Overall, it works best for pre-1900 classical stuff for me. It's too perfect, but maybe I just need to change the condition settings. Overall, the sound is a bit too sterile for my taste. It also continually spikes my CPU (i5 2.6Ghz) when it reaches about 25 voices active and begins to crackle and dropout. That said, I really don't like some of the sounds it makes in regards to pedals and sympathetic resonance-deep boomy stuff that really shouldn't be there. PT is amazingly modeled-I feel like I'm inside the piano listening to it. I played with both using MIDI file of Claire de Lune. Since I'm on the Mac, it's pretty much Pianoteq vs Truepiano. I've been looking for a modeled piano vst for a while now. Thank you for the tips.īy the way, enjoying the Ravenscroft sound. Will noodle around with more settings and also try the lower sample rate. Give it a try.Cache size was much smaller. It's not a pure science and all these programs require a little fiddling around to get the best performance for a given system.Īlso, try dropping the sample rate down to 44.1k or 48k because 88k is going to tax your CPU. Try other settings like "Fast 7200 RPM drive" and see how that or something else works. You might want to experiment a little with that setting. So, for Ravenscroft, did you select SSD in the UVI interface and select 256mb as the default Cache Size under the Streaming tab? So yes, memory will help as the programs will try to load more data into memory and stream less from disk but you will always be streaming from disk. I wanted to make sure you know that both Ivory and Ravenscroft do stream from disk. Apologies, I missed your post regarding dropped notes.