Topic by JebbyJake

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Topic: Recording is soft

Dear Pianoteq community,



When I load a midi file into pianoteq, everything sounds great. But the recording is soft. For example, if I turn my speakers up to 100%, I can hear the recording but its like medium volume. If I listen to a song on youtube or itunes on my same computer at 100%, my ear bleed.

This is affecting when I export to  MP3 and send the song to other people. They try to listen but really only hear a soft recording when listening on max volume.


I am recording the midi file on a Yamaha NX3, then I am loading it into PianoTeq, using the ASIO4ALL driver, exporting audio file.


Now, I have increased the "volume" output from 0dB to the maximum +12dB, but that even is not enough increase and sometimes the sound gets distorted.



Please let me know any thoughts you have to help me fix this problem.



Thank you,
Jake

Reply by EvilDragon

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Re: Recording is soft

Sounds like velocity curve might need adjusting.

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Re: Recording is soft

Did you normalize your exported file?

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Re: Recording is soft

As EvilDragon says, just move the spot to the top right of the Velocity section, to the fff. Adjust as you like.

Normally, if your midi file is well you shouldn't need to make these adjustments.

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Re: Recording is soft

stamkorg wrote:

Did you normalize your exported file?

This can also be the problem

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Reply by jcfelice88keys

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Re: Recording is soft

I believe the reason the recordings seem quiet -- as compared to other recordings -- is that the other recordings are highly compressed to make them sound louder.  Often these commercial recordings have dynamic ranges of less than 10dB, whereas Pianoteq defaults to nominally 30dB or sometimes 36dB.

Of course this is tongue in cheek, so don't take this recommendation terribly seriously, but try recording Pianoteq with the dynamic range slider set to ~8dB and you will be amazed at how loud it sounds.

Cheers,

Joe