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The best sound I could get out of Pianoteq was from my hard drive when I uninstalled it.

Perhaps it would have run better on an SSD?!

Ouch

That was exactly my experience, too.The uninstalled Pianoteq produces a silence that perfectly mimics that of the world's finest grand pianos.

I can actually kind of relate to this thread, since I have this strange situation.

All my sampled vst's sound great on my headphones, but not so great on my speakers. With pianoteq it's the exact opposite. I hate it on my headphones, but it sounds quite good on my speakers, dare I say better than my sampled vst's.

Listening to music sounds great on my speakers, pianoteq sounds great on them, just my sampled vst's not so much.

I don't know how this is possible, and I don't know alot about audio, but other than the tone itself, I think there is something substantiallly different in the sound of pianoteq compared to sampled vst's.

My speakers are jbl lsr 305's, and my headphones are superlux hd602's. Don't be fooled by the cheapness of these headphones, I think they are an exceptional bargain and sound extremely far above the pricerrange.

I feel like playing with headphones really brings out all the details in the sound, and with pianoteq this is a bad thing, because i'm hearing all these artificial details I can't stand. So that's an explanation why pianoteq sounds bad on my headphones, but it doesn't explain why I actually prefer pianoteq over my sampled vst's over my speakers.

Pianoteq sounds natural and pleasant over my speakers, while my sampled vst's sound off, like the EQ settings are messed up or something, but I can't seem to make it right by EQ.


Anyone has any ideas about this?

I am on a similar boat than @U3piano : when I play with headphones (Beyerdynamic DT-770 Pro in my case), I can't play with Pianoteq for a long period but on speakers (also JBL LSR305) it sounds better.

I have got quite a lot of sampled VSTs and I can use them on headphones for a longer time... I guess some high-frequency filtering could help with Pianoteq. I will try with Cubase and some insert effects soon.

Vpc1, Yamaha u3, lsr305's, we have so much of the same stuff!

Yes, you need to get a DT-770 PRO and we will be clones

Haha. Maybe one day..

i’m using a pair of JBL 308P MKII 8" studio monitors. Neither sampled nor modeled VSTs sound as good as headphones, and I can still hear the artificiality from the speakers. I still like sampled VSTs better than Pianoteq via speakers.

I checked out a bunch of speakers and monitors and so forth at the stores....

The QSC 12" sounded the best for digital "acoustic" pianos, followed closely by the 10" Yamaha monitors. For gigs, QSC all the way.

Everything else sounded like dog sh!t.

For portable, I own Vox and Roland battery operated keyboard amps, not as good as QSC but for portability sound great.

VST, internal Kawai, Pianotec all sound great on my headphones: AKG 271 Mk. ii.

You have to give it to modartt and pianoteq- I’ve left my computer on service and have temporarily a 2012 MacBook Air, the base model. I installed pianoteq (a few mb:s) and plugged it in my piano without any external sound card or anything and it works absolutely flawlessly and sounds and play beautifully.

In fact, the best "speaker" for playing PTQ is the soundboard with transducers. It can produce audio signals that are very close to the sound of the strings. Therefore, playback with the soundboard also simulates the process of the acoustic piano.
On the other hand, the strings sound would be too dry and a little unnatural by normal speakers, especially headphones.
Anyone who owns TA2/Aures can test with PTQ.

There are cabinet simulations for guitar and bass available.
Would be great, if there are also piano soundboard simulations available as vst, then we could use it with PTQ...

At least there is the free Bayerdynamic VST for simulating studio monitors :-)
https://www.beyerdynamic.de/bvs-virtual-studio.html

Thought I'd chip in here if nobody minds too much . . . I was playing quite a lot today for some reason (probably nothing better to do) and strangely everything went well. I was in a good mood and let rip.
No headphones, no neighbours at present. And for the last couple of days I've been using that which emuates the antique straight strung Erard.
Sounded darn good; those well out o' tune notes in the lower register continue to ring when they shouldn't, as do one or two of the resonances, long after I've stopped playing. That and the Ancient Bechstein between them manage to convey in no uncertain terms all that's bad about acoustics.
I'm hooked on them. The pianos' imperfections have at long last won me over.

Now maybe I can just play the music. . . .. . . . Happy days.