A great set of piano samples will make Mary Had a Little Lamb sound better....... strangely, I think a great piano sound benefits the weaker player, a great player makes any set sound good, whereas a simpler player benefits more from the sound itself, especially if they play simply (think Norah Jones simple).

However, the slow speed of sample loading makes all the arrangers, in a live situation, close to impossible - max out a T2's RAM and it takes over 30 minutes to load (from USB)...... and forget about it if there is a brown-out or power loss during a set. UPS's are a MUST.

When, oh when are keyboard manufacturers going to speed up data transfer from HD to memory? USB 1 is WAY too slow, and even older samplers with SCSI could make barely 1MB/sec, glacial by computer standards even back in the day.

Until they address this, sampling, at least for live work, does tend to be only useful for little hits and fx.