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Topic: Is there a Vibrato effect on Pianoteq6?

Hi,
I just made a very bright and (artificial sounding) preset with very long and bright sustain, yet without any effects on it. It sounds like there is a slow and very subtle Vibrato effect on it. Sort of a tape wow effect. Is that built in to add realism? Or is it just the harmonic structure evolving that makes the ear perceive it as sort of a tiny pitch modulation?

Small demo here: http://www.dropbox.com/s/1ymwdzhtyfsxmv...t.mp3?dl=0

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Re: Is there a Vibrato effect on Pianoteq6?

User123123123 wrote:

Hi,
I just made a very bright and (artificial sounding) preset with very long and bright sustain, yet without any effects on it. It sounds like there is a slow and very subtle Vibrato effect on it. Sort of a tape wow effect. Is that built in to add realism? Or is it just the harmonic structure evolving that makes the ear perceive it as sort of a tiny pitch modulation?

Small demo here: http://www.dropbox.com/s/1ymwdzhtyfsxmv...t.mp3?dl=0

Cheers,
Thorsten

Yes, there's an effect called "tremolo" that gives you several options and adjustments.

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Re: Is there a Vibrato effect on Pianoteq6?

Thank you, but you misunderstood my question. I am not asking for an effect that I want to add, I am asking whether there is a pitch modulation, or Vibrato effect, already there, which is always applied as part of the Pianoteq modelling. At least I am hearing something like it, though it is really at the limit of perception.

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Re: Is there a Vibrato effect on Pianoteq6?

Quite a sound!

I hear what you are hearing - it's shimmering high frequencies due to the extremes of the settings used to get that great forceful sound.

There are a lot of things to do which can make it louder or lessened.

Maybe a first thing to try would be sliding the 'condition slider' to the right and see if any of the elements alter this in a positive way. If not..

If you'd like to temper that aspect, you could experiment with unison width, or stretching/changing the tuning a little, (experiment with selecting 'full rebuild' instead of 'string tension' in advanced tuning) removing some high overtones and bunch of other things in the Pro version will allow really to zoom in on per-note or a small range etc. In Standard and Pro you could make small adjustments to mic placement or stereo balances, until you get those frequencies more 'central' which might avoid some phasing.

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Re: Is there a Vibrato effect on Pianoteq6?

Thanks for the reply. I don't really want to change the sound, I think this shimmering or floating sound of a chord on pedal down is natural. I only noticed the pitch drift up and down and asked myself if that is actually real physics, or just some trick to mimic natural sound.

BTW Unison is already at zero, and stretch at 1 (natural), Zarlino tuning.