Topic: v6 Vibraphones?

While mainly delighted with this upgrade, I really think the updated presets for both Vibraphone V-B and Vibraphone V-M are a (big) step in the wrong direction.. mainly because of the release. I have taken the liberty of uploading 4 presets ("Original" and "Tremo" for both vibraphones) to the FXP Corner, where I have done my best to get them to resemble their v5 counterparts .

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Re: v6 Vibraphones?

Well, it's intented. They gave more presence and realism :

  https://www.pianoteq.com/listen_comparison

Re: v6 Vibraphones?

Beto-Music wrote:

Well, it's intented. They gave more presence and realism :

  https://www.pianoteq.com/listen_comparison

I really don't want to get into an argument here, but, of course I listened to the comparison demos (and, perhaps more importantly, tried playing them )
The new factory presets are fine, so long as you have a continuously-variable sustain pedal (which I presume will be functional in those presets.. not at my music computer right now, so I can't test with a temporary continuous controller ***), but, for those of us with just a simple "on/off" pedal, the damped position is too severe fore regular use, whereas, in the v5 version, it is kinda in "half-pedal" mode, which seems to be generally more useful unless going for a real solo (and virtuoso ) performance.
***I have just tried controlling the sustain pedal from (continuous) CC#4 on the factory V-M Tremo preset. While the response is not continuous, it does indeed have a "half" position.

Last edited by vic_france (09-09-2017 13:33)
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Re: v6 Vibraphones?

Well... Maybe hte Beta team can help. I will copy paste the link to this topic there.

vic_france wrote:
Beto-Music wrote:

Well, it's intented. They gave more presence and realism :

  https://www.pianoteq.com/listen_comparison

I really don't want to get into an argument here, but, of course I listened to the comparison demos (and, perhaps more importantly, tried playing them )
The new factory presets are fine, so long as you have a continuously-variable sustain pedal (which I presume will be functional in those presets.. not at my music computer right now, so I can't test with a temporary continuous controller ***), but, for those of us with just a simple "on/off" pedal, the damped position is too severe fore regular use, whereas, in the v5 version, it is kinda in "half-pedal" mode, which seems to be generally more useful unless going for a real solo (and virtuoso ) performance.
***I have just tried controlling the sustain pedal from (continuous) CC#4 on the factory V-M Tremo preset. While the response is not continuous, it does indeed have a "half" position.

Re: v6 Vibraphones?

Beto-Music wrote:

Well... Maybe the Beta team can help. I will copy paste the link to this topic there.

In fact, my (kinda) complaint is already solved, thanks to Musichascolors's and Stephen's replies to my other topic, here.. http://www.forum-pianoteq.com/viewtopic.php?id=5199 (controlling the half-pedalling via other MIDI mapping)

Last edited by vic_france (09-09-2017 15:52)
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