The kind of piano sound I want is rich in overtones

I like that clip a lot. Notice how the soft notes still sound warm and mellow, despite the fact that the forte playing sounds very bright and rich? Very expressive. That sound is definitely something I like.

I think the best demo I've heard of Pianoteq yet is starting to approach that kind of richness, but still doesn't reach it. (it's that demo of the guy playing in a studio through loud speakers on a controller that looks like a plane cockpit - anyone have a pointer to it?)

Greg.

Did we ever figure out what preset Dawson was using in that demo?

About the Fantom video: What I think I hear in that preset is hard-strike samples and quite a bit of reverb as the source of the decay. That's the old-school method of disguising brief samples, and sometimes it does sound good--the reverb emulates the sound of the sympathetic and cabinet resonance, along with the decay.

So...in PianoTeq, you might try increasing the hardness of the hammer strikes and in the Reverb pane, reducing the size of the room slightly while slightly increasing the length of the reverb tail and increasing the Wetness slightly. Getting the right mixture of these three sliders may take some time and experimentation.

Then use the Spectrum note edit pane to amplify some partials. The higher 5ths (multiples of the 3rd partial in other words), I think, will give you the brighter sound. You might use Audacity to analyze the partial structure in the sampled note, find the PianoTeq preset that comes closest to matching it, and then see how close you could come to replicating the note using the Spectrum profile NE pane.

If you could record a single note from the Fantom and post it, we could all have a go at emulating it. Maybe that Ab? That's a note I'd like to try to emulate.

Now, in the video, it's hard to hear the piano because of the string patch.

I suspect that that the AGC in the video camera is helping Pianoteq in that recording.

Greg.

Auto Gain Correction, I presume.

Sorry, the Strings accompaniment help to mask the piano sound in this video.

Hm, dunno. I forgot all that since I use K1

I don't like any other model other than K1 anymore too but I had to tweak it considerably.

The only real thing missing I find is the attack, ringy - bell kind of sound which is more present in K1, with the C3 you can hear the harpy sound of the string but K1 sounds like a real piano, like here:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2963766/the_tra...nished.mp3
or
here
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2963766/the_lon...adness.m4a

Here is my tweaked C3 it's still sounds electronic the strucked string, the resonance and sustain are beautiful though, keep it up PTQ

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2963766/a-birds-journey.m4a