Pianos you want Modartt to model? (Page 5 of 10)

Completely agree on all three.

Which one do you mean? As far as I know there are two Native Instruments "Felt Piano" libraries: Una Corda and Noire, both instigated by Nils Frahm.

indeed, would be awesome.

Borgato Grand Prix 333 but with an extended range option and a variant with keys 5 through 8 switched to bichords, to sound more like the Rubenstein R-371

Minx Miniature Piano, I have one of these, built 1937.

The piano player in Herman's Herd was one of my teachers, Tony Aless. He was also Musical Director at CBS. He had a great relationship with Baldwin and actually preferred them. He had a fabulous Baldwin upright grand. Its a 6' harp mounted diagonally inside the case. He took me to their cavernous factory in NYC (I believe it was on 57th Street) where I must have tried a hundred pianos until I found mine! An upright grand I own for almost 50 years. It needs a bit of TLC now and then but it still sounds great and I love to play it.

There's a lot of acoustic pianos that I enjoy playing, and like the variation in character and tone between manufacturers and models. I can't see an awful lot of value in Pianoteq replicating a modelled version of many of the sampled pianos around - such as the CFX & Ravenscroft - would there be a reasonable market, especially with he amount of sampled CFXs around?

One thing I would LOVE is a Shigeru Kawai, and for me, the sweet spot would be the SK-5. The concert grands are lovely, but smaller grands have unique qualities, especially for intimate recordings.

Here's a video of a SK-3 being played: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkW1jxI2Tq0

It has a huge tonal contrast, while maintaining a lovely rounded tone - I can hear Steinway in there but also a clarity and warmness that reminds me of Bechstein instruments.

Another Bechstein model.
By far my most favorite piano on PTQ.

A collab between Pianoteq and Nils Frahm would be pretty interesting.

Then there is the Bernese "Schmidt-Flohr" piano. Little known worldwide. But it has a very nice sound.

Modartt have now gone in the direction of licensed models.
I guess as the CFX is the ultimate statement Yamaha concert grand that would be the one to have in its own pack, but then would Yamaha want a physically modelled  version from what is essentially a rival?
Then again maybe they would do a crossover product, who knows. 

If you have Standard or Pro you can lengthen the strings and tune the model to make a close approximation of the bigger models C7 and even the CFX from YC5 or one of the other pianos. Obviously not the same as having a properly developed version from Modartt.

I think a YC7 would be a nice addition to the YC pack. It's not officially a Concert 7 anyway so they wouldn't have to spend weeks or months with the real thing. They would certainly do a better job of any close approximation than I could.

Maybe it's just me but when it comes to the best pianos the tone is purer than the more characterful low costs pianos, and therefore somewhat ironically perhaps it becomes more difficult to sonically differentiate them from the existing high end piano models? The temptation maybe becomes to exaggerate the differences between models through microphone positions and Eq settings?
Robbed of the physical presence of the real instruments and robbed of the mechanical feel of the real keys they are left with only the sound to model, and a GUI logo.
If you've got a pristine sounding CFX model is it a world away from a pristine Fazoli, once you take into account room microphone positioning, playing style, recording Eq and so on?
Sure they sound different but how many pristine piano models do we need?
I say that but I would almost certainly buy both, and that's mostly what I want from Pianoteq

I'm guessing that as the pianos that are being modelled get closer to a form of tonal perfection (moving away from imperfect character flaws) it becomes harder and harder to reproduce the nuances of each individual model without major upgrades in the engine. On top of that Modartt would have to consider the size of the customer base that would appreciate the difference enough to keep buying the latest pristine grand piano pack..

Woah! I'd love to imagine it possible for Modartt to show the work on the recent Bechstein DG (based on delivered sample set from Bechstein) to gain permissions to revive those pianos! Excellent.

I want a K3.

Yes this could be a good approach. Being a linux user, I like the idea to be free towards brands. But the use of brand names makes probably more sales. This commercial strategy is also to consider.

Perhaps I'd join the fray here... if the "fray" just meant more Christmas wishes for Pianoteq to do after now releasing v7.0(.3, as of this writing).

So, one Shigeru Kawai SK-EX, or a Schimmel K 280, or a Steingraeber 132 upright for rebuilding into a PTQ instrument, please!

Basically anything absurdly expensive...

Shigeru Kawai SK-EX. Feels weird using a VPC 1 and being unable to play a VST of their pianos that isn't a synth. Playing with smaller SKs in a store felt as good as the Bechstein they had at around half the price.

Fazioli Brunei. I'm not familiar with the model names but I remember hearing them clearly in the Aberdeen Mall in Vancouver. Not many overtones so it'd be a good one to layer with.

Bosendorfer Grand 290 Imperial. Because I like big. Plus the extra low keys could be fun to use.

Steinway Model Z: because Imagine was composed on it.

Some crystal piano. Heintzman & Co did one for the Beijing games. Something off the wall.

Related videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd2TL88...e=youtu.be (glad Pianoteq got the B/D and Bechstein)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwVZP2xTQuY

Maybe you already know this but it might help someone:

Owing to the Pianoteq legacy of the (now official) Steinway D and Modartt K models both of these packs actually allow the user to play or transpose to an octave below the lowest octave of an 88 key keyboard, and also partly above the highest octave too FWIW.

So those two models already give you more than you get with the real thing (in the case of the D) and almost all real pianos in general (K not being modelled on any specific real piano according to Modartt, so that one isnt strictly being unfaithful).
This even applies to the latest New York Steinway D model.

So add those 25-37 key additional Midi keyboard/s to get extra octaves.

The Fazioli F308 .. because everyone is modelling the Steinway, Bosendorfer, Yamaha etc ..

On a side note, James mah boiiii did wonders when he bought that console piano. Cleaning it with a leaf blower while wearing a ThePianoGuys shirt made it all the better.

My individualistic thoughts are:

There are quite enough "normal" concert grands to my taste, for some time I knew them each quite well, but about after Petrof they all became kind of slightly different flavor of the same one to me. Which is not something bad, no complains. BTW K2 is very good in v7, my opinion. Lately I found myself unexpectedly enjoying playing the old ones, historical pianos, pianofortes, etc. After sticking to one "normal grand" preset for literally years, now my recent habit is constantly switching through all the pianos I got plus the demos.

My imaginary and most likely unrealistic request is to make something unusual and specific but at the same time not too exotic so it could be used on a regular everyday basis. I'm a big fan of quite unusual piano VSTs like NI Una Corda or Imperfect Samples Fazioli, so something of that kind is what I really want.

But please not a harp, EP, organ, guitar, timbales, etc., please stick to pianos.

I would also like to suggest that adding more sustained sounds could be interesting for morphing and layering duties. We could start with morphing between Pianoteq and Organteq.

Knight K10???

and an acoustic Baldwin Grand Piano too.

Sounds a lot like what Chromaphone is doing.