Topic by steveb

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Topic: Trying to achieve a specific piano sound

Hi,

I am trying to achieve the specific piano sound in this track:

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

I started with a K2 dreamy piano but I'm wondering if anyone has any other suggestions as to presets or settings

I am fairly new to Pianoteq, but I have the Pro version so can access all settings

I tried playing around with the presets and various settings, but I think this goes beyond those. I was advised to double my piano track and pan each one slightly to each side in order to make the piano sound wider and "bigger"

If you have any recommendations, I would appreciate it

Thank you in advance!

Reply by miiindbullets

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Re: Trying to achieve a specific piano sound

K2 dreamy is a good start! The piano you linked is definitely felted. You could switch one of the pedals to Celeste and depress that, play with felt thickness a bit to fine-tune it. I really like mapping a continuous pedal to celeste, as you can adjust felt levels in real-time. It's really nice to be able to do this as you want to change dynamics in the song.

You'll gain a lot more by playing around with it yourself, but here's an example of how you can use additional pedals to dial in different timbres in real-time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBgC1azWmSU

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Reply by bani223

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Re: Trying to achieve a specific piano sound

What miiind says. Except I would adjust the forte and then mezzo hammer hardness. To be fair, there are many things you might end up doing to approximate a specific piano sound. Good luck. And try other things too when you have the time. Lot of good stuff in pro.

MOTU M2 using native ASIO driver, Windows 11, weird tweaks needed to make it work, but seems fine now.
I have posted several times about tweaking Pianoteq