[ Closed ] Modartt video contest 2025 - entries (Page 2 of 2)

Hi! Here is my cover of Oceans. It's not perfect, but it's just mine :) Hope you enjoy!

https://youtu.be/kdeWobDMAS8

https://youtu.be/b5DrIRljmOM

Here is the Maple leaf rag recording, I played with Pianoteq 9 using the NY Stenway model.

Hey guys, this is my entry for this year’s contest. Cómo Le Digo Al Corazón? (How Do I Tell My Heart?) is a song I wrote during a difficult moment in my life. It has lyrics, but the version I am presenting for this contest is a piano arrangement. The song is a bachata and will be released next year. I invite you to stay tuned for it. Thank you, and I hope you enjoy this version.

https://youtu.be/dqFH-YaPCg8

Glad you felt some emotion, budo !

Here is my entry: a performance of the piano intro of the beautiful track "MYUNG Theme" by Yoko Kanno.

The Petrof Mistral piano needs more love!

https://youtu.be/C6Aeee-6SOs

Watch as I Try and Replace my Ex (Patrice Rushen) by AI and PIANOTEQ

Okay, maybe just replace a piano!

MODARTT Video Contest Entry:

Do watch but listen also to the audio thru monitors or quality headphones…

AI uses

1. Piano Transcriptionist

2. Logic Pro Stem Separation

3. iZotope De-reverb

4. iZotope De-plosive

5. sonible smart:comp 2

6. sonible smart:EQ 4

7. DaVinci Resolve AI Super Scale (4x Enhanced)

Starting points to note

• “Cry Me A River” is a song written by Arthur Hamilton (October 22, 1926 – May 20, 2025).

• The YouTube video Mariza & Patrice Rushen - Cry Me a River features “Cry Me A River" originally wrote for Ella Fitzgerald by Arthur who while writing, was also anticipating she would sing the song within the film production Pete Kelley’s Blues.  (However it eventually was dropped from the production.)

• About the YouTube video, I was struck upon my hearing all the audio.  With its hot mics and pops alongside the distant sounding piano, the video shows a definite departure from the usual pristine recordings I used to get when I wanted just to hear my ex’s voice and acquired phonographs and CD players for myself to listen to her playing, and whatever else had previously been released on records and compact discs by Arista and also Electra Records.  (Labels that pressed several recordings of hers.)

• Now to me this track, what I got from the video, appears to have hastily been mixed.  The mixer who’d been responsible for the final audio might had been affected by often casual appearances, today some of the jazz performers’ take on impromptu sessions.  Face it; he indeed might not had taken the extremely unpopular genre as curtly as he did, if it were anything but jazz, or perhaps something more profitable, preferably, pop the music —not the repeated overtly obtrusive sound effect he let remain— when it came finally to the mix.

• But, this attitude likely comes from Mariza saw casually leaning over the piano at which Patrice is seated while playing and singing along with her.  (Though it’s no fault of hers.)

• In any event the mixer just stuck to the casualness made apparent throughout the original audio visual since it’s riddled with hot mics (and especially the one set up next to my ex) noticeably hot, extra loud plosives, the occasional pops and just slightly or not at all compressed piano recording  —but also from the virtually vacant concert hall without an audience.
  

• Now in closing, lots of viewed jazz concert vids available to the public at YouTube are shown, not full color but in fact grayscale er in black and white.

Ending points to remember

• After detection of audio video short comings, my decision was to substitute the original piano and erstwhile in order to make an alternative render appear nostalgic, more a look of film noir that is already a visually recognizable characteristic of jazz art seen widely on YouTube.

• Right after groundbreaking arrivals of digital audio, numerous previously recorded jazz sessions were remastered primarily by Rudy Van Gelder.  Whose mixes still are legendary.

• However as abruptly new instrument modeling introduced by MODARTT can expeditiously come to market, also comes brand new ways a person can cheaply mix with any machine learning (A.I.), allowing he who has PIANOTEQ just to go and take a bunch of old recordings —badly recorded media— and from those, resulting in mixes transformed by A. I., make it all anew again (after a few adjustments of course to PIANOTEQ parameters).  That’s way beyond what Rudy ever had done just as a mastering engineer alone.

• Via MODARTT from PIANOTEQ to you professional audio mixers who currently use drum replacement software (Melda Production MDrumReplacer, Steven Slate DRUMS Trigger, Drumagog Drum Replacer, TOONTRACK Superior Drummer 3, Etc.) I myself as an amateur drummer assisted now by new machine learning (A. I.) am just enjoying to turn things around.  Consequently, PIANOTEQ from MODARTT is what I choose mostly whenever an audio recording could stand really some piano replacement  —not only drum replacement.

• No need to replace a Slingerland snare with a Ludwig Supersensitive, when your project —the one at hand— demands merely you switch a YAMAHA for a YC5 instead.  Actually, I believe it can sound a whole lot better.  (Don’t you?)

• Throughout PIANOTEQ parameter adjustments, any hobbyist mixer like I, could immediately dial in a different piano to get that also to sound similar to the bass presence oftentimes exemplified out of rhythm and blues  —not too much unlike what personally I’ve only done to enter a contest entry.  I found it’s possible in fact to get the piano closely to sound just as I remember and actually recall….  That is of course thru presets.  (Smile.)

• My current preference is a modern mix of jazz and rhythm and blues.  (In considerable detail PIANOTEQ per parameters on its piano presets permits.)

• Incidentally, when only as a couple Patrice and I were going together, another song of Hamilton’s became a considerable hit; the “Sing A Rainbow” song made internationally famous as “I Can Sing a Rainbow - Love Is Blue” (medley) then sang by rhythm and blues vocal group the Dells.  Also the Dells did “Stay in My Corner,” “Oh, What a Night,” “Always Together,” “The Glory of Love,” "The Love We Had (Stays on My Mind)” and some other hits.  (They largely influenced my arriving at the overall sound exhibited now in the audio video contest entry, er, transformed music video I’m entering into the contest.)  An early version of “(Sittin’ On) the Dock of the Bay” co-wrote by Otis Redding and Steve Cropper, the Dells sang too.  Though the more famous that had been sung also by Otis Redding, was especially a favorite of Ruth Rushen (former Director of California Department of Corrections) Patrice’s mother.

• Get the picture?  I mean of course this video transformed!

• Perhaps more at my YouTube channel I’ll try and explain later…

• Stay tuned…

Hello, here quick relaxing Impro after Christmas celebration, love, peace, and relaxing Piano sessions with Pianoteq9, good day to all
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aUeFoJ14DI

Here's my entry. I've made a few Pianoteq covers of Men I Trust songs over the past few years, and for this year's contest I'm going with their song "Bethlehem". I was a bit more ambitious this year trying to learn and recreate all of the instrument parts from the original, but with Pianoteq as the main instrument throughout playing the vocal melodies, and I ended up choosing the Ant Petrov piano sound which is not one I often make use of.

https://youtu.be/bo21j_RRJFs

Have been enjoying listening to everyone else's submissions.

Here is my entry. It is a piano cover of a Cantonese pop song named "All because of you" (完全因你). Its beautiful melody had been in and out of my head the past 20 years and I enjoyed playing it so much.

https://youtu.be/N7by6N-1tYY

Thank you and best wishes.

Roger

Hello everyone !
I have been using Pianoteq for several years and recently discovered this competition. I decided to take part this year.
I drew inspiration from Asian music to compose this melody. I tried to use the piano's three pedals to hear the sympathetic resonances of the Bluthner and its aliquot system, which I find is very well reproduced on this model.
I changed the position of the microphones to hear the resonances better. I also added a little randomness to different settings such as the hammers, impedance, strike point, etc., to add realism.

Sorry for my English, I'm not fluent. I used a translator to help me.

https://youtu.be/wRZLqJIWubQ

I hope you enjoy it.
Good luck to everyone !!

Dear Stig,

Thank you for your kind words of encouragement, they mean so much to me!

I do go back and re-read your encouraging words from time to time, and it warms my heart.

Thank you Stig for your kindness and best wishes,

Roger

Hello Michel,

This is private, please make it public so we can listen to it
Best wishes,

Stig

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ7zyD8Q4v8

Hello everyone, this is my first post on the forum thus far. I was gifted Pianoteq 9 over Thanksgiving and have been enjoying using the software a lot. Beyond elevating my options in the domain of music production, it has made the simple act of playing piano more interesting (though I do need to figure out the best way to get the latency as low as possible within my setup...). Certainly, the sound options are more appealing than what my un-amplified $800 Yamaha digital keyboard has to offer (not to knock Yamaha, it is a nice product). 

This is an original project of mine that occurred spontaneously at work; it was not based on or inspired by any track or artist in particular. I was simply just having fun with the classical guitar, developed the motif, and everything unfolded after that. It was produced in FL Studio. For 2-3 hours of effort, I think it came out pretty alright.

Hope you enjoy! Looking forward to checking out some other submissions. Happy New Year.

Vey nice. A bit like  Debussy and Bela Bartok at some places.

Good Luck!

Stig

Here is my original composition. Enjoy

https://youtu.be/5gE9uvdF4xI

Hello everyone! This is my entry for this years video contest: https://youtu.be/ZLCxv8VeshA
I actually planned to upload something different but unfortunately I hurt my vocal cords so I can’t sing at the moment and I had to change my plans last minute. I hope you enjoy my performance.

Nice mood, thanks a lot!

Hello, here's my submission for the 2025 video contest. Please excuse my playing skills, hoping to improve by next year's Pianoteq contest.  Special thanks to the Pianoteq team for making such a great product, and for running this yearly contest.

https://youtu.be/LhunZwjvCAE

@lo134: Loved your cover, especially the dynamics. Then I listened to the original by Cass Phang, beautiful melody and vocals. Thank you, always appreciate hearing something new and international.

https://youtu.be/W6Yd5IOitnE

..The video is just a tryout layering last technologies allowed improvements !

..Maybe I’m talking about what a “nuanced” Italian word better expresses over the common term ‘sound’: I mean “sonorità”, as the idea of a wider, more complex fullness and “grids of nuances” and/or physical or physical modeled reverberations in the sound spectrum played under fingers.

Here I’m using a morphed patch based on ‘Kaway Shigeru SX-EL heroic’ + ‘K2 concert’
..”contoured” by a sound/preset I’ve modified in ‘AAS Longue Lizard’ electric piano modeler app, and a bass synth background of a sound/preset I’ve modified in ‘Expressivee Noisy2’ app (this one played by the polyphonic aftertouch overstrike of keys offered by the new Roli Piano controller ..that is like the “star” of this very imprecise improvisation!).

Here is my recording of Bach's Prelude in C major. Hope you enjoy it:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwCCV3ftlS4

https://youtu.be/iZz4A4K2n1Q

https://youtu.be/FU05qRMT3MQ

Last year, I recorded nine pieces for the competition, playing various instruments to showcase the diverse sounds of the ORGANTEQ software.
This time, I'm submitting a single recording to the competition, wanting to showcase the power of the organ sound.
I recorded the piece at the last minute. I was in a hurry, so both my playing and the video editing contain some errors. However, this shouldn't detract from the overall presentation of ORGANTEQ.

https://youtu.be/eiDlYPw0-Qs?si=rhfHLiZnztgBnumo