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Topic: Question About Legacy Instruments

I have a V8 Stage license with the Steinway D pack and the Celeste.(I purchased it via a license transfer to the extent that may be relevant).

I was thinking about downloading /installing the free legacy YC5 for v5.  Even if it is not up to the V8 standard, I figured it would be a decent brighter rock/pop piano to have. (I and use it live in Gig Performer).

But, I saw a post that seemed to say that you cannot access that (outside of demo mode) unless you have a later version of YC5?

So, I just figured I would try to confirm that either way. Please advise.

Thanks,

Jeff

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Re: Question About Legacy Instruments

It's my understanding that the legacy instruments only load in their respective legacy versions.  So, you'd need to run PTQ5 or earlier to open legacy instruments.  You can't load (as far as I'm aware) legacy instruments in the current version.

You are able to have multiple versions of PTQ on the same machine and that will still only count as one machine for registration purposes (again as far as I am remembering correctly).  So in PTQ 8, it will only load the demo version without purchase, but prior versions that are/were still compatible with the free version will work.

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Re: Question About Legacy Instruments

tmyoung wrote:

It's my understanding that the legacy instruments only load in their respective legacy versions.  So, you'd need to run PTQ5 or earlier to open legacy instruments.  You can't load (as far as I'm aware) legacy instruments in the current version.

You are able to have multiple versions of PTQ on the same machine and that will still only count as one machine for registration purposes (again as far as I am remembering correctly).  So in PTQ 8, it will only load the demo version without purchase, but prior versions that are/were still compatible with the free version will work.

Ahh, okay, thanks.

Jeff

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Re: Question About Legacy Instruments

Kivir is the freebie package - as in free to Pianoteq owners.
The CP80 is great piano for a lot of rock and sure is a lot cheaper than the recently released and very similar sounding Alicia's Electric Keys (based on its predecessor the CP70).
Errard and Pleyel sound good too.

No legacy versions of existing instruments are free. That wouldn't make commercial sense. Sure the instruments keep improving but not by that much!!!

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Re: Question About Legacy Instruments

jeffn1 wrote:

I have a V8 Stage license with the Steinway D pack and the Celeste.(I purchased it via a license transfer to the extent that may be relevant).

I was thinking about downloading /installing the free legacy YC5 for v5.  Even if it is not up to the V8 standard, I figured it would be a decent brighter rock/pop piano to have. (I and use it live in Gig Performer).

But, I saw a post that seemed to say that you cannot access that (outside of demo mode) unless you have a later version of YC5?

So, I just figured I would try to confirm that either way. Please advise.

Thanks,

Jeff

You are right, a legacy version of a licenced instrument needs to own a licence of that instrument for running it without restriction (but can be loaded in version 8).

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Re: Question About Legacy Instruments

Key Fumbler wrote:

Kivir is the freebie package - as in free to Pianoteq owners.
The CP80 is great piano for a lot of rock and sure is a lot cheaper than the recently released and very similar sounding Alicia's Electric Keys (based on its predecessor the CP70).
Errard and Pleyel sound good too.

No legacy versions of existing instruments are free. That wouldn't make commercial sense. Sure the instruments keep improving but not by that much!!!

Agreed, the CP80 turned out to be a big bonus for me, which I did not even realize when I bought.  I happened to have a need for that shortly after I purchased the license.

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