Modartt user forum - Mute button for Pianoteq standalone

Re: Mute button for Pianoteq standalone

2025-01-03T15:27:51Z

larrycalame wrote:

Steven Steele wrote:
Zaskar wrote:
Just click on the volume meter right above the volume slider. Muted.
Haha. I've been using PianoTEQ since v3 and I had no idea about that feature! OMG. Thanks for not totally embarrassing me.
It was a revelation to me too!

As far as I can tell (I am currently using both version 8 and version 7) this feature has been added in version 8 since it does not work in my version 7. So for sure nobody knew before.

That said, in my opinion, the problem is that PianoTeq chose the beaten path of making the interface "pretty" as have many samplers, especially the Kontakt based ones. Admittedly, PianoTeq interface is pretty and decently usable, whereas many of those samplers are simply impossible to use (or at least they were when I tried them about 3 years ago on my MacBook). I would highly prefer to have something functional, i.e. with a normal interface with normal buttons, fully resizable, rather than the pretty graphics hiding functionalities behind images. For example it took me forever to "discover" the small L next to the volume meter, and even the switch between Chromatic/Diatonic (and now Guitar mode) on the left of the keyboard. I did not need the latter, so that was not a huge loss, but I did need the former, so that was.

So in conclusion, PianoTeq GUI is less cryptic and more useful than the competition, so that it good, but I think that cosmetics is taking the driver seats with ease of use being a (rear seat) passenger when I think it should be the other way around.

Just my $0.02

Re: Mute button for Pianoteq standalone

2025-01-03T07:59:03Z

Steven Steele wrote:

Zaskar wrote:
Just click on the volume meter right above the volume slider. Muted.
Haha. I've been using PianoTEQ since v3 and I had no idea about that feature! OMG. Thanks for not totally embarrassing me.

It was a revelation to me too!

Re: Mute button for Pianoteq standalone

2025-01-03T01:20:06Z

Zaskar wrote:

Just click on the volume meter right above the volume slider. Muted.

Haha. I've been using PianoTEQ since v3 and I had no idea about that feature! OMG. Thanks for not totally embarrassing me.

Re: Mute button for Pianoteq standalone

2024-12-07T14:26:16Z

Just click on the volume meter right above the volume slider. Muted.

Re: Mute button for Pianoteq standalone

2024-12-07T10:55:24Z

Steven Steele wrote:

I often have Pianoteq open, even while DAWs or notation programs are running, (for a variety of reasons, including streaming and Zoom meetings). It would be great to be able to mute Pianoteq from within Pianoteq itself, instead of quitting or lowering the volume, or muting elsewhere.
Just a thought..

It's not a mute feature: But if you hit spacebar play/pause midi: it might achieve something similar

Mute button for Pianoteq standalone

2024-12-07T03:23:11Z

I often have Pianoteq open, even while DAWs or notation programs are running, (for a variety of reasons, including streaming and Zoom meetings). It would be great to be able to mute Pianoteq from within Pianoteq itself, instead of quitting or lowering the volume, or muting elsewhere.

Just a thought..