If it's not there, you will need help from a Window's user (I'm on a Mac). MIDI services are built into the Mac, so no other item is needed. I think on Windows you may need a MIDI interface between the Numa and the laptop -- or maybe it is built-in to Windows 11 -- I don't know.
For a decent general introduction, try this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4revAw3lT4g
There are surely Windows 11 users here who can help you more.
]]>jocar37 wrote:I'm a MIDI moron, but I just got a Numa X 88 to demo and I can't get Pianoteq to play through the Numa keyboard. If I play Pianoteq's on screen keyboard, I get sound. But nothing thru the Numa keyboard.
It's not a matter of playing Pianoteq through the Numa. It's a matter of having the Numa keyboard trigger Pianoteq, giving you the same sonic result that you already get when triggering it using the built-in Pianoteq screen keyboard.
So first you have to connect your Numa via MIDI to your computer (there are many videos about how to do that depending on your operating system and MIDI interface). Second, once your Numa is a valid MIDI device on your computer, you have to tell Pianoteq to use it (Options | Devices). This assumes you are using Pianoteq stand-alone. If you are going through a DAW, it will have some way to do the same thing.
I'm using Pianoteq in standalone mode and Windows 11. I have a USB cable connecting my laptop to my keyboard. If you know of a video that describes how this works in this environment, I'd appreciate it if you'd share the link. None of the videos I've found described what settings I'd need to adjust, let alone how to locate them.
]]>I'm a MIDI moron, but I just got a Numa X 88 to demo and I can't get Pianoteq to play through the Numa keyboard. If I play Pianoteq's on screen keyboard, I get sound. But nothing thru the Numa keyboard.
It's not a matter of playing Pianoteq through the Numa. It's a matter of having the Numa keyboard trigger Pianoteq, giving you the same sonic result that you already get when triggering it using the built-in Pianoteq screen keyboard.
So first you have to connect your Numa via MIDI to your computer (there are many videos about how to do that depending on your operating system and MIDI interface). Second, once your Numa is a valid MIDI device on your computer, you have to tell Pianoteq to use it (Options | Devices). This assumes you are using Pianoteq stand-alone. If you are going through a DAW, it will have some way to do the same thing.
]]>Thanks,
Joel
Is there any chance that you'd share your velocity curve setting on the "Velocity Curve" forum? I've just checked and there's apparently none of the NUMA XGT
I'm not sure how this is supposed to work, but I uploaded my Numa Piano X GT Velocity Curve in the shared files, here:
https://forum.modartt.com/uploads.php?f...%20GT.mfxp
See this post in the velocity curves forum:
]]>Yes. One of the things I like very much with the TP-400 Wood action is the ability to send very low MIDI volume values. Easily < 17; <3 is possible.
Thank you for the clarification, I'm mor eintrigued now if possible.
Is there any chance that you'd share your velocity curve setting on the "Velocity Curve" forum? I've just checked and there's apparently none of the NUMA XGT
]]>The Numa X GT builtin sounds respond well to those low values. Pianoteq does too, but you will want to calibrate the keyboard to get anything at very low volume values (that is totally fine -- you may not want any sound with that low of a MIDI volume value).
About the "hot topic" topic: One reason this piano may not be a hot topic yet is the COVID and supply chain problems that set its availability back. I waited 4 months before ordering mine after launch, then another 9 (!) months for delivery (I got it in November 2022). My retailer offered several times to give me back my deposit, and to sell me something else. So I think it has suffered in popularity simply because not that many people have had one.
This is a Pianoteq forum, and this keyboard is excellent paired with that software. Still people talk about the internal Numa sounds with some hesitations. My tips: turn the volume on the presets up to 127 -- they default to 100 or 110 and I do find them muffled. Then, play them with a strong attack, unless you want that softened tone. On the whole, they are a bit "felted" and distant, which I attribute to the taste of the sampling engineers (as well as that questionable preset volume of 100).
]]>As an interface to Pianoteq, I can't recommend the Numa X GT highly enough
Thanks for your report, really helpful.
Have you been able to compare it to the FP90X (or any PHA50 action)?
I haven't tried the Numa XGT but I did try the FP90X with pianoteq and did like two critical things for me:
- Feel of the action (they say the pivot point is a bit longer here than in the TP400W)
- MIDI response in the sense I could send very low values in a consistent way as well as the higher ones, the challenge is normally the lower range though (from 0 to 20)
Not sure how the NUMA X GT would stack against the FP90X as a controller, some other users reported very positive experiences too but I'm wondering why isn't it a hot topic yet..
What I also like about the NUMA X GT on paper at least, is that it's a living instrument, they're continously releasing new sounds to download for free and install on the NUMA, also they've said that they're planing to expand the capability of editing sounds to more than the current 4 editable parameters available now (that was a reponse on YouTube to one of my questions).
I'm leaving here their last release in case it's of general insterest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8WU52nH5ZY
I have been playing piano for 64 years, on many, many different pianos, but the majority of the time on a variety of Steinway grands, plus one Bösendorfer.
I have also had several MIDI keyboards over the past 20 years, none of them more than "weighted" in a token way, none of them much good. I always felt they were just triggers in the form of a piano keyboard -- ok for producing a sound somewhere, but not even remotely like being inside the circle of awareness between mind, ears, fingers, and sound, that a real piano delivers.
Until the Numa. I am ecstatic. I can finally just play. And be in the music.
Of course, it's still not a piano. It's something else. But something really nice.
I feel that the Numa X GT eliminates one of the three problems with digital pianos: the linkage between my mind and the production of sounds. (The second problem is the tones themselves, and you all know the capabilities of Pianoteq in that regard; the third problem is the sound propagation medium, i. e. the playback system and room -- and that can never be anything like a physical piano -- that's just a reality of the game.)
As an interface to Pianoteq, I can't recommend the Numa X GT highly enough.
Happy new ears to you all.
]]>hey john,
I only had it for such a short time! my impression is that the touch is pretty close to the SL88 but improved of course! the keys are better weighted and what can I say: It felt better to me but I'm also very satisfied with my "old" one...
repetition works better on the new one: it feels a bit better in value if that makes sense=)
Thanks for the info.
]]>I only had it for such a short time! my impression is that the touch is pretty close to the SL88 but improved of course! the keys are better weighted and what can I say: It felt better to me but I'm also very satisfied with my "old" one...
repetition works better on the new one: it feels a bit better in value if that makes sense=)
a thought: this would have been great: french-italian connection: pianoteq software plus fatar keyboard - the sound of the numa pianos I find awful compared to PTQ or NI !!!
english is of course not my mother tongue, so it's hard for me to describe: I think the difference is marginal but It is still a difference and as soon as the tp400 is in a fitting instrument for me I guess I will get it=)
so. I have to go back to practicing=). greetings
]]>Hi, I just wanted to let "you" know:
Two days ago I got mine... and yesterday It went back
I have the SL88grand which I'm very satisfied with but I wanted to have that new keyboard-action: "fatar tp400 wood"!
So now, I maybe hope that in time there will be something more minimalistic like the SL88 with the new keybed... It's definitely an improvement over the tp40wood!!
Hi sadho, how does the new keybed compare to the old tp40wood, is it heavier or lighter?
]]>happy birthday just in case=)
lol thank you, I'm still enjoying the last months of my thirties but yeah sort of 40 already
I'm looking for a MIDI controller but cannot find anything that really makes the grade.. GF actions feel alright to me but they're flawed (sliptape issue) except for the latter GF3 which seems to have solved the issue, the same applies to the VPC action which I cannot recall.
SL88 Grand could be an option but too much negative feedback out there about quality issues and bad customer service, sames goes for the Numa X I'd say.
Roland, maybe an FP90X (PHA50) or it's little brother FP30X (PHA4), they both feel good although differently action-wise, still enjoyable in both cases, but I'll wait to see what this 2022 has got for us, NAMM is still in June to come and we might see the light then, just some patience
Regards,
David