"sympathetic resonance fed by external audio input" (problem)

Hi,

I don't use Studio One, but tested the sympathetic resonance effect on Mac with Cubase Pro 12 and Logic Pro 10.7.5
There are two different routes, from which at least one should also work in Studio One.

In Cubase you will find Pianoteq 8 as an Insert Effect. You can insert it, as any other VST Effect, in Instrument and audio tracks.

In Logic, Pianoteq 8 doesn't show as an effect plugin. Here you have to load Pianoteq 8 as an instrument, as you would normally do, and then add the instrument or audio track you want to apply the effect to as a side chain signal.

Hope this helps.

In ubuntu, in ripper, when sound passes through Pianoteq, I get distortion in the "dry" mode.

https://youtu.be/coqHLMPmdJM

I couldn't figure it out with Studio One, but I also don't really understand the routing in S1, so that's not saying much. Hopefully it can be fixed soon!

Bitwig works great, although there are a few different ways to do this, and some work better (for me) than others. Here's how I did it, initially:

The first track is just a virtual instrument track running the Keyscape C7. It doesn't have any native sympathetic resonance, so it's a fun one to send into Pianoteq to give it a little life.

The second track (Pianoteq FX) is an audio track, receiving input from the first track, and there's a Pianoteq insert there which you can see in the screenshot is just adding resonance within Pianoteq itself.

What I didn't like about this is that the resonance is combined with the original signal on the track. You can see this by comparing the meter in the FX Pianoteq instance to the track meters.

I'm now taking this approach, instead, and like it a lot more:

First track is the same.

Second track is still an audio track, but isn't receiving any input. The first insert is the "Audio Receiver" Bitwig device, which takes the audio from Keyscape C7 (POST). The next device, Pianoteq, provides sympathetic resonance as before. You can see the level meter for this track now matches with Pianoteq, and my resonance can be mixed independently from Keyscape.

Overall, it works well and sounds great. and I've not experienced any distortion others have reported when sliding the dry/wet or wood/strings parameters around.

I would be glad if I was able to do it with Studio One ;-)

I think Modartt should figure out why this doesn't work on all DAW software. There must be something wrong with the way it is implemented in Pianoteq
I don't have this problem with other software plugins that has the option of audio input/sidechain in Studio One.
Hope there will be a solution to it

I don't know much about using Kontakt outside the context of a DAW, that's an interesting question! It was pretty easy in Ableton. I just have 10 Lite that came bundled with some hardware I got, but I never use it, so there might be better ways to approach it. This seems to work, though:

I dropped Pianoteq onto the first instrument track, and noticed it had a sidechain right there on the Pianoteq device. I set that to pull audio from track 2, which I just put a random sample into and looped it, and can hear resonance if I solo the Pianoteq track. Neat!