Buying a different piano VI and plugging it into my existing setup seems like a crapshoot - I'd be tweaking again, and why go through that if I'm generally happy with what I already have? I know I might be missing out but I feel my time is better spent on working on my piano playing, not my piano! Of course a film composer or producer would want an arsenal of different pianos in order to have a larger timbral pallete to work with, but otherwise I can't help thinking it's a search for a kind of "holy grail" that a player imagines will transform his or her playing. In my case, I considered it a two-way street: I found a controller I liked, stuck with it, started playing the piano, then spent time tweaking velocity curves, keyboard sensitivity, and eq settings to arrive at something I can call my instrument.
Not the way the piano responds to the velocity information you're sending it.
Youtube and Soundcloud demos tell one small piece of the story - the sound that hits the listener's ear.
In any case, I'm sure there are other pianos out there I would love, but I don't have the disposabe income to "buy and try" - obviously you can't return piano software whose sound winds up not working out. If something like that exists in piano-VI land, please let me know! In any case, I'm sure there are other pianos out there I would love, but I don't have the disposable income to "buy and try" - obviously you can't return piano software whose sound winds up not working out. Also, the top end sings a lot more than the NY (that was actually the reason I got the Grandeur). You could say the Grandeur is "richer" in the mids and indeed it sounds better at home in my cans and on a recording. I'm perfectly content with it but actually find the old NY a little better suited for live gigs รข it has more clarity in the mids. Late last year NI had a 50% off sale so I grabbed the Grandeur. I found a piano I liked and stuck with it, many years ago (NI New York). You guys are never happy are you? I must be some kind of freak.