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and again, everything is not about power and definitely the current computing world trend is not in that direction. well if that was the case, moddart would already have done it. You can use Pianoteq on any modern laptop and connect it to your MIDI compatible piano keyboard"Īll in all, i think that the future of pianoteq is not to refine the physical model to use more CPU horsepower.
#Igrand versus pianoteq 5 software#
the apple A6 (iphone 5 / ipad 4) scores about 1600 <= that should be enough powerĪt last, IMHO, the main point of pianoteq is to be a lightweight software that doesn't need tons of GB of storage and could be brought on stage or elsewhere easily (see pianoteq description :"The size of Pianoteq is just 20 MB (MegaBytes). See for instance GeekBench benchmark that measures Integer / Floating point CPU and Memory performance (in other words, performance that is essential to pianoteq) : See, my Intel Core i5 CPU that's 2 years old is used only at 5% to 10% when playing complex music with latest Pianoteqīy the way, Tablets are already good enough to play Pianoteq. Moreover, if moddart was waiting/needing more CPU power to improve their physical model, they would be wrong, as they have actually plenty of CPU power unexploited in current generation of CPU. And in this area, Apple seems to be pretty good. Intel and AMD have raced for more Ghz sometimes ago, but that era has now ended (10 years ago at least)Ī lot of work in the CPU area is now about efficiency, especially power efficiency. That's especially true in the computing world. I'm afraid that not everything in this world is as simple as just "More Power". I genuinely believe this is the future of mass market electronic This is why I would like to get my favorite software piano on board before it There is also already a lot of music hardware for iOS devices:
#Igrand versus pianoteq 5 series#
(Youtube link to a series of videos, press the link below the empty black square, that says video not available): The "Sonic Touch"-series here is an almost monthly issue on new developments in The following two performances by DigiEnsemble Berlin are good examples: Just to get a feeling on how far this has gone, and how active this area is, Some of these apps are made by world famous instrument manufacturers such as They are quite advanced, and there is NO latency. The thing is that there are many, really very very good musical instrument appsĪvailable for iOS.
#Igrand versus pianoteq 5 professional#
It is a well known problem with Android, and it is why all professional music
#Igrand versus pianoteq 5 android#
Recognition since the touch reaction is pretty much instantaneous everywhereĮlse (running the latest Android JellyBean version).
The two or three free piano apps that I tried on it have huge latency even withĪ single note, and I don't think this is due to on-screen keyboard note I see that JUCE now supports ARM so maybe I'm wrong in thinking that it's impossible, but I would rather see improvements in the model requiring more cpu than tweaking everything so that it can run marginally (only legacy reverb?) on something designed mostly for graphics and net surfing.
#Igrand versus pianoteq 5 generator#
Maybe the latency is due to under-optimized sound treatment of course, but, still, running Pianoteq on a tablet requires all the computations needed by the model, even if input keyboard and output sound generator could be external (which is not possible on my tablet anyway).Īdd to that the fact that a convolution reverb is very cpu-intensive, and profits on the x86 architecture from dedicated SSE* instructions that I believe are absent on the ARM architecture. The two or three free piano apps that I tried on it have huge latency even with a single note, and I don't think this is due to on-screen keyboard note recognition since the touch reaction is pretty much instantaneous everywhere else (running the latest Android JellyBean version). I own a recent Asus TF300 tablet featuring a quad core NVidia Tegra 3 processor running at 1.2 GHz (about the same processing power as an iPad 2, I believe), and I don't think it is capable of running Pianoteq at all.