Modartt user forum - Modelling 'fake' sampled pianos in Pianoteq

Re: Modelling 'fake' sampled pianos in Pianoteq

2019-09-13T00:07:16Z

MaliceX wrote:

just thinking what if Pianoteq could 'sound' like your old digital piano/ROMpler/digital tone module, but far, far more expressive?

That's a great point MaliceX As much as I love classical piano, as realistic as it can get with Pianoteq, I've always made mostly various types of modern music.

We're beyond spoiled for choice in terms of musicality with a good keyboard + Pianoteq - as clean as I need or as heavily-produced too if it's the desired aesthetic.

Although I don't tend to attempt to edit for an exact replica of digital piano sounds of old, I often do temper Pianoteq presets for a mix in ways which are reminiscent of the production values associated.

In the past, using those old keyboards/sounds, I would have been mostly entering MIDI data, playing a rough block then editing/quantizing etc. rather than playing things completely into a modern piece. Now, it's a joy to pick a Pianoteq piano and preset, play and then edit with much more life to the result.

It's almost always a production choice, whether the piano works in context either clean or given a lo-fi treatment of sorts.

Mostly though, in my case, the lo-fi or over-production usually takes place via plugins in a DAW - but I do have plenty of strange lo-fi FXPs which I've made too. Like Key Fumbler mentions, Pianoteq Standard and Pianoteq Pro will make this a snap.

They way I work, I don't know though, if I'd really want to load in an older digital piano sound having 'escaped' now to the future

Re: Modelling 'fake' sampled pianos in Pianoteq

2019-09-12T11:56:03Z

Get yourself to Standard or Pro for more extensive adjustments to the sounds in the presets, you could simulate that sound yourself!

Have a look in the FXP corner too.

Modelling 'fake' sampled pianos in Pianoteq

2019-09-12T10:56:57Z

Just a curious thought. Seeing as the majority of piano players may not necessarily own nor have nor can afford a real acoustic piano but are very familiar with the tones that come out of digital pianos for the likes of the Big R, Y or the two K brands, has anyone considered thinking about trying to model those fake signature piano tones you find from the keyboards of those brands, in Pianoteq? It's a bit of a flipside seeing as part of the attraction to Pianoteq is modelled realism without samples, but just thinking what if Pianoteq could 'sound' like your old digital piano/ROMpler/digital tone module, but far, far more expressive?