I am slowly coming back to Pianoteq (Page 2 of 2)

Amen Ptah Ra wrote:

Helle wrote:

If Pianoteq had similar efx engine or settings, no other products would have any business.

Pianoteq with awesome fx would make the awesome modeling deliver big time. This is exactly the same thing I said many years ago when finding that my old Yamaha Motif did a better job on stage than any Pianoteq preset and I could not understand why, It is better now but there is still a long way to go..

Well, personally I’m one all for preamps as some possible future effects MODARTT might want seriously to consider, especially, since often gigging musicians like yourself complain about the presence of the sounds from the pianos at the venues.  (See my topic post: Vote Yes or No for Pres.)  Many of the posters whose loudspeaker or monitor setups consist of just two (2) enclosures as outputs are very likely soon going to need all the help they possibly can get, if they’re honesty really expecting to eventually have the illusion of some real acoustic piano before them as they play and got the entire piano sound coming perhaps from only two (2) speaker points also.  Not to mention, the typical enclosures they use might have woofers no larger than only eight (8”) inch diameters.

Although, a manufacturer like Roland or Kawai seems only to expect a realistically acoustic sounding digital requires no less than a whole array of several speakers and amplifiers: a lot more than a VST average user’s two (2) near-field monitors allotment.  See graphic (below):

Whether the VST digital piano monitor setup in your own environment is right against a wall or far from it, in lieu of any specially designed cabinetry and unique speaker system, some sort of preamp is possibly going to be your most effective tone sculpting tool anywhere inside the home listening and playing (performance) space. 

The preamp as an effect permits separate speaker volume and equalization adjustments no matter your setup (active or passive) and location, even if that’s in a corner of your room or at a gig.  And, preamps do allow independent compensation throughout any unforeseeable room irregularities including odd room shapes and even room furnishings, because you can adjust individually the volume and tonal output from each speaker one at a time and differently via each preamp pair of equalizers!  Just as easily you can equalize left output differently from that of the right, middle tones in the stereo field are able to vary significantly from the sides through the preamp units housing the pairs of equalization (eq) controls receiving input from the choices of mics used.

Presently when underneath mic selections you cursory click on the EFFECTS wording above the three (3) fx slots in the interface it will reveal a drop-down menu which could accommodate simply additional selections (effects) such as the means to preamp fx slots and others reachable via something like graphical display arrows if ever at all put on and included into that menu, so that all of which could someday also permit extra effects usage in addition to the mere three (3) at a time simultaneous use and view limitation currently available without such effects offered in a bank selection  —of more than just always the visible three (3) of course.

If you listen to the youtube videos Spectrasonics  have made demoing Keyscape, it sounds awesome and I am pretty sure it is not the samples..

Possibly, MODARTT focuses largely to target a niche in the market which is for all the music of the European classics, while Spectrasonics is targeting musicians obviously interested in the more contemporary.  I too have both MODARTT and Spectrasonics (Trilian) instruments.  Which I like.  Although as a jazz musician primarily, I certainly have to admit Keyscape sounds are indeed identical to popular recordings.  It maybe just lacks PIANOTEQ’s microphones and their placements.  Which if were today aided by famous modern producers’ presets along with some of the mic preamps specifically professional piano recordings have been given to use, probably no need for Keyscape would ever exist, just as you say!

https://youtu.be/svX6WRWBP8o

I love this video! I watched it several times.
Although I see more of an advertisement for the Roland A-88 than for Keyscape. (laughs)