Rikki, the ability to achieve low latency has mostly to do with the quality of your soundcard and the associated drivers. The processor would play only a minor role. The processor, memory and hard drives become very important in terms of latency once you start using very large samples (Bardstown Bosendorfer Piano at 2.5GB) and where such samples are streamed from your hard drive as you play them.

Rikki, with respect to achieving good piano sounds I assume you use a good quality reverb and eqaulizer to optimize your audio equipment. If you are using external reverb and equalizer as effects plug-ins in forte I assume you have turned off the reverb & chorus in LiveSynth Pro to deactivate the soundfont built-in reverb and chorus. These built-in effects are not that good and worse would be you using two reverbs, etc.

If after all this you still can't get a good piano sound then you may have to stay with the one in your clp170 or consider purchasing one in another format and translating it to soundfont. Keep in mind such translations do lose a little in quality and features but they are not bad. I have no doubt that you can find significantly higher quality pianos then you currently have in your clp170. It is just a matter of searching it out and money.


[This message has been edited by Frank L. Rosenthal (edited 08-26-2004).]