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Topic: Brian Eno uses Pianoteq

Delighted to read in Modartt's newsletter that Brian Eno has begun to use Pianoteq

Here's Eno's testimony on the Modartt References page for anyone who didn't read via the newsletter.

I've espoused most of these same things (and praise for the genius of Pianoteq's creation) and it's excellent to hear this echoed by someone with such a wonderful presence in music, hoping to see others who make modern music adopt Pianoteq as their new obvious-fav piano.

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Brian Eno wrote:

I bought Pianoteq 6 a couple of weeks ago. I think it is the most well-realised and intelligently constructed piece of music software I've ever had the pleasure of using. It is an absolute milestone. Aside from its incredible power as an emulator of pianos, the possibilities that unfold when you start to edit the models are astonishing. I've been lost in it since I bought it, and keep dragging friends into the studio to show them this miracle. The randomisation possibilities are so intelligently constructed and are a great help in understanding the enormous variety of possibilities this instrument offer. I don't think I've ever been so impressed by a piece of software design and I just wanted to thank the team who put this together.


This genuinely thrills me in various ways - firstly, hoping to hear what Brian Eno does with Pianoteq in his own music of course, but also glad to know that Eno fans and more producers in this vein will likely discover Pianoteq for themselves now.

I stumbled (like a broken head) onto using Pianoteq in a similar way to the way I imagined Brian and Roger Eno did on the Apollo album. Pianoteq allowed me to play with this and myriad other creative concepts digitally. Hard to say succinctly, but certain production techniques I enjoy can best be realised via Pianoteq IMO and for me, nothing else compares for this.

Marvelous to feel so proud of Modartt for the incredible work of scientific art, and for me, this is inspiring news. Brian Eno has been one of my foundational inspirations (not just in terms of music, but in thinking re music and beyond).

A very glad thanks for your endorsement Mr. Eno.

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Re: Brian Eno uses Pianoteq

Qexl wrote:

Delighted to read in Modartt's newsletter that Brian Eno has begun to use Pianoteq

Here's Eno's testimony on the Modartt References page for anyone who didn't read via the newsletter.

I've espoused most of these same things (and praise for the genius of Pianoteq's creation) and it's excellent to hear this echoed by someone with such a wonderful presence in music, hoping to see others who make modern music adopt Pianoteq as their new obvious-fav piano.

Posting for convenience to forum readers:


Brian Eno wrote:

I bought Pianoteq 6 a couple of weeks ago. I think it is the most well-realised and intelligently constructed piece of music software I've ever had the pleasure of using. It is an absolute milestone. Aside from its incredible power as an emulator of pianos, the possibilities that unfold when you start to edit the models are astonishing. I've been lost in it since I bought it, and keep dragging friends into the studio to show them this miracle. The randomisation possibilities are so intelligently constructed and are a great help in understanding the enormous variety of possibilities this instrument offer. I don't think I've ever been so impressed by a piece of software design and I just wanted to thank the team who put this together.


This genuinely thrills me in various ways - firstly, hoping to hear what Brian Eno does with Pianoteq in his own music of course, but also glad to know that Eno fans and more producers in this vein will likely discover Pianoteq for themselves now.

I stumbled (like a broken head) onto using Pianoteq in a similar way to the way I imagined Brian and Roger Eno did on the Apollo album. Pianoteq allowed me to play with this and myriad other creative concepts digitally. Hard to say succinctly, but certain production techniques I enjoy can best be realised via Pianoteq IMO and for me, nothing else compares for this.

Marvelous to feel so proud of Modartt for the incredible work of scientific art, and for me, this is inspiring news. Brian Eno has been one of my foundational inspirations (not just in terms of music, but in thinking re music and beyond).

A very glad thanks for your endorsement Mr. Eno.

Thank you, Qexl, for this thread, your information. Nice you pointed out Brian Eno. We need all kind of beautiful music in this very chaotic world. And I always like to read your comments in this forum. Thanks for the insights and guidance. I feel, that you put your whole heart in this writing, again.

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You are a wonder and delight to me, thank you Pianoteqenthusiast for such lovely thoughts, my dear prolific friend. It would be understating it, to say that the endorsement makes me a little 'unreasonably' happy still.

Brian Eno wrote:

I've been lost in it since I bought it

Nicely sums up a shared commonality between many of us here I'm certain.

Brian Eno wrote:

I don't think I've ever been so impressed by a piece of software design

Also a thought close to my heart. Sincerely hoping everyone at Modartt may feel a healthy quota of well deserved pride for their admirable accomplishments, which inspire and are enjoyed by so many who appreciate this.

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Re: Brian Eno uses Pianoteq

Qexl wrote:
Brian Eno wrote:

I've been lost in it since I bought it

Brian Eno wrote:

I don't think I've ever been so impressed by a piece of software design

Best endorsements ever.

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Fleer wrote:

Best endorsements ever.

Yeah Fleer, pretty damn cool

I've banged on for a long time here (in part really hoping to help experimental modern musicians find it) about how Pianoteq is the best digital piano tool to work with in a DAW and still feeling chuffed that Brian Eno is enjoying it so much.

Thinking of his piano based works with his brother Roger Eno (and Dan Lanois was also a great part of Apollo btw) - I can't wait to hear in which ways they might incorporate Pianoteq.. in times past, it was default to use a real piano recording (for their kinds of processing) - but Eno's always pushing things around in both MIDI and audio, so Pianoteq kind of jumps a gate in that workflow I imagine (as it did in mine). No longer do I use pure or hybrid sampled pianos, even if it were just because you cannot do as freely what you can in MIDI with Pianoteq. But PTQ wins out on so many levels - we have read all this before though

Just imagining Roger getting his home piano fit out with a rail and Pianoteq and sending Brian his tunes.. instead of all the studio and audio recording and big files etc. It made an inordinate difference when I realised Pianoteq was so capable, with so many piano sounds etc.. not that I never want a real piano in my life but Pianoteq does give us a whole collection to inspire ourselves and record with (files so small it's a miraculous thing in this time of bloatware and 100Gigabyte wait times).

Kind of wild and I do really feel strongly that others who are fascinated by what Eno's about will follow the endorsement and join us in appreciating it. Modartt to me is a place filled with genius and genuine marriage of art and science - and I know Philippe has been at pains to satisfy this demanding modern artist segment.. and so very successfully IMO. It's been perfect for my purposes for a long while now and assuredly will improve, they never seem to stop building in even more worthwhile physics based realism.

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