my question: what is the procedure to update?
Is in Pianoteq 6 an upgrade process included or do I loose all the settings i have done in Nr 6.

If so, do i have to do a complete new installing process?

Thanks for help
Kai

Hi here is the answer from Pianoteq:

You should save your organ as an fxp file. In Pianoteq, click on the floppy disc icon to save it. You can then load it in version 7.

I have a lot more playing around to do, but I'm pretty confident that I'm going to grow into V7 just fine. Sorry for jumping to conclusions in my earlier post, Phillippe... Pianoteq IS still amazing

Here's a little clip of two pianos... the first half is a recording of a Kawai Baby Grand Piano, and the second half is Pianoteq tweaked to be as similar as I could get it: https://clyp.it/z2zbvzj0

This minor annoyance kills the mood and inspiration when I want to just pick an instrument and start playing.

Although i like the new way of keeping the velocity curve, i really miss the 'set as default' button to freeze all the other parameters during different sessions.

I LOVE the new features in 7 - everything sounds great!  My only issue is the freeze options being reset every time you open standalone, as mentioned above. This requires me to open my "baseline" preset that has the right settings I want to freeze, right click the freeze clipboard, manually select the 6 parameters I always freeze. (diapason, main volume, limiter, velocity curves, pedal assignments, local midi mappings) and click on the "X."  This minor annoyance kills the mood and inspiration when I want to just pick an instrument and start playing.

This is an issue for me too

julien wrote:

Can you provide instructions to reproduce this more or less reliably ? It probably depends on what preset you are switching from, and to. Sample rate might also be a factor, maybe even buffer size if there is an ugly bug somewhere. Of course it might be specifically triggered by morphed presets, or layered presets.

Hmm, I'll have to make notes next time it happens. So far I've only used the factory presets in v7. The glitch seems to happen when I'm changing instruments rather than different presets of the same instrument, but I'm not totally sure that's always the case.

I also noticed this yesterday when switching instruments (PTQ7 Stage on ARM), if I remember correctly I was switching around between the Bechstein, Bluethner and NY Steinway.

That minor glitch aside, thank you for an incredible new version! All my instruments sound much better and the NY Steinway is so good I bought the Steinway D instrument pack.

The Morph functionality seems very versatile, detailed and thoughtfully designed and implemented.
And it's nice to be able to quickly select between several common micing techniques (AB, XY, ORTF and mid/side) in the Output dropdown menu.

Yeah, I believe morphing will be huge as it is unique to the Pianoteq approach, even more so than layering. Many have requested this and getting it as part of version 7 is a wonderful surprise.

A question about output modes, i.e. changing from "Recording" to "Binaural", does this change anything under the "Effects" section in the Stage edition? Or is the output a completely independent parameter?

Changing from "Recording" to "Binaural" won't change any parameter value under the "Effects" section (regardless of the Pianoteq version).

For example, if reverb mix is set to 6 dB, it will stay at 6 dB regardless of the selected output. This looks natural, but it may be a bit tricky in the following sense: the reverb weight depends on the mics distance: the further away they are, the greater the weight. This per se is natural and follows the acoustic laws. Note that when I say that the weight is increased with the distance, I'm not saying that the reverb mix parameter is increased: this one stays at 6 dB in our example. But the physics itself, working "under the hood", has increased the reverb weight because of the increased distance, and you will hear more reverb.

In short: the perceived reverb in the ouptut modes (sound recording, mono/stereo and binaural) may be different if the distances of the mics is not the same in each case. As we have only one reverb parameter for the four states of a builtin preset, this cannot be avoided. It is not a problem as you can adjust the reverb for each case by creating your own presets, one for each output if necessary.

Regarding "Binaural" output difference between "Steinway D Classical" in V6 and "HB Steinway D Classical" in v7: we have changed the head position (which can be seen if you open the mic section in standard or pro), it is closer to the piano in v6 than in v7. Consequently there is more reverb in v7 than in v6, which is what you observed ("more distant").  Similar comment for other presets of this instrument.

Interesting! Thanks for confirming that. A question about output modes, i.e. changing from "Recording" to "Binaural", does this change anything under the "Effects" section in the Stage edition? Or is the output a completely independent parameter?

You're right, I totally forgot about the Effects section. I was able to get satisfactory results with the NY and HB Steinway D "Classical" and "Pop" presets by changing the Reverb preset to "Clean Studio" or "Dry Room":
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/...sp=sharing
The new "Classical" and "Pop" presets still aren't the best for my very subjective preferences. But I'm glad that this is all basically just a question of configurable presets, not a fundamental problem with the Pt7 model changes. As a matter of fact, I'm really liking the first two in my above folder of examples.

Thanks again to Philippe for his expertise!

If wasn't the digital stuff around hin, but just a portion his controller (which front looks like a grand piano) on the frame, who would say it was a digital emulation?

I'm a bit curious about the introduction of double polarisation, now used for string/soundboard modelling.

I found this, from 2015. But it's very technic :

https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio...no_strings

The bass is non long again, but more natural than ever.

tzinieris wrote:

Hi all.
The new Pianoteq 7 seems great.
However, I can only run the 64-bit stand-alone version because the 64-bit VST version cannot work with my VST Adapter for Sonar.
This VST Adapter works with 32-bit .dlls only.
That's a pity since I cannot use it in normal projects. I can only use a 32-bit .dll version but there is none in version 7 (afaik).

Is there any hope to see a 32-bit VST .dll in a future update of Pianoteq 7?
I need it to work with VST Adapter for my Sonar Application (it's an old version of Sonar).

Notice: pianoteq 6.7.3 did have a 32-bit VST .dll version.

Could Reaper be an answer for you? You can "demo" it like for ages if needed, officially, for free.

I have a specific workflow in Sonar for years now and would be great to employ the pianoteq ver 7 as well. Thanks anyway!

Hi all.
The new Pianoteq 7 seems great.
However, I can only run the 64-bit stand-alone version because the 64-bit VST version cannot work with my VST Adapter for Sonar.
This VST Adapter works with 32-bit .dlls only.
That's a pity since I cannot use it in normal projects. I can only use a 32-bit .dll version but there is none in version 7 (afaik).

Is there any hope to see a 32-bit VST .dll in a future update of Pianoteq 7?
I need it to work with VST Adapter for my Sonar Application (it's an old version of Sonar).

Notice: pianoteq 6.7.3 did have a 32-bit VST .dll version.

Could Reaper be an answer for you? You can "demo" it like for ages if needed, officially, for free.

Is there any hope to see a 32-bit VST .dll in a future update of Pianoteq 7?
I need it to work with VST Adapter for my Sonar Application (it's an old version of Sonar).

Notice: pianoteq 6.7.3 did have a 32-bit VST .dll version.