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Neither would I.  Nice work !

It would be interesting to hear your creation without the part of the process, if you agree.

Thank you - Glad it's being enjoyed.

@dazric - turns out I haven't yet uploaded that preset (thought I did that a while back - but I'll do so soon).

Even so, the source material could have just as easily been recorded using this FXP:

Hammer Horrors Pianoteq preset FXP

Hammer Horrors audio demo

@Amaryllis - I tend to delete used audio as I work (bouncing tracks or freezing) to save space - just one of my old fashioned ways to keep myself sure of my own decisions and analogous to the way I used to work with tape (chinagraph pen and cutter.. you have to be ready to destroy your darlings as you go - an old line but I find it true for myself).

But the demo link above gives a good approximation of the type of source material directly out of Pianoteq which I used..

If we push the controls way beyond reality, add some extra processing, I find replacing synthesizers with Pianoteq excellent, also partly because "performance" comes better into play.. there's a great difference in dynamics from a performance on a weighted keyboard + Pianoteq, vs. a lot of cheezy synth keyboards and pre-determined or even randomised routines in their noise generating.. I love both worlds but, I find Pianoteq is organically muscling out my synths more and more. Each little ripple in the tones are the result of velocity (physics), rather than just noise envelopes - I like to hear this back "I played that!" rather than I looped this random loop.. feels more alive to me than processing even complex synths alone (not saying 'throw out synths' or anything else, still loving them and all other ways I work but to me Pianoteq gives me something I feel speaks with more life - from realism to this kind of thing).

This is another preset in the vein of pushing into soundscape dream territory for me, which is also similar to the source material I like to use to process further.

The audio demo below is straight out of Pianoteq via that FXP - so you can see, there's not a lot of DAW processing to do to end up with something unique:

C. Bechstein DG Concept piano

Concept piano audio demo

@Pianoteqenthusiast - thank you so much! - I've sincerely enjoyed your music and dedication to the art and it's absolute joy for me to watch and listen as you triumph I still remember your piece "Chloe" (as a judge in the comp that year, I did vote it up - probably never told you that) and it still touches me (how Pianoteq can make the world of difference to a child who's family maybe doesn't have a real piano.. Pianoteq can allow her to dream and learn and become!). Will seek out now your Cosmic piece!

Aha fabulous I didn't know about that.

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Just remembered, I used to mimmick traffic with synths (in early years, panning the various "Brrmmm" sounds left/right with a simple music accompaniment - it's passe now, productionwise but some of those silly old recordings now maybe 45 years ols are possibly on tape somewhere - gotta find a nice old tape machine so I can digitise - I sikipped doing that in the 90s, the travails for working fast).

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Yeah, I think a lot of people of my vintage who work(ed) with synths mostly, could really enjoy swapping convention and taking Pianoteq as a source for their own unique sounds - and people young or old just starting making their own music could find putting down the synth and playing music on piano can be extraordinarily expressive - and a career boost perhaps too. I know from my experience, a lot of potentially good musicians cheaped out and just relaxed into simplified music with automated tools (not wrong, just a choice) - but sometimes I wonder, "I wonder what they would have come up with, if they'd instead persisted with real piano, took on more musicology and less DJign about with loops". (I guess I put that to myself some 15yrs ago).