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Since I heard a lot of non pianist who do the same I think it is worth asking: have you tried using the sustain pedal (midi CC64)?

Holding down a key with the sustain pedal,

vs

holding down a key without the sustain pedal --

. . . the note's decay time is essentially the same.

That's how an acoustic piano works, and I bet the Pianoteq designers got it right.

.        Charles

Since I heard a lot of non pianist who do the same I think it is worth asking: have you tried using the sustain pedal (midi CC64)?

I play the piano.

SteveLy wrote:

You could do what electric guitarists do and use a compressor. I believe the effect is available on the Stage version. Or you could use an external one. Not as good as something that's built into the piano model but it works. If it's for gigs/church/etc it will definitely do the job. I use it sometimes.

I have used that for special effects, but for this I want beautiful sound. I mean classic, beautiful piano sound. Compressors and electrical guitars are beautiful, too.

I already bought the Standard version. I've been playing with the parameters. I'm using Pianoteq for rendering MIDI files which I generate by computer, and the problem I was having yesterday was the notes died too quickly. And now I can change that, and a whole lot more, too. Mic choices and mixing affects the musical feeling I want out of the pieces as much as the decay rate.

Initially I moved the sliders for various parameters a lot, but I'm discovering that the sound gets a little too "weird" and loses some general utility, so I'm now moving them only a little--but I can get a big change when more than one parameter works together toward my musical ends.

Since I heard a lot of non pianist who do the same I think it is worth asking: have you tried using the sustain pedal (midi CC64)?

You could do what electric guitarists do and use a compressor. I believe the effect is available on the Stage version. Or you could use an external one. Not as good as something that's built into the piano model but it works. If it's for gigs/church/etc it will definitely do the job. I use it sometimes.

I have used that for special effects, but for this I want beautiful sound. I mean classic, beautiful piano sound. Compressors and electrical guitars are beautiful, too.

I already bought the Standard version. I've been playing with the parameters. I'm using Pianoteq for rendering MIDI files which I generate by computer, and the problem I was having yesterday was the notes died too quickly. And now I can change that, and a whole lot more, too. Mic choices and mixing affects the musical feeling I want out of the pieces as much as the decay rate.

Initially I moved the sliders for various parameters a lot, but I'm discovering that the sound gets a little too "weird" and loses some general utility, so I'm now moving them only a little--but I can get a big change when more than one parameter works together toward my musical ends.

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Yes, but what are the options? Is there an option called "decay rate"? Can I affect the rate of decay of the high harmonics in particular?

The Soundboard Cutoff and Q factor sliders available in the Standard and Pro versions do just that, controlling the presence and decay of higher partials.

In fact, the significant thing is not necessarily the rate by which the amplitude decays, but the rate at which the high harmonics decay and lose presence. A note that gets quiet quickly is okay if the high harmonics are decaying only slowly.