Topic by mcihelka

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Topic: High-polyphony offline render possible on budget laptop?

Hi everyone,

To date I've been using Pianoteq on a powerful desktop i7 CPU, and I've been able to enjoy flawless real-time 256-note polyphony.

Now I need to take Pianoteq on the road, for which I intend to obtain an older budget laptop at a really good price. No doubt polyphony will suffer, but that's OK for real-time playing.  However, when I'm done with real-time playing, I'd like to be able to "offline render" (aka. export, bounce, whatever it may be called) my work at the highest quality, 256-note polyphony.

Does Pianoteq support this kind of non-real-time rendering?  Specifically, I'm using the Pianoteq VSTi with Reaper sequencer.

Last edited by mcihelka (05-11-2015 02:07)

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Re: High-polyphony offline render possible on budget laptop?

Just save the MIDI file(s) of your live performance and re-render afterward on your powerful machine. The full 256-note polyphony will be recreated on the more powerful computer and can be exported as wav.

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Re: High-polyphony offline render possible on budget laptop?

Thanks Gilles, this is something I've considered but, because I may be away from my desktop for days (or even weeks) at a time, I need to be able to render using the laptop.

Even if I do find an alternative solution (e.g. take a desktop PC with me lol), it would be good to know if Pianoteq supports high-polyphony offline rendering on weak CPUs.  Then I can make a properly informed decision ;-)

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Re: High-polyphony offline render possible on budget laptop?

Yes. Use whatever polyphony you want for offline render. Reaper will use as much CPU as necessary to render it all - if there are cases where more CPU is needed, that just means the offline render will need more time to complete, but it will work.

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Re: High-polyphony offline render possible on budget laptop?

Awesome, exactly what I was hoping for!