Moonlight sonata on electric distortion harpsichord (Pianoteq + Zebrify)

[ahanysz]

A year ago I was pretty new to virtual instruments and synths. But this forum has been ... a good influence? a bad influence? Definitely some type of influence (-: Thanks everyone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1Q-1gt_IVU

I'm starting to think of other pieces that might sound good on an electric distortion harpsichord, so I might play with this setup again next year. Any feedback and suggestions would be very welcome.

[ahanysz]

Most of the other entries in the PIanoteq video competition were "straight" piano playing. But a few people took the viewpoint that it's a virtual instrument, so let's make it do things that an acoustic piano can't.

Marc Boulé combined three instances of Pianoteq with VCVRack.

Chris Hillery didn't make a music track, but instead gave a presentation about some sounds you can get by pushing Pianoteq's settings outside physically realistic ranges.

A few people went microtonal. For me, the most interesting ones were:
El Mar Arabe by Sven Karma, using a variety of drum sounds
Extraterrestrial Blues by WhimsicallyMacabre (Stacey Fahrion), just piano but with some funky polyrhythms
Carol of the Bells in 19-edo by Peter Rudenko. I was sceptical when I saw the title, but it's surprisingly effective!


(Is there anyway to turn off embeddings, and just share the links without cluttering up the page so much?)

[Saffran]

First use "Full Editor & Preview".
Second, look down in options and do a checkmark on the option "Do not automatically parse URLs".
Romans, from Pastoralsvit, Op.19, Lars Erik Larsson.
https://youtu.be/PPQ3gDXBP3c

[ahanysz]

Thanks. That's the first thing I tried, and it didn't seem to make a difference. Turns out that it doesn't affect things in [url] tags, only bare URLs. And then the result isn't a clickable link. I was hoping for something that gives the hyperlink but not the video preview.

Anyway, thanks for the nice Swedish music :-)

[Diamaudix Audio Ltd.]

Nice composition. Goes well with the video.

Personally, it sounds as if there could be a slight tweak to the eq to bring out the high frequencies a bit more, but it sounds good.

[ossetcrockter]

Nice. Sounds great to me.

[ahanysz]

Thanks! I wasn't sure about the EQ: I listened on three different sets of speakers as well as headphones, and got different impressions each time. But overall it turned out a bit better than I expected.