hello guys, my first time here , love the pianoteq 8 so far. just wonder if anyone out there has a suggestion to make a piano sound to match the nord white grand ? i have the standard pianoteq 8. cant quite get the piano to sound as good as my Nord. i have the upright/Kawai/one other grand.any suggestions would really help...
just wonder if anyone out there has a suggestion to make a piano sound to match the nord white grand
Hmm sounds similar to the steingraeber to me (or perhaps the Hamburg Steinway D). I would start from one of those, maybe rein in the sympathetic resonance a bit (sample libraries stuggle with that so sympathetic resonances are usually reduced). I'd also boost the treble in the Equaliser tab by maybe 3-5dB.
That White Grand also looks to be recorded pretty closely, so I would experiment with moving the close (virtual) microphones around in pianoteq's microphone panel.
daddyben wrote:just wonder if anyone out there has a suggestion to make a piano sound to match the nord white grand
Hmm sounds similar to the steingraeber to me (or perhaps the Hamburg Steinway D). I would start from one of those, maybe rein in the sympathetic resonance a bit (sample libraries stuggle with that so sympathetic resonances are usually reduced). I'd also boost the treble in the Equaliser tab by maybe 3-5dB.
That White Grand also looks to be recorded pretty closely, so I would experiment with moving the close (virtual) microphones around in pianoteq's microphone panel.
would compression help ?
would compression help ?
Hard to predict! I'd give it a try. You can use the Comp effect, or reduce the "Dynamics" slider (which acts as a "perfect compressor")
I have a Nord stage 4, the white grand is sampled from the Steinway B-211. I've created a modified Steinway Model B preset for that and uploaded it in the FXP Corner to get close to that sound. What I did was capture the EQ profile and dynamics of the white grand on my nord stage 4 (init preset for the white grand), and then recreate that sound in the Steinway Model B model in Pianoteq (if you don't have that model B model, you can try the preset in demo mode in pianoteq 8).
you can find it over here:
https://forum.modartt.com/fxpcorner/index.php
look for the preset: Steinway B White Grand
There is an audio demo attached to it.