MODARTT presents PIANOTEQ 4 1 Welcome Congratulations on your purchase of Pianoteq – the starting point of a brand new generation of pianos, developed from mathematical research done at the Institute of Mathematics of Toulouse at INSA Toulouse, France, and offering unique possibilities to make the piano behave and sound just the way you like. For support issues and latest news about our products, please visit our website at www.pianoteq.com. If you have any questions or comment, let us know. We always listen to our customers. 2 Contents 1 Introduction ................................................................................................................. 6 1.1 The fourth generation of pianos .......................................................................................... 6 1.2 What makes Pianoteq outstanding ...................................................................................... 7 1.3 Pianoteq versions ................................................................................................................ 8 1.4 Features in short .................................................................................................................. 9 2 Installing and starting Pianoteq ................................................................................. 10 2.1 Installation for Windows ................................................................................................... 10 2.2 Installation for Mac OS X ................................................................................................... 11 2.3 Using Pianoteq stand-alone ............................................................................................... 11 2.4 Using VST hosts ................................................................................................................. 11 2.5 Hardware requirements .................................................................................................... 11 2.6 Adapt Pianoteq to your hardware ..................................................................................... 11 2.7 Quickly loading fxp, ptq and MIDI files .............................................................................. 12 2.8 MIDI file player (stand-alone version) ................................................................................ 12 2.9 Interface magnification ...................................................................................................... 14 3 Overview .................................................................................................................... 15 3.1 Instruments ....................................................................................................................... 16 3.2 Managing instruments and presets ................................................................................... 18 3.3 Hints .................................................................................................................................. 19 3.4 General commands ............................................................................................................ 20 4 Tuning panel ............................................................................................................. 24 4.1 Diapason ............................................................................................................................ 24 4.2 Temperament .................................................................................................................... 24 4.3 Unison tuning .................................................................................................................... 25 4.4 Octave stretching ............................................................................................................... 25 4.5 Direct sound duration ........................................................................................................ 26 5 Voicing panel (acoustic) ............................................................................................. 27 5.1 Hammer hardness ............................................................................................................. 27 3 5.2 Spectrum profile ................................................................................................................ 27 5.3 Hammer noise ................................................................................................................... 28 5.4 Strike point ........................................................................................................................ 28 5.5 Soft pedal .......................................................................................................................... 28 6 Voicing panel (electro-acoustic) .................................................................................. 29 6.1 Pickup symmetry ............................................................................................................... 29 6.2 Pickup distance .................................................................................................................. 29 7 Voicing panel (clavinet) .............................................................................................. 30 8 Design panel ............................................................................................................. 31 8.1 Soundboard ....................................................................................................................... 31 8.2 String length ...................................................................................................................... 31 8.3 Sympathetic resonance ..................................................................................................... 32 8.4 Duplex scale ....................................................................................................................... 32 9 Velocity panel ............................................................................................................ 33 10 Output panel ............................................................................................................ 34 10.1 A sound radiation physical model .................................................................................... 34 10.2 Sound recording mode ..................................................................................................... 35 10.3 Compensation .................................................................................................................. 36 10.4 Stereo width and sound speed ........................................................................................ 36 10.5 Lid position ...................................................................................................................... 36 10.6 Binaural mode ................................................................................................................. 37 10.7 About the microphones position ..................................................................................... 37 11 From action to effects ............................................................................................... 38 11.1 Action .............................................................................................................................. 38 11.2 Mallet bounce .................................................................................................................. 38 11.3 Equalizer .......................................................................................................................... 39 11.4 Effects .............................................................................................................................. 39 11.5 Reverberation .................................................................................................................. 41 12 Practice .................................................................................................................... 42 12.1 Tutorial 1: tuning ............................................................................................................. 42 12.2 Tutorial 2: voicing ............................................................................................................ 43 4 12.3 Tutorial 3: soundboard design ......................................................................................... 44 12.4 Tutorial 4: adapting Pianoteq to your keyboard .............................................................. 45 12.5 Tutorial 5: difference between spectrum profile and equalizer ....................................... 46 13 Pianoteq Pro ............................................................................................................ 47 13.1 Note Edit .......................................................................................................................... 47 13.2 Spectrum profile .............................................................................................................. 48 14 Appendix: temperaments construction .................................................................... 52 15 Special acknowledgements ....................................................................................... 53 15.1 Instrument providers ....................................................................................................... 53 15.2 Recording engineers .......................................................................................................