Topic: Using Clavinova grand speakers
Hello everyone,
I'm playing with the Pianoteq trial at the moment, and I can already tell it sounds great. However I'm having trouble getting it to sound good through the speakers of my digital piano.
Setup:
- Macbook Pro
- Yamaha CLP 265 GP
- MBP Headphones out to Piano Aux in (with proper cable)
- MIDI USB Connection
All the presets sound kind of muddy over the entire range. When I use the 'C3 bright' the top 2 octaves sound OK, but the rest is just really dull compared to the built-in sound of the Yamaha (which is, of course, really bright). Also there's a lot of reverb. The piano sounds as if it's 2 meters away (which is strange if you're sitting right before it).
What I've tried so far:
- Playing around with the velocity settings, I think I've got these down now
- Turned down the reverb (this helps and seems to be required in order to get a believable sound through the Clavinova)
- Tried boosting the higher frequencies with the EQ (this hardly seemed to make a difference)
Does anyone have any experience with this and prehaps a suggestion? I know I should get a decent audio interface, but piano recordings (even those of sampled piano VSTs) played through iTunes sound quite allright so I think I should be able to get Pianoteq to sound clearer too.