I’m asking you that because I want to make sure I’m not trying to convince myself to buy this. For everything else, i just go with presets (shame on me ). By the way, the only synths that i really know well are Monark (the part of Reaktor that i understand) and Massive. That makes sense? Reaktor is very difficult to dominate for me. Is this really true? I mean, they frequently bugs everything on a ordinary machine (like mine)?Ģ- I´m getting into the synth fever, so you think i´m better with only Native Instruments synths or Arturia will help me more? My impression so far is that Arturia can help me understand synthesizers more. I just tested the demos and did not saw that, but i know the demos have limitations, so i would like to know from a long term user. Including Pianos & Keys! This is very tempting for me.ġ- I read on the internet that sometimes Arturia´s synths crashes DAWs. I like the idea of having “everything at one place”. Since Black Friday is coming, i´ll save money for that and ,in 2 months, i´ll buy Arturia V Collection. It is a natural choice for the semi-professional musician who wants to adjust unique physical parameters such as unison with, microtuning, hammer hardness, soundboard and string length. I heard that they make an annual sale every january with the same 50% off. The Pianoteq Standard version offers several powerful tools for sound shaping and recording. Especially the B3.Ĭonclusion: I´ll buy it, but not now. Just one click to change an instrument and tweak fully. On top of that, NKS ready, fast loading times (at least for me and i don’t have an super machine), organized presets and everything at one place (with the included Analog Lab).
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I don’t understand why this Piano is not an constant on Piano VSTi´s discussions. Since Native Instruments Pianos (and some others) doesn’t give me instant gratification, i´ll choose Arturia again. In a famous forum, people who were saying that Pianoteq is the best piano to date, were the same ones who chose Arturia´s Piano over Pianoteq on a blind test. The funny thing is that isn’t sample based. It’s the best Piano VST I’ve ever played (and i´ve played some, believe in me).
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The Piano (i mean, PianoS - there´s 12 of them in one instrument) have a lot of love and hate around the internet, but i love it. Was an good surprise and, even with the fact that with some tweaking you can get a great sound from all Native Instruments Keys, at least to my taste, Arturia has done a better job here. The other thing I think is great about it are the electric piano add-ons - I have NIs and Scarbees packages, but still love the sound of the Pianoteq rhodes/wurlis. It really comes into its own when you start playing with mic positions etc. Its so fun to play an instrument that sounds and feels real. I spent some time with the Pianoteq demo a year or so ago and was very impressed. Really good out of the box and really authentic (at least the Rhodes and Wurli that i know really well the “real thing”). I loved the Electric Pianos (all of them).
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For an non-expert like me, the fact that the instruments look like its originals and have the original name also helps in the “synth education” side. Was very quick to get an sound that i like and a lot of fun to tweak - since the GUI is very good (and have high resolution, resizable too). I really liked the Moog, Juno, Prophet, DX7 and CS-80. The synths, to my ears (i´m no expert), sounds really good.