Reverb for Pianoteq

Can that affect the sound of the reverb? Or might you need less of it?

Cool, that sounds VERY interesting. I've always liked how much you can shape the sound with the mics.

Thanks,
Michael

Thanks, that reverb looks interesting. PSP Pianoverb will probably be the first one I try, since it's free and a few people now, including EvilDragon, have told me that it's good.

We've gotten to a point where 'free' plugin no longer means 'bad' plugin.  I've also heard good things about Ambience, which is another free reverb plugin. I don't need anything fancy, and if the Pianoteq reverb had high damping, I suspect I'd be a happy camper with just that.

May Iask someone to put a comparison of pianoteq reverb and these high end reverb plugins ?
I'm curious so heard what these plugins have of special.

I also would like to make a suggestion to pianoteq virtual space (mic, piano position etc).
What a bout a "duo piano space" ?   In the virtual space we get two pianos, and you could put one in variable positions to the other, even one over another, and the mics in variable positions.

Along to that feauture, a option on pianoteq to mix two midi, one to each piano.
This would turn possible to one player play in one piano, and latter play in another, in this virtual space, mixing both.
Would require a play-along, or record-along, as the second piano palying need to be made by listening the first piano, to play together.

I hope Moddart stop me if I'm turing them crazy with such request.  :-)

Think about... What other piano software could offer a piano duet option like that ?

Isn't this already possible by running two instances of Pianoteq? I've never tried it, but it seems doable.

Hey Greg!

Those are amazing demos! Even with tons of reverb it sounds super clean and smooth to me. I'm looking forward to trying this one

Thanks,
Michael

Speaking of PSP Pianoverb, has anyone tried PSP Vintage Warmer with Pianoteq?

I don't have the Pro version, but is this correct? Do you see anything that looks like impulse response files? My expectation is that Modartt would take an algorthmic approach rather using convolution -- but I'm just guessing about this.

Convolution reverb sure would sound nice! But I'd like having the algorithmic reverb too, so that less powerful systems like netbooks would still be able to use it.

We're edging back to the old topic of how 'standalone' Pianoteq should be. For live performance a good decent reverb of any kind would probably be adequate, and as I've said before, a good stereo chorus, and I think both should be onboard. In a home/studio situation we can be more picky, and we probably should be. In that context I can't see Modartt commiting valuable resources to including a convolution with nearly as much control as say Voxengo's Pristine Space.

If there were a few more controls to the current onboard reverb, like frequency adjustable high damping, I think it would be completely adequate for live use, though for recording, I have to agree, you can't beat convolutiion.

Allow me to disagree. Good algorithmic reverbs — the IRCAM Spat for example, or the native Lexicon, or the UAD 140/250, or TC's VSS3 or Softube's TSAR, to name just those that I'm familiar with — are in no way inferior to even the best convolution engines. In fact, they're way more versatile, much more adjustable (in order to find the optimal relationship with the source signal, which is extremely important and which is also where convolution-based reverb often fails frustratingly) and, when used properly, they sound every bit as glorious, if not more so. The combination Pianoteq-IRCAMSpat, for instance, is infinitely more powerful and richer in satisfying possibilities than the combination Pianoteq-Altiverb. And more French as well, of course.

For spatialization purposes, I'd much rather see a high-end algorithmic reverb engine built into Pianoteq than a convolution-based reverb engine.

On the other hand, convolution (working with very specific IR's of 'ambience'-recordings made inside or very close to a real piano — the way Frank Zappa recorded parts for "Lumpy Gravy" and "Civilization Part III" — , and preferably using the very same instruments which Pianoteq is emulating) could perhaps add an additional dimension to Pianoteq's sound (a more developed sense of presence, body, perspective and depth maybe) which would be hard to achieve with algorithmic reverberation alone.

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