Topic: Kovács cimbalom and realism
While I love the sound of the cimbalom in Pianoteq, I'm constantly frustrated by one thing in it: the pedal. On a real cimbalom, the pedal pushes the dampers down, not lifts them (as the pedal on a piano would do), so all the notes are sustained until the pedal is pressed, and to get the short staccato notes, the pedal is held down while striking strings.
The Kovács cimbalom in Pianoteq is reversed, and acts like a piano. Not only is this confusing for me, since I know how a real cimbalom works and I expect it to work that way, but if I just attempt to suck it up and play the thing like a piano, I'm still frustrated because I have to press the pedal BEFORE hitting the first note I want to sustain. Pressing it immediately after, as works on a piano, doesn't work here because to Pianoteq, the damper is down and it makes the short sound (which is how it should work, except the damper shouldn't be up in that situation anyway because I pressed the pedal).
Can we get a fix for this, or at least a set of presets that reverses this so it works right?
