MaliceX wrote: just thinking what if Pianoteq could 'sound' like your old digital piano/ROMpler/digital tone module, but far, far more expressive?
That's a great point MaliceX As much as I love classical piano, as realistic as it can get with Pianoteq, I've always made mostly various types of modern music.
We're beyond spoiled for choice in terms of musicality with a good keyboard + Pianoteq - as clean as I need or as heavily-produced too if it's the desired aesthetic.
Although I don't tend to attempt to edit for an exact replica of digital piano sounds of old, I often do temper Pianoteq presets for a mix in ways which are reminiscent of the production values associated.
In the past, using those old keyboards/sounds, I would have been mostly entering MIDI data, playing a rough block then editing/quantizing etc. rather than playing things completely into a modern piece. Now, it's a joy to pick a Pianoteq piano and preset, play and then edit with much more life to the result.
It's almost always a production choice, whether the piano works in context either clean or given a lo-fi treatment of sorts.
Mostly though, in my case, the lo-fi or over-production usually takes place via plugins in a DAW - but I do have plenty of strange lo-fi FXPs which I've made too. Like Key Fumbler mentions, Pianoteq Standard and Pianoteq Pro will make this a snap.
They way I work, I don't know though, if I'd really want to load in an older digital piano sound having 'escaped' now to the future
Pianoteq Studio Bundle (Pro plus all instruments) - Kawai MP11 digital piano - Yamaha HS8 monitors
