Beto-Music wrote:

There was a mp3 demo on pianoteq site demonstrating how fast repetitions produced diferente sounds than a simple repetition of the same initial tone vibration string sound.
Like in a real piano.

You're right , it's still there (4th audio example):
https://www.pianoteq.com/listen_features

And this feature exist since the first beta version of pianoteq.

:-)

There was a mp3 demo on pianoteq site demonstrating how fast repetitions produced diferente sounds than a simple repetition of the same initial tone vibration string sound.
Like in a real piano.

You're right , it's still there (4th audio example):
https://www.pianoteq.com/listen_features

Regards,
Doubting Thomas.

if Pianoteq were able to model it by actually taking into account the state (shape, velocity etc) of the strings at the time of re-strike, the result might be even better.

This is what I meant, Pianoteq does take into account the state of the string at the time of re-strike, it is not a simple overlap

Now, if you're saying that Pianoteq is doing something more advanced than simply overlapping multiple tone generators, and we should not make assumptions from the voice count, then that's fine.

One thing I have noticed that Pianoteq does is that it seems to dampen the sound in what seems a realistic way. For example, with the sustain pedal down, if you play a forte note, and then quickly play the same note pp, you can hear the sound level drop markedly when that pp note is played.  A simple ROMpler doesn't do this.

Greg.

Repeated notes do not sound the same, you can hear how the longitudinal modes build up in the bass, or how phases cancel sometimes themselves depending on the string deformation at the moment it is hit by the hammer. Voice management also offers a lot of flexibility for less physically-realistic features such as dynamic changes of the model.

Regarding  a real piano's strings not cutting off, well, I disagree. They are "cut off" at the instant the hammer strikes them again, and re-excited. (in interesting varying ways, due to the fact that the hammer is striking strings that are already in motion)   If Pianoteq is overlapping voices, that most certainly is not how a real piano works.

If Pianoteq is overlapping, then perhaps, if it one day does model it instead of overlapping, the sound clarity might improve a bit for repeated notes with the sustain pedal. Just a thought. (not that I really notice anything wrong with the clarity as it is now, though)

Greg.