Topic: Achieving truely rich and colorful sound in Pianoteq
Hi, everybody.
It's me again I've spent some time now configuring and experimenting, also learning how to handle my piano a bit Now it's time for the final showdown "Pianoteq vs my high expectations of it" I'm well prepared now, and ready to provide my current settings: link
...as well as a record of a certain piece I've been learning all that time to show you how it sounds in my Pianoteq. Please bear with my horrible playing for a little while
My outmost goal now is to achieve sound as close to the one can be heard in this video (you can watch without downloading): link
So far, my closest results had been achieved with this configuration:
Model: K2
Preset: Dreamy
Mint: 0.20-0.30 (it's just sounds more authentic and sort of richer when it set around this level)
Curve: standard "Moderately Slow Keyboard"
Effects: everything left at default, only "Reverb" preset changed to "Medium Hall"
Sound processing and output: internal sound card + pair of "studio" headphones for ~100$
Here is the result produced by Pianoteq's "Export to wav" feature, using settings you can see on picture provided above: link
It's not bad, still, while I don't have that great hearing ability, but even I can spot right away that sound in the reference video is WAY richer. And to reach even this somewhat lesser "richness of sound" I must use this reverb preset, i.e. sound produced by clean model itself can't be compared with it at all, it sounds way too simplistic when I use "Clean studio" reverb preset instead: link
So, my Pianoteq is able to produce similar sound only with huge amount of equalizing.
I'm lacking experience/knowledge to point out how exactly it's richer, though. Thus I don't know what setting of Pianoteq I should tweak to get similar sound with preset with lesser equalizing, like that " Clean studio" one.
Could somebody more experienced take this midi, apply the same basic settings I mentioned, and then find out required set of adjustments one need to apply to achieve almost the same sound on Pianoteq? You can use ANY model present in Pianoteq.
To make things easier, you are not limited to Stage I'm using (still let's not resort to using Pro, it's not that affordable), and at least could you also try not to use reverb presets changing original sound that much as "Medium Hall" does? It doesn't appear to me the room in the video is THAT huge and that much affects original sound of piano. So I expect Pianoteq be able to produce similar sound by sheer model capabilities, not by some equalizer features.
Many thanks in advance to anyone who will be able to find some time to spend on this.