Which are, in your opinion, the best 3 pianos in PTQ atm?

I'm going to be boring and say literally all of them are worth having pretty much equally,  but the D is an absolute no brainer. If I was making Pianoteq you wouldn't get a choice on that one, you'd just get the D package with it - if you wanted acoustics. That's how it used to be by the way, before the official licenses. You got the D and the excellent K, the latter based on no one specific real world model.

I mostly use the electrics. Rhodes, Wurly, Hohner and CP80 after the D and B. 

I would now go for:
1) Steinway Model D NY & Hamburg.
2) Hohner Clav collection. 
3)Rhodes & Wurly electrics

The free KIViR package has 3 nice sounding pianos too (that includes the aforementioned CP80, with Errard and Pleyel).

Add the B afterwards and K and Grotrian and..

Hi AlexS,

”……to choose which 3 pianos to use to the rest of your life, what these would have to be?”

         Petrof Mistral, Steinway B, Bluethner (or Steingraeber).

I love all Modartt instruments and are now using many of them in my music (as for example in my Contest entry).

Best wishes,

Stig

Pianoteqenthusiast, Organteqenthusiast, Harpteqenthusiast, Harpsichordteqenthusiast, CP-80teqenthusiast, experimenter and Graf/Grimalditeqenthusiast, Celesteteqenthusiast, Vibraphoneteqenthusiast, Erardteqenthusiast and Church Bellsteqenthusiast

1) I almost exclusively use Steinway D classical recording. These days I use it without the reverb, and I insert a Mturboreverb instead.

2) not a piano, but the new guitar. I love it, especially the classic gentle preset

3) the cimbalum "a la piano" from kivir, equally with the classic harp

Let me thank all who shared their thoughts here. I expected it will be Steinway D all the way, tbh Yes, it's excellent voice, and I have it in my collection already. Though I must admit often I found it too much, of sort. Too perfect, too far away from our everyday life

So I hoped to see some fans of the less hyped ones, to get myself a solid alternative to the D. And it seems like Steingraeber is my boy (I already have Bluethner, selected it as one of the three included instruments pack). Thanks again for your time!

For perfection or grot and anything between the condition slider is your friend!

The Bluethner aliquot strings add some character to that piano. Maybe it's rose tinted glasses (or the aural equivalent of that) during Pianoteq 5 that was a definite favourite for stronger resonant behaviour. It lost that cuddly sweetness in comparisons after that version.

It might be nice if one day the Bluethner becomes a pack of two or more models.

You might want the Errard and the Pleyel from the KIViR freebies, especially the latter which sounds to me somewhat closer to the sound of a characterful upright than a modern high-end grand. Not forgetting the U4 pack.
The free Errard is a nice sounding piano with character too, probably slightly more usable than the Pleyel in modern music.

This on the real pianos:
https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.p...ew%20York.

Supposedly then Hamburg cleaner yet the NY version's sound projects more, it's fruitier with more character, or more flawed in its purity depending on your perception of their relative strengths. Differences here being relatively subtle.

If you end up with the Steingraber, you will have chosen exactly the same models, I did. I like my choices, but you can't go wrong with any of the other piano models, either. They all have their characteristics, and it's really a toss up which one to go for.

I also like the K2 and Bechstein, and the YC5's brightness appeals to me, if I will need a preset for rock or pop, that should work right out of the box. The Petrofs and the Grotrian each have a certain character, as well as the U4, which would be my last choice. I'm not after another upright, have some sampled ones, which I rarely use.