Well I'd be stunned if someone at Pianoteq is not actively pursuing this by now.
The Pianoteq codebase is already modular enough to build for both Mac and Windows. This thread is ongoing for 5+ years. iOS devices are ridiculously powerful now in the year 2019.

For me, a laptop is maddeningly clunky to work alongside a MIDI controller keyboard. It probably will be this way unless you've built an entire studio around your piano setup. An iPad is so much more comfortable and fun to work with. It just sits on top of your MIDI keyboard without getting in the way.

Really, the hard part would be porting the UI to work nice on a touch screen. And maybe the JUCE guys have taken care of that already...

I don't think the BIG problem is "technical".
Code is code, is code, etc.
Decades ago we had  "binary to source" interpreters/translators to help recover code that we no longer had original source for.
Hackers have exploited that, but Decompile/recompile is not needed here

I think there is great reluctance to joining the "race to the bottom", i.e. Standard PTQ had an entry price of ~$300,
Stage has halved that (Original intro price $99 IIRC)
The Tablet market is at a different price layer.

OK, so the performance is there and at an attractive hardware price, so is the convenience.
I just don't see Modartt wanting to take PTQ to a sub $10 marketplace, though I would probably jump on it.
Pianoteq Pro on a tablet for $50 ?  Sure, gimme that.
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Fleer wrote:

Chris64 wrote:

Hi,
I understand from reading the posts that this is quite a passionate subject.
If anyone is looking for a relatively cheap and very good (in my opinion) piano for IOS
then please have a look at Ravenscroft 275 (£35.U.K.).
I have the P.C. version and it's every bit as good as my any of the Pianoteq Stage voices.
Chris

And watch out for a sale. It sometimes goes half price.

I think it is more like $200 in the USA.

Another proprietary "platform" that is fairly expensive to buy initially with only 4 or 5 instruments available.

The iPad version is $40 or half that at sales.
I got the Mac version too and love it, even though it indeed resides on the UVI platform. The platform workstation itself is nice and free (like Kontakt Player).

Chris64 wrote:

Hi,
I understand from reading the posts that this is quite a passionate subject.
If anyone is looking for a relatively cheap and very good (in my opinion) piano for IOS
then please have a look at Ravenscroft 275 (£35.U.K.).
I have the P.C. version and it's every bit as good as my any of the Pianoteq Stage voices.
Chris

And watch out for a sale. It sometimes goes half price.

I think it is more like $200 in the USA.

Another proprietary "platform" that is fairly expensive to buy initially with only 4 or 5 instruments available.

Hi,
I understand from reading the posts that this is quite a passionate subject.
If anyone is looking for a relatively cheap and very good (in my opinion) piano for IOS
then please have a look at Ravenscroft 275 (£35.U.K.).
I have the P.C. version and it's every bit as good as my any of the Pianoteq Stage voices.
Chris

And watch out for a sale. It sometimes goes half price.

For me, a laptop is maddeningly clunky to work alongside a MIDI controller keyboard. It probably will be this way unless you've built an entire studio around your piano setup. An iPad is so much more comfortable and fun to work with. It just sits on top of your MIDI keyboard without getting in the way.

Really, the hard part would be porting the UI to work nice on a touch screen. And maybe the JUCE guys have taken care of that already...

My mate used JUCE to program the ios app Spacecraft Granular which is awesome by the way.

The only A9X benchmark that seems relevant to Pianoteq is this one:

This is the physics-only portion of a game engine which usually is simulations and modelling of the real world.  And for "these" types of calculations, the A9X lags even behind Bay Trail Atoms.  I have no idea what Intel model numbers mean (and no interest in looking them up) but the Intel Cores stuffed in low-power devices are 2x-3x faster than the A9X in this benchmark.  (Never mind the high-power devices we have in our PCs and laptops.)

The iPad Pro 2018 has a score of 39,068 in this benchmark

https://benchmarks.ul.com/hardware/tabl...18)+review