As a Christmas gift to all Pianoteq customers, we hereby announce our latest instrument add-on: a virtual copy of a Tubular Bells, also known as Symphonic Chimes. More details

Just like last year, Pianoteq with all its add-on instruments will be demonstrated by Julio Herrera at IMSTA Festa exhibition on September 24 at SAE Institute, 1293 Broadway, 9th floor, New York. Free entrance, pre-registration required. More about IMSTA Festa

Will Wernick, manufacturer of the MIDI controller Xylosynth, demonstrated his products using Pianoteq at the TMEA (Texas Music Educators Association) exhibition in February. On his monitor we can see the Pianoteq interface with the Xylo add-on loaded.

In the FXP Corner you can download settings and instruments created by other Pianoteq users. We have now added a new feature that lets you easily add your own FXP files (together with a MIDI and audio sample) to the FXP Corner and manage those files you have previously uploaded. You can also rate each FXP file uploaded by other users. Visit the new FXP Corner here.

We have created a webpage where you can listen to Pianoteq rendering MIDI files used in the Minnesota Piano-e-Competition. The files were originally recorded by talented pianists on Yamaha Disklavier Pro grand pianos and played back on an identical instrument in front of judges and audiences. Some of the MIDI files are using the high resolution MIDI XP format (almost 10 times as detailed as the standard MIDI format), supported in the latest version 3.6.6 of Pianoteq.

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We are proud to announce that Pianoteq Pro receives EM 2011 Editors Choice Award for Most Innovative Product:

Note-by-note editing is what really sets Pro apart from previous versions of Pianoteq and is what earned it this year's award.

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As an early Christmas gift to our customers, we hereby release a virtual copy of a 1926 Pleyel grand piano Model F, available in the latest version of the KIViR add-on collection of historical instruments. Chopin preferred to compose and perform on Pleyel pianos and it was also used by other major composers, such as Debussy, Ravel and Stravinsky. The Pleyel sound can be described as round, warm and sensual. More details | Listen

Pianoteq is currently being demonstrated at Music Austria, Rieder Musikmesse. Here, Georg Watzek (piano builder, on the right) and Philippe Guillaume (Modartt, on the left) show real and virtual copies of a Schantz pianoforte.

Try out Pianoteq with all its add-on instruments at IMSTA Festa exhibition on September 25 at SAE Institute, 1293 Broadway, 9th floor, New York. Free entrance, pre-registration required. In a nice quiet room you can enjoy and explore the Pianoteq sounds being demonstrated by the pro pianist Julio Herrera (check out the interview with him on the IMSTA Festa website).

We now offer two new price worthy add-on collections:

Chromatic percussion (Vibes, Celeste, Xylo) 99 €

Rock (Electric Pianos, Clavinet, Rock Piano) 89 €

The new Xylo add-on includes a Xylophone and a Bass Marimba. These are similar to the vibraphone but are using wooden bars instead of aluminium. They are both popular jazz instruments and are also used in other musical styles from classical to Latin and rock. The Marimba add-on instrument is modelled after a modern five-octave French brand bass marimba whereas the Xylophone add-on is modelled after a modern 3.5-octave French brand.