New features you want to Pianoteq (not instruments) (Page 1 of 3)

iOS version. Nothing else remotely as important.

This particular one gets first price... but the probability is high that for the many years (and possible for all eternity) to come it will remain in your dream.

I disagree with your statement. I think ARM architecture is in bar with intel and ahead what comes to single core performance. And anyway PTQ is quite easy in CPU performance so I see  no problems running PTQ in ARM based mobile devices.

Could we please stop this? Each time someone expresses the very understandable desire for an IOS version, out pops a technological and marketing guru who, without any detailed knowledge of either the software or the company explains why this is impossible, commercially disastrous, etc. I do not see the point, but the common motivation seems to be that Modartt should instead concentrate on the guru's special interest, which sounds fine to me, but please understand that other people may want other things. It should be possible to ask for a feature without submitting a technology blueprint, a feasibilty study and a marketing plan.

For me, I settled a while ago by buying Korg's app, which does a credible job, but ymmv. For the rest, I should add that I think Modartt is extremely accomodating to their user community's, not so much in communication, but certainly in developments.

pz, Would be fine that some users accept the very same freedom they enjoy in answering others.

A timbre slider somewhere that can add this general sound:
https://soundcloud.com/garritan

It sounds like a high pass filter.
You can achieve something like this by using the EQ effect (in the effects session) and cutting a more or less great amount of the basses with the first EQ point, for the +50 sound effect.
On the contrary, for a -50 effect, you can cut the highs with the 3rd Eq point to obtain this kind of Low pass filter.

I would like to have an option to mute and map keys. Than you can mix several sounds of pianoteq or other softwareinstruments in your host to get a very collorfull instrument. That can be done very easy, I think.
Today, this is only possible with aditional midi-software

http://www.vst4free.com/free_vst.php?pl...mp;id=2169

or with Max for live, of corse.

You're taking this too personal. Why would anyone want to restrict himself to ios devices when running Pianoteq? Wouldn't you want the optimum configuration? Would be nice if you post what you want in a reduced version? ARM devices (including apples)... are good for scoring, very practical... light, quick and does not take space... everyone can start working on those devices to then later ''render'' them on x86.

Thing is that you must consider that Korg survives on several products while from what I read Modarrf on one software. For Korg such a move represents little in comparison to Modarff. Korg can recycle resources from elsewhere, but this must represent a lot for Modarff to invest a whole development team for a reduced version. It would be [what the French call] a ''caprice''.

If the Linux and MacOS version cease to exist, I will be unhappy in the beginning, but hey I am running Pianoteq on netbooks I got for the equivalent of 200 US $ which originally comes with Windows 10. For me the OS is not that much important, it is only good at running the software I want.

It would be nice on the Rhodes Mark I to be able to choose between the different hammer tips (felt, wood, neoprene) that were used as the keyboard evolved.

It would be nice to have a "playlist" feature so you could load a list of midi files to be played.

Hm, I am not sure that too many new instruments or too many new possibilities inside will bring a joy to just play an instrument and real joy when new version with sound improvement of Pianoteq comes. More posibilities also will bring too many delay from one version to another because there are lots of work to improve growing base of bunch of instruments. Modartt need a balance or must hire more people for a job. I dont want to wait 5 or more years from one version to another.

How true, very nice words, thank you

I run Pianoteq on a dedicated PC next to my DP. I would really like to see the option of running Pianoteq as a service so the GUI does not start up and I can run it is I want to make changes. Perhaps this  can already be done and I am not aware, if so let me know.

Out of subject, but just for my information, how can you switch a laptop on if it is closed?

Thanks,

sK

I do this currently and have tried having the program autostart fullscreen or windowed. Certainly this is not a deal breaker to me. My PC running Pianoteq runs headless meaning no keyboard, mouse, or monitor. It just hangs out next to my DP. I access the PC from another computer using RDP. When the pianoteq pc is rebooted and I RDP into it the program size is messed up, even when running full screen. Honestly, it is not a big deal to me and I think my situation is unique.

I would consider trying the linux version but unfortunately I think my audio interface does not support linux.

+1 for realtime chord detection - that would be awesome!
+ \infty for Android & iOS versions.

As far as sound is concerned:

• Pianoteq is mostly enjoyable to me when used with headphones (and even then - mostly in Binaural mode)
  No matter how good (or even professional) the speakers I try, it always sounds pretty bad..

• Pianoteq's sound is much weaker, less vivid and fades all too quickly compared to real acoustic pianos.

• The mid-range sounds to me more like a guitar than a piano.

There's definitely a lot of room for improvement in those areas.

One more thing that's completely unrelated to PTQ6:
In the Listen page on the Pianoteq's website there are several recording with customized modes.
It would have been awesome to be able to download these FXP files.

I agree.  The decay replicates that on an acoustic. Re sound in general, so much depends upon the equipment being used.  I have used Pianoteq in 2 houses, several different rooms with different equipment and played it in recitals in different venues. Pianoteq is not perfect - what is - but there are so many adjustments it is possible to achieve a good sound to suit your equipment/room. I don't use headphones: never had the use for them with my acoustic grands. Yes, I have spent many hours tweaking Pianoteq instruments to suit my rooms/equipment, but I no longer go through fitting sound deadening/funding expensive technician tweaks getting acoustic grands to suit my living room.

Re this thread, the only aspect which has defeated me is the balance at forte levels between bass and treble.  Softening the forte hammer hardness reduces the treble brightness but makes the bass somewhat woolly.  A clear crisp bass results - at forte and above - in a too bright treble.  For me. It's probably down to my ears but certainly doesn't spoil my enjoyment. The Pro version - I have the Standard - might resolve this.

Having enjoyed the improvements with the SteinwayB and even more the Grotrian I could live with what I have now. 4 presets A to D rather than just the 2 would be nice. I have my tweaked, custom version of the Ruckers permanently available, so having more than one piano immediately available would save me searching for them. Off topic slightly, the main improvement for me would be for the other pianos I have to be upgraded to the touch and sound quality of the Grotrian.

If Modarrt went out business - heaven forbid - I would not look out for better instruments from elsewhere, as long as I could continue to play the present Pianoteq instruments.

It will, as you can adjust all three hammer hardness slider values - per key!

Specifically, I want to see new features added to the Pianoteq interface.

The Pianoteq interface, let's face it; because in my view, it in its present state (in which it has been for a duration now) is lacking, definitely.  It lacks numerous things I and presumably others would like to see on it, if possible.  Since personally I got about every upgrade or update that was released after version 2.1 and am now a Pianoteq Pro user, I've noticed features are absent in its interface design.  Some I suggest appear below:

1.)     Loop Feature

    At your desktop when you load a midi file and adjust or fine tune Pianoteq parameters to it, if you want to continue adjustments pass the length of the file, you have to restart or relocate the interface play head to a point in the file timeline, intermittently.  However, if were added a possible loop feature (that is) a clickable area of the file you highlight, you could just select (midi loop start and stop) positions and afterwards (as you listen to your midi file) make the necessary Pianoteq parameter adjustments to your overall piano sound, uninterruptedly, and without your physically er annoyingly having constantly to restart the file only because you want to hear just a section of it, continuously, repeated.

2.)     Playlist Feature with Individual File Renders

    If a file playlist feature were added to Pianoteq and capable of batch renders from within the software, you could take several of your Pianoteq software recorded performances, save them to individual MIDI files, load and play them within a playlist, while they play, tweak all the Pianoteq (playlist) parameters to your heart's content, including playlist reverb, compression, delay, and equalization changes, and, hear that playlist whatever number of times needed for the latest parameter changes to eventually suit your liking, or, your rendering this playlist either partially or in its entirety into your very next piano project.  Additionally, if you want to listen to automatically saved recordings of the past performances, you should have an opt for you to hear and review, continuously, all or just a selection of those which have been recorded by the Pianoteq software.

3.)     Mini Presets Text Entry Feature

    If text description windows were saved within Mini Presets, they could allow your having readily available and fully detailed descriptions of all your presets, but, mic presets specifically, since each of these might require your making a note referenced to specific piano parts or sections, relevant measurements, and any other data which can distinguish one microphone preset from several others.  To me, detailed text information such as exact microphone placements including measurements and their relation to identifiable parts on a piano, is too obtrusive and lengthy to fit narrowly in the very small confinement space intended merely for a preset name.

4.)     Opt for United States Customary Units

    American Pianoteq users like me are likely to use and view customary units (by which we are more familiar than we are to metric measurements).  Might an options window, or User Interface section of it, which allows language choices and interface magnification, allow also a pro United States Customary Units option.

5.)     Last Opened Windows Positions Remembered Feature

    Pianoteq launches relatively quickly.  However, if you always opt for customized windows whenever you launch, as I do, your having to manually rearrange or reposition those after each launch appears slow and unnecessarily tedious.  That is counterproductive and counterintuitive to me as it seems to negate fast launch times altogether, or readily available and viewable areas overall at each software start.

6.)    Reverb Export

    Exportable reverbs might permit an entire Pianoteq saved performance to have instrumental or vocal parts added to it easily if the performance's impulse response (file) were available to you to import into your DAW.  Via an impulse response ready software and Pianoteq impulse responses, if they were exportable, when Pianoteq records your remarkable performance, it should permit you to fit in any number of accompaniments and place those convincingly inside whatever recording features your chosen Pianoteq reverb.  Consequently, this is whenever you take a Pianoteq file to your DAW and share the file's recorded ambience with the DAW instruments that are to appear recorded in the same space, though it's virtual.

7.)    Recording Parameters Recall

    Pianoteq makes a list of your last performances.  And, you have each of them time stamped, showing when you played each.  Though the software records your performances, you got no way to recall what Pianoteq parameter settings were for any given recording, after it was made.  If you were able to reproduce settings from any point in time, they might bring you close to the emotions, or the way, you felt while you played your passage  —more so than arbitrary or random settings and a bare midi file recreate an instant recall with all the esthetics of your original performance intact.

8.)    Detachable Piano Lid Feature

    If a recording from virtual piano software is ever to become audibly indistinguishable, truly from any acoustic piano recording, the software itself must simulate virtually all the aspects of a real piano recording taken from a physical piano.  This goes for piano lid positions, whenever the piano’s lid was used to record the piano.  Contrarily, when the piano was recorded with its lid detached, piano software as such certainly might simulate this piano condition too, that is, if it were accurately to replicate virtually all the audible particulars of that one discernible piano recording, specifically.

9.)    Mic for Closed Lid Pianos

    In real world scenarios closed lid pianos have microphones placed underneath their lids and deep inside them to stop bleed from other instruments.  Manufacturers build microphones or microphone systems specifically suited to these situations in which a piano's closed lid is an absolute necessity.  Will Pianoteq believably allow you to simulate the situations with virtual versions of those well suited microphones and complete microphone systems ideally intended for closed lid piano recording!

10.)    Select Microphone Additions and Preamps

    New microphone models introduce technological innovations from audio equipment manufacturers, backed by teams of dedicated researchers.  Hopefully, Modartt will start to periodically update its modeled microphone selection in Pianoteq.  Personally, l'd like to see the addition of the Earthworks PM-40 Piano Mic system and the Neumann TLM 102 added, if Pianoteq were to include simulated versions of both these and some models of microphone preamps.  For one I feel preamps are as much needed as Pianoteq's current microphone offerings, and just as many, if the piano software will ever precisely and definitively match contemporary piano sounds that emanate from the recorded media available today  —popular, classical, jazz, country, rock, blues, ragtime, hip hop and others.  The addition of preamps may permit a musician, a keyboardist, from piano software, to match or dial in some close proximity to what he heard made by broadcasts, downloads, CDs, records and the like.  That which preamps permitted: the effectiveness of quality microphones run from quality preamps.

11.)    Note Volume per Mic Output

    Individual note volumes are adjustable already.  However in Pianoteq PRO, if they were made adjustable for each output separately, you’d have a convenient way to avoid unpleasant phase cancellations and even possibly pan chordal comping differently from fancy runs in a jazz piano solo  —via DAW automation of course.

12.)    Morph Piano Model A to B Window Incrementally and visa versa Pianoteq Pro Feature

    If Pianoteq PRO offered a way for you to create a model morphed from another, you'd have maybe representations from the low frequencies of piano A, the mid of piano B, and the highs of C to customize, increasingly, your very own new and unique piano model!

+1....+100

I use 'Stage' as I'm using  it to learn the piano again after a very long break.  I'm using midi files to learn songs that I like but find it difficult to distinguish which notes are being played, as the visual cue can be too subtle to distinguish in the virtual keyboard;  it's especially difficult to distinguish which black keys are being played.

Could you provide the means of customising the colours (better highlighting the keys being played) in the virtual keyboard please?

Please also remember that many people learning the piano will tend to buy the stage version, so any tuition tools or integration with 3rd party tuition aids/tools will be offered within this version are likely to be greatly appreciated by this segment of your customer base.

You can increase the size of the panel (with the keyboard) if that helps. Ideally you should get at least a midi keyboard. I advice a 76 keys Casio, they can be had for very cheap. This way if you connect it, you can simultaneously use Pianoteq and another software at the same time and plus the Casio (which is  made specifically for your needs) has a screen which shows the keys being pressed. Probably there are other brands, but I have no experience with those.

Furthermore, with a midi student keyboard, you can output midi files to your keyboard and have the notes displayed on its screen.

In the pro version (not sure about other versions), we can already adjust the tuning of each note. Open the drop box from the upper left corner of any Note Edit pane, and choose Detune, the first item in the list. The pitch of each overtone cannot be directly controlled, but changing the length of the strings will change the pitch of all of the overtones.