Feature Request: equalizer: multiple keyboard zones

Yes, Niclas, but I think you missed the word "easy" (i.e; "quick") from my request . I do have the pro version, btw (and I do already make use of it )
A practical example is with the upright, where I like to have all the notes in the mid range fairly bright (via e.q.), but that results in the high notes sounding too "brittle" for my liking. If it weren't for the fact that I'd lose sympathetic resonances, I would otherwise open two instances of Pianoteq, each one responding to a limited keyboard zone, and each with its own e.q. .

EQ for each mic is a GREAT idea. Will enable us to give each mic its own "flavour". Possibly even somehow simulate various mic responses?

You can do this quite easily in a DAW.
In Logic, for istance, open Pianoteq as a Multi Output-->5xmono instrument. You'll notice that a little 'plus' sign has appeared in the strip channel. Click it five times to open the five mono PTQ channels; now, using PTQ sound recording window, assign the five mics one for each output and voilà: one channel strip for every mic letting you independent panning, compression, eq, pre simulation, reverb and the like.

With composition as opposed to performance, using NOTION you can set up a 5-track score and, definitely, have 5 instances of PTQ play them instantly together; but whether you can split tracks from a single instance across MIDI channels (obviously you can write tracks each confined to 1 of 5 ranges), is unknown to me.

To present awareness, if not that last, you'd forgo solely sympathetic resonance when going the first way, (another unknown)?

To forgo only sympathetic resonance between ranges would be an acceptable sacrifice to me, if needing to write for ranges. And then etto's spread of possibilities becomes available, starting from the term "channel strip" on down, via NOTION's Mixer.

Pretty easy. Of course if splitting the 5 tracks out of a single PTQ instance would fly, even easier, even better!

And it's really close, being stream-split by the mike/output-channel assignment already. In principle it's present from that assignment onward.

ADDED: if you write a one-track one-instance PTQ piece in NOTION, get up the Mixer, ckick the VSTi button and then click the little + at right of it, a 'Pianoteq'-flyout pops out of it, and in turn an unlabeled-but-formatted channel list pops out of that.

It's laid out so -

Ch 1-2
Ch 3-4
Ch 5

In short, Pianoteq is delivering the 5 channels independently, and whether you've done a 5-mike output-assign or not. That looks like hey-diddle-diddle right now. But isn't - all 5 PTQ outputs are being delivered to one instance (ie one instrument), and hence to one channel-strip in the Mixer. 

Might add, with this apparent exception, the whole process so conforms to etto's procedure above, it looks like the NOTION designers went straight to Logic, and lifted its flow holus bolus. With one nuisance.obstacle.

To Jake (and others with NOTION).

Let's shoot for a workpast to the "apparent" problem above. Resources not so far mentioned are the Bus and Master channels, which you show in Mixer via the Bus and Master buttons at top right, appearing rightward from the Pianoteq channel-strip as strips for Buses A B C D and then Master. Let's set the Outputs at bottom of each strip, starting from the Pianoteq strip with 'output' (meaning goes to Master strip), next with 'Ch 1-2' on each of A B C D and Master. So much for the outputs of the strips.

Now sight the inputs, at the top, which are 4 assignable VSTi's (you've picked these up with the VST Manager ahead of Mixing). Upon clicking the top Insert button for each strip you can choose a VSTi from the list the click brings up.

I assume there will exist some software 'mesa' filter (opposite of 'notch') with sharp cliffs out there, (there's bound to be some). Testing with PianoVerb2 as a handy check shows that it maintains a separate invocation for each strip (eg with Default, Harmonic Reverb, Detuned etc settings for each of A B C....), and so in principle *some* of the mesa filter VSTi's out there will act likewise, as independent invocations for each strip.

Thus you can direct 20% of THE WHOLE of PTQ's 5 mikes' inputs for the Mixer's Pianoteq strip to successively Bus A, Bus B, Bus C, Bus D. And the remaining 20% of the Pianoteq strip's output goes to Master, recall. And if you'd been thinking of your ranges as Bass, Baritone, Tenor, Alto, Soprano, and next 'mesa' the inputs to Buses A B C D then Master, as Baritone Tenor Alto Soprano then Bass, you've done it.

That's all.

I admit, across each range bar Soprano, as frequency of the played fundamental climbs, the next Bus up will tend more to handle its overtones, but so what? A single soundboard and a single set of agraffes generated all sound in PTQ, and all will FINALLY be output to 'Ch 1-2', a single LR channel. And meantime, out there will certainly be VSTi equalisers, whose outputs can be independently set.

If you were lucky, mesa and equaliser might even be on the same module. And if not, you've got four input Inserts to play with, on each Bus plus Master. Same's true with Panning further down the strips. Plenty.

Words go just so far. Have a look.