It was not easy to find the "Extended keyboard range switch" in new 5.1 version, but finally, I noticed it

That switch is great! Anyway, it would be more intuitive to me if the instruments had their original range by default. Since an ideally round + button is not misinterpreted as a design shape of the interface that easy it would also be easier to find the function.

Kridlatec wrote:

It was not easy to find the "Extended keyboard range switch" in new 5.1 version, but finally, I noticed it

Where? Where? Wheeeere?

)) In the left lower part of PT keyboard there is small sign of minus

It was not easy to find the "Extended keyboard range switch" in new 5.1 version, but finally, I noticed it

Where? Where? Wheeeere?

You said "since the real thing has a whole octave less non resonation".   Please explain what you mean by this.

Ian

It means that I forgot to delete a part of a previous sentence ! "non resonation"  isn't supposed to be there

It's quite an old post, but still, I bring it back to life for two reasons.

Firstly, I wanted to ask you if the following reasoning makes sense : even if we don't use the 105-keys extended notes, they still count when we use the pedal - which means richer resonances (but also, marginally, a loss of realism : the 105-keys D4 will NEVER sound as a real Steinway D, since the real thing has a whole octave less non resonation. So, virtually, PTQ might be better than the real thing, at least under this aspect !).
Does this actually happen in PTQ ? Or the extra notes are somewhat activated only when we actually use them ?

The second reason is Jope's post, which in my opinion raises a good point : for the pianofortes and the hitsorical pianos, there should be at least a preset comprising 88 keys - as in the case of the Neupert harpsichord.
(maybe this is easily possible in the STD version, but I couldn't possibly know since I'm still using using the Stage version)

You said "since the real thing has a whole octave less non resonation".   Please explain what you mean by this.

Ian

Firstly, I wanted to ask you if the following reasoning makes sense : even if we don't use the 105-keys extended notes, they still count when we use the pedal - which means richer resonances (but also, marginally, a loss of realism : the 105-keys D4 will NEVER sound as a real Steinway D, since the real thing has a whole octave less non resonation. So, virtually, PTQ might be better than the real thing, at least under this aspect !).
Does this actually happen in PTQ ? Or the extra notes are somewhat activated only when we actually use them ?

The second reason is Jope's post, which in my opinion raises a good point : for the pianofortes and the hitsorical pianos, there should be at least a preset comprising 88 keys - as in the case of the Neupert harpsichord.
(maybe this is easily possible in the STD version, but I couldn't possibly know since I'm still using using the Stage version)

http://www.forum-pianoteq.com/uploads.p...notune.mp3

Now I'm curious to hear about appropriate hardware solutions to effectively play with that extended range without resorting to sequencing and changing octaves via MIDI while playing.  Is there a 2 octave weighted keyboard that could be used to cover the final octaves (and use the standard 88 key controller for the A-1 range on up)?

Nice demo, Joe.  Of course, now you need to change your name to jfelice105keys

Cheers to Modartt!
Chris