tweaking. Could just be me. That growling bass is great.
This 280vc  is an excellent addition. I'm sure we'll hear lots of tweaks in the FXP section soon.

Anyone knows when 8.3 is availible for the iPad?

It wasn't there when I wrote. It became available in the middle of the night in Europe. Its a bit confusing for iPad users when modarrt announces a new update is ready for download and its not there on the app store. Its not a big deal ofc.

Thanks for the input and the mp3
  :-)

I presume the 280VC have longer sustein and ressonances as it's longer than the model in the video.

Should the moddeled version have louder ressonances?
Or was the small room reverberation, in the video, adding extra loudness to it?

I'm not fully satisfied with my own efforts yet either, but nonetheless it's an excellent model - one of the best. I can almost entirely reduce that subtle Pianoteq synthetic cleanliness, but then it sounds slightly less like the specific target model too - and loses a little of the thunderous crisp bass authority. Trying to reach a happy medium - without bringing back too much hardness (the model compared to the real thing).
If I upgraded to Pro I think I would drive myself mad with all the extra adjustments potential!

Mainly listening with the warm and the classical presets. I've adjusted the classical hammers down on all three sliders. Then I used EQ to bring back some of the brightness. I also adjusted the reverb and moved the microphone positioning to bring back a little life the softer hammer positioning brought.

Don't get me wrong I think it's brilliant out of the box. Just also a little too brilliant in places. I seem to be the only one saying this. So I could be very wrong!

I am very happy with this excellent addition to Pianoteq.

At last!! thankyou Modartt! A concert grand.. A battleship Boesendorfer.
Seems to me, it sounds even more detailed, coherent, full, balanced
compared to the general profound prior overhaul in the remarkable 8.20 update.
Superb bass, exhilarating(the best of all previous CGs, maybe). Excellent Modartt..
High registers really authentic-woody. The harshtone has been greatly eliminated(with a little tweaking).
Midrange-Achilles' heel for many all these years, very acceptable, nearing the real thing nuances.
My advice, great care in testing the microphones positioning, phasing etc!
I tend to use external reverbs almost exclusively, bytheway.No offence Modartt!
Pianoteq(Pro) with the possibilities it offers in tweaking-shaping(sensibly) the behaviour of the pianos,
is now at very close proximity tothe top of pianosound in the majorityof instruments(not yet all of the pianos!)
Truly remarkable feeling both when practicing or in live performance!