Ideas, suggestions, bug reports... (Page 1 of 2)

Did you notice the possibility of playing step by step the MIDI file using the right arrow on the computer keyboard? The played keys are then a bright red, very easy to see. You can even play the file backward with the left arrow...

How many people knew this? Good to know, thanks for sharing.
Could the Midi section be upgraded to look like this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmQNMi695so
Rather than the thin strip at the top. It would be nice to see the music dropping over the keys. It could also make tutorials more effective.

I suspect that for many users of pianoteq, we consider it a software for recording piano for different projects and furthermore a software to use in daily piano play. Important for the users who work with recordings is usually that a program uses as little memory and power from the computer as possible.

For this reasons I would myself rather see Modartt focusing on sound alone rather then "teaching music" and flashy graphics which would probably consume memory and workload from the CPU.

I would instead encourage players to search the web for free learning programs for piano, there are soooo many out there you wouldnt believe. But last and foremost, I recommend having a human piano teacher rather then an artificial and too learn musical notes rather then looking at midi files and youtube videos. Musical notes is not hard to learn, its actually very simple. And once you learned it, a massive huge history of music is opened to you.

Just updated from Stage to Standard, and took the promotion to grab me the blüthner add-on

There's a setting under "design" in the upper right, called "duplex scale". When switching to the Blüthner, this parameter becomes "aliquot strings", but the tooltip still says "adjust weight of the duplex scale resonance".

(...if i'm not mistaken, this feature refers to the extra sympathetic strings on the blüthner, right?)

Not happening here...what version and what "package" (standard, stage) are you using?

Reviving this thread with a feature request:

preset management for "action", "mallet bounce" and "sound recording" sections, please :-)  Just like you have it with effects and equalizer already.

This is sort of rediculous, but if you want to fully mute Pianoteq make a velocity map preset with all velocities set to zero.

Even with velocity set to zero, notes are not completely muted, plus there's the action/hammer noises, pedal noises etc. that are not affected by velocity.

So, i say either this (volume to minimum == zero output) OR remember window positions so i can close pianoteq completely and re-open it without re-positioning everything the way i like.

(OR both )

I encountered a bug in Stage:

Select the D4 Honky Tonk preset

Change the Reverb type

Piano sound changes to "not" honky tonk.

An option to IGNORE program changes from .MID files!!!!

(and possibly other controls from midi files)

Hammer Noise, Blooming energy, Blooming inertia are the other three parameters that have Humanize. Hammer hardness is not something that needs to be humanized, really.

This can be done in Pro version.

More feature requests :-)

- round robin for key release samples (don't know if this already exists, sometimes they sound pretty machinegun like)

- key press down samples (when playing ppp I hear loud release noises but virtually no noise when pressing down a key. that is a bit odd)

- don't know if this is there already: velocity layers for key down / release samples

This would be very useful: on the prefs/settings window, MIDI OUTPUT device!!!!!! (for layering sounds in all kinds of ways)

Hm that sounds right.

I think I had in mind an old piano that makes some constant noise regardless of how hard you hit a key. So that for ppp, the noise becomes louder compared to the strings sound. This could be included in the condition control, a change of the key noise velocity dependence.

Stereo effect adjustment please. Current default value is little weak.

Not for STAGE.
Probably time for upgrade then :-)
How exactly is it done ? Do you have to manually place microphones to adjust it ?

Presets for the mic/output settings, like there is for velocity curve - would be very very useful, instead of having to "carry" them from one preset to another using freeze-paramteres.

Ah, nice. Now how do you load them into your current preset ?

nm, found it!

Just tested it on Mac (OSX 10.9.4) and it works correctly.

Confirmed. Tested with an arbitrary midi-file from the download-area:

$ ./Pianoteq\ 5/amd64/Pianoteq\ 5 --play --midi overtherainbow.mid

$ ./Pianoteq\ 5/amd64/Pianoteq\ 5 --version
Pianoteq version 5.0.1/20140526 -- http://www.pianoteq.com
Copyright (c) 2014 Modartt.

Hello everyone, it's been a while!

Just thought of two small feature requests that i personally would find useful, and probably others as well -- both concerning minor details in the user interface.

(1) The first one might seem a bit strange, but i noticed that the Mac version has the "close window" X button for native windows on the left (those windows managed directly by pianaoteq) following the mac interface, whereas the windows and linux versions have the close button on the right - following the interface of windows, and the default theme that comes with most linux distributions. However, i'm using a Mac-like theme in linux lately, and i've gotten used to having the close button on the left. It would be nice for the linux version of pianoteq to have an option for this.

(2) My second feature request is a systray/notify icon for pianoteq, so that it can run without mapping a window on the screen. Maybe two checkboxes "enable systray icon" and "start minimized to systray"? ...this way it would be possible to have pianoteq start automatically at normal desktop startup, without having to move the window out of the way each time and/or use a tool like devilspie or xdotool to do so.

Anyway, just a few thoughts.... and greetings to everyone, i haven't posted here in a while!

A simplified mode for microphones could be fun:
For example, it would be great to have a piano view with all the microphones together positioned correctly by the pianoteq's team, and then the user should only mix the volume of the different mics to his taste, without the need to change their place or the phase or nothing else. In fact, like an assisted microphone mode...
Actually, I feel that there is too much risk to alter the sound in a bad way if you change something to the microphones.

Custom presets stack instead of just A/B.

Currently I can work simultaneously with two presets, A and B, I can switch and sync it. It's very easy to lose your settings accidentally. Also it would be better if I can make comparison between 3 and more presets. My suggestion:

1. Arbitrary long working presets stack instead of just A/B slots. Using listbox I can load arbitrary preset than stored in the stack. Initially the stack is empty.
2. Save button to place current settings in the stack. No overwrites.
3. Empty stack button.

Meridian Audio's new Master Quality Authenticated (MQA) sampling technology, which is being licensed worldwide, creates digital audio files that in fidelity surpass every recording technique in history, according to several sources I've read. MQA will probably usher in a new golden age of recording and listening. The files are roughly the size of a WAV CD file so can be streamed and stored easily. The can be played on virtually all existing digital audio devices, but to get the benefits of MQA encoding, either special hardware (MQA compatible DACs, such as Meridian's Explorer2 selling for USD 300) or MQA-decoding software on your computer is required. This means that Pianoteq could one day produce MQA-level digital audio output for playing and recording. To take advantage of MQA, a "super-realism" mode for PT might make sense. Even if the latency of such a mode turns out to be unacceptable for playing live, it would still be very useful for producing and recording music digitally. I also think that samplers will be able to take advantage of MQA technology.