PianoTeq is amazing (Page 2 of 2)

Awesome playing, Rachel!!

Does your P-140 have 3 sensors per key or just 2? How does it respond to fast trills and single-note repeats?

...this .fxp is close to (my idea of) a perfect sonority

thank you a lot for sharing your tweaks with us

Delt, it's 2 sensors. I do notice a difference from my grand in the repetition, but nothing that speeding up the fingers a bit can't cure. It's actually good for practicing because it forces you to play super clean. Flabby fingers won't cut it. It's better than an upright because the keys spring up much quicker.

imyself, I know you are a long time tweaker of PianoTeq, so it's really gratifying to hear how much you like my preset. Thank you!

You know, I don't have the very best hearing, but I am trying to get a sound that I love. This latest fxp is very close if not exactly what I am trying to get.

I love PianoTeq for allowing me the freedom to explore and find a sound that really helps me express in the way I want. It's a revolution for me. I know the classical purists will take a long time to come around, but I do believe I am sold on using it as a tool to create recordings. Obviously there is still something very special about playing an acoustic grand "live" that no digital setup can duplicate, but for producing a recording, it is really something special.

I am super excited to be on board with it and to see how much farther it can go. I think if I can upgrade next year to a VPC-1 and a better computer with a fancy soundcard, I will be in a position to make some recordings that could make a big impression on skeptics.

Merci, Hervé!

Yes, I am very fortunate to have my Steinway. It has served me well for the past 25 years of playing and teaching. I do think PianoTeq will be how I record things to share, since I can get better sound with it by far, but I do love playing my "real" piano.

Kawai and Yamaha and Roland already do stuff like that. The techniques are essentially spatial arrangements of several speakers (Kawai, Roland, Yamaha) and optional wooden transducers for the bass (Kawai, Yamaha). Roland and Yamaha also mimic the general form of a (baby) grand in their top models, bringing the spatial distribution of sound waves even closer to the real thing.

One dream combination IMHO would be a Kawai CA-95 or CS-10 with Pianoteq providing the actual sound. Kawai's built-in sound generators are quite superb already, but of course don't come even close to Pianoteq in terms of flexibility. Also, I love my Blüthner.

Interesting... what exactly do you mean by randomly generated and non-tonal? Hopefully it would apply to people like me who don't have absolute pitch :3 ....or does the "non-tonal" part restrict your idea only to rhythmic patterns?

Agreed. Just like a very good storyteller could theoretically be illiterate. Or someone who has a hard time expressing himself verbally, could be able to write flawlessly in 10 languages.

Hi Rachel,

interesting. Disclaimer: I am a lousy sight-reader. I have gotten a bit better over time, but I still have problems recognising chords, especially in differing keys. What has helped be, however, was looking at the structure of the piece, i.e., recognising patterns and repetitions. Of course being able to just be presented a few bars and play them without thinking would be a huge asset.

Currently I can do this only for rather simple pieces; as I said, I'm still rubbish at sight-reading. If anyone comes across a training software to practice sight-reading and accompaniment patterns (preferably in conjunction with a MIDI keyboard), I might be interested.

About the piano sound D4_NY_-_Moderate:

there is absolutly nothing to tweak in this perfect .fxp ...
it may be the only thing to do is just to editing a new velocity curve for VPC1 users... it's done.

(PS:Please,Rachel, accept my apology)

No apology, imyself! This is all so fun! I definitely want people to use my presets as a point of departure for their own experimentation. I am still tweaking away. I think I'll have another new one tonight, just a tad brighter, but with more hammer hardness changes and a bit less reverb. Maybe I'll do one with a whole lot of reverb too for contrast.

Practicing with my new headphones last night was awesome!

Chopin Ballade no 1 in G minor op.23

Yep, I recorded the whole piece with a sample-based software piano before I discovered PianoTeq. I'll be posting it to SoundCloud soon.

Still working on getting the ideal preset. But, I want to wait before posting another one until it's something I've lived with for a while and still like. All the ones I've been posting never sound as good to me the next day!