My new FXP

Playing (kind of beginner pieces) right now, yery nice fxp! although being a beginner i certainly can't fully appreciate... what are the pieces you play in the demo audio files?

(bonus points for original name :3 :3 )

/*edit */ Just wondering about a small detail about the copyright of .fxp files: when i click on "more" it says:

Copyright (c) 2014 Modartt

....Rachel created the fxp right? ...also, what about the year - is it based on the version of pianoteq, or the date the fxp was made? (just curious)

Oh, i'm sorry.... i was talking about info on the site (fxp corner, or "More" button on link)

Sorry for any confusion.

Hm. I see the following on the site:

...and this in the application:

oops, postjumped :3

hi kalessin!

Hi,
just love it!

Hi everybody!

Yeah, oops. I forgot to edit the text info this time. Usually I remember.

As for the pieces, they are: the theme to Beethoven's 32 Variations in C minor, the beginning of the Rachmaninoff C sharp minor Prelude, and then a portion of the Chopin Waltz in C sharp minor.

I'm still really happy with this FXP after a night of sleep, so I think it's a keeper!

I don't want to sound like I'm taking any credit, by the way. Obviously the glory goes to Philippe and the whole PianoTeq team. PianoTeq is an absolutely incredible piece of software. I am in awe of the imagination and technical expertise that have gone into it!

I think that the combo of PianoTeq 5 and all the possible customizations makes for the most compelling software piano in existence. I think people could listen to recordings of this fxp, for instance, and get lost in the music without any feeling of something being "wrong" with the sound.

Rachel, it is a very beautifull preset. Thank you for your work.

Can I ask you why do you set the dynamic to 29? Don't we lose some expressivity here? Is it because it is a "recording" preset?

Thanks

billd: 3.5 gave me the overall harmonic resonance I was looking for, but I did still have to tweak some specific notes to get rid of some harsher overtones.

stamkorg: I was feeling like some notes were unpredictably soft, and that was fixed by setting dynamics to 29. However, I think the right thing to do is put it back to 30 and continue to work on my velocity curve or just get more used to the instrument.

I think this is not what he is asking.

Yep. Like I said, yes I did use the note by note settings to make further adjustments to several notes.

I also did a lot of note by note edits in the spectrum profile editor.

Well I'm a pavlov dog here, as soon as I saw the title of My new fxp I knew it was a Rachel update and start salivating.

This is the most impresssed I've been with Pianoteq so far, the tone is beautiful and balanced and the overtones are to hear them to believe them. The Rach demo is omg, the beautiful decay with those overtones then it comes the soft part and is such a not so bright but not dark at all soft tone that feels familiar to the strong part but different at the same time, the is constant on the whole piano.

That was a great idea of bringing up the hammer hardness and fixing the spectrum later. As I can't do that on my acoustic, Im usually reducing hammer hardness. 

I wonder how much detail have you put into this, you are a perfectionist, ty for that. A lot.

Please, consider in the future, make FXP for the Bluethner and other pianos, I think they have a lot of potential.

Sorry for the France defeat Phillip. I thought they were going to win but they lacked hunger in that match, I coudnt believe they were going home and not fighitng like a no tomorrow game like Colombia did.

Thanks, Rohade. Um, yeah, I'm a perfectionist. My husband thinks I'm insane the way I sit there playing each note over and over again. I've been playing PianoTeq 5 every night from about 8pm to 1am since it came out in May.

After a whole day comparing it to other presets and FXP I think Modartt should include this by default on Pianoteq.

Request to RJ or anyone who has the Pro version -- could you save this exact same preset but based on the K2 and Blüthner? Simply freeze all parameters and switch instruments, then save as new preset.... would that work?

If you can do it, and post the fxp's, thanks very much!!!

Hi Delt. I could do that and send it to you by email if you like, but njaremko is right. It probably wouldn't make sense to apply it to other instruments. I edited note by note based on the overtones that I was hearing and didn't like. Those changes would be completely different on the Bluthner and the K2.

A small criticism on this (otherwise magnificent) preset: the D an octave below the middle C has too much "bite" to it. Probably hammer hardness, but i can't see note-per-note since i have pianoteq standard and not pro.

Keep up the amazing work, RJ!!

Hello Rjpianist

Thank you for your fxp (2014c). To me it sounds awesome – it is, to me, more soft than before. And thank you for sharing your knowledge. I am not a pianist(my teacher said I will never be a pianist), but this fxp will make me play more.

I hope that lesson was free.

Could you post a recording that uses this new preset? This way, we better know what you are hearing and trying to achieve. Thanks.