The Piano V now brings to the V Collection the king of all instruments, including a studio full of faithful models of various pianos, plus the ability to shape your piano sounds for a whole new level of control.The Piano V delivers, not one, but nine different world-class pianos that we've meticulously crafted using our critically acclaimed modeling technology. There are NO returns on this product, please be sure you have checked your system compatibility before you make your purchase. Your registration code and instructions will be emailed to you within 30 mins or less during normal business hours. The V3 pianos are much, much better, and I would willingly buy the app for the upgrade price, were I not patiently waiting for Arturia to give me a good Black Friday deal on an upgrade to VC9, which will already include Piano V3.This is a digital download. But then again, Arturia would have lost sales by adopting that approach, which is probably why I don't work in marketing. No way would I have bought them otherwise, because I felt we were being charged for the privilege of buying very-much-WIP software which really wasn't 'there' yet. I only ended up with Piano V1 and then V2 via my purchases of the V Collections they came in.

Had I been Arturia, I wouldn't have bothered marketing a modelled piano VST until my programming team could come up with something that sounded as good as these V3 pianos. For my purposes, that made them pretty pointless. The endless options of different piano types, lid positions, mic positions, reverbs and so on, never compensated for the fact they just didn't sound real.

For me, none of the pianos in V1 or V2 were usable. My favourite preset is the 1982 piano: finally, an Arturia piano that actually cuts through a mix. Piano V3 sounds waaaay more real than V2. It's all subjective but here's my opinion to take or leave.