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Pianoteq music in 20-ET and 15-ET

🔗Herman Miller <hmiller@...>

2/20/2010 1:58:33 PM

http://sites.google.com/site/teamouse/

I just got Pianoteq and started playing with some old MIDI files I had. It's really a very versatile thing, with a selection of historical and modern instruments, and lots of parameters to tweak. I used the Schantz pianoforte with a 20-ET Scala file to play my old 20-ET etude from 1999, and it sounds nice even though the MIDI file doesn't have any expression in it.

http://sites.google.com/site/teamouse/20-et-Pianoteq-Schantz.mp3?attredirects=0

Then I loaded the 15-ET version of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata (3rd movement) and started playing with some random parameter settings. I started with the Schmidt pianoforte, and kept pressing the Random button until I got something that sounded interesting, then tweaked the parameter settings one by one until I was satisfied with the sound. It has more hammer noise, but less hammer hardness; the impedance is really low, but the Q factor of the soundboard is higher, and the duplex scale is way up. The spectrum profile emphasizes the 5th harmonic but tones down the 2nd, 3rd, and 8th harmonics.

http://sites.google.com/site/teamouse/mlgt3-15.mp3?attredirects=0