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wadirum
Published on 11/07/08 at 09:38
I use Pianoteq for 1 year after testing the demo, no keyboard, only from the computer (HP Pavilion Laptop 1.3 Ghz). As a neophyte and living in Jordan, away from opportunities our country, I'm beginning to gather gallery at first and then run it all.
Slowly I gathered the material ad hoc ie not bulky, robust and powerful!
I use Pianoteq with 1 keyboard KORG SP 250, an interface EDIROL UM-1, an external sound card Echo Indigo PCMCIA Type I / O (no noticeable latency).
I use the Korg audio (but it has no audio input, I had to add one for a small intervention in the device. The input signals are readily identifiable and retrievable only output potentiometers for volume).
Once all well versed on the side gear, big disappointment! Sounds mid / high metallic sound very artificial and not at all similar to the sounds that I tested on headphones with the demo version. I tested all kinds of combination, I wrote to Pianoteq (immediate, warm (thanks Julian!) And accurate) but nothing to do, its always the damn unpleasant to the point, tired, I preferred to return to Piano 2 (bank 2) of the Korg, far superior and realistic.
Until one day, wondering about the exceptional quality of his Korg and the impossibility to reproduce with Pianoteq (which is a shame given the large number of parameters and combinations that can generate infinite) I noticed that unison is set large enough, certainly much more "measured" in the presets of Pianoteq. I run on my computer, substantially increases the parameter unison and miraculously, the sound is more metallic or artificial but very alive! I do not know why this setting I had missed yet visible (there are too many settings for a beginner and you get lost, affecting everything to chance!) I have since changed course many other parameters but, I repeat, this parameter is critical to the starting point settings (using presets). Then it's matter of taste and trial and error and ... patience.
Now I have one (of!) Piano for my taste with which I really really enjoy.
Some find the price to pay 245 euros for a small software! Obviously it depends on the budget of each but I think it's small price to pay for a product so great and so promising for what will become of it after being qques years already so efficient small!
Slowly I gathered the material ad hoc ie not bulky, robust and powerful!
I use Pianoteq with 1 keyboard KORG SP 250, an interface EDIROL UM-1, an external sound card Echo Indigo PCMCIA Type I / O (no noticeable latency).
I use the Korg audio (but it has no audio input, I had to add one for a small intervention in the device. The input signals are readily identifiable and retrievable only output potentiometers for volume).
Once all well versed on the side gear, big disappointment! Sounds mid / high metallic sound very artificial and not at all similar to the sounds that I tested on headphones with the demo version. I tested all kinds of combination, I wrote to Pianoteq (immediate, warm (thanks Julian!) And accurate) but nothing to do, its always the damn unpleasant to the point, tired, I preferred to return to Piano 2 (bank 2) of the Korg, far superior and realistic.
Until one day, wondering about the exceptional quality of his Korg and the impossibility to reproduce with Pianoteq (which is a shame given the large number of parameters and combinations that can generate infinite) I noticed that unison is set large enough, certainly much more "measured" in the presets of Pianoteq. I run on my computer, substantially increases the parameter unison and miraculously, the sound is more metallic or artificial but very alive! I do not know why this setting I had missed yet visible (there are too many settings for a beginner and you get lost, affecting everything to chance!) I have since changed course many other parameters but, I repeat, this parameter is critical to the starting point settings (using presets). Then it's matter of taste and trial and error and ... patience.
Now I have one (of!) Piano for my taste with which I really really enjoy.
Some find the price to pay 245 euros for a small software! Obviously it depends on the budget of each but I think it's small price to pay for a product so great and so promising for what will become of it after being qques years already so efficient small!