Yesterday I played the new Yamaha P515 (Page 2 of 2)

That was an extreme example, just to illustrate what I meant by "bright". (btw, I updated the link shortly after my initial post, with a better fidelity recording - the first one was terrible) A less exaggerated, but still bright and shimmering sound, would be the studio recording of Billy Joel's "New York State Of Mind" - I love that sound.

I'm usually using the CFX at the moment. I like the Bosendorfer too though. There are some other nice piano sounds as well in this unit.

Greg.

Hi Chris,

I find that I'm using the Hard1 setting on the p515 for touch in order to get a better response for pp-mf.  Likewise, I'm experimenting with a curve in Pianoteq that gives me better control in that range.  Your curve is a bit too, I believe the term is 'fast', for me.  I'll post my curve when I get it tweaked to my satisfaction.

Regards,
Shosh

Chris,

I'm currently also using a little excel worksheet so I can compare various curves.  I still really don't totally understand what I'm doing, but the visual aid helps me to more easily see the differences between different curves.

Are you considering the external box because of the selection of presets?

Regards,
Shosh

Guys, check out this software: VelPro.

Your own demo is easily just a click away: OSX 10.8+; Windows 8, 10.

Have a blessed day,

Amen

This is a simple and great piece of software.  It provided the answer for my want of having a fixed programmable volume curve to use for both Pianoteq and my Native Instruments software.  This also meant that I no longer had to monkey with the volume curve within Pianoteq to match my keyboard, freeing it to vary with different instrument presets so that it could be used for creative purposes, rather than to 'correct' my keyboard (which is now done by VelPro, which starts with the computer, and just stays in the background.  Adrien Anselme, who created it, I believe, has been quite good to deal with when I had some questions.

Remappings of MIDI velocity values have to be done pre Ptq's soundgeneration. Whether the remapping is done in external hardware, external software or internally in Ptq, the resulting sound will be same.

One thing to consider is the latency and "jitter"of those MIDI-events. Every data processing needs time.

Is Ptq's internal velocity-mapper always ON, even when mapping is identical (x=y)? Then we can't avoid this latency in the first place.

Further MIDI latency (and jitter?) is added by external devices, like MIDI Solutions Velocity Converter.

MIDI Routing and remapping with something like Cantabile or VelPro costs time and inaccuracy too.

Maybe those added latencies and jitters are neglectable, but as long it is not measured, it is safe to use just Ptq's internal velocity mapper.

Velocity = [0, 17, 33, 46, 56, 65, 73, 83, 96, 111, 127; 1, 2, 8, 22, 42, 65, 88, 107, 120, 126, 127]

There you go guys. See if you like it and what needs improvement. Copy and paste into Pianoteq Velocity Curve pane

(Select Touch 'Soft 1' on your P515)

Warmest regards,

Chris

Thanks to groovy for the inspiration!

Yes groovy.

I'd very much like to know what other P515 users think of the curve and how it might be improved,

Warmest regards,

Chris

Velocity = [0, 13, 94, 127; 1, 2, 127, 127]

Immediately above ^ to be copy and pasted into Pianoteq's Velocity Curve pane

Below, for use in Cantabile's Velocity filter

Velocity = [0, 13, 94, 127; 2, 2, 127, 127]

Use P515's 'Hard1'Touch Setting.

Don't really need 1st and last points in either case, but it just looks neater.

Hope someone will test and advise,

Warmest regards,

Chris

I'll check out your curve shortly.

Here's one I created this afternoon for use with 'Soft2' on P515

Velocity = [0, 39, 75, 111, 127; 2, 2, 64, 127, 127]

Some seem to shoot curves. 

Have you all foregone completely now, the Pianoteq forum section set aside for velocity curves specifically?

I’ve a link to it: ”Keyboard velocity curves”!