jacobspauly wrote:Where is this "plucking point" feature? I can't seem to locate it.
Hi jacobspauly,
After a bit of rummaging around on the Classical Guitar module, I discovered that the "plucking point" feature is a slider at the bottom of the central Voicing Panel, which is hidden behind the graphic of the classical guitar.
This sent me back to actually reading Section 5.3. Guitar mode in the Pianoteq manual. Of course, being an old IT infrastructure specialist, one only reads the manual for an application, or for a physical system, as an option of last resort. However, it did explain what all those orange notes, to the left and right of the playable keyboard, actually do.
For instance, the orange bass D key allows you to toggle between playing the guitar with all of your fingers or with only your thumb. However, to activate this function you have to right-click on the orange triangle to the right of the Casual-Pro slider, go to Keyswitches, and then select Thumb. The key toggle is then activated and does make quite a difference in the timbre of the music you are playing, when the bass D is pressed.
Request to Pianoteq developers It is difficult to tell visually, whether or not you have toggled your thumb On or Off. Unfortunately, moving the cursor over the note doesn't give any indication as to the status of the toggle. Would it be possible, in a future release, to change the colour of the key to indicate that the toggle has been activated. This could apply to the status of all the keyswitches. It might look slightly strange, but then again so do the orange keys, but it would allow one to tell at a glance what one had toggled on or left off.
Note to Self --- six hours later Working with the Classical Guitar module this evening. with low ambient lighting, rather than during the afternoon, with bright daylight. I noticed that when the bass D keyswitch is activated it does change colour from a muted orange to a much redder orange colour. This applies to the other activated keyswitch notes as well. I had not registered this colour change when I was experimenting with the settings earlier, and I don't believe that I have altered any other settings in order to activate this. It would seem that my appreciation of the colour change on my monitor is dependent on the ambient or low lighting levels I am working with. Interesting
If you look to the right of the Adv button, on the right hand side of the strings, you will see an ochre dash "-". If you click on the dash it will take you to the "Vibrato (pitch variation)" controls for the guitar, which are part of the "Note Effects" panel. The dash is a short cut to this panel, once you have realised what it actually does. There are all sorts of useful and interesting magic buttons on this module, but one, or at least I, needs to have the application on high magnification to see where they all are. It is a problem associated with my ageing eyesight and not with the User Interface.
jacobspauly wrote:This is so true. I've seen a few demos of piano players playing piano pieces with this guitar and it sounds so weird.
I had initially tried playing some of the Renaissance/Early Baroque Midi files that I have on the Classical Guitar module, but they sounded not only weird, but ridiculously dreadful. As I don't play the guitar, but I wanted some reasonable MIDI examples to experiment with, I followed up on a suggestion by René-Damen about the "fado" style and came across the following interesting resource on the Web.
https://www.guitares.org/p_eng_t.html
which contains the guitar music of Marc Lamberg of the Quatuor de guitares de Waterloo. His music, apart from being both pleasant and relaxing, is available as MIDI files and so one can, therefore, experiment with the Pianoteq Classical Guitar settings, whilst "playing" the guitar music.
It does mean that you can actually start to produce something, which actually sounds like a classical guitar, being played by someone who is trained in the instrument.
Thank you for your question, which has meant that I have spent a grey, damp afternoon with my head buried productively under the bonnet of the Classical Guitar module. I now know more than I did a few hours ago, which is a good thing.
Michael
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