Modartt user forum - Question about the PTQ EQ

Re: Question about the PTQ EQ

null@example.com (azrael4) — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:39:43 +0000

Thank you all for the help!
Now I use the EQ+the overtone sliders and get all I ever wanted! Really funny how knowledge blocks creativity and sometimes turnes out not to be knowledge at all.
I never found a discription on the pianoteq site-don't know why. Where is it to download?

greetings

azrael4

Re: Question about the PTQ EQ

null@example.com (Luc Henrion) — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 08:29:24 +0000

you know you can always count on my suggestions to give you more programming work :-)

Re: Question about the PTQ EQ

null@example.com (Philippe Guillaume) — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:03:59 +0000

I was expecting this suggestion Actually, we have in mind an alternative that will solve the problem, but it's a bit early to give details...

Re: Question about the PTQ EQ

null@example.com (Luc Henrion) — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:57:10 +0000

Hi Guillaume, could you maybe give the user the option to choose between both mode instead?

Re: Question about the PTQ EQ

null@example.com (Philippe Guillaume) — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:09:59 +0000

Hi all, you are absolutely right. As a matter of fact, when implementing this EQ, we thought it was interesting that it changes the timbre of each note without changing its relative loudness - the interest being that you can boost the low frequencies while still maintaining the overall equilibrium between bass range and trebble. This was possible to implement because the EQ acts on each note before it is computed, unlike a standard EQ which acts on the global audio flux (all notes mixed together). But this unusual way of working seems to be quite confusing, so for the next version, we plan to remove the normalization step, thus boosting low frequencies will both boost low frequencies of each note and rise the loudness of the bass notes.

Re: Question about the PTQ EQ

null@example.com (etalmor) — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:57:58 +0000

Hi,

The EQ is not a regular EQ. A regular EQ effect is a post process filter. PTQ's EQ is pre-process working directly on the model. Lesson 4 in the manual will give you a better idea ...

-- Eran

Re: Question about the PTQ EQ

null@example.com (creart) — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:01:29 +0000

Hi Heinke

What I have found is that the EQ uses a relative curve instead of an absolute curve...
this means that if you slide the total curve up, the overall sound will not change whereas you would expect all frequencies to be boosted....

Question about the PTQ EQ

null@example.com (azrael4) — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:33:33 +0000

Hi Everyone!
Playing around with all the PTQ sliders for a long time now, I never used the PTQ EQ very often. The EQ for me allways reacted so different from any other EQ I've used before. So is it an EQ in a usual way? For me it sounds more like a PTQ allgorithm-dependent parameter that influences the frequency values of the PTQ sound. It changes the sound more than, in my opinion an EQ could do. So please tell me if I'm right or wrong! (What ever I hear:"it drives me crazy!") I've to say that it is in deed very effective, but I do things with it I would't do with other EQ's.
please help me PTQ-team!

greetings
heinke