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Topic: Some recent improvisations with Pianoteq

Hello, Modartt community!

Long, long-time Pianoteq fan here - I've been using it for almost all my daily piano noodling since ~2012, although I first tried it as early as 2006. I have almost all the piano instrument packs now, as well as the harpsichord and classical guitar

This year, I set a goal to record and upload 50-100 free-form improvisations. The basic idea is: I sit down at the keyboard and noodle for a while, and if anything not-terrible emerges, I upload it This process is forcing me to think a bit more about structure and continuity as I improvise, and it's really highlighting the limits of my vocabulary (and the cliches I keep returning to). Most importantly, it's actually yielding some recordings, unlike my various abandoned composition projects over the years. I didn't think I would stick to the habit, but I'm at 52 improvisations and counting!

Here's the latest recording (#52), using the Kawai (Ryuyo preset) - the harmony gets maybe too silly, and the tempo control is... rough, but I think it turned out quite fun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcFFSVlV31g


A vaguely modern-jazz-sounding piece from a month ago: (Kawai Classical Recording)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL6akiwgwGk


Something gentler and less structured: (Kawai Ryuyo)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_o1V_cn7ZA


An older one from February, more melodic and simpler harmony: (Steinway D Player Wide)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vHlcUTzKWg


Thank you for reading and/or listening!

Last edited by paulroberts (24-08-2025 22:50)

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Re: Some recent improvisations with Pianoteq

paulroberts wrote:

Hello, Modartt community!

Long, long-time Pianoteq fan here - I've been using it for almost all my daily piano noodling since ~2012, although I first tried it as early as 2006. I have almost all the piano instrument packs now, as well as the harpsichord and classical guitar

This year, I set a goal to record and upload 50-100 free-form improvisations. The basic idea is: I sit down at the keyboard and noodle for a while, and if anything not-terrible emerges, I upload it This process is forcing me to think a bit more about structure and continuity as I improvise, and it's really highlighting the limits of my vocabulary (and the cliches I keep returning to). Most importantly, it's actually yielding some recordings, unlike my various abandoned composition projects over the years. I didn't think I would stick to the habit, but I'm at 52 improvisations and counting!

Here's the latest recording (#52), using the Kawai (Ryuyo preset) - the harmony gets maybe too silly, and the tempo control is... rough, but I think it turned out quite fun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcFFSVlV31g


A vaguely modern-jazz-sounding piece from a month ago: (Kawai Classical Recording)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL6akiwgwGk


Something gentler and less structured: (Kawai Ryuyo)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_o1V_cn7ZA


An older one from February, more melodic and simpler harmony: (Steinway D Player Wide)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vHlcUTzKWg


Thank you for reading and/or listening!

Hello paulroberts and welcome to the forum,

Very interesting
I absolutely think you should continue. it is worth it.
In short, I think about the first one, what a nice flow in the playing, I like it.
In second and third are some nice chords and you go from one to another nicely. About the fourth I think it sounds like something I have heard before, anyway well done with these "pieces".
Waiting for next upload

We are quite similar in a way, I upload songs all the time too. Some are my own improvisations but most of it is Bach music with Organteq and other composers. But I relax by playing in my free time, I am a caregiver for my wife in a wheelchair. Have uploaded 744 pieces ( yt/forum) so far since 2016, so with your speed you can soon catch me 

Nice to have you on-board
Here an example of my improvising

https://youtu.be/XrByI9DDyyw

Best wishes,

Stig

Last edited by Pianoteqenthusiast (25-08-2025 09:03)