Topic by stonerome

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Topic: Issues with Damper Pedal

I've read a couple of recent posts addressing issues with the damper pedal, primarily on the D4 piano. Here's what I'm seeing:

Either within my DAW, or using the native player, I can depress the graphical sustain pedal and hear a very noticeable "reverb-decay" type artifact. I've tried different piano pre-sets, turning on/off effects, etc and it still there.

This manifests when playing back my midi files that have sustain pedal on/off messages - you very clearly hear that artificial sound effect happening any time the pedal is engaged.

Am I doing something wrong - is this normal? I do mostly "new-age" style playing utilizing the sustain pedal a great deal - and as many of my recorded passages feature nearly or completely solo piano, this is very noticeable.

Thanks for any help -

Reply by sebion

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Re: Issues with Damper Pedal

are you using continous pedal messages? If not the pedal noise will be too loud. You can lower its volume in the action section of pianoteq(sustain pedal noise is the parameters name).
This is normal as pianoteq assumes progressive pedal messages and if it gets a pedal on message all of a sudden it has to assume the pedal was kicked with full speed, thus creating a loud whoosh sound.

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Re: Issues with Damper Pedal

Thanks Sebastian - wasn't using continuous, so that pedal setting (how I missed seeing that, not sure!) did the trick. Thanks much - Cory