If your intent is selecting from a list of default presets, then Pianoteq 6 Stage is fine for you. The Stage version completely capable of providing you with many years worth of music making!
Since you stated you don't tinker with the sound other than adjusting velocity sensitivity, the Stage version should be all you need. If you will indulge me in telling you what I do with the PRO version, I would be more than happy to share my own experiences with you:
I like to "work" on aging the middle four octaves of the piano keyboard on a note-by-note basis within Pianoteq 6 PRO. The middle four (or so) octaves get the most wear over time on any real acoustic piano, simply because that's where most of the notes are played within any given composition. As such, I enjoy slightly raising the slider values of each Hammer Hardness setting within this range to simulate how the felt hammers become compacted over time and make the instrument sound slightly brighter in this region of the keyboard; next, I slightly randomize these changes because that's how real pianos become worn.
Next, within this same approximate four octave range, I often "slightly" flatten the tuning (by just a few cents, or hundredths of a semitone, maximum) and slightly detune the unisonly tuned strings, again to simulate extra usage during the middle third of a piano's keyboard between tunings. Ditto for a slight increase in action noise.
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Of course, the "Condition Slider" serves to accomplish the same task of taking a piano's condition away from a pristine new piano, but I enjoy doing these extra little touches instead of relying on what is essentially a randomization event when one moves the Condition slider slightly to the right. (I usually move the Condition Slider to a value of about 0.2-0.25 in addition to my own little tweaks.)
The result is a sound and feel that can be only described as more "organic" (not referring in any way to an acoustic pipe organ). The combined effects of these slight adjustments are not blatantly audible, but there is a feeling that I am playing something that approaches that of a real acoustic instrument instead of a mathematically perfect simulation.
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These are only suggestions of how I happen to use Pianoteq 6 PRO. If these details do not interest you, or if they frighten you, then please feel free to ignore this post, and enjoy the Stage version.
Cheers,
Joe
Last edited by jcfelice88keys (14-09-2017 07:29)