jcfelice88keys wrote:Of course, everyone is entitled to his opinion.
Please note, however, that this comment about PTQ6 sounding "incredibly bad" comes from someone making his very first post to this forum. This lone comment comes in light of dozens to hundreds of accolades to date.
Sounds fishy to me. Just saying.
The OP never said that PT6 is sounding incredibly bad, he said that the stereo cohesion in many of the models is.
To immediately brand him a ‘fishy contributor' with suspicious intentions for failing to join in the current wave of applause and having the nerve to say something critical instead, is a most unkind and even rather nasty welcome to a new member of the PTQ community, if you don’t mind me saying so.
The more so because, I’m of the opininon that Joule actually makes a very valid observation, pointing to an issue that, in my view, definitely merits attention and further investigation. The sometimes erratic stereo-mono compatibility of many Pianoteq instruments is a chronic problem of the software (one that has been discussed in more than one beta-test) and PTQ’s stereo output is indeed not always the most solid. (The sound quality of many of its stereo patches can get severely compromised when rendered to mono, which is always an indication that there's something not quite right with the stereo to begin with).
And it’s got absolutely nothing to do with ‘impressions’, or ‘ears’, or with the way the brain processes sound or any of that. It’s something, I guess, in the way the sound is generated that, with certain of the instruments, produces a distinctly fragile stereo signal. Simple as that. There’s something about frequencies being-not-quite-in-or-out-of-phase (between both sides of PTQ’s stereo output) that doesn’t always translate very well to mono.
It’s already much better than it used to be though. I still remember, in the pre-v5 days (v5 being the version where the first improvements to this particular problem got implemented) struggling enormously with trying to mix earlier versions of some of the PTQ-instruments, and it was always because of the exact same reason: weak stereo. I can’t count the number of times I had to resort to third-party stereo tools to make PTQ’s (stereo) output behave in a mix.
So, I'm with Joule: the stereo integrity of PTQ's output (for some of the models) is an aspect of the sound that can be improved.
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Last edited by Piet De Ridder (11-09-2017 07:46)