adding or removing related things in audience bubble - and you can treat the reverb layer in so many ways (compress - make it extra wide within the mics panel). That's not even scratching the surface - for player bubble, adding hammer noise and bass thump and that kind of aesthetic. Just mixing those variants' volume around can get incredibly good sonic possibilities without bothering with my old DAW templates for reverbs etc. I'm using same piano, different mics with layer 1 close (player bubble), layer 2 further back (audience bubble) and layer 3 distant mic and high mix (reverb). Layering is going to be awesome for recording - even less reason to go open a DAW. Great to see the energy of release day comments Overal, the update brings very interesting and powerful new features. I'm 100% sure adding "copy/paste" was a step forward, but I'm not as sure that getting rid of "toggle freeze" is also a step forward, since the two functions can overlap on some duties, but on other instances one can be much better suited and faster than the other. Meanwhile I noticed the "copy list" currently gets saved and recalled, which is a good thing. The other issue was the list of frozen parameters currently not being recalled/remembered when v7 is newly loaded, meanwhile in v6 it happened through the "save as default" button. keeping the "global freeze list" always fully un-checked (for "B"), and using the new copy/paste feature to paste the copied parameters every-single-time a new preset is loaded (for "A"), which is also far from great. checking and unchecking individual parameters from the "global freeze list" every-single-time there's a need to swap between A and B, and if it's like 15 parameters to check/uncheck every time, in the absence of a global button, it can become quite painful.Ģ. Summing it up, what in v6 was simply a matter of clicking the "toggle freeze" button, in v7 requires one of these 2 repetitive options:ġ. I tend to swap between A and B very frequently, with a single click of a button (toggle freeze). I have 2 ways of loading presets depending on what I'm doing, and I guess it could be the same for many other Pianoteq users:Ī: with some specific parameters locked, to keep consistency on some key elements of the sound => old "toggle freeze" checkedī: without any parameter locked, to simply hear how presets were actually fully programmed => old "toggle freeze" un-checked I can see the new copy/paste feature being extremely useful on many occasions, but just to further explain my earlier point: However you can still access the previous freeze feature via ctrl+F (see Options > General > Edit keyboard shortcuts). There is now a much more convenient copy/paste feature, I encourage you to try it. now I can't find a way to do that (except manually checking/unchecking each parameter on the list everytime, instead of having a global freeze/unfreeze button) sometimes I wanted to browse through presets exactly as they were conceived, other times I wanted to browse through presets keeping some parameters locked. In v6 I had a "freeze toggle" button which I used all the time. I'm a little confused with how v7 deals with frozen parameters. I'm going to persevere with this release - I think I'm going to delete all of my presets and start again and see where it takes me. The notorious high pitched overtones are still clearly in evidence in version 7.x, especially in the lower end when played Forte or Fortissimo - the sound is still quite artificial and 'twangy'. I feel like this is the beginning of the journey regarding tone development. When you hold a note down - especially a bass note - you can begin to hear the tone developing, much more like an acoustic piano, but it still seems quite artificial. Tone development seems to have been worked on for version 7.x, and I can sort of feel what the Pianoteq developers are aiming for. It's a weird feeling, but almost like a step backwards in terms of realism. No matter what reverb effect I choose, I can't feel like I'm interacting with the instrument. It's tantalisingly good, but it feels quite disconnected & distant. The New York Steinway really seems to be a step up in terms of tone and contrast in timbre depending on how the instrument is played. I used to use the 'Medium Hall' setting in 6.x, but this is now unusable in 7.x because it just distorts through my headphones (Beyerdynamic DT880 Pro). This gets noticeably worse with 'wetter' reverb settings. When playing any of the pianos - including the NY Steinway - the mid range is very harsh, and booms. Something weird seems to have happened with the reverb settings. I must admit, I'm struggling a bit with this release.
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