Has anyone discovered in Pianoteq the possibility to use a panning (signal goes from left to right v.v. with variabale speed in the stereo image) with the electric piano's? Is this effect available and if not, is it possible to introduce this in future releases of Pianoteq?
Has anyone discovered in Pianoteq the possibility to use a panning (signal goes from left to right v.v. with variabale speed in the stereo image) with the electric piano's? Is this effect available and if not, is it possible to introduce this in future releases of Pianoteq?
One example is the Planet T Soft Pan Tremolo. You can work from that preset to get what you want.
gs.kroon@bastek.nl wrote:Has anyone discovered in Pianoteq the possibility to use a panning (signal goes from left to right v.v. with variabale speed in the stereo image) with the electric piano's? Is this effect available and if not, is it possible to introduce this in future releases of Pianoteq?
One example is the Planet T Soft Pan Tremolo. You can work from that preset to get what you want.
Hi Gilles,
Thanks for reacting on my question and your tip. However I can't find Planet T Soft Pan Tremolo anywhere in the effect section of Pianoteq Stage. Can you point out where I can find this preset tremelo?
Thanks in advance, @b
Yes, there is tremolo effect available, which does autopan by default, and has a Mono button for regular tremolo as well.
Limiting oneself to just the Pianoteq software, so no third-party effects, the most pronounced tremolo panning effect can be achieved by moving the Tremolo's Depth slider all the way to the right (max setting) and then adjusting the Shape very carefully — place your mouse pointer on the shape image and drag up or down and left or right to adjust the Tremolo's shape and period (worth experimenting with, because there's a lot possible here) — so that it looks almost like a perfect square wave, but, and this is important, with slightly rounded corners so that you don’t hear those rather unpleasant clicks which the Shape modulator appears to cause at perfect square wave settings.
And if you want to lessen the effect, it is, to my ears anyway, better to keep the Depth setting at its maximum setting and adjust the Shape in such a way that it begins to look a bit more like a sine wave rather than a square one.
In the case of electric pianos, it’s something of a pity that the Effects in Pianoteq are all placed before the instrument’s output stage. Doesn’t make sense. If you select ‘Mono Output’ for an electric piano — which isn’t an illogical thing to do with these type of instruments — all the effects you put on the instrument, even the chorus and the reverb, will be mono as well, sounding as if they’re all generated inside the instrument before the output. Doesn’t sound right.
Ideally, one should be able to have the electric piano as a mono sound source — many vintage electric pianos are just that — and then be able to send this source through a selection of stereo (or stereofying) effects.
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Thanks Piet, going to try the desired panning effect as you pointed out.
Limiting oneself to just the Pianoteq software, so no third-party effects, the most pronounced tremolo panning effect can be achieved by moving the Tremolo's Depth slider all the way to the right (max setting) and then adjusting the Shape very carefully — place your mouse pointer on the shape image and drag up or down and left or right to adjust the Tremolo's shape and period (worth experimenting with, because there's a lot possible here) — so that it looks almost like a perfect square wave, but, and this is important, with slightly rounded corners so that you don’t hear those rather unpleasant clicks which the Shape modulator appears to cause at perfect square wave settings.
And if you want to lessen the effect, it is, to my ears anyway, better to keep the Depth setting at its maximum setting and adjust the Shape in such a way that it begins to look a bit more like a sine wave rather than a square one.
In the case of electric pianos, it’s something of a pity that the Effects in Pianoteq are all placed before the instrument’s output stage. Doesn’t make sense. If you select ‘Mono Output’ for an electric piano — which isn’t an illogical thing to do with these type of instruments — all the effects you put on the instrument, even the chorus and the reverb, will be mono as well, sounding as if they’re all generated inside the instrument before the output. Doesn’t sound right.
Ideally, one should be able to have the electric piano as a mono sound source — many vintage electric pianos are just that — and then be able to send this source through a selection of stereo (or stereofying) effects.
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You can also right-click the waveform graphic to have a more direct numerical entry for the two waveform parameters.
Thanks all for reacting. I found my desired (and adjustable) panning effect in the tremelo settings of Pianoteq!