Right-click on the pedal you want to assign and select from the menu list.

Sure enough. As simple as it could be. Thank you.  Pianoteq continues to impress me with how good it sounds and how well it is designed.

Lexiavor Bachmaninoff wrote:

... what really marveled me is the new buff stop pedal: finally a "lute stop" that really sounds like a lute! You can also use it on the free harpsichords from the KIVIR collection and on every Pianoteq instrument: I tried it on the Model B and it was quite awesome!

How do you configure Pianoteq to use the buff pedal with the Model B instrument? (I think the buff-pedal "lute stop" sounds great too.)

Right-click on the pedal you want to assign and select from the menu list.

... what really marveled me is the new buff stop pedal: finally a "lute stop" that really sounds like a lute! You can also use it on the free harpsichords from the KIVIR collection and on every Pianoteq instrument: I tried it on the Model B and it was quite awesome!

How do you configure Pianoteq to use the buff pedal with the Model B instrument? (I think the buff-pedal "lute stop" sounds great too.)

Thanks for this magnificent performance!  This really shows how wonderfully suited the Harpsichord can be for modern music.  Very inspirational!

Thanks, I greatly appreciate it. Each movement is in a fairly different style -- I think the harpsichord is a lot more flexible than a lot of people might assume. 700 years later and it still has potential!

Glad you liked my improvisation Stephen -- this new Ruckers practically plays itself.

For those of you interested in seeing a demonstration of what this harpsichord model can do with two keyboards inside a DAW, I've got a video I'll share below.

Thanks for this magnificent performance!  This really shows how wonderfully suited the Harpsichord can be for modern music.  Very inspirational!

For those of you interested in seeing a demonstration of what this harpsichord model can do with two keyboards inside a DAW, I've got a video I'll share below. This is the 4th movement from my Suite for Harpsichord -- Reanimation. I just premiered it over the weekend on a beautiful French style harpsichord; actually not so different from the Ruckers.

I've got a very recent Kickstarter campaign going for a new album -- primarily original piano music (which will be recorded on an 1890's Knabe concert grand), but it will also include this Suite for Harpsichord and also a Suite for Synthesizer which was written specifically for three heavily-modified Pianoteq instruments. If you're interested, here's the Kickstarter link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/10...ichord-and

Sorry about the shameless self-promotion!

https://youtu.be/kQ9uceuOn7M

A controller doesn't give the same feel as an acoustic grand or a church organ either, but it is good enough for me.

Good MIDI piano controllers are a lot closer to acoustic instruments, and most modern pipe organs actually use electronic controllers anyway (have done so for many years, often wirelessly) so they've been pretty well researched and executed. Digital Harpsichords & Clavichords are much more of a niche market.

Thanks! I'll check it out when I get the chance.

Fatar do some nice classical organ keyboards and some of those might be the best suited I'm told, but harpsichords still feel very different.

That's what I use... a set of three keyboards from www.midiworks.ca manufactured by Fatar and using a "tracker touch" release.  To me, it does feel quite realistic for playing a harpsichord model.

I was simply suggesting that if a person had two MIDI keyboards, each could be used to play a different harpsichord manual (keyboard) using different MIDI channels, if Pianoteq were to allow that configuration option.

You can do that easily inside a DAW host.  Just run two instances of Pianoteq, each one responding to a different MIDI keyboard, and each one implementing a different registration on the Harpsichord model.

Re playing live, if each register/combination of registers is allocated to "spare" keys at the ends of the keyboard, register changes can be effected as quickly as with an acoustic harpsichord with hand levers.  All you are missing is the ability to play one manual with one hand and the other manual with the other hand, as in the Italian concerto, French Overture and the Goldbergs, for which 2 physical manuals are needed. "Run-on" links in the French baroque repertoire are also tricky and a second controller/manual would be useful.  However, look what we are getting for the price of a midi controller and the cost of Pianoteq + instruments.  As an acoustic performer of more than half a century it is nothing short of miraculous. And with Modartt's track record of product development it can only get better!

It might be useful, for those who have two (or three) MIDI keyboard controllers stacked one on top of another, to be able to specify in Pianoteq that (for example) one of the manuals of the harpsichord be controlled by one of the MIDI keyboards (using MIDI channel 1, for example) and the second manual (2nd keyboard) of the harpsichord be controlled by the second MIDI keyboard, sending messages on MIDI channel 2. Then one could play their two or three stacked MIDI keyboards as though they were playing and switching between the various manuals of the harpsichord in real time.

Anyway, beautiful instrument. Couldn't resist purchasing it. And Nathan Shirley's improvisation sample at this harpsichord's webpage at PianoTeq.com is great. The other samples of music by Handel, Couperin (Mysterious Barricades is a favorite piece) and Rameau also demonstrate the Hans Ruckers II to great advantage.

The weakness of digital harpsichords is not in the sound but in the keyboard one uses to play them. There is no MIDI controller I know of that feels even remotely close to a real harpsichord. If you just want the sound that may not matter, but folks who'd use the accurately modelled instruments most are early music students and professionals. For them there is nothing I know of that fills the niche need for authentic feel. Fatar do some nice classical organ keyboards and some of those might be the best suited I'm told, but harpsichords still feel very different.

My spouse, who studied early music at tertiary level (though she's primarily a pianist) reckons that some of the modelled harpsichords sound very good but they are let down by the mechanics of keyboards that feel nothing like a harpsichord. If anyone knows of suitable MIDI controllers, I'd love to hear about them.