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A  video encouraged me to buy the Pianoteq combo (Ant Petrof 275 + Petrof 284). I must say that the fidelity of the reproduction is impressive, and that after spending an entire day with these two pianos, I feel the same impressions as the author of this video. I admit to having a weakness for the Petrof 284 Grand Piano; the sound is enormous and I have rarely seen such a 'singing' piano. Hard to explain in words. Bravo Modarrt, it is truly a masterpiece and I guess the collaboration with the Petrof team and the special audio acoustic  conditions of the recording process to refine the model is behind the top quality of this preset .

https://youtu.be/k-Oi0KbSabM?si=69XM-yXn0S9hpwsR

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That was great! For anyone unaware of how the reference samples were collected, this is pretty interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm2-WPUr6P8

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joannchr wrote:

A  video encouraged me to buy the Pianoteq combo (Ant Petrof 275 + Petrof 284). I must say that the fidelity of the reproduction is impressive, and that after spending an entire day with these two pianos, I feel the same impressions as the author of this video. I admit to having a weakness for the Petrof 284 Grand Piano; the sound is enormous and I have rarely seen such a 'singing' piano. Hard to explain in words. Bravo Modarrt, it is truly a masterpiece and I guess the collaboration with the Petrof team and the special audio acoustic  conditions of the recording process to refine the model is behind the top quality of this preset .

https://youtu.be/k-Oi0KbSabM?si=69XM-yXn0S9hpwsR

Hello joannchr

How are you finding the two Petrofs now? Are you still enjoying them?

I'm scouting around for an additional piano instrument pack to supplement the Steinway Model D pianos that I have, hence was considering the Bechstein, Blüthner and Petrof packs. I liked the Petrof most of all because the notes have a nice "focussed" quality about them. How did you find this piano compared to the demo samples - did you have to mess around with EQ, hammer hardness and parameters like that to recreate the sound, or did it sound more or less the same out of the box?

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1MuddyDog wrote:
joannchr wrote:

A  video encouraged me to buy the Pianoteq combo (Ant Petrof 275 + Petrof 284). I must say that the fidelity of the reproduction is impressive, and that after spending an entire day with these two pianos, I feel the same impressions as the author of this video. I admit to having a weakness for the Petrof 284 Grand Piano; the sound is enormous and I have rarely seen such a 'singing' piano. Hard to explain in words. Bravo Modarrt, it is truly a masterpiece and I guess the collaboration with the Petrof team and the special audio acoustic  conditions of the recording process to refine the model is behind the top quality of this preset .

https://youtu.be/k-Oi0KbSabM?si=69XM-yXn0S9hpwsR

Hello joannchr

How are you finding the two Petrofs now? Are you still enjoying them?

I'm scouting around for an additional piano instrument pack to supplement the Steinway Model D pianos that I have, hence was considering the Bechstein, Blüthner and Petrof packs. I liked the Petrof most of all because the notes have a nice "focussed" quality about them. How did you find this piano compared to the demo samples - did you have to mess around with EQ, hammer hardness and parameters like that to recreate the sound, or did it sound more or less the same out of the box?

Yes  I am still enjoying them. My 2 favourite instruments are the Petrof and the Bechstein. The Petrof sounds like the demo out of the box and I only adjusted the velocity curve/volume/dynamics/hammers  , but these are minimal adjustments, I use primarily the classical recording preset. When I want to have a more 'after midnight ' sound I just add a bit of Celeste pedal with a minimum effect ( 0,1-0.15)  . With the Bechstein, I created my own preset with personalised pair of 2 mics in a space/close position with reduced hammer hardness for  forte and mezzo.

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joannchr wrote:

Yes  I am still enjoying them. My 2 favourite instruments are the Petrof and the Bechstein. The Petrof sounds like the demo out of the box and I only adjusted the velocity curve/volume/dynamics/hammers  , but these are minimal adjustments, I use primarily the classical recording preset. When I want to have a more 'after midnight ' sound I just add a bit of Celeste pedal with a minimum effect ( 0,1-0.15)  . With the Bechstein, I created my own preset with personalised pair of 2 mics in a space/close position with reduced hammer hardness for  forte and mezzo.

Hi joannchr,

Thanks very much for your reply. Haha I'm afraid I only have the Stage version so I can't make many of the changes you mention above .

And thank you also to @miiindbullets for the video clip - it was really interesting to watch from an engineering perspective!

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The Petrofs are really nice. You wouldn't be disappointed if you'd go with these two.

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1MuddyDog wrote:
joannchr wrote:

Yes  I am still enjoying them. My 2 favourite instruments are the Petrof and the Bechstein. The Petrof sounds like the demo out of the box and I only adjusted the velocity curve/volume/dynamics/hammers  , but these are minimal adjustments, I use primarily the classical recording preset. When I want to have a more 'after midnight ' sound I just add a bit of Celeste pedal with a minimum effect ( 0,1-0.15)  . With the Bechstein, I created my own preset with personalised pair of 2 mics in a space/close position with reduced hammer hardness for  forte and mezzo.

Hi joannchr,

Thanks very much for your reply. Haha I'm afraid I only have the Stage version so I can't make many of the changes you mention above .

And thank you also to @miiindbullets for the video clip - it was really interesting to watch from an engineering perspective!

Not to worry , both Petrof flavours sound  good out the box anyway .