Hello Mr. Phil your videos on Pianoteq convinced me to buy the Pianoteq. Only thing is I am little confused because Pianoteq 8 pro is bit expensive for me so I am thinking to buy an individual 4 different packs. Please suggest me 4 best options from all. It would be great. Actually I love to buy a Pianoteq8 pro because Pianoteq is offering 20% discount but still I don’t have that much budget. Thanks! Love your playing a lot and your settings. ❤

Beautifully performed.

Hi Phil! Thanks for the detailed review and beautiful playing! In your studio setup do you use a subwoofer along with the monitor speakers?

Just bought it to add to my existing PTQ. Black Friday discount. So nice

When are one of the big manufacturers of digital pianos going either: 1. Ask Modart to license Pianoteq? 2. Give us a grand pianos sized Vpc1 / Avant grand cross, with haptic feedback and built in speakers. If there is a market for the Avant grand Nx3, I would imagine the market for 2 would be 10 time that size.

I am more in to acoustic piano playing. I have a Yamaha YUS5 acoustic and I love my piano a lot. The way you compared between this two piano vst is very sensible & useful. I have played many different brands acoustic piano as I am working with piano seller company as a piano specialist and I know about the pianos in depth as I said on my comment on your other videos. I never got impressed with digital pianos. I have many compositions ready but I can’t afford to record the acoustic piano and also there are many reasons like tuning and piano action is also keep on changing piano to piano so that’s the reason why I am looking for a good piano controller and mostly I will go ahead with Kawai MP series or May be the VPC series so that will have sense of playing on same action. If needed I will make minor changes on velocity curve and made the permanent setting. Pianoteq has very nice bloom and it gives every control as I can see on your playing. Thank you so much for sharing your experience. 🙏

Your explanation of on Pianoteq vst is carrying musicalities. I am more of acoustic piano player never got satisfied with digital piano except few model. Like Kawai MP11se and Novus5. I need your opinion on controlling piano. Which is the best controller for Pianoteq. I had a Roland RD2000 but I sold because I didn’t enjoy the piano tones. Action was decent but it wasn’t behave like acoustic piano action & Now I am waiting for Kawai replacement of MP11se & VPC1. I hope they will launch these 2 models in winter Namm. They already delayed too much. My concern is does it will work well with Pianoteq? I never tried both the models but I have watched many videos of experts and all of them saying that MP11se & VPC1 has better control on acoustic and very realistic action like a real grand piano. Also let me know which is a better pianos in Pianoteq 8. I have listed few 1) Steinway Model D 2) C. Bechstien 3) ANT Petrof 4) Bösendorfer 5) Gortrian and last is U4. I am asking this because whole bundle is too expensive for me. Whenever you are free please advise me on this. It would be a great help. Thank you so much 🙏❤️

Superb explanation! I am always looking for alternative of acoustic piano and I tried many digital piano. Only close I found is Kawai Novus5 but it’s so expensive so my eyes on vst’s I have tried many piano vst’s and I got discounted even I don’t like Keyscap much. Then I downloaded the trail version of this and I played, you know I immediately got impressed with all the different piano sounds libraries. I can say it’s the best available vst piano in the market. I have seen that VI labs is come out with new Modern D which sound s better than Pianoteq Model D but then it will take huge memory and also there’s no facility to try demo version from VI labs, so sad! How come I buy without trying it. The previously popular piano vst of VI lab is so impressive the name of that vst is Revonscraft but again without trying it’s a risk. So final I have made my mind for Pianoteq specially trying demo version and watching your videos. Just waiting for a Black Friday sale but there’s no news on Black Friday sale on Pianoteq website. I am waiting for the sale I wish they will offer a good discount like many others. I am a pianist and Composer and soon I will start recording my compositions the way want & Pianoteq will play good roll. Frankly speaking I had a some questions regarding the user license sharing but surprisingly I didn’t find any email id for customer’s query on Pianoteq website but final I ask my friend and he explained me about this. Thanks man for making videos like this and sharing your experience. 🙏

Your videos are as if you know what I’m going through right now. Thank you for all this great content!

GREAT video! Really opened my mind.

This was good. Thinking does get in the way. I can't groove to a click but if I tap along to my beat I can see it's stable on the BPM readout. And sounds much better than something aligned to the grid.

I love how you say to not try to play perfectly with a metronome, but to feel the groove from within. I have come to realize that the tension I feel when I've played with a click before is not so much due to the challenge in keeping up with it, with keeping on-time, but it is a tension between my soul wanting to feel my way versus the scientific, clinical, sterile click. And this, to me, goes right to the heart of why music played without a click-track is and feels so much warmer, accessible, "human." The slight variance of the human groove is what lends to the feel of music. Case in point: Paul McCartney said that The Beatles purposely slowed the tempo very slightly on the last part of "Michelle." Music is conversation, at its basic level, between the composer/players and the audience. And human conversation is not robotic; it flows from the soul. :)

Your chord-playing groove around the 4-minute mark reminded me of "Lonely Days" by The Bee Gees. Nice! :)

I loved hearing what you called the jazz preset. I want that in my living room! (I'd also would live some pianist skills but whatever) Do you get the same presets on all Pianoteq variants? Do you get all presets even on Stage?

People say Pianoteq doesn't sound good but I think this sounds decent, and samples don't sound good when you play them.

An oasis of peace in the desert, slowly moving and modulating.

This is so amazing and very useful review, Great job! Love the way you played and explained about the sound. My self I am a pianist composer and Mostly I play on acoustic pianos. I only satisfied with some digital pianos like Kawai MP11se & Novus5s. My all the compositions are mainly based on piano and that is the reason why I am looking for best piano vst which can give me close result like nicely recorded acoustic piano. I can’t afford to record the acoustic piano so last few months i am constantly doing a research on vst and I found few options which impressed me a lot. I have choose few vsti and Pianoteq is my top purchase list. I have downloaded demo version and tried all the pianos. I am so happy with the performance of Pianoteq. It gives me what exactly want. I am waiting for a black Friday sale. I hope I will get good deal. Love the review! ❤

Finally, my VPC1 can sound like a Kawai.

Excellent piano, i admit i do try to play the right hand of Mozart sometimes, but i prefer Schubert on the guitar.

Pianoteq sounds still so cold, unreal, far away from reality. Also far away from some sampled softwarepianos. At least the offer a demo, so everybody can test it before wasting money. Check out the quite old cheap TheGrandure and you have what you need.

Really great advice

BEAUTIFUL !!!! (I would love so much if you had a friend play the drums though ;) )

Awsome, thx from France

Nice piece. Is this the new Kawai for Pianoteq 8? Sounds amazing!

Thank you Phil. Lovely as always, Warmest regards, Chris and Sally

Okay, so happy to know about this! About to have to sell my Kawai Grand as I move across the globe, and this might be just the gift I need to get me through!

Superb!

Beautoful puece Phil. Heartfelt and emotive. 💖💖 I meant to ask you, is that an M88 or M69 mic?

It's good, but the Bossendorfer remains my favorite of all of the patches.

Great. I love this sort of meditative piano.

I find it hard to believe that a classic trained pianist can play the Pianoteq pianos!? I tried Pianoteq and was surprised at how it lost it's realism on all forte notes and at all velocities in the lower mid range (too warm and the tone was not realistic sounding).

Doesn't sound real to me

I think the Alicia Keys have a sweetness but the pianoteq does not have that sweetness but it has something else that is different things it would be acceptable to call it expressiveness. But it is the fine tuning in pianoteq that makes it your Alicia Keys, the individuality within that statement is formidable.

What wonderful improvisations. I completely forgot I was watching a youtube video by the end, because I was completely immersed in a new world. Was not expecting that at all... incredible! Thank you!

I don't own Pianoteq and only watched a few videos on it, but having seen one particular tweak, I am surprised you didn't mention it, as it seems to make all the difference between too perfect, and closest to a natural/real sounding acoustic grand. Basically, sliding away from 'Mint' somewhere towards the centre..!! Wouldn't that be one of the best tweaks to make the defaults not sound too pure and more like a sample based (or actual) acoustic grand..!? The mic positioning would be equally as important if not more so though!

Pianoteq, the fake piano vst.... I really want Galaxy Instruments to make an Imperial and SK EX so I can compare it to pianoteq, then we can compare all 5 of the flagship grands sampled from GI and Pianoteqs modeled to solve the question once and for all.

I think it's a bit muddy in the low end. And lacks some "bell" in the high end. VI Labs' new "Modern D" sounds better to me.

Is it pianoteq 6 ?

Absolutely delightful improvisation and heartfelt playing Phil! 💖💖 I just purchased Pianoteq 8 and picked up this piano as part of my purchase. I totally concur with all you've said. I have been in my studio all afternoon playing this and I adore it! 💖🎹🎶

That piano sounds like Ryuichi Sakamoto. Now I know what he played

Big improvement on Pianoteq this last year, but still long way to go for realism.

sounds great but i know that if I buy it it's gonna sound mechanical and muddy lol. idk, every VST i try sounds no where like all the videos i see online. I've learned to be content with what i have. 😔

Sounds amazing. It's lacking the mud that can happen in the bass, and the piercing percussive sounds in the high end. Makes it very close to the perfect piano. Perhaps better than most physical pianos in terms of listening pleasure.

Can i just say how refreshing it is to listen to someone talk about things without stock library music burbling in the background? Professional working pianist here, but find your approach very refreshing and simpatico with how i experience music. I have always felt rhythm as a fluid concept, which has been tough when I've had to play to click tracks (though I've got better at managing expression within a framework) Thanks!

Very beautiful sound indeed! I will add it to my Pianoteq collection. I see that you are playing a Roland Fantom. How does it feel compared to a real (grand) piano? I would like to buy a GOOD new keyboard. Main criterion: feels like a grand piano.

Which speakers are you using for listening to your playing live may I ask? What buffer size you use and less latency, I prefer headphones as no latency at all and makes a big difference in pianoteq.

Beautiful playing.

whats your top 3 PTQ pianos Phil?

Phil thank you! Question, are you using a custom curve for your Fantom?

Thanks for you work.