I just love the sound of that instrument, the interface and how it can be pimped, versus the Galaxy Vintage D with kontakt interface which was also very tempting, but did not quite do as much for me as the American D. I loved it after the try-sound demo and samples won me over. This month I invested in a 256 GB solid state hard drive and a copy of the Ivory 2 American D. Still I'll buy a copy next month because I love how it plays. It is a bit like picking a digital piano and must be a personal choice whether you like the sound or not, for me it is not even so much whether the sounds is "realistic" or not, it is whether I like it enough. That same characteristic I hear on the recordings by others too. It is just the sound is not quite not to my liking enough, even after fiddling for a month with it on an off. I find it lovely to play and how it responds and feels.
PIANOTEQ 5 VS 6 TRIAL
When I tried the trial I did not have too much issue finding something for the Casio action I had but still ended up with something of my own setting. If you go to the painoteq forums you may find some useful presets. If not, you might want to adjust Pianoteq to give you the same effects as the Yamaha. Is it set up "no reverb, no chorus, no effects" - completely dry? There's a lot of freedom in the Pianoteq "reverb" effect. (I've tested at 60 dB I can't play a scale evenly, at that setting.) More range will give more "excitement", I think, but it'll be harder to control. You can change the dynamic range of Pianoteq with the "dynamics" slider in the main window. So my velocity calibration curve isn't a straight line it's flat at the left edge (MIDI velocity less than 10), and flat at the right edge (MIDI velocity greater than 115), and slopes fairly evenly in between. Ideally (on a well-set-up keyboard), playing very softly should give velocity near 0 playing very hard, velocity near 127.įor my PX-350, I found it difficult to get output MIDI velocities less than 10, or more than 115. The "File | Audio/MIDISetup | MIDI" window will let you watch the MIDI stream from the keyboard. Have you checked the MIDI velocity output from your keyboard? Is there another velocity curve you can use, in the Pianoteq User Forum ? initiated by clicking the "Calibrate" button in Pianoteq ? Have you been through the standard 'velocity calibration' exercise If you're using the same "instrument" for playing the demo songs, and your own keyboard, the velocity curve is a likely culprit. See if raising the volume when _you_ play, improves the Pianoteq sound. "Louder" almost always sounds better than "softer". Whatever you buy will also require a lot of effort to get it to sound good. I think those should come last and simply augment your sound profile.Īll that I've said might not apply much since I don't have Pianoteq but I still feel you should put more work into it before you purchase another system. This also before messing with anything like EQ or ambience. Also add to the degree of sustain a bit to get that more complex sound you might expect from an acoustic. I wouldn't start with the EQ until you are at least somewhat satisfied with the sound. If this doesn't get it for you, try increasing your output/gain levels a bit but not so much that you get distortion.Īll of the above will help you rule out the possibility that you are just not getting enough volume out of it. Add to that a surprisingly low dynamic range (sometimes called compression) and you will find that it's easier and more reliable to get a louder fuller sound. For my purposes, I feel the silent key (assuming P5 has that) works well when combined with the simplest and most average of velocity curves. There are just so many levers you have to pull before you can know if the program is poor or if it's just operator error. It's a lot to learn and even then it's not easy to find what you like best.īecause of this I would recommend sticking with your current system for awhile longer. I can't count the number of hours I put into setting things up.
PIANOTEQ 5 VS 6 SOFTWARE
No matter which direction you take it's going to be a long road to getting the most out of your software piano.
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