Hi, I read about the initial problems but thought it was already fixed in Oram. Sorry !
I’ve switched to the staging oram version, the pianoteq setup file is now uploaded et reports in the webconf. But… I can’t see it in the chain list ?
What do I need to do for this ?
Thanks !
Hi everybody,
I waited to find a time spot with the required calm and focus, to offer my personal review of the new PT9 engine.
Abstract: I think that this time Modartt have eventually tackled certain reflective nuances of piano playing, which until now had remained somehow elusive, to the capabilities of their otherwise excellent physical modelling software.
For reference, I give a bit of technical info:
As with previous releases, I tested the piano synthesiser on a pro-grade hammer-action keyboard, using a slightly modified logarithmic velocity curve, which in general proved to suit my playing habits and sonic expectations better.
I noticed straight away that the response of the sympathetic resonance had improved considerably, and that this time the spectrum was fuller and subjectively more “well-rounded”. The instrument’s colour has finally acquired a sense of resonating wood, with ameliorated consistency and organicity of piano realism, especially in the mid to high register, which now sounds vastly silkier than before to my ears. There are still very occasional “clanging” notes in the two middle octaves, but completely manageable in context and really unobtrusive.
Not coincidental, in my opinion, is the availability of new sombre presets for every mathematical piano model, meant for more intimate expression and, they say, for the ubiquitous cinematic music (a vague marketing definition that I honestly dislike). In reality, I suspect that those less snappy and non-metallic variants aren’t simply calibrations of eq/fx/hammering: there seems to be something deeper going on under the hood, in terms of programming.
I found them to be much more apt than before for classical or contemporary classical music, if married in this case to a more energetic exponential curve of velocity response, that compensates the generally softer and more detached sonic character.
The expressiveness of the dynamics is simply exquisite, ranging as ever from ultra-delicate pianissimo sparkles in the dark to monumentally aggressive fortissimo cascades.
Very important for me in this release is the cantabile quality of the chords in slow times, which might depend on the improved soundboard modelling, and that in my opinion wasn’t yet there previously. Now it allows for truly expressive timbral nuances of harmonic contemplation, also when the instrument is heard solo.
Overall, I must say that this time I am really impressed, not only by the usual feat of ingenious algorithmic programming, but also and eventually by the wide-ranging and useful musicality, that can be carried around with a small installation footprint, usable on fairly normal lightweight computers.
Well done Modartt 
A pleasure to read your post(s) @Aethermind
Thank you for your comment @core.east: this is very kind of you 
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All best regards 
Just bought Pianoteq stage, uploaded pianoteq_setup_v902.tar.xz, reboot and my V4 (Vangelis) does not start, locked on boot screen with ERROR and an incrementing counter without possibility to use Webconf
Reflash needed 
By the way, how to install the KIViR instruments?
This will soon come but not yet AFAIK.
Pau
I think the support is already there in Vangelis per the earlier post from Riban in this topic. Either something wrong in general or maybe an issue with V4?
Pianoteq 9 works fine in Oram Staging.
Hi Piattica
I also have had a struggle installing PT 9. And my webconf is not starting by itself but otherwise it seems to be working now. Whatever passed by as i was trying to get it to work is a little bit confused and unclear since it happened over several days, and my memory is so so…
I’m not at all sure that this will be any help for you @piattica or any one else, but i think that it could be part of the whole picture and maybe thus at some usefulness.
Regards,
thank you core.east to share your experience
on my V4 I re-flashed, update, move to Vangelis, update then I install PT9 without problems.
later I will try with my custom Zynthian RPi5
Modartt: Online Store has launched their Black Friday promos.
Pianoteq is 9.10 now and there’s a new instrument available. A synthesizer named Syngular!
It’s -20 % in december, so 39 euros. I was curious so i bought it. I like it a lot. There are some cool sounds but you can edit parameters only in Pianoteq Standard and Pro. It seems to work very well in Zynthian!
Interesting detour from the usual Modartt acoustic realms.
Surprisingly - or I should rather say singularily - this soft synth resembles more a late-1960s home electronic keyboard (with clavs, tines, string-ish timbres and theremin-like solos) than the abstract 1980s instrument type that the synthwave video style appears to be referring to.
