upgrade to Pro advice

I love the Pro version of Pianoteq. The 192 kHz sampling rate was initially one of the reasons I upgraded, but I have found (like others, apparently) that 48 kHz sounds almost imperceptibly different than 192 kHz, although the latter probably has more detail and is perhaps better for creating audio files for further editing (although others will know more about the advantages of higher sampling rate than I do).

But now after using Pianoteq Pro for a while, it is the extensive and extremely powerful Note Edit feature that I appreciate the most and use all the time. The Note Edit feature alone, in my opinion is more than worth the upgrade price, even if it were the only difference between Pianoteq "flavors" (between Standard and Pro).

Not only note-by-note, but range by range. For example, in some pianos (like the K2), I like to reduce the impedance of the soundboard somewhat using the Impedance slider, and then use the Note Editor to boost the impedance a little, gradually from about middle C, for the treble range, while reducing the impedance using a similar slope or sloped plateau in the opposite direction for the bass range. I also find the Note Editor extremely useful for addressing resonances and idiosyncracies in my audio chain (signal route, amplifiers, monitor speakers, headphones, etc.), for adding randomness to many of the parameters for a more natural human and acoustic piano sound, and for other reasons. I love the Note Edit feature.

Hello, I share the same opinon as Lucy and Stephen. You will not have a real difference between 48000 and 192000 kHz. In comparaison, I saw for the great deal of people, the latency is a very important thing, and as the same, under 5 or even 10 ms, I never noticed a significant difference. It is also the same with the Midi dialect, standart or high resolution. I never listened a real difference.  It is always better to try to have the best latency, sample rate and Midi dialect. Other thing that I do not understand, the latency seems to decrease when the sample rate increase.

With Realtek HD audio, I read in the options/devices of the Pianoteq that when the audio sample increase, for the same audio buffer size, the latency decrease.

Example : for 512 samples, at 44.000 kHz, 11.6 ms, at 48.000, 10.7 ms; ... ; 96.000 , 5.3 ms ; ... ; 192.000 , 2.7 ms

If someone could explain why, it would be nice.

I will go to a auditorium to try my Pianoteq 6 with a high end DAC first at 192.000 kHz and after at 48.000 kHz using a stereophonic class A amplifier. I will only take my laptop and use some Midi files than I record at home with Pianoteq 6 to do the test. If someone is interesting, I will write my own feeling of this experience.

With Pianoteq 6, at 192.000 kHz, the CPU usage stays under 25 per cent when playing for example the prelude in C sharp minor Opus 3 number 2 composed by Mr Rachmaninov, it is half of what Pianoteq 5 used.