Prepared Piano - Request

Did you try pressing the "Random" button? A whole lot of weird sounds can be made that way

Yeah, that is exactly, what I am implying. Wouldn't that be great? I just hope, I am not the only one being excited about it ...
I am sure you can do some fair sound design, that would cover some aspects of prepared piano, as both of you mentioned. But I want more!!!!! :-)

Oh, believe me, we all do!  I'm definitely in the same boat as you on this subject. 

Actually, this brings up an interesting idea for development:  imagine a "Note Edit" pane where you could add assorted objects to the strings at various points.  Whether this is done graphically (i.e., across an image of the actual the harp) or implicitly (with bars!), the result would be most interesting!

Someday, perhaps!

In some way I also agree, but I haven't bought it yet. If there was an addon like this I would buy it right away only for that sake. As I said, I own many decent sample based piano emulations. Each has its pros and cons. What I found intresting in pianoteq is proportional pedaling and tweakablity. But, as many of you said: The sound is not quite there, yet. (comparing with VSL Boesendorfer not quite fair, cause it's way more expensive, of course).
That's why I'm asking for prepared Piano: It could be a pretty unique feature, no other sample based company could compete with ... hopefully for some more people. I guess you guys are already interested, too!

Beside the approach "prepared piano" with items, it would be good to have a"overtone" model -  playing the piano while damping the string with the fingertip on certain positions (half way string for octaves, 2/3 for quints etc.).
Beside it is difficult to handle this fast...

thanks for this info Philippe, but I wish
- I can set this for every string differently (not globally) with different positions on different strings. Then I can play the "quasi-same" pitch on different strings and positions with the deviation in cents according to the overtone scale.
- that the "base-tone" with damping of the string is not audible, like in the real piano.
- and the damping force is variable...

Klangschmied

@ Phillipe

sorry about my misleading description, I mean for each note.
I did a little experimentation (Pianoteq PRO), and it is really exciting...

When I do it on a real piano, the fundamental is not so dominant.

I  can get different "colours" with different forces, also having a strong overtone (with less fundamental) with long durations would be really exciting.
Now I will dive in the Note Edit mode and see how far I can get.
This possibilities in Pianoteq PRO are really great !
Klangschmied

sort of, using copy and paste: right click in the note edit window, choose "copy" from the menu, paste into a text editor , you'll get something like:

Volume = [-7, -6, -6, -5, -5, -4, -3, -2, -1, 0, +1, +2, +4, +6, +8, +9, +9, +9, +9, +8, +6, +4, +1, -1, -2, -3, -4, -5, -7, -8, -8, -9, -9, -8, -8, -7, -6, -5, -2, -1, +1, +1, 0, 0, -2, -4, -5, -6, -6, -7, -8, -8, -9, -9, -9, -9, -8, -7, -7, -6, -5, -4, -3, -2, -1, 0, +1, +3, +4, +7, +3, +1, +1, +1, +1, +1, +1, +1, +2, +2, +2, +3, +3, +3, +4, +4, +4, +4]

you can edit it in the text editor, copy it in the clipboard, and paste it back into the note edit window