Oh wow, dazric thank you so much!
Tried Hummel with the Grotrian - it's superb. Also just spent a little time with Steinway B and very impressed and keen to try it with others, incl. the period piano models.
Initial impressions:
Hadn't tried the Hummel (1 & 2) temperament - not sure how to describe - 1 seems very 'in place' whilst exhibiting all the character of something more worked and 2 is similar but with more 'filigree' and the way the multi-octave chords ring so true without being 'on rails' nor out of tune in some pointed way, is really superb, bringing greater life out of the instruments indeed.
Very sweet across octaves as if stretched a little without sounding as contrived as over stretching can - therefore good-to-go without sliding the 'condition' slider to the right to obtain a more lively, natural or organic sounding authentic 'singing' full body in the chords - and lastly there's seemingly no impediment to any set of triads at least in what I played (I might be missing some subtleties so soon into using it), so there's slim differential between what key things are played in, for 'corrective' effect. Love it. More time will certainly be spent using it.
That suggestion of the Hummel tuning is such an unexpected delight and a bonus to be gifted with - here are some .scl files on my 'recent files' list, I quite like for certain pianos/pieces.
barca (may still be a fav in a classical vein - no particular order for the remaining..)
bourdelle1
stopper
graupner
Recently CHas *via Alfredo Capurso mentioned in this thread
For further ref
That whole thread from page 1 is pretty illuminating - my thanks to all taking these levels of interest in this topic - past, present and future!
BTW - for those seeking out these tunings, they are downloadable from here:
Page with info:
Huygens Fokker scala files
The link to a .zip file at bottom of that page. Over 4700 scala files (text file size so not huge). I don't link directly to be polite (in the old school netizen sense) but also, there is some "how to" or RTFM instructions worth reviewing before trying to unzip the file on the above page.
Also it might be useful for some to just peruse a listing of all the tunings also from the Huygens Fokker.
This stuff all might seem too much to bother with and it might not matter for midi tracks in modern music (but it could help your trademark sound/style!), but in all seriousness, I do hold that the Pianoteq piano models can sound even better with appropriate tunings/temperaments. Also recommend anyone to consider downloading and applying convolution reverb files in Pianoteq (although the inbuilt reverb is fine) but that's prob for another thread.
Again thanks dazric - with 4000+ tunings, I've overlooked/missed Hummel until now and it seems to be jostling for my top 'recently used' placing already
Happy tuning all!
Pianoteq Studio Bundle (Pro plus all instruments) - Kawai MP11 digital piano - Yamaha HS8 monitors