I have no Vstis so far and I only know them from these demos on the internet. I don't have an audio interface (sound card) nor a real computer that could run something like that (old and almost broken).
I'm especially interested in pianoteq and the garritan cfx.
my previously planned shopping list:
laptop: lenovo ideapad l340 (i5 9300h cpu and | nvidia gtx 1650 4gb gpu | and 8gb ram)
sound card (audio interface): focusrite solo
daw: reaper or cubase lite (I think this software needs the vstis to work and is free)
piano: yamaha arius 164 or clp 625
the system requirements are that you only need a modern multi-core processor, but is it the same with the vstis as with the pc games?: the better the hardware the better the game runs (fps) and with the vstis: the better the hardware the better does it sound or lower latencies.
modartt (pianoteq) finally advertises that the system requirements are very low compared to other vstis (garritan cfx)
You will need more memory. You shouldn't save there. That should be the most important thing. It doesn't sound better with a better PC, but internal latency is important. That means the components of the PC must work well together and the drivers must be well programmed, otherwise the system has a problem and dropouts.
Speakers must then be connected to the audio interface. That should also be clear to you.
Low latencies are of course always important. There are the internal latencies and more importantly the latencies that come from the audio interface and its drivers.
Do you want to buy a decent electric piano and also play on VSTis?
This time I want to find out everything before I buy anything. I bought a 61 key keyboard and am disappointed because of the enormous restrictions. What I want is a digital piano that has practically no restrictions. For example the arius 144. It has 88 buttons but only 2 sensors. Fast repetitions are not possible. Sure I'm a beginner but still I want to have the opportunity to do so. And if I think about spending the money instead of vsti, just put it on and buy a very high-quality piano, such as the roland hp 704, then it only has one piano sound and lots of functions and sounds that I will never use. Then I would practically spend my money on something that I will never use.
I also want to have internal sounds just in case my laptop breaks down or I don't feel like cables and just want to switch on and start playing.
And since you already mentioned "latencies": in this video 'john' wrote that today's computers are not "strong" enough, what does he mean by that? He's talking about internal latencies here, right?
Where does he address that? I do not find it.
What do you need VSTIs for? Why not a decent piano right away?
The piano doesn't have a lot of functions. I see very few there.
That is in the comments from the video.
with "functions" I also meant the over 300 sounds.
well. The sound of roland does not fit the moonlight sonata 1st movement. Just as an example. I would prefer to play it with a yamaha or bloodman (pianoteq). The quality of roland is just not very versatile.
and these vstis just sound great and are versatile, in contrast to the internal sounds of digital pianos. So I wanted the vsti.
Would this audio interface be better than the focusrite interface for my application?
https://m.thomann.de/de/roland_rubix22.htm
