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Topic: EQ, Spectrum, Velocity curve copying: goes from text to the pane, too!

This lets us create very precise EQ or Vel settings without dragging the little dots! EDIT (see below): And create Spectrum profiles, etc by typing in precise numbers.

I just realized that since we can create an EQ or velocity setting, right-click\ Copy, and then paste it into a text doc, we can also create a preset list for either in a text doc if we use the same format--we can select the text, copy it, switch to PianoTeq and the EQ or Velocity pane, right-click and click on Paste, and the settings are pasted in. Hm...Slowly learning.

One thing this opens up: in the Description box for a preset, we can paste several different EQ or velocity settings, and then copy them onto the preset when we want.

Or it's simpler to use one of the free Sticky note programs (I like ATNotes, a Windows thing). The notes stay on the desktop, and you just double-click inside the note to edit it or copy from it. Presets! (I'm probably not the first person to see this, but it's new to me...)

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Re: EQ, Spectrum, Velocity curve copying: goes from text to the pane, too!

And I think (I think) we can do the same thing with the other settings, such as the Spectrum profile. To test:

1. Change a setting and right-click and click on Copy, and paste it into a text doc.
2. Close PianoTeq, to be sure that the copy paste is actually going from the text file.
3. Reopen PianoTeq and open a new instrument.
4. In the text doc, select the text for the setting and copy it.
5. In PianoTeq, open the Spectrum profile and be sure that you select a note so that its little box is yellow. Right-click and Paste.

Works, yes? Seems to work for the Detune pane, Unisons pane et al.

So we can now type in numbers, with decimal points, to get precise settings, and can store them outside each instrument: presets for each parameter?

What I don't know: Might we be able to set up spreadsheets (comma delimited?) and use them in conjunction with these things? (It would get old, counting from left to right when working on each of the 88 notes for Unison width, etc.)

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Re: EQ, Spectrum, Velocity curve copying: goes from text to the pane, too!

Jake:

I don't mean to rain on your parade, but I sat down to a brand new Brodmann last week that required regulating, voicing and tuning, and it was still quite an exhilarating experience.

Real pianos don't seem to have the kind of control or adjustments that you desire, but I still find them to be quite playable and excellent sounding in spite of these shortcomings.

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Re: EQ, Spectrum, Velocity curve copying: goes from text to the pane, too!

Yes--I should be playing more instead of worrying about typing in figures for Eq settings or note-by-note unison tuning. But I'm still discovering what can be done, here, while drinking too much coffee. And I don't have a real piano...

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Re: EQ, Spectrum, Velocity curve copying: goes from text to the pane, too!

I don't have a real piano either, but fortunately I have a friend that usually has a half dozen in his store.

It's useful to keep in touch with the real thing.


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