Question on bass before buying

Just Windows 10 native player. My headphones have no issue playing deep bass notes when watching you tube etc either, and if I listen to samples of PianoTeq playing (eg this review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIS3OnTwpHg) then the bass is lovely and resonant. I just don't hear the same depth of bass when I play myself in PianoTeq.

Oh I should also add Ive played the MP3 file through my DP itself as well, and the bass is just fine there as well. Its when Im actually playing is the issue.

If I play the inbuilt 'blues demo' in PianoTeq itself, the bass is ok there too:

But if I play a note, its weak! I don't get it at all and its very frustrating. The best way I can describe it is that when I am playing myself the bass is tinny, like its being played through a tiny speaker or over the radio. No deepness to it, no booming.

What happens if you click on the virtual keyboard at the bottom of Pianoteq ?

Ive tried to replicate what I am hearing in audacity so I can show you guys.

The video demo of the Ant Petrof that I posted earlier, here is the sound of the first bit of playing. I can hear lovely deep resonant, warm bass here, through my headphones.

https://soundcloud.com/dan-haire-958667...-ant-piano

However, this is essentially what I hear when I play bass notes on my piano via PianoTeq. I applied a low pass filter, and its killed all the lovely warm bass. That's the effect I am getting in PianoTeq.

https://soundcloud.com/dan-haire-958667...o-low-pass

Its hard to replicate exactly what Im hearing. The low pass filter has also killed the initial attack of the bass, which I still hear, I just hear nothing after.

I'm using ASIO4ALL and have set it up according to the instructions. I'm hearing sound, I have very low latency, its just not as rich at the bass end as I was expecting.

I wonder if this issue is because of unrealistic expectations. The youtube videos of pianos playing, and of pianoteq demos, might not be realistic in themselves because of post processing or lots of expensive EQ equipment going on.

In that video of the Ant Petrof I posted near the top of the thread, listen to the first 30 seconds using good speakers or headphones. You'll hear a very warm deep resonant bass that lingers well beyond the notes being held. Is that how it should sound out of the box or not? Is that how a real accoustic piano sounds if you were playing it? Or is this only when recorded and post processed that it sounds like this?

Thanks for that suggestion, I have contacted him and he replied (thanks Phil if you read this).

However, he says if anything the bass is too strong and he lowers it using the EQ!

How can this be? Do individual soundcards (I'm using an inbuilt soundcard on the motherboard) reproduce sound differently? Would my soundcard, for some inexplicable reason, be processing sound differently through the ASIO driver via Pianoteq than when watching a youtube video via the Windows drivers?

Tinny sounds in Pianoteq Standalone occur whenever the MIDI file played within it contains any number of extraneous MIDI messages (Bank Select, Program Change, Controller, Etc.).  Maybe you need to check the latest MIDI messages that appear in the Pianoteq Options window and under the MIDI heading  —for the keyboard controller messages that have been sent.  If you mouse click on a message you’ll have display options presented to you, including the one that clears the message window for you to start a new list and view only the most recent MIDI messages from your keyboard playing.

When sometimes I get a tinny sound, along with a modified preset name italicized, in the Pianoteq Options window, the selection Minimalist, for, Global MIDI Mapping, alleviates such occurrences altogether.  For any preset to return though to its original unmodified settings, on the preset name, a minimum two (2) second long mouse click is necessary.