I'm still hoping that at some point the Electric Pianos will see some further development also, to include a good chorus effect. I believe we'd have a pretty complete standalone piano solution at that time. Running Pianoteq standalone, on a laptop, with a good controller keyboard, would be all a gigging piano player would need.

That having been said, chorus for the EP's seems like such a SMALL thing to ask for....

lol guys guys,
what we need is an upright piano and a Hohner Pianet,
you can get all this outboard FX stuff for free elsewhere.

Oh, my, why didn't we think of that already?  All of our problems would solved!!!

(Crashing back to reality.  %^)

Oh, goodness -- another great idea!!!

We're going to keep MODARTT quite busy...  If they'll let us!

I think without having a chorus option, the EP's are better off with NO effects, other than reverb. Bummer. (I'm definitely showing my age here).

Yes you are.  (Ouch!  Oh, my right hand just smacked my left wrist for that.  ;^)

And...  er, I emphasize what Mario's said (about the "effects box" and redesigned/resizable interface).  Onward to Pianoteq 4???

(Coming to a computer near you in 2011?)

Pandora's Box it is!!!

(In the meantime:  let's start a chorus for the "Chorus."  %^)

I think that Pianoteq could benefit from being an all-in-one pianos+Epianos+vintage pianos+effects product

I think that's a cool idea too, EvilDragon. But like you said, anything that elaborate would probably need a fair amount of redesigning.

Personally, I'd be pretty happy with just chorus, which I think the EP's really could use and should have. For that alone, a minor tweak to the GUI could probably do it (say exchanging the wah-wah control for a chorus control on the Wurly and Rhodes add-on).

I used Pianoteq last night on a gig for the first time, and overall the acoustic pianos sounded GREAT (just needing a little tweaking)! The EP's without chorus (I tried substituting a small amount of wah or tremolo) didn't cut it. I think without having a chorus option, the EP's are better off with NO effects, other than reverb. Bummer. (I'm definitely showing my age here).

I often wish I could drag the GUI larger rather than have it stuck in that little box ... with most programs and websites, in fact!

But I think that for such an elaborate effects section, Pianoteq really needs to re-think its current GUI. That's why I think, if Modartt intends to put some new effects on board, they should wait for v4, which should have:

1. redesigned interface
2. freely resizeable interface

Greg.

SOOL... good one dhalfen! I hadn't seen that one before..

I'm full of 'em.  (NOT literally.  At least on average.  ;^)

But the lack of a chorus effect takes some of the pleasure out of what is otherwise a pretty elegant total solution to a gigging piano player's needs.

I would have to say that the "chorus" (well, tine-detuning) feature already found in the electric-piano add-ons probably "distracted" folks from the fact that a _true_ chorus effect wasn't put in place.  Of course, the original instruments required you to use external pedal effect for chorus, phaser, overdrive, etc. -- but these pretty much became part of the standard gigging setup. 

So, even if the Rhodes and Wurlies themselves didn't feature these effects onboard, the "legacy" of their usage with these electric pianos practically demands some sort of implementation.  (Just like the wah-wah with the Clavinet.)  Authentic performance tradition trumps authentic instrument tradition in this case!

(Goodness, in 80 years, we'll probably have folks arguing about the "authenticity" of using such effects -- just like HIP classical folks argue about the use of vibrato now.  Of course, they'll have plenty of reference recordings from our time in the future, whereas we're a little SOOL for audiophile recordings from the 1800s.  ;^)

Chorus is a standard effect that's usually found in electric piano software, and wah-wah isn't. We're used to hearing a Clavinet with wah-wah, but that's about it. How often do we use, or hear, Clavinet as opposed to Fender Rhodes and Wurlitzer- not often. Perhaps if Modartt would exchange the wah-wah for a chorus effect in the EP's other than the Clav??

Although I've got Lounge Lizard Session and Elektrik Piano, I'm using Pianoteq's EP's because the add-on makes PTQ an all-in-one piano application. But the lack of a chorus effect takes some of the pleasure out of what is otherwise a pretty elegant total solution to a gigging piano player's needs.

Seriously, though, this would be a nice feature and would certainly improve the "standalone" experience.

Obviously, if you're using Pianoteq in a host, then your options are already excellent for external effects plug-ins of this nature.  (I could name a ridiculous number, all good to great -- no shortage of hits to your wallet!)