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The Spectrum Profile is a wonderful tool... if you've ever played a Hammond Organ you will be familiar with the tonebars and how a seasoned player can simply look at the overall shape they form and know instantly the kind of sound that will be produced. From beautful flutes, bells and whistles through hollow reeds and crunchy organs to full strings and choirs. Judicious use of these bars can alter the basic 'sine' tone into something truly 'spectacular' [pun intended]. So too with the Spectrum Profile - I like to think of it as a far more advanced tonebar offering.

Here's an example of a subtle use...


Subtle Spectrum Profile used on NY Steinway Model D


..and this is what it sounds like...


CHOPIN - Famous Prelude in Em Op.28, No.4


Also these setting can be copied over just like the Velocity, Note-Off, Sustain and Aftertouch Curves ... me thinks the Excel spreadsheet is gonna implode !

J'adore ce logiciel !

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Smilie wrote:

The Spectrum Profile is a wonderful tool... if you've ever played a Hammond Organ you will be familiar with the tonebars and how a seasoned player can simply look at the overall shape they form and know instantly the kind of sound that will be produced. From beautful flutes, bells and whistles through hollow reeds and crunchy organs to full strings and choirs. Judicious use of these bars can alter the basic 'sine' tone into something truly 'spectacular' [pun intended]. So too with the Spectrum Profile - I like to think of it as a far more advanced tonebar offering.

Here's an example of a subtle use...


Subtle Spectrum Profile used on NY Steinway Model D


..and this is what it sounds like...


CHOPIN - Famous Prelude in Em Op.28, No.4


Also these setting can be copied over just like the Velocity, Note-Off, Sustain and Aftertouch Curves ... me thinks the Excel spreadsheet is gonna implode !

J'adore ce logiciel !

Beautiful Smilie,

Warmest regards,

Chris

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Beautiful Smilie

Thank you for your kind words. I think PianoTeq gives us so much to play with, there simply aren't enough hours in the day to fully explore the possibilities.

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Here's a second example of a fairly subtle use...


Subtle spectrum Profile used on Erard Player


..and this is what it sounds like...


BEETHOVEN - Sonatina No.1 in G (includes Romanza)


Je répète ; j'adore ce logiciel !

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Re: Just Messing About With Pro Spectrum

Here's a third example of a not-so-subtle use...


Not-So-Subtle spectrum Profile used on Erard Player


..and this is what it sounds like...


SATIE - Very loose interpretation - skip to the end for dramatic bells


J'adore ce logiciel; je ne peux pas le nier !

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Smilie, you're like an artist who has just met his muse! 

I am sure that I am not just speaking for myself when I say that you have broadened our minds as to what Pianoteq can do, in ways that we had not appreciated.  As opposed to artists who 40 years ago played with a Moog or a Yamaha to have fun in the world of the synthetic, you are showing us what it's like to play in the world of the modeled acoustic.

I love the delicacy of the Sonatina.  And, though I love Gymnopedie No.1, I agree that your modifications there are 'not-so-subtle'!

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Smilie, you're like an artist who has [...] broadened our minds as to what Pianoteq can do. You are showing us what it's like to play in the world of the modelled acoustic


Thank you for your kind comments...

..and I apologise to any composer living or dead whose music I've sacrificed on the alter of experimentation

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The progress of the present is built achievements of the past!  Long live the past composers!

B^D  !

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dklein wrote:

Smilie, you're like an artist who has [...] broadened our minds as to what Pianoteq can do. You are showing us what it's like to play in the world of the modelled acoustic


Thank you for your kind comments...

..and I apologise to any composer living or dead whose music I've sacrificed on the alter of experimentation

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DON'T YOU JUST LOVE IT TOO???

Yes I do love Pianoteq, and I also love what you are doing with it. Wow!!!

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"Yes I do love Pianoteq, and I also love what you are doing with it."

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