Pianoteq Standard
Pianoteq Standard is designed for musicians, producers, and sound designers who want precise control over their instrument's tone. It features the award-winning physical modelling engine and includes powerful tools for sound shaping, microphone positioning, and preset sharing.
Key features
- Includes 3 instrument packs, plus free instruments.
- Acclaimed sound engine based on physical modelling.
- Unmatched sound customization: adjust many physical parameters like unison width, microtuning, hammer hardness, soundboard resonance, string length and more.
- Advanced microphone modelling: adjust the 3D positions of up to 8 microphones of various brands around the instrument.
- Supports instrument morphing and layering.
- Can be upgraded to Pianoteq PRO for adjusting the physical parameters of individual notes.
You choose the instruments
Pianoteq Standard includes 3 instrument packs of your choice. You can purchase additional instrument packs at any time.
The power of physical modelling
The Pianoteq Standard version offers several powerful tools for sound shaping and recording. It is a natural choice for the semi-professional musician who wants to adjust unique physical parameters such as unison width, microtuning, hammer hardness, soundboard resonance, string length. It also lets you position up to 8 microphones around the instrument and to choose from a selection of different microphone brands.
Presets from the FXP Corner
Users of the standard version can make full use of all exciting presets created by other users (available in the FXP corner), including those created by Pianoteq PRO users: any preset created with Pianoteq Standard or Pianoteq PRO produces exactly the same sound in Pianoteq Standard and Pianoteq PRO.
Extraordinary sound shaping
The possibility to shape the sound through physical parameters is an extraordinary feature that cannot be found in any other piano software. With just a few mouse clicks, you can achieve things that would require hours, or even weeks, by piano technicians to adapt on real acoustic pianos.
Some things can hardly be done in the real world, such as changing the string length from a mini grand of 1m/3.3ft to an imaginary giant grand of 10m/33ft. You can even modify the mechanical properties of the soundboard. New exciting possibilities open up as you explore the parameters and discover sounds that you have never heard or thought of before.
Microphones setting
Similar to what professional audio engineers do when recording, you can place up to 8 microphones anywhere around the instrument in a separate illustrative interface. By adjusting microphones, you are able to quickly adjust the colour and presence of the sound.
Many directional microphones of well-known brands are modelled, increasing the palette of available sound colours.
A mixer is available for combining the microphones into stereo or multichannel output, with the possibility to adjust the delay separately for each microphone and channel. A binaural mode is available for immersive headphone listening. A virtual head model can be placed anywhere around the instrument, and freely rotated, simulating natural hearing.