Topic: Philippe talks about Pianoteq
Would be fine some subtitles:
- Beto-Music
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- Gilles
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Re: Philippe talks about Pianoteq
Thank you for posting this link. I have no problem with it since I am french speaking, and it's nice to see and hear the main designer in person (so to speak...)
I have one question for Philippe. I have been listening to his demos with good headphones and I found the sound output of pianoteq on this video to be very good, even with the usual quality limits on YouTube.
Since the recording doesn't seem to be a direct feed because I can hear the sound of the room, I would like to know what speakers and/or amplifiers were used to get such good result.
Probably others would like to know as well.
- Philippe Guillaume
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Hi Gilles,
the recordings of Pianoteq were made in the MAO Center studio http://www.maocenter.com/start.html (the 9 Pianoteq episodes in high resolution can be found on their TV page http://www.maocentertv.com/page14/page14.html). During the interview where I demonstrated Pianoteq, I had a HF microphone on my shirt, and at the same time, Pianoteq was recorded with Pro tools (as far as I can remember I used the default C2 chamber) while being also sent to the Tannoy loudspeakers so that I could hear what I was playing (I had no headphones). Thus the final mix includes both sources: the HF microphone audio output and the Pro tools output from Pianoteq. The HF microphone has certainly captured a bit of Pianoteq coming out from the loudspeakers, but at a relatively low level since it was placed on the shirt quite close to the mouth.
- Gilles
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Thank you Philippe.
Listening again through headphones to episode 8 of the high quality m4v version on the maocentertv site, I now hear clearly the change of room ambiance which comes finally from the reverb settings of pianoteq.
In fact, if I play the beginning of La Cathédrale Engloutie myself with the same Grand C2 chamber preset, it sounds exactly the same as in the video.
This confirms my lasting impression that it is very difficult, if not impossible, for somebody playing at home, and not in a public performance situation in a large room, to find a stereo speaker setup as satisfying as headphones.
Maybe what we need is an ambiophonic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambiophonics) model for multi-speaker output so as to better recreate the three-dimensional sound diffusion of a real piano.
Another interesting signal-processing research area...