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Topic: Altering the piano parameters

Hi, I'm checking out Pianoteq Ver 6 with the demo model.  Question: When I alter the currently used piano sound for a piece I'm working on presently, does that alteration stay with that piano every time I use that piano in the future? In other pieces? Or does each piano revert back to the factory original parameters when I later use that same piano in another piece? Will I always have the factory original to work with no matter what?  Thanks

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Re: Altering the piano parameters

Charlie Miller wrote:

Hi, I'm checking out Pianoteq Ver 6 with the demo model.  Question: When I alter the currently used piano sound for a piece I'm working on presently, does that alteration stay with that piano every time I use that piano in the future? In other pieces? Or does each piano revert back to the factory original parameters when I later use that same piano in another piece? Will I always have the factory original to work with no matter what?  Thanks


after you make alterations, save the changes as a user preset (My Presets folder).

the Factory presets are permanent. 

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chasmanian wrote:
Charlie Miller wrote:

Hi, I'm checking out Pianoteq Ver 6 with the demo model.  Question: When I alter the currently used piano sound for a piece I'm working on presently, does that alteration stay with that piano every time I use that piano in the future? In other pieces? Or does each piano revert back to the factory original parameters when I later use that same piano in another piece? Will I always have the factory original to work with no matter what?  Thanks


after you make alterations, save the changes as a user preset (My Presets folder).

the Factory presets are permanent. 

So does permanent Factory presets mean that they are safely protected and hopefully cannot be altered? Thank you.

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Charlie Miller wrote:

Factory presets mean that they are safely protected

Yes, it's not possible to ruin your defaults

Edit them all you like without fear, and if you make an alteration you'd like to keep (but not overwrite on the original default), then just click "Save", next Pianoteq pops up a dialog box allowing you to save this as a new preset with "... (Copy)" appended.

For example, using "Bluethner Cinematic", alter volume or other parameter, click save and you will see a dialog box "Save preset As..." and in the text field for naming your presets, you will see already "Bluethner Cinematic (copy)".

There is also a convenient drop-down menu, where can choose to save any of your edited presets to their own banks (or folders).. for example, I might have my own preset edits kept in "2019" or "2020" or "Live" and so on.

A further convenience is there also on the pop-up, "Preset Type" which defaults to "Full preset" - but you could just save sectional elements, such as "Equalizer preset" or "Velocity preset" and some 9 more.

Lastly, this may also be relevant; don't overlook "Freeze parameters".. if you mainly like a certain velocity curve, you can click the freeze parameters button and click "Note On Velocity" - and no matter what piano or preset you next choose, that velocity curve will be applied.

Such clever engineering - I've found, there's almost certainly a way to do practically anything we need with this software it's so well engineered from ground up.

Cheers.

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