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Topic: "Pure Imagination" - Steinway B Recording 1

Thought I'd share a recent recording using Pianoteq: "Pure Imagination", which has long been a favorite of mine and simply can't hear it often enough. Couldn't resist adding my own spin to it :-)

SoundCloud link: https://soundcloud.com/kerri-shotts/pure-imagination

Performed on Yamaha NU1X; rendered with Pianoteq 8.3 w/ Steinway B Recording 1 as the base preset in Logic Pro 11. I removed the reverb on Pianoteq, replaced with Logic's ChromaVerb (Cathedral) preset. Adjusted pedal noise to -12db. All other parameters on the preset are unchanged.

Logic Mastering Chain: Tape Delay (22.3ms) -> ChromaVerb (Cathedral, 0% Attack, 75% Size, 70% Density, 3.5s Decay, 80% Dry, 20% Wet) -> Linear EQ (low cut) -> Compressor (Vintage VCA, -40db threshold, 1.4:1 ratio, 0db make up, 0.7 knee, 26ms attack, 48ms release, -12db auto gain) -> Adaptive Limiter (Soft limiter preset, -1db)

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~Kerri

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Re: "Pure Imagination" - Steinway B Recording 1

Nice "sweet rag" !

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KerriS wrote:

Thought I'd share a recent recording using Pianoteq: "Pure Imagination", which has long been a favorite of mine and simply can't hear it often enough. Couldn't resist adding my own spin to it :-)

SoundCloud link: https://soundcloud.com/kerri-shotts/pure-imagination

Performed on Yamaha NU1X; rendered with Pianoteq 8.3 w/ Steinway B Recording 1 as the base preset in Logic Pro 11. I removed the reverb on Pianoteq, replaced with Logic's ChromaVerb (Cathedral) preset. Adjusted pedal noise to -12db. All other parameters on the preset are unchanged.

Logic Mastering Chain: Tape Delay (22.3ms) -> ChromaVerb (Cathedral, 0% Attack, 75% Size, 70% Density, 3.5s Decay, 80% Dry, 20% Wet) -> Linear EQ (low cut) -> Compressor (Vintage VCA, -40db threshold, 1.4:1 ratio, 0db make up, 0.7 knee, 26ms attack, 48ms release, -12db auto gain) -> Adaptive Limiter (Soft limiter preset, -1db)


Absolutely magical , and beautiful. Thank you for this  amazing piece of art.

This is humble, elegant and emotional, magical playing... and a beautiful sound! Steinway B is the right piano here. Nice slow intro - love it! And the ”flow” from about 1,30 - excellent.
And nice ending, a real surprise

Adding your own spin to it, that made this piece a gem.
So wonderful of you to share your artistry.  Thank you!

Your version is different from all other versions on Youtube, might be the best version ever, because you didn't change too much. People improvise too much and then the feeling disappears.
Listening to your playing several times, it always goes straight to my heart.

Thank you Kerri

Best wishes,

Stig

P.S. I don’t know if there are meny Kerri’s but have to ask if it was you, when young, that self-learned BASIC on your Commodore 64? 

if so, I just want to mention that I also experimented with C 64 and BASIC! I bought a sequencer program C-Lab Scoretrack via Germany and made music with Roland U-20. Midi does not require memory at all, so 64 was enough. a guy here in Finland took part in a music competition on TV in 1987 and came second, just by pressing play and standing next to the Commodore computer. I made singback music for the pupils at school and we performed with "Commodore music" Roland U-20 sound. Also had a computer club in the evenings at school. Bought 10 C64 for school. My colleagues thought I was crazy but the students really enjoyed themselves.
Well, we had a bit of same interests…and today I am still experimenting, now trying to get a hammond sound from Organteq! A church organ!

https://forum.modartt.com/uploads.php?f...WurTeq.mp3

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Re: "Pure Imagination" - Steinway B Recording 1

very lovely take on this tune!  beautiful

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Re: "Pure Imagination" - Steinway B Recording 1

Thanks to everyone who replied :-) Your kind comments made my week :-)

Pianoteqenthusiast wrote:

P.S. I don’t know if there are meny Kerri’s but have to ask if it was you, when young, that self-learned BASIC on your Commodore 64?

I did indeed self-learn BASIC on my beloved C64 as a child—it's on my to-do list to get around to restoring my C64 at some point. Need to get a bit more experience under my belt w/ electronics before I try that though, since I don't want to clobber the machine! (It still works, as of about a year ago, astonishingly)

Pianoteqenthusiast wrote:

if so, I just want to mention that I also experimented with C 64 and BASIC! I bought a sequencer program C-Lab Scoretrack via Germany and made music with Roland U-20. Midi does not require memory at all, so 64 was enough. a guy here in Finland took part in a music competition on TV in 1987 and came second, just by pressing play and standing next to the Commodore computer. I made singback music for the pupils at school and we performed with "Commodore music" Roland U-20 sound. Also had a computer club in the evenings at school. Bought 10 C64 for school. My colleagues thought I was crazy but the students really enjoyed themselves.

I never had the opportunity to experiment w/ MIDI and the C64, but I'll give partial credit to the C64 for encouraging my love of music! The SID chip alone was an amazing instrument to be able to play with (although I recall it being a bit challenging to do so easily from BASIC). And at some point we had one of the music notation softwares, so was able to write my own tunes as well... something I still try to do from time to time now (but wish I had more time for). When I transitioned from C64 to PC and I was learning the Pascal programming language having notation software was so important to me that I went and wrote my own (complete with printable output and adlib support, IIRC). I dabbled in trying to do multi-voice sample playback as well, although I can't say may attempts were all that great, lol.

Love that you were able to engage students with music and technology using the C64—I still think that it (like many computers of the era) was a great introduction in the concepts around computing and how you could apply those to creative arts. No better way to get some concepts across than seeing or hearing the results!

Pianoteqenthusiast wrote:

Well, we had a bit of same interests…and today I am still experimenting, now trying to get a hammond sound from Organteq! A church organ!

https://forum.modartt.com/uploads.php?f...WurTeq.mp3

O.
M.
G.

Jaw literally on the floor.

I've been wishing Modartt would do a Hammond organ (would be an insta-buy from me)... but that sounds amazing. Totally cool!

Cheers,
~Kerri

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