About computer power, Athlon are horrible and can't be compared as said the manufacturer in terms of equivalency. My Athlon it's said by manucfatures as like a 3.0 Ghz Pentium in performance, but do not handle well on Pianoteq as a Pentium 3.0ghz.

I use the C1 Deep, mainly, but that is because the concert preset, creates problems. It appears that my 4 year old computer, single core 2.8 GHz and 2 GB of RAM (which is somewhat irrelavent in pianoteq), is not able to keep up.

So my question now (or should I start a new thread?)

I'm looking for the best (most realistic) preset. Even if custom made. Or a combination of two presets maybe? Any ideas towards that?

Nikolas

Hi everyone,

We are curious to know which preset that you use the most. You can select more than one in case you use several presets just as much. Feel free to comment. Thanks.

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As for myself, I mainly use the Bechstein (incredible in the upper register).
I also use Erard, depending on the pieces.
And less frequently : C2 chamber.

I would really love an old Pleyel preset ! for example based on a pianino built between 1850 and 1880.

I tried to reduce the hammer hardness of Bechstein, but didn't goth the sound I wished.  Maybe Phillippe could created a worked version of Bechstein, fine tunned carefully (using adjusts not present for the Pianoteq users interface) to allow Bechstein became more warmer and soft.

About the earlier C1 presets, like jazz and the rest, I found them way inferior to the C2 Camber and C2 Concert presets.

1. It sounds really good in the octaves below middle C and the middle C octave. Great for playing slow blues. At low and middle velocities, there's that nice, hard to define sound--maybe a combination of the sympathetic resonance, the cabinet, and the slight detuning of the unisons. Almost a rattle. Love it.
2. It's "ambiance" is good: not too distant, not too close.
3. Has more wood in the sound than some of the other presets.
4. Has some bite, but is not too crisp or metallic.
5. At the same time, it can sound fairly liquid, without becoming too smooth and entering into the sine tone realm.
6. Maybe 3-4 above mean that the dynamic range is good. There are distinct changes in the timbre at different velocities, so the the low velocities are neither too crisp nor too sine-tonish and the high velocities are bright without getting too crisp\metallic too fast.
7. It's good for fast jazz playing--has enough body to sound good, but it still lets you play solos without the notes dying too fast or lingering too long.

cheers
Hans

So far, 10 people have voted for the "M1 Jazz" preset, which got almost as many votes as the "C2 Chamber" one ! But nobody commented on it yet, so I'm wondering what is the reason that make so many people prefer the M1 Jazz to all other presets ?

As for the addons which aren't listed above, I quite enjoy a blast with the F.E. Blanchet for that extra bite!

doug wrote:

In passing, there are a few presets I'll never use twice; is there a way to delete or hide them?

sorry, you can't

btw, just a thought: if instead of being built in, most presets were available as add-ons, then one could choose the ones to have in the Pianoteq*\Add-ons folder. Not sure what would be preferable...

I ended up making ".fxp" shortcuts on my Windows desktop (with the icon being an image of the actual piano used).   I "drag and drop" the shortcut to Pianoteq to activate the preferred add-ons.

We are curious to know which preset that you use the most. You can select more than one in case you use several presets just as much. Feel free to comment. Thanks.

Actually, it's Blanchet (plug-in) for listening (C2 chamber for playing myself).

The plug-ins are a real big plus to the Pianoteq concept!

(How about a 'real' Rhodes Mark I ?)

Regards
Peter