Hi...i am a new user here. I still give the edge to Lounge Lizard as they include a Mark V and some other unnamed electric pianos, but at $199 for Lounge Lizard vs. $59 for Pianoteq - I was sold.I'm not an audiophile, but I can hear quality, and both companies make a great electric piano that fool my ears completely. I have a Yamaha PSR-S970 that has a whole bank of electric pianos. It's a $1700 keyboard, and the electric pianos sound great - but these modeled EP's have nuances that you can't get with Yamaha's samples.

Applied Acoustics have some interesting models, particularly Chromaphone and Lounge Lizard.
You can get them at half price regularly. For electrics, I love them both, Pianoteq as well as AAS.
Yet for acoustic piano models, Pianoteq rules at quite a distance.

There is so much potential in each of the Pianoteq acoustic and electric piano models, when provided with all of the controls and modifications possible within PTQ, as demonstrated in the huge number of contributed FXP files. IMHO, most of the head-to-head comparison reviews of PTQ vs sampled or modeled instruments from other creators are misleading.  They often seem to only compare supplied presets from each source, ignoring that the quality or feature being compared is not fixed, but easily adjustable within PTQ. For example, I've seen reviews that critique the PTQ Rhodes models in comparison to a competitor with regard to the accuracy of the bark dynamics in a certain octave compared to a sampled instrument from another vendor, something easily adjusted within PTQ.

Thanks, Piet, for your contributions!

( and now, Piet, as I read the descriptions, attributing each to Raush or Modartt, I don't know if any of the descriptions have meaning for each of your creations/modifications)

Regarding uploading files, they should be uploaded as FXP if they are FXP (and they are), so... they need to go one by one to FXP corner!

Anyway, I uploaded Piet's MKII presets to my Dropbox account, and have the link printed here.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/o2nno37edu6ym...s.zip?dl=0

David

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http://users.telenet.be/deridderpiet.be...Sounds.mp3
ZIP-file with the 14 fxp-files: http://users.telenet.be/deridderpiet.be...Sounds.zip

(*) 14 instances of Pianoteq (all loaded with the MkII model) in a Logic session. Apart from some EQ and a bit of compression/limiting on the MasterOut, there is no third party processing used here, all the sounds were created entirely inside Pianoteq.

Hello, Piet!

Could you perhaps reupload this example and FXPs? I wanted to showcase in your stead what Pianoteq could do when pushed out of the left field, which you did there (in a KvR thread here: https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopi...p6677713), alas I found these files are not online anymore...

Thanks!

In a good way

Beaky,

Here are a few 'other' sounds, all made with the MkII and nothing else (*)

Hey Piet,
that is total genius!
(but do they let you out on your own? )

Here are a few 'other' sounds, all made with the MkII and nothing else (*). Not sure if these are all that useful per se, but they might suggest some ideas when exploring the possibilities of the software and the MkII-model.

http://users.telenet.be/deridderpiet.be...Sounds.mp3
ZIP-file with the 14 fxp-files: http://users.telenet.be/deridderpiet.be...Sounds.zip

(*) 14 instances of Pianoteq (all loaded with the MkII model) in a Logic session. Apart from some EQ and a bit of compression/limiting on the MasterOut, there is no third party processing used here, all the sounds were created entirely inside Pianoteq.

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