Yes, thank you nick_op.
With the main Equalizer I like to do some overall basic things to the whole piano sound (like that 'bass tilt' or opposite tilt, or raise mids a little, all depends on need per project) and then further adjust for more specific final tonal shaping with an EQ3 parametric EQ separately in the Effects pane.
The both types of EQ work well I find.
EQ3 controls are kind of similar, in usage. One difference is the "Q" setting, which gives each dot a narrow or wide effect.. drag the dots higher, lower. It's a parametric EQ type (in case you want to do online search to find out more about its type), and it's also worth trying a bass tilt kind of thing with it too..
In Effects section, with an EQ3 loaded into one of the 3 FX slots..
Select "Flat" EQ3 preset from the menu, which you find by clicking the text on right side of where you see the green light and 'EQ3'.. in that preset list there are many other settings you can try - and we can save our own too.
But if you choose the flat preset, then drag the left dot up a little it may give a similar bass gain your keyboard did.
Or.. after choosing the "Flat" EQ3 preset, right-click the left dot and you'll see a pop-up box allowing you to enter your own values manually.
Try entering these numbers.. (press enter for each text field)
Freq 360
Gain +1.0
Q 1
(then click anywhere outside the pop-up box to close it).
That frequency range can be raised a small amount to have a pretty big effect on human ears. A lot of the time you may not need to raise or lower anything by much more than +/- 2dB
If you feel like you find a good preset for any settings you change, don't forget to save your EQ3 or Equalizer settings.. that way you can just click and load them in. You can also of course save any full Pinoteq preset you make.. like "My Bass Tilted Roland-ish first preset"
The manuals give some nice info (click "Help" top right, select manual in your language).
Don't be too afraid of EQing - be free to move dots around to hear what they do - if you make what seems a mistake, just re-load your preset and begin again - and save your own settings when you know you'll want to re-use your work later too.
The main Equalizer is much better than many might know. Here's an example of a setting for a piano part from a project a while ago.. the main goal was lowering deep bass (for the mix) and give certain focus on small areas of the sound which worked particularly well for the piece of music.
Select the all below text and copy... then in Pianoteq open Equalizer, and right-click in the middle of it, choose "Paste" and you'll see it. wrote:Equalizer = [60, 84, 108, 111, 126, 156, 200, 376, 400, 450, 510, 600, 900, 1120, 1250, 1300, 1570, 1850, 2010, 2110, 2380, 2630, 3160, 3600, 3720, 4150, 6200, 8000, 9300, 16000; -7.7, -5.6, -2.1, -1.9, -1.8, -1.3, -0.8, +0.6, +0.5, +0.7, +0.2, +0.2, +0.2, -0.1, -1.0, -0.9, +0.1, -0.2, -0.7, -0.8, -0.3, 0, 0, -0.1, -0.1, -0.1, 0, +0.1, -0.7, -0.8]
That's not a bass boosting one.. but you could really make any piano sound any way you like, just by seeing what the dots can do
Hope that's a help.
Pianoteq Studio Bundle (Pro plus all instruments) - Kawai MP11 digital piano - Yamaha HS8 monitors
