Did you try messing with the tuning options? It's possible that the equal temperament Pianoteq uses is too perfect and that your ears are accustomed to something slightly less perfect, such as what a real human tuner might tune on a real piano. Even when striving for a perfect equal temperament tuners often adjust notes here and there to sculpt a "better" sound, and sometimes they just get lazy and let a few things slide.  I would also mess with the unison and octave adjustments, if you haven't already. 

                 Mark 



----- Original Message ----
From: Michael Mossey 
To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2008 12:50:23 AM
Subject: [Csnd] Modeled piano- Pianoteq

Because we've talked about modeled pianos here in the past, I was 
interested to discover a commercial product called "PianoTeq".

Free trial here:


I played it for a while. My impression is that individual notes sound 
terrific, but there are problems (to my ear) in intervals. The beats are 
un-natural sounding, and a minor 2nd warbles in quite an un-natural way. 
The other intervals are not attractive either. Thick textures are very 
"cloudy".. not transparent, i.e. notes inside the chord get lost in the 
mud.

Maybe it's just me.

Mike



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