Annoying vibrato or tremelo sounds from Pianoteq

Ralphiano

I've been struggling with Pianoteq recently.

After listening closely, I have noticed that the keys make an annoying, tremelo or vibrato sound. It is more pronounced on some keys than on others.

I recorded notes in the area of the keyboaard where it bothers me the most. It is most pronounced in the final 4 notes of this series. Here it is:

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If any of you have ideas on what causes this, I'd appreciate your observations.

I thought that it might be the "Unison Width" setting, as, on a real piano, the unisons can cause "beats" if they are not right. But, the unison width setting is on 1.0, which is the default. And, moving the setting either direction does not affect the sound.

Thanks for your thoughts.

Del Vento

Ralphiano If any of you have ideas on what causes this, I'd appreciate your observations.

It's the unison width in the tuning section which you can play with if you have the standard or pro version. If you only have stage, you can still install the demo of the standard to play with to check if that is what annoys you.

It's a normal parameter in acoustic pianos, which the designers and the tuners choose to set. On acoustic pianos, its range is quite limited (it can not be too little and even if by chance it happens to become so it's very unstable and it will increase) and it will not be too high because no tuner worth that name will ever tune it so badly. On PTQ you can reach both extremes for your experiments, and I suspect you will quite like the lowest settings, which most people find "lifeless" and "too perfect" sound.

Ralphiano

Del Vento It's the unison width in the tuning section which you can play with if you have the standard or pro version.

I already tried the Unison Width setting (which I suspected because of my modest experience tuning my own acoustic), but there was no place on the entire slider range that affected the annoying sound. I'm currently enmeshed in an attempt to install Ubuntu instead of Mint. I hope that provides some relief.

Del Vento

Ralphiano I already tried the Unison Width setting (which I suspected because of my modest experience tuning my own acoustic), but there was no place on the entire slider range that affected the annoying sound.

So with the slider down to the left is still like that? Is that with a preset sound? Have you looked at the effects (in the bottom right)? There are some effects that do that, however they are off by default, IIRC. How about the condition slider? Is it at mint (no pun intended with the other conversation)?

Ralphiano

Yes, Vibrato over the full length of the Unison Width range.

Vibrato appears with both Pianoteq's presets and my own.

All effects off (i.e. reverb off, equalizer off, along with others in lower right corner whose names i don't remember, and, I can't access since I don't have a computer running yet.)

Condition slider at Mint. never experienced any happiness from lowering that one at all, unlike some others who reported greater "realism".

David B

I didn't hear anything unusual, but my ears still feel a bit clogged from being sick recently.

God Bless,
David