Yep, definitely some artifacts there! Thanks for showing it in a recording! I have a few complaints about the Steinway as well. Some notes have bad balance with the adjacent notes when struck softly. It can be annoying. I need to report that as well I guess. I’ve had the best luck with the upright, it’s pretty good.
I’m not sure, usually when I buy from IK like I did with these 2 pianos I go for the early release special. That usually ends up being the discount price when they have sales later on. If it doesn’t move many units they’ll keep the intro price up longer to try to get buyers. If they improve the CPU usage it would be a way better product but as it is I can’t use it live because I use 128 sample buffers so I can play E Guitar on some songs. 256 is needed to play them here. The 512 reports on the Fazioli are alarming!
Drift mode enabled.
I just checked the system requirements on the Synthogy Ivory 3 page. 8-core 3.4GHz i7 (or AMD equivalent) recommended minimum.
3.4GHz? This will blow away almost any laptop. 3.4GHz is a desktop frequency. And here I thought of IK’s high demands…
Drift mode disabled.
Let’s talk about F278 again. I’ve noticed that on the IK forum almost all posts about Pianoverse have zero replies, or at most one. Not good.
So I don’t expect much help there. Some, like me, have contacted support and are still waiting for a response. I never had any luck with support other than Cantabile.
At least one good news.
This morning I did some work on F278. First I disabled everything, then added a few things one by one. Resonance, some mechanical noise, but no effects like compressor, rev, eq, piano ‘on Mars’, etc.
The quality of the samples still made for a great sound, helped by Fabfilter Pro R², which is very CPU light.
Result, with Buffer=256 I managed to stay around 25-40% TL. I haven’t tried 128 yet. I don’t dare.
All this has reduced the artifacts, but don’t ask me why. There’s just some of the noise I mentioned before, but it’s reduced in level and doesn’t bother me much. And no more crackling.
After this fine tuning work, I’m very confident and the trigger is about to be pulled.
I found the hiss, noise, craclikg are velocity related, so I reported to IK:
Nothing has changed with version 1.0.4, recently released. However, I did another test focusing on note velocity.
Playing the F278 from the GUI (with the mouse), still holding down the damper pedal, the problem did not seem to occur, since it plays with the max velocity.
I then played with the controller set to constant velocities, and found that the problem was highly dependent on this.
Here is a brief example. Values are in decimal, damper pedal held down:
→ Up to vv = 40 the problem is very noticable.
→ From vv = 40 to 70 it gradually decreases, but remains noticeable.
→ Above vv= 80 it tends to become negligible.
