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They all sounded too sterile, particularly the treble bell like notes. I've had Pianoteq for a couple of years now, and up until recently, I wasn't a fan of it compared to my sampled vst's, however.apart from recent updates, the thing that has converted me for it to be my go to pianos is that I was never impressed by the default presets of any of the pianos I bought. I tried it, and the sound quality gap between 7.4.2 and 7.5.1, is incredible. modification of the presets orders, also an aesthetic choice." various small modifications in the presets such as voicing, hammer hardness, hammer noise, volume (normalization), etc., modification of the micing in some presets (only a few ones), as for example on the "NY Steinway D Classical". general revoicing, both at the 'factory' level (not visible in the UI) and at the preset level (visible in the Spectrum profile NE of some presets in Pianoteq PRO), making the sound of individual notes nicer and fuller from ppp to fff, adjustment of the hammer hardness, to have a better progression and timbre dynamics from ppp to fff, adjustment of the quadratic modes, some were a bit too hot at fff,
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adjustment of the longitudinal modes (responsible for the 'buzzing' sound): in the bass and medium range, some were a little bit too pronounced, Here are some details on the work done on the NY Steinway D (quite a similar work was done on all revised pianos):