I'm wondering if what you're both hearing and not wanting is the key release noise? Open the Action menu in the Output section and drop this slider all the way down - you can turn this off completely if you like.

If you have a keyboard with key release velocity, Pianoteq varies the volume of the key release noise, which feels a LOT more realistic!

Hope this helps.

Add sticky pad return noise

You know you hear it

Thanks, though I think I should ask the question again to the employees I thought they maybe posted on the forum as well.

@Gilles

I see. I think I could try and use the internal delay then, see how that changes the output. Hmm seems like I have something to suggest to the Pianoteq team as another option ' turn off hammer noise completely', if I'm not being too pushy and/or expeditious. Pianoteq aims for realism but it allows for crazy experimentation too, so removing the hammer noise isn't too strange I think.

If you use the internal effects with D4, turning off the Delay effect and setting the Reverb Pre-delay to 0 might help.

I have two questions

1. I would like to remove or significantly reduce the hammer noise of pianoteq. I know it's meant to give a sense of realism, and it does, but in my productions because of the effects I use it gets amplified, while it shouldn't be. For example an external delay, the delay is added to the whole of pianoteq, including the delay sound of the hammer noise, while it should only apply to the string being hit. Even when set to 0 there's still some sound, which subsequently becomes amplified through the external effects. I've added a screenshot for clarity.

2. I would like to use screenshots of pianoteq in the blog about the synthesis of sound I'm planning to set up. It would be an educational blog about how sounds are generated. Am I allowed to use screenshots of the programme? Or would I be sued ?

Thanks in advance,