Topic: Are the decays too long?
Some of my instruments, such as the D4, sound almost muddled when playing melodies, as if the decay is too long when compared to my real piano and to sampled pianos such as Alicia's Keys and The Grandeur. While I don't have a sound meter that maps these in a measurable fashion, I watched the tone bars on a 'downloaded to my cellphone' soundmeter as I played my upright Steinway F, Pianoteq's D4, The Grandeur from Native Instruments, as well as Alicia's Keys from NI. For all but Pianoteq's D4, the bar representing the primary tone when a note is struck appears to have a slower, more linear decay, while the rest of the sound appears to decay in a more exponential fashion. For Pianoteq's D4, most all of the tones tend to decay in a similar fashion, more linearly.
I have just uploaded both my 'D4 Player2" and "D4 Player2 - Decay adjusted" presets. The second preset has a shortened Soundboard Impedance and a longer Direct Sound Duration. See what you think. (Of note, my keyboard is soft so my volume curve is aggressive. Also, my Delay and EQ and Reverb are off, as that sounds best at my upright piano.)
Any other approaches to achieve this characteristic?
- David
P.S. My setup also has quite the bell-like resonance for the D4 from C4 to F4 - do others hear this?
