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Topic: Looking at Pianoteq Stage for church and home use

I need to get two church pianos ( old MIDI keyboards) sounding closer to like a real piano. At home I have the MP6 and have downloaded the demos of Pianissimo ( not working very well) and Pianoteq Stage ( seamless) and am liking very much what I am hearing from Pianoteq. If I pay for this thing how do I later get to the C Bechstein sounds for my home use ? This is loaded on my own laptop, I will go to the churches with my laptop vs bringing my MP6. One church has a sound system already, the other I will bring a sub and speakers. It's just that both pianos are old midi pianos and sound lousy with the onboard sounds. Any Pianoteq piano will be better and less expensive than a module. So the D4 or K2 sounds will due fine in that case/those cases.

Anyway, back to the C Bechstein. Do I have to upgrade this Stage version or can I add on another sound and what one is the C Bechstein located in ? The Bluthner sounds are great too incidentally.

Oh and incidentally I'm new here ( obviously). So hi !

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Re: Looking at Pianoteq Stage for church and home use

Welcome.

Pianoteq Stage works with any of the instrument packs, as well as all the presets built into those packs. C Bechstein is part of Kremsegg 2, so you would need to purchase that.

There's no need to upgrade just to use instrument packs. The main limitation of Stage is you can't customise the built-in presets.

If you decide to buy Pianoteq it would also be worth checking out the free KIViR historical instruments (https://www.pianoteq.com/free_stuff). I don't think those are available with the demo, but they are with Stage. Some of those are extremely good - I particularly like the Pleyel though your mileage may vary.

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Re: Looking at Pianoteq Stage for church and home use

spfenwick wrote:

Welcome.

Pianoteq Stage works with any of the instrument packs, as well as all the presets built into those packs. C Bechstein is part of Kremsegg 2, so you would need to purchase that.

There's no need to upgrade just to use instrument packs. The main limitation of Stage is you can't customise the built-in presets.

If you decide to buy Pianoteq it would also be worth checking out the free KIViR historical instruments (https://www.pianoteq.com/free_stuff). I don't think those are available with the demo, but they are with Stage. Some of those are extremely good - I particularly like the Pleyel though your mileage may vary.

Thanks so much for the quick answer ! That's great, nice. Ya I think I'm going for Pianoteq, I had hopes of Pianiossimo working better than it does. Pianissimo has latency issues and I can't get the driver to respond well. Pianoteq is better thought out, no latency, great sounds and if I want to teak later I will just upgrade. Thanks again !

Oh one more thing, is there a way to purchase Stage from the program or do I go online, they email a code or how does this work ?

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Re: Looking at Pianoteq Stage for church and home use

From here:

https://pianoteq.com/buy

Ian (Stage 5 + Bluethner user)

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Re: Looking at Pianoteq Stage for church and home use

Beemer wrote:

From here:

https://pianoteq.com/buy

Ian (Stage 5 + Bluethner user)

Yes thank you. I figured it out early this morning. I now own Pianoteq 5 Stage. And there are plenty of controls there to keep me going for quite some time FWIW. Sounds absolutely beautiful through my sub and Adam Audio Monitors!

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Re: Looking at Pianoteq Stage for church and home use

Ok so now I have a few piano presets customized to my liking using my MP6 as controller. Lets say now I plug in a Yamaha or Korg MIDI keyboard, same sound system etc. What could I expect to happen ? Will they work somewhat the same or be nightmares to get set up ? I mean within Pianoteq. The MP6 was such a breeze, not sure about those older keyboards and how Pianoteq may respond to them.