What follows is a short demo of a famous traditional tune played on the usual Equal Temperament (12-TET)

https://forum.modartt.com/uploads.php?file=12-TET.mp3

Now the 3rd note of the major scale is tuned to give a perfect interval - hear the difference...

https://forum.modartt.com/uploads.php?f...%205-4.mp3

Finally the 3rd and 5th are tuned to perfect intervals - this results in a stretching of the octave as you can see in the image below

https://forum.modartt.com/uploads.php?f...%203-2.mp3

How is all this so easily possible ???

I'm trying out PitchGrid - an innovative approach to tuning. It doesn't just stop at 12-semitone temperaments as I've demonstrated above; there's a lot more to delight and discover - you can check it out here: https://pitchgrid.io/

Let your music take on a whole new flavour - change it through the piece; the world of tonality has just got more colourful !!!

PS - I haven't been paid to bring this exciting plugin to your musical ears. I just think it's a product well worth looking at and when (I say WHEN) MTS-ESP comes to Organteq I'm going to have a part of my own ... though I won't be drinking Champagne or any alcohol - I don't like the taste, or the effect (but that's another story - though not as exciting as this one - CHEERS PITCHGRID and MODARTT !!!).

Steinway D (HB) Live Recording
- 4 Mic preset, 2 close 2 room.
- Changed Delay, a little EQ, and totally changed reverb.
- Don't know what I did with the spectrum profile, but just played around with it untill it sounded natural enough to me.
- Change velocity curve to what you want. This is only used for the demo file.

Demos:
Chopin Ballade No2, Op.38
Scriabin Etude Op 8 No 12
Rachmaninoff Moment's Musicaux Op. 16 No. 4
More available on the shared files page.

Unfortunately, the middle to upper register of the piano still soua snds synthetic and a little on the plastic side (atleast to my ears).
Any input would be well appreciated. Getting the tone right was almost purely by hearing, which took me hours on end to get to get right, so don't expect something thats immediately perfect the first time you try it. I'll update this mulltiple times, probably to the point where each update takes weeks to improve something.

(yes I know its a steinway, I don't have other references for other instruments. might do later)

I would need some hints on how to make the Electric Pianos of Pianoteq to sound similarly to Yamaha DX7 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xsw7Gm3dXg
Every hints and tips are highly appreciated.

Best regards,
Adrian

I am looking for a Pianoteq License that has the instruments K2 and Electric. Just in case someone wants to sell

Unfortunately the installer has the dreaded NO SMOKING symbol on top of it, so I cannot install it.

And yet, when I asked the AI in my browser what the specs are it responded: "Pianoteq 9 requires macOS 10.12 or later..."

So according to my browser AI, this should have worked for me. What are the REAL system requirements, please?

I'd like to sell my Pianoteq 9 Std. license with these packs:

Bösendorfer 280VC
Shigeru Kawai SK-EX
U4 Upright Piano

I'd like to have 179€.
If you're interested shoot me a message.

Best regards,
Marcel

So I would like to ask directly: why is it that, now that we have reached Pianoteq 9, Modartt has not yet included a dedicated factory velocity curve preset for such an important keyboard, especially when competitors like VSL and ViLabs have already done so?
I am aware that Kawai's VPC Editor software includes a dedicated Pianoteq curve, but I would like to have one developed directly by Modartt (unless that specific curve was already created as an official collaboration between Kawai and Modartt).

I would like the experience to be with hardly noticeable latency and no noticeable buzz, yet with minimal muddiness. 

I would just be playing in a room, no stage performance.  I love the piano sound I hear from Pianoteq and would like to upgrade my instrument choices to that.

First is the inability to permanently disable the champagne animation.  Figured it'd be a "one and done" thing, but no.  I've reached out to support directly on this earlier today (1/2 hour ago, so I'm not expecting an answer immediately.)

The second, is the new virtual keyboard animation at the bottom.  Can we please have the old one back?  The 3D effect is "cute", but the delayed release of the keys make it more of a distraction than anything.  Try doing a glissando, and you'll see what I mean.  It's like a crowd doing "the wave" at a sporting event.  Yes, we can hide the keyboard, but sometimes it's nice to be able to use it.  A quick up and down of the key (i.e. no slow returns to unpressed) is perfect.  The mantra, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" really comes to mind here.  Please, at least give us the ability to use the other one, or disable needless animations altogether.  My $0.02.

Would love to hear other people's feelings toward this.  Maybe I'm just old... 

2nd should have been.
Yes, but maybe allow either through settings.

I have a straight piano keyboard background so learning the new layout presented a challenge. I certainly wasn't happy to prod the keys with two index fingers as seen on some YouTube videos nor to have my elbows stuck out at complete right angles to play chords.

With these factors and others in mind, I've been teaching myself to use to use all 5 fingers to allow legato playing, though mostly 2, 3 and 4 seem to cover most needs.

If you want to look at my ideas they're on the Exquis Discord forum under #Keyboard (user Selinita)

Just to show you what I mean - a simple Major Scale...

https://youtu.be/VH0FepCVE_U

Btw, I think the Pianoteq harpsichord is one of the best sounding VSTs ever. But I think the quality gets worse with tunings away from default though. Anything I can do about that?

If the purchaser desire to upgrade to the latest version of the software the upgrade fee is €29 that she/he shall pay directly thru to the Modartt web store after the purchase.

The software includes 4 instruments packs: Steinway Model D, K2 Grand Piano, Blüthner Model 1, Electric Pianos

Note: Cross-listed on Knobcloud. First time-stamped message secures the license.

I have a Kawai Novus10S that I really like to play in its out-of-the-box settings, but I recently got to the impression that some notes are not matching the rest of the keyboard very well (I am particular worried about G#2). The Kawai people told me that this can't be, so this may be a feature rather than a bug...

Looking for an alternative sound engine, I decided to treat myself to Pianoteq Stage 9 with the Steinway D models and the Shigeru Kawai (a shame really since I live in Braunschweig, the home of the defunct Grotrian and the still-alive Schimmels). I connected the Novus through a USB-A (out from Novus) and 3.5-mm (into the Novus) cable, switched the sound engine of the piano off and gave it a go.

The first impression through the Novus speakers was disappointing with all of the Pianoteq presets, but using headphones (plugged into the computer) sounded quite promising. I don't like playing with headphones very much, though.

I therefore wonder if there is anyone in this forum who could give me a bit of advice how to use the Novus speaker system better without too much tweaking.

Cheers,

Wulf

PS: Happy birthday, Modartt - it is great to see scientists working on something that helps culture and arts!