A more realistic 3D view for precise mike placements also in combination with layers/morphing would be nice.

And Midi-out in IOS standalone mode please.

Here are my expectations for the next iteration of Pianoteq :

- unified mics presets : to allow same mics/positions on different piano models
- electric guitar model : the acoustic guitar is really really good, I enjoy so much playing it. Now it needs an electric guitar, so one can play rock or metal with an external amp simulation
- official Yamaha licence
- maybe a Fazioli model

Pianoteq is for sure the best VST I've ever played...it's just about music and expressivity, no other VST give me that.

www.etrangemusic.com

And that varies greatly depending on how you use it: if you play isolated notes or chords (or slow music), you can benefit from that “mastering-like” finish, but the more complex your performance is (many notes, lots of resonance, heavy pedal use, repeated notes), the more you’ll find all that to be excessive, because it wasn’t designed for that kind of use, and the sound will become too thick, and compressors/limiters or whatever will kick in to prevent the dynamics from blowing out—whereas that’s where Pianoteq shines like the sun, because it works like a piano, not like a collection of recorded piano sounds.

That said, you only have to look at the vast number of presets for each model—all so different from one another—to see the enormous possibilities available, both in terms of the model itself and the post-processing effects (compressor, equalizer, etc.).

My wish is that the lower notes have more impact. I know that a lot of VST-pianos have an over-emphasised bass response but the bass response in Pianoteq seems too 'polite', I don't feel the bass. Not enough resonance? Hope this will be corrected, or at least given the opportunity, in a next release or update.

I have to admit that I not very 'deep' into Pianoteq and perhaps I miss the know-how how to achieve this. If someone can enlighten me I would really appreciate it.

Greetings,

Rudie

Try adjusting the main Equalizer (as contrasted from the equalizer in the Effects pane, which of course can also be used to accentuate the bass range), increasing the levels for bass-range frequencies in the Main and possibly the Res EQ and Res Dur tabs of the main Equalizer to suit your preferences. In addition, if your version of Pianoteq includes the NoteEdit functionality, try adjusting, for the bass range only, the Hammer Hardness and perhaps the Volume, perhaps the Spectrum Profile for each note of the bass range, and/or other parameters.

I have to admit that I not very 'deep' into Pianoteq and perhaps I miss the know-how how to achieve this. If someone can enlighten me I would really appreciate it.

Greetings,

Rudie

Audio Modeling (SWAM) are already doing something like this, but with all due respect to them (I own some of their products), I have a feeling that Modartt could do it better. Besides, I think this could also be very good from a business perspective. After all, at the end of the day, developers need a stable and sustainable source of income from as broad an audience as possible, and that is perfectly fair.

1.The customer would purchase the general "engine."

2.The customer would then purchase each individual pack they need separately (roughly following the Pianoteq model).

This way, the developers would not have to take the risk of working on a huge project without being reasonably sure how quickly it would pay for itself. At the same time, they could reach an extremely broad audience, because this could cover everything from ethnic music, jazz, and pop to classical music from different periods and schools, including historically informed performers.

Essentially, what I am proposing is a physically modeled equivalent of EastWest Ethno World and Spitfire BBC Symphonic Orchestra and everything in between combined into a single ecosystem — but specifically for aerophones. And the number of potential future add-ons would be practically limitless.

I have absolutely no doubt that there would be enormous demand for this. VST musicians are constantly hunting for "exotic" ethnic-instrument libraries, historical instruments, and so on, but the quality and capabilities of these libraries are usually disappointing.

If something like a truly deep physical model of this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fue_(flute)

were to appear on the market or, for example, a "Baroque" pack (or single instruments) featuring relatively exotic instruments such as the chalumeau, oboe d'amore, etc., it would be a sensation in the VST world.

Now maybe one of my weirdest complaints about pianoteq, but I feel like the maximum velocity for the piano is just too low (with some presets/miking), especially when it comes to extremely powerful sections.
I feel like, with enough tweaking in the velocity section, I'm able to get the same sensitivity at a soft touch but get that xtra dynamic range when i really have to push into the keyboard. Also makes it easier for me to import recordings from a disklavier/prorecord into pianoteq.

A)  I hope Modartt  gives us  a completely reworked  Electric
Pianos section!!! Especially Rhodes varieties!

B) Electric &/or Acoustic basses

C)  Steel String Guitar (the Nylon is great!!)

D) Yamaha CFX   or Fazioli  pianos  !!!

thanks!   

I haven't been able to install and play with Pianoteq 9 yet, so I will hold off on adding more ideas to this thread for now. But I'm so glad that this amazing product just keeps getting better and better, and that there is a community helping to guide it forward.

Of course, if this were approached professionally, other parameters would also need to be adjusted, and in a much more scientifically rigorous way — including possibly some parameters that are accessible only to Modartt and not to Pianoteq Pro users. But overall, I don't think this would be a particularly difficult task for the developers (although perhaps adding an additional pedal keyboard to the interface would be less straightforward than I imagine).

My "rough version" of a copy of the instrument having extended strings of course is extremely inconvenient and impractical: any change to the instrument's general settings, such as microphones, tuning, etc., has to be made separately in both copies. So it would be really great to see a proper pedal harpsichord added to the Modartt collection, either as a separate instrument (for example, a physical model of a modern pedal Neupert, or simply something a la U4, i.e not a virtual copy of some real instrument but an “original Pedal Harpsichord from Modartt”) or even as an optional update applicable to all harpsichords and harpsichord-like instruments, provided that this is indeed relatively simple and would not take too many development resources away from the tasks currently on the roadmap.

I feel that such an instrument would be interesting not only to me. And, as far as I understand, this would actually be the first-ever VST implementation of a pedal harpsichord.

A "landscape" mode for the GUI.

Most monitors these days are widescreen/landscape and these arguably are useful as sheet music displays, perhaps with even more than two pages shown next to each other. On those aspect ratios, with more horizontal than vertical real estate, one is forced to use Pianoteq in a low resolution mode. It would be nice to have a "landscape" mode in which the output/instrument panel (and the keyboard beneath it), rather than being under the edit parameters section would be on the side.

These seem to be old posts, but for anyone wondering--
You can detach various Pianoteq windows and use Window-->Save window layout

Also please improve reconnecting to a disconnected audio interface. I move my laptop around all day, but Pianoteq can't tell when I've reconnected to my studio environment, and shows a banner saying "The device is not available or has stopped working." But this banner is wrong. I either have to restart the app, or go into device selection, select a different device, and then select the original device. This is clunky.

And perhaps something that works with the recorded midi to display live notation. Like the way chords are displayed, but souped up.

Most monitors these days are widescreen/landscape and these arguably are useful as sheet music displays, perhaps with even more than two pages shown next to each other. On those aspect ratios, with more horizontal than vertical real estate, one is forced to use Pianoteq in a low resolution mode. It would be nice to have a "landscape" mode in which the output/instrument panel (and the keyboard beneath it), rather than being under the edit parameters section would be on the side.

I know and appreciate the "compact interface" mode which tries to solve a similar problem, but it would be nice to have both sections available side-by-side rather than needing to scroll from one to the next.