MannyF wrote:Yay! It works! I didn't realise Pianoteq had a sidechain input. I think this is going to be a valuable sound design tool.
For the benefit of posterity who might come upon this thread looking for answers to using Pianoteq as a resonance FX in other DAWs...
I found that Cakewalk by Bandlab (in the process of being reborn as Sonar) is the opposite of Ableton. It does not recognize the sidechain input of Pianoteq when instantiated as an Instrument, but if you drop it in the FX bin of the Audio/Instrument track to be 'effected', the FX bin can use that input. Better yet, insert it on a 'Resonance' bus, and use a Send from the primary Instrument track to manage the level of the resonance being returned and be able to EQ the resonance separately.
The other key to setting this up is that you want to direct the same MIDI that's driving the primary Instrument to Pianoteq so that it can 'know' which strings are undamped, but you need to zero the Velocity curve so that the strings don't get hammered. I also found it necessary to pull the top of the Pedal curve down to about 64 when sending it a keyboard performance with sustain messages in order to keep the undamped 'harp' resonance from getting out of control.
