More importantly, the same 3D freedom is allowed for the virtual "headphones" in binaural model. The Sound Recording mode allows almost infinite variable positioning of the virtual mics, any position in virtual 3D space (X,Y,Z coordinates and aiming any orientation angle.) Many years ago, it was me, propianist, who suggested to Niclas Fogwall about making the parameter edits note by note using a "graphic equalizer" with 88 sliders, rather than single global control, and this idea was successfully adopted into Pianoteq Pro. I need to go drink now as I this has resurfaced some horrible memories… arrrgh.I've just had a brilliant idea - Modartt developers, I hope you are reading this.!!!!!!!! You will never find a VSTi that captures every nuance so don’t get too micro on the details. You most likely have a bias to what a piano should sound like based on the one you have. You may also have one of the biggest hurdles we had going against you. Generally speaking, more expensive the VSTi - the more customisable it is - so its a lot of work. I think the day we turned a corner was adding a long sustaining reverb to the bottom end and had a wet mix of about 2%. It also required a lot of creativity with different reverbs, using different reverbs for lows, mids and top end. It may not need saying, but if you are using a basic non-weighted midi controller, the performance may be off.įor different sections of the music we had to apply different velocity curves, and narrowing the wide stereo sound most VSTi’s tried to apply. Invested money in expensive VSTIs and what eventually worked was not the VSTi used but the input.
I spent a year in a studio trying to get a real piano sound and it was frustrating. I’m utterly baffled by why Cubase “Pro” has such toylike pianos and I dread what I’m going to find for other traditional instruments in Cubase “Pro”! With the stock synths, Steinberg should call this Cubase “Am”. The overall sound is rather “dead” compared to the real instrument because when you strike a key on the real instrument there are all kinds of sympathetic vibrations with the other strings, with the case, and with other bits of hardware, that you don’t get with the synthesized piano - although I agree that there’s no reason why they couldn’t try to synthesize those.īut overall the PianoTeq is a huge improvement over the pianos in the stock Halion instrument, so at least I can resume my composing. The notes in the lower-middle octaves of the PianoTeq have some unnatural metallic resonances but I was able to control those with EQ. (I own an actual, acoustic A, so I have a close basis for comparison) I guess my point is don’t diss it before you try… or ‘investigate’. That doesn’t mean the sound is great necessarily, but I think in terms of complexity it can absolutely be done.Īs with sampling I don’t know if this model does that. Perhaps they do when they sample, perhaps they don’t.īut it would seem to me that you could create an algorithm that rapidly and relatively easily figures out what ‘string’ needs to do what. You’d have to sample resonance for ‘inactive’ strings when chords chords are played, different velocities, and more. Are you going to capture them all or just some? Suppose you play a chord fairly high up mp, that’s going to yield different results than a chord far lower played f. The difference however is that if you want to do it right then for a sampled piano you’d really have to decide just how many combinations you want to capture. Meaning the decision ‘equation’ is equal to both sampled and modeled. As a matter of fact I’d say it’s in a way equally complicated in that you have to take into account which strings are being pressed and exclude them and then add the sympathetic resonance of the rest.
You could easily emulate that as well, no? If you’re only talking about sustain pedal pressed = generate sound from all non-pressed strings that doesn’t seem to complicated. If even one string in a piano is vibrating other strings will vibrate sympathetically if their dampers are lifted, as they would be if the sustain pedal is pressed.
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