Digital Piano Duel - PIanoteq vs Truepianos 

PTeq sounds like a real piano at times and like a 90s keyboard at times. True sounds like a very musical digital piano with its own character.

You don't mention the sounds that TruePianos has: Atlantis, Sapphire, Emerald, Diamond, Amber and SapphirePed each with 8 or so presets. I bought it a long time ago and have never felt the need to move.

well done woody. i brought piano teq5 and use my juno ds 88 to play it. its pretty impressive mate. thls for your blurb

I really like the music. Full of magic.

WOW truepienos its just fantastic!

I have both. I never use Pianoteq. I play TruePianos Diamond Module at least 4 hours a day. It is so expressive. It's just like a real instrument

Very interesting. Truepianos seemed to have a more traditional timbre a bit sharper(like a piano with harder hammers and more high treble content) but pianoteq seemed more expressive and responsive and less like a recorded sound.

I own the old True Pianos version made in 2011 and I also own PianoTeq 6 stage, Addictive Keys and Sonivox Ensemble 88 v.2.5. I also own a Yamaha C3E concert grand with Disklavier system installed. I can tell you with certainty that 1. Pianoteq 6 is way better than 5 but only as far as it concerns the Petrof and Bechstein additions. The Steinway D is the worst Steinway D representation I have heard 2. If you run True Pianos through an analogue console, say soundcraft notepad 12fx (the cheapest) and you play with eq and reverb you get fantastic sound. I run PianoTeq 6 into console and the sound is even worse, which is weird, cause sonivox 88 and addictive keys sound fantastic through analogue console. CPU and RAM wise truepianos is the best, you can run it with a 10years old laptop. Pianoteq 6 requires i5 cpu to run adequately, otheriwise its full of clicks and pops.

truepioanos is cool - it has that lofi feel - warm and saturated a bit - i'd use this for my tracks, thanks for video - it's cool

I've tried a lot. Finally I got me TruePianos. It's not the sound that convinced me but the dynamics. It's the only thing we've got to compete with other instruments.

If you can provide the midi I can make a render for you or you can check out the FXP corner on PTQ website.

Which soundcard do you recommend for the least latency? I have a creative x-fi titanium that can go as low as 5ms without soundcracks. But still, I feel the lag compared to my digital piano's own sound.

hi, my opinion is this: true pianos have excellent dynamics and sound, but for my taste it needs to improve the control system to adapt it to any sensitive keyboard. I find it difficult to achieve that on the modest keyboard I use regularly. The basses tend to be too powerful, I have a hard time mastering them. On the other hand, Pianoteq allows a good adaptation, in addition to allowing absolutely incredible modifications that revolutionize everything, for example eliminating the inertia of the keys. This makes more accurate playing possible with less effort and study. He also has an almost insane variety of pianos, including several harpsichords and a virginal. The variety of possible settings for each one is mind-boggling, you can model absolutely everything and save all the presets you designed. Of course, all these qualities make it much more expensive than Truepìanos. But when you want something less distracting and that sounds great, Truepianos should be in your arsenal, because their sound is so pure and expressive, it's wonderful. Anyway I think TP is designed to be playable on heavy weight keyboards and it may not be controlled well on light weight keyboards. I need to do more tests, but at the moment that is my position.

Woody, The word I've heard is that Pianoteq 6 is miles better quality than Pianoteq 5. I don't have either product but I'm getting very close to spending the price for Pianoteq 6. Do you know if it is true that Pianoteq 6 is much improved? Thanks in advance for any feedback...

are the settings same in both vsti? no info about these...

I liked more the Pianoteq sound. I'm not an expert, though. Can I play in real time with low latency using a normal PC? I mean, without a dedicated sound card. I want to use Pianoteq mostly for real time playing, so the response time is important to me.

Owning pianoteq 5 for about half a year I must say, that the sound of it on this video is far below the real quality, which pianoteq can provide.. The sound sample of this video would have never ever triggered me to buy Pianoteq. In this video it sounds artificial, too bright and far off from a good acoustic piano. - Sorry fot that, Woody Piano Shack! Pianoteq 5, combined with my speakers or - even better - with my earphones comes very, very close to a very expensive acoustic kingsize piano and produces superb and very authentic, acoustic piano sound. --- So the disappoining sound quality in this video might be a mic/recording issue. PS: Can´t give an assessment on "Truepiano, since I don´t have it.

They all sound okay, but my FL Keys still blows them out of the water.

I would've liked to heard your opinion as you hear them directly - aaand we value your opinion. Also Pianoteq 6 is a whole other story.

Pianoteq sounded better. Nicely played Woody ;)

In this video truepiano is the winner for me.

True Pianos little better , but Pianoteq also brillant ! Outstandig

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Hi man where can i get the midi that you used ??

I think if you had used the Pianoteq 5 Pro the Truepianos would have failed hardly.

Sounds like a not so well recorded midi.. my Pianoteq sounds wayyyyyy better. Of course you need a stellar controller for that.

Truepianos is better.

truepiano. better and strong dynamics

pianotq has narrow sound!!! it's terrible!!! (we need's more"!!!") real instrument sounds so much better