Topic: Modeling Extreme Pianos with Pianoteq-Staff Invited
As I was playing around with a sample library of Klavins' 370, I got to thinking; How would you go about modeling an instrument with very long strings, especially one with no wrapped strings? I ask this because I discovered this a while back; the Pianoteq instruments sound most realistic at their default string length. Why? "String Length" changes only the distance between partials from their expected vibration frequencies, so, for instance, if you wanted to hear, say, a Bosendorfer 290's harmonics line up with F(n), one would only need to change the value to 10m. In this respect, it is a great tool for creating sounds that don't exist otherwise, but for accurately recreating instruments like the Alexander Grand 570, Rubenstein R371, and Klavins 370, we would then need to model an entirely new piano to fit the desired tonal characteristics of such extreme pianos.
To return to the initial question, how would Pianoteq hold up to producing a faithful recreation of, for example, the Alexander Stadium Grand, since the bass notes are plain wire? I don't know if such wire is a challenge for Pianoteq to make sound "right" in the lower octaves, or, on the other hand, relatively easy, since after all, there's no overwinding to deal with. I would love to see your efforts on modeling a plain wire scale in a future instrument or add-on, since it hasn't been done before.
P.S. It doesn't feel appropriate to hammer the support line with these types of questions, so I am posting these here for now.
