New to this. I bought my wife a Korg microkey2. I downloaded the pianoteq demo and it worked perfectly right off the bat with my wife's windows laptop. But I was wondering if there is a free version.

I understand that a free version would not be nearly as nice and won't have all the features. She doesn't want features. She only wants to plug the keyboard into the USB port and for piano sounds to come out of the speakers when she plays. That's it.

I'm struggling to find software that will do that. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place. I can't get kontakt free version to even open, and I'm pretty sure that's not what I want anyway. And I can't get A73 to work with the keyboard at all.

Are there any simple options to just play a piano on a windows laptop with a midi controller?

Also, a full size keyboard is not a good option for us. We live in a very tiny space, hence the 61 key midi controller.

If pianoteq is the only decent plug and play option then eff it, I'll just buy the cheap version. But I wanted to know if there was a free alternative that we could try first.