Topic: 105 keys, great!
more than great, magnificent! :-)
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Woah!
- cat
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I agree. But what kind of gear would you need to make your own keyboard sound like that.Almost all the Pianotec demos sound fantastic, but I must admit that the sound I get from my trial version is VERY far from that. Anyway, you can enjoy what others are doing.
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- Luc Henrion
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the thing is that I'm only able to practice about 2-3 hours a day. If I could double that, no doubt I would be able to equal the demos... ;-)
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Please note that we just found a bug (related to dampers and harp resonance) in the version 3.6.5 and have re-updated it. So if you have installed it before this message was sent, I suggest that you download it again, sorry for that !
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Nice surprise, it's always a delight to read about new features via the forum. "You heard it here first!"
Now I'm curious to hear about appropriate hardware solutions to effectively play with that extended range without resorting to sequencing and changing octaves via MIDI while playing. Is there a 2 octave weighted keyboard that could be used to cover the final octaves (and use the standard 88 key controller for the A-1 range on up)?
Nice demo, Joe. Of course, now you need to change your name to jfelice105keys
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Hmmm... Why should one spend much money to get a keyboard in order to access notes that sound like a helicopter hitting an overhead power cable...
Well, thanks anyway, it doesn't hurt at all and I do not have to use the additional range (-:
BTW sometimes I wish some of the pianoforte models had an extended note range, but extended to the 88 key standard would be more than sufficient for these.
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I really like this, it could add some roughness and "drama" to some bass notes. I imediately went to work and invented a "4 hand" version of a piece i did for a video game:
http://www.forum-pianoteq.com/uploads.p...notune.mp3 audio not available
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It's quite an old post, but still, I bring it back to life for two reasons.
Firstly, I wanted to ask you if the following reasoning makes sense : even if we don't use the 105-keys extended notes, they still count when we use the pedal - which means richer resonances (but also, marginally, a loss of realism : the 105-keys D4 will NEVER sound as a real Steinway D, since the real thing has a whole octave less non resonation. So, virtually, PTQ might be better than the real thing, at least under this aspect !).
Does this actually happen in PTQ ? Or the extra notes are somewhat activated only when we actually use them ?
The second reason is Jope's post, which in my opinion raises a good point : for the pianofortes and the hitsorical pianos, there should be at least a preset comprising 88 keys - as in the case of the Neupert harpsichord.
(maybe this is easily possible in the STD version, but I couldn't possibly know since I'm still using using the Stage version)
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Xain wrote:
It's quite an old post, but still, I bring it back to life for two reasons.
Firstly, I wanted to ask you if the following reasoning makes sense : even if we don't use the 105-keys extended notes, they still count when we use the pedal - which means richer resonances (but also, marginally, a loss of realism : the 105-keys D4 will NEVER sound as a real Steinway D, since the real thing has a whole octave less non resonation. So, virtually, PTQ might be better than the real thing, at least under this aspect !).
Does this actually happen in PTQ ? Or the extra notes are somewhat activated only when we actually use them ?The second reason is Jope's post, which in my opinion raises a good point : for the pianofortes and the hitsorical pianos, there should be at least a preset comprising 88 keys - as in the case of the Neupert harpsichord.
(maybe this is easily possible in the STD version, but I couldn't possibly know since I'm still using using the Stage version)
You said "since the real thing has a whole octave less non resonation". Please explain what you mean by this.
Ian
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I think the question is: if the simulation models more strings than the original has, do these strings change the sound. I.e., does the virtual grand sound any different in the bass since it has a few bass strings more? My guess would be: yes, but only subtly so.
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Beemer wrote:
You said "since the real thing has a whole octave less non resonation". Please explain what you mean by this.
Ian
It means that I forgot to delete a part of a previous sentence ! "non resonation" isn't supposed to be there
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It was not easy to find the "Extended keyboard range switch" in new 5.1 version, but finally, I noticed it
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Kridlatec wrote:
It was not easy to find the "Extended keyboard range switch" in new 5.1 version, but finally, I noticed it
Where? Where? Wheeeere?
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kalessin wrote:
Kridlatec wrote:It was not easy to find the "Extended keyboard range switch" in new 5.1 version, but finally, I noticed it
Where? Where? Wheeeere?
)) In the left lower part of PT keyboard there is small sign of minus
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@kridlatec: found it, thanks.
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Kridlatec wrote:
It was not easy to find the "Extended keyboard range switch" in new 5.1 version, but finally, I noticed it
That switch is great! Anyway, it would be more intuitive to me if the instruments had their original range by default. Since an ideally round + button is not misinterpreted as a design shape of the interface that easy it would also be easier to find the function.
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