Topic: Selling Pianoteq 9 Standard ($200) License transfer cost included
Selling Pianoteq 9 Standard ($200) License transfer cost included
Steinway D, Electric, K2
I am in the U.S..
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sold!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Selling Pianoteq 9 Standard ($200) License transfer cost included
Steinway D, Electric, K2
I am in the U.S..
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I leaned on a lot of online advice to dial in settings that seemed better than Pianoteq’s defaults. No matter what I changed, I kept hearing a harsh, metallic tone around middle C. I really tried to make it work. As an engineer, I assumed I’d eventually get it to a good enough place, but that metallic character never went away.
I use a Roland FP-10, and I think it sounds very good. I bought Pianoteq mainly to expand my instrument options and use the FP-10 as a MIDI controller. The FP-10 is a great MIDI source, but in my experience Pianoteq just did not deliver the sound I expected. I ended up selling it and will be much more cautious with future virtual instrument purchases.
If anyone wants to say I should have spent more time with the demo first, that is fair. I am not sure whether the demo includes all the same adjustments as the Standard version, but based on so many glowing reviews, I expected to be impressed. Unfortunately, I was not able to find a sound I liked, even after a lot of tweaking (hours).
What surprises me is that the Roland is also a virtual instrument, yet it sounds much more pleasing to me. I expected Pianoteq to at least match it and ideally beat it, but for me it was not even close.
That said, if anyone has recommendations for other virtual pianos, I would love to hear them. 'll be using my iPhone with the Roland for my playing sessions.
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IamSellingMyLicense wrote:
I leaned on a lot of online advice to dial in settings that seemed better than Pianoteq’s defaults. No matter what I changed, I kept hearing a harsh, metallic tone around middle C. I really tried to make it work. As an engineer, I assumed I’d eventually get it to a good enough place, but that metallic character never went away.
I use a Roland FP-10, and I think it sounds very good. I bought Pianoteq mainly to expand my instrument options and use the FP-10 as a MIDI controller. The FP-10 is a great MIDI source, but in my experience Pianoteq just did not deliver the sound I expected. I ended up selling it and will be much more cautious with future virtual instrument purchases.
If anyone wants to say I should have spent more time with the demo first, that is fair. I am not sure whether the demo includes all the same adjustments as the Standard version, but based on so many glowing reviews, I expected to be impressed. Unfortunately, I was not able to find a sound I liked, even after a lot of tweaking (hours).
What surprises me is that the Roland is also a virtual instrument, yet it sounds much more pleasing to me. I expected Pianoteq to at least match it and ideally beat it, but for me it was not even close.
That said, if anyone has recommendations for other virtual pianos, I would love to hear them. 'll be using my iPhone with the Roland for my playing sessions.
hmmm. Just thinking and making an analogy . Imagine you go a used car shop and you buy a used Chevy after the seller told you how good was the car and after a week , you read in the car seller blog ‘ I finally got rid of this crappy Chevy ‘ how would you feel about it . I am criticising your personal view on pianoteq , but rather the ethic of sales as an individual seller . Should you made this rationale clear in the first sales post , that would have been totally fair . But posting such comments after securing the sale is a bit dodgy and as a buyer I would be a bit upset …. If you have shared your opinion with the buyer in your private discussion with him, then consider my reply as irrelevant. The thing is that buyers abd sellers here share a common passion : music and one would hope that this community doesn’t take the car buy/sell market as a raw model ….