dvdr wrote:

I recently fell in love with what they call "felted pianos" - a great, dark, very intimate sound, often used in "nordic style" soundtracks from composers such as Olafur Arnalds. I wonder, whether this could be achieved by somehow modifying the setup of Pianoteq Pianos? Or by creating one from scratch by the developer-team?

Here's a youtube video where a guy goes through various changes to make Pianoteq approximate a felt piano:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1Ng7QBLVxE

And here’s an interesting recent article on felt pianos: https://www.musictech.net/guides/essent...reatively/

I recently fell in love with what they call "felted pianos" - a great, dark, very intimate sound, often used in "nordic style" soundtracks from composers such as Olafur Arnalds. I wonder, whether this could be achieved by somehow modifying the setup of Pianoteq Pianos? Or by creating one from scratch by the developer-team?

Here's a youtube video where a guy goes through various changes to make Pianoteq approximate a felt piano:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1Ng7QBLVxE

Don't forget you can right click any pedal and change it to a "Celeste" pedal which puts a strip of felt in.

I didn't know that. Now I'm in love with the Celeste pedal. Thank you.

Just an experiment using the "Celeste Pedal" on the U4 Small preset and increasing its effect with the Spectrum Profile to create a quiet practice piano effect.

Franz Lehár's Merry Widow Waltz (snippet)

Here's the spectrum profile* used:

Spectrum Profile: 3, 0, -1, -2, -3, -5, -8, -13

     *You will, no doubt, recognise a Fibonacci sequence

On the second page currently (at least in my browser), there's "Unda Corda Corso Soundtrack" and "Yamaha(Olafur-Nils)2" worth trying.
This has been a topic on the forum before - a search for 'felt piano' might reveal some really interesting info from previous threads

Thank you very much for that detailed answer, that's what I was looking for. My mistake: I searched for FELTED - got no results. Using the proper term FELT PIANO does the trick.

Yes, great idea!

Thanks again to both of you!

In the FXP Corner, users have uploaded some presets which might be of interest along those lines.

On the second page currently (at least in my browser), there's "Unda Corda Corso Soundtrack" and "Yamaha(Olafur-Nils)2" worth trying.

This has been a topic on the forum before - a search for 'felt piano' might reveal some really interesting info from previous threads

A little trick, for rhythmic 'particle engine' type effects, you can use some of the effects in Pianoteq - I uploaded an FXP called "FilmEsque" a few months back (on the first page) to display that kind of effect as being possible, including 2 delays with different timings, not exactly like the felt piano's particle engine but certainly in the same world. Edit to your desired effect, change timing and tones and so on to suit.

I imagine off top of head, if you loaded say the "Yamaha(Olafur-Nils)2", then took the particle engine idea from "FilmEsque", you'd maybe have something getting really interestingly close

Other elements of the Felt piano sound, can be similarly achieved by using various sliders for things like blooming slider as well as tweaking heavily the spectrum profile sliders.

By hitting the "Random" button on top right of the interface, you can get a feel for what all the sliders do - and the kinds of results from really pushing things around can be further tuned to your liking if you randomly find something you like - just time and some interest in it is all it takes to get some fantastic custom treated sounds.

I really would like to work on a version of the FilmEsque FXP which is in that general ball park - may have time later this week.

Hope that's a worthwhile read.

I recently fell in love with what they call "felted pianos" - a great, dark, very intimate sound, often used in "nordic style" soundtracks from composers such as Olafur Arnalds. I wonder, whether this could be achieved by somehow modifying the setup of Pianoteq Pianos? Or by creating one from scratch by the developer-team?

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Similar to the Una Corda or Noire by Native Instruments.