Mossy wrote:

Are Studio Bundle owners supposed to have this Bechstein also? My User Area shows it as one of my instruments but Pianoteq still shows it as a demo instrument.

Maybe you need to Update your License inside the Program:
"In Pianoteq, update your licence activation by clicking on "Help", "About" and "Update licence" (don't use the instrument serial, just keep your current Pianoteq serial)."

Thanks. This did it.

Are Studio Bundle owners supposed to have this Bechstein also? My User Area shows it as one of my instruments but Pianoteq still shows it as a demo instrument.

Maybe you need to Update your License inside the Program:
"In Pianoteq, update your licence activation by clicking on "Help", "About" and "Update licence" (don't use the instrument serial, just keep your current Pianoteq serial)."

Just bought the Bechstein... Lord, what a sublimely magnificent instrument! It's truly unbelievable how a digital compilation of bits and bytes transforms my rather cheap M-Audio 88es in such a way that it somehow even feels different in a tactile sense compared to the other two (excellent) Pianoteq pianos I have. I especially love the "Sweet", "D 282", and "Snappy" presets, they are so inspiring for improvs. It feels like I can just randomly hit any combo of keys and the nuances of the sound and the sympathetic resonances suddenly turn it into a full composition in my head...

Well said...really great for improvs and does make some ...ok all ...  chords sound great and more musical and rich.

The Pianoteq team has modeled so many outstanding pianos to choose from, and everyone has personal preferences in general or for different types of music or moods. To me the C. Bechstein DG seems so close to ideal in every respect I can think of, that I find myself hoping that the Pianoteq team will not substantially change the model in future releases or do more than minor revoicing, which hardly seems necessary.

Yep, they nailed it with this Bechstein.

The Pianoteq C. Bechstein DG is a wonderful piano, very well balanced across the entire range with clear articulation.

I completely agree.  I am so regretting not taking advantage of the offer.  Next time.

I had been traveling, so I hadn't been able to try the Bechstein on my good speakers and computer setup at home until yesterday.

Thank you so much Pianoteq team for this great piano model.

Have been introduced to Ravel, since I was a junior high school student.  Today I feel no music composer has impressed me more than he!  Though, he seemed to disliked the term impressionism.  Music by Maurice Ravel sounds sometimes syncopated, startling, and percussive to me, a drummer firstly. 

Maurice Ravel did compose at a percussion instrument, a piano which was manufactured by one C. Bechstein.

C. Bechstein’s piano, and Modarrt’s model, appears suitable for the experimental, for the avant-garde, for jazz!

just as a side historical note and in no way intended as a knock against Pianoteq's lovely Bechstein, though Ravel (as with most of the great composer-pianists) lent his name to a variety of piano manufacturers such as Bechstein, the instrument he kept at home in Le Belvédère (Montfort-l’Amaury) from '21 until his death in '37 was actually an Érard (an instrument which he seems to have preferred throughout his life for its many virtues, including its being straight-strung)... so, if you're into Ravel then I'd politely suggest that perhaps the instrument one might really benefit from is this one (and which I heartily wish Modartt would give some continuing love to as they've been doing with the other instruments in the stable—such as the recent revoicing of the Steinways... it certainly warrants it).  'would also highly recommend Giacometti's recording of Ravel played on both a Steinway and an Érard so as to be able to compare the sonority of his music on both instruments ==>  https://www.amazon.com/Ravel-Compared-E...B008S87SV0 ... to my ear, the Érard takes pride of place hands down!   

edit & PS: while Grieg too lent his name to Bechstein, his home instrument from 1892 on (now at the Edvard Grieg Museum in Troldhaugen) was in fact a Steinway (which is why I, for instance, opted to use a Steinway for my little bit of slapdash Grieg recording here ==> https://www.forum-pianoteq.com/viewtopic.php?id=6196 ).

Maurice Ravel did compose at a percussion instrument, a piano which was manufactured by one C. Bechstein.

C. Bechstein’s piano, and Modarrt’s model, appears suitable for the experimental, for the avant-garde, for jazz!

That's interesting.
Do you mind I make a suggestion?

What about blend both Bechstein pianos, the vintage model from Kremseqq and the new Grand D 282 ?

Thanks for the suggestion!

Combining the two doesn't really add anything. The two are sufficiently different that when you add them together it doesn't sound like a Bechstein anymore. It sounds rounder and fatter.

What about blend both Bechstein pianos, the vintage model from Kremseqq and the new Grand D 282 ?