And thereвЂ™s also now a VST3-format plug-in version, and compatibility with the ARM architecture for Linux users.ДЄdditionally, there are some MIDI improvements, including an вЂalways onвЂ™ event recorder in the stand-alone app.

ThereвЂ™s a brand-new tuning section, to support historical temperaments, microtonal setups and more, without users having to get their hands dirty with Scala files. The underlying physical modelling has been refined, so that even long-standing instruments are said to have better вЂњrealism and acoustic presenceвЂќ. Version 6 is improved in three main areas. What does Pianoteq 6 do that keeps it competitive? The virtual piano market has never been more hotly contested. However, as Pianoteq has developed and improved, so has the sample-based opposition.

And yet its fundamental nature has never changed: it doesnвЂ™t use samples at all, has a miniscule installation size (stand-alone and plug-in versions alike are about 50MB), and asks for no more than 256MB RAM. Along the way itвЂ™s turned its hand to not only acoustic pianos, but also historical fortepianos, Rhodes, Wurlitzer and Hohner electrics, as well as concert harps, steel drums and pitched percussion. Over its lifetime Pianoteq has improved steadily, from a proof-of-concept CPU-stretching upstart, to a rounded, refined, versatile and (most importantly) great-sounding virtual instrument. So it might come as a surprise, if you havenвЂ™t followed its development from the start, that Pianoteq is now 12 years old. ModarttвЂ™s modelled piano just keeps getting betterвЂ¦ДЄcoustic modelling instruments and plug-ins, which generate sounds from mathematical simulations of real materials, are still relatively thin on the ground, and can sometimes have a bit of a futuristic vibe.

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