Don't listen to these egotistical children. I even see that you, (OP), are getting downvoted in your response one comment for literally no reason at all. 'Warm' and 'realistic' are not tentative or subjective terms, like not even a little bit. Commenters undermine the OP's valid descriptions or understandings of a topic in an attempt to be pedantic for absolutely no reason. It happens in a lot of threads and in a lot of subs, but it's still frustrating, though. I don't why commenters are doing this to you OP. Like, adding some 'room tone' with some reverb can make a world of difference and really situation the instrument in a sort of virtual space. Sometimes it's not the instrument itself, but the space around it that can add warmth. Then yeah, like others are saying, post-processing will likely carry it the rest of the way. So I typically turn it off unless I'm just playing around.) (Though for myself, I usually throw a dedicated reverb plugin on it. It has reverb built in, playing with that some can make a difference. I sometimes round mine out a bit, otherwise I play too hard and everything is at max velocity. Otherwise, it's just a straight line, which I think makes it easy to sound kind of rigid. I can't remember where it is in there, but there is a velocity curve setting and adjusting that can make it act more realistically. Warmth and realism are pretty fluid terms, but maybe a couple of places to look might be these:Īdjust the age on it. If this is your watershed 'fake instruments don't actually express the way real ones do' moment, buy some coldgold contact mics and get back into the acoustic domain. I prefer 'Old black upright' over any high end 9' Steinway library, it has that indefinable warmth and character. Hammer noise, indefinable wood resonances, wierd metallic combination tones, all fed through top quality mics/preamps. If you wanted hyper-realism, you could go with a 10gig multi-sampled library which can add those realistic elements back in.

Did you get closer or further from your idealized 'sounded great in the video' tone? Have you made any attempts to copy the dimensions and spectra of your favorite real instrument, or looked on the internet for user made presets? Consider: start grabbing sliders and go 100% and 0% on each parameter. The brilliance of that plug is the ability to stretch the parameters past the breaking point (literally the strings would break if you tried it physically.) I would spend more time adjusting the powerful sonic controls. PianoTeq is for physical modelled pianistic sounds.

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