Originally posted by Diki:
Best of luck with that one, mate! Sure, you could make a Roland nasty, thin and brittle. But it would still sound like a nasty, thin Roland, NOT a Yamaha! You can't EQ a SteinwayD into a YamahaCFIII, and you can't DSP a Korg into a Kawai. It's kind of like saying you could EQ and compress Frank Sinatra into sounding like Tony Bennett. 
I know it's not quite what you intend, but it's funny to see someone who doesn't really play piano wax all knowledgeable... 
Ask your wife whether she thinks you could do that. Make a Steinway sound like a Yamaha.
The thing is, if you ARE a pianist, the sound of the piano is VERY important. It's kind of like your voice. You want it to sound a certain way. But it doesn't. It sounds like it sounds. It's YOUR voice. A piano, to a pianist, is kind of the same thing. Only, unlike the voice, you CAN change it. Finding the piano sound that YOU like, that makes how YOU play sound it's best, is not the search for the Holy Grail. THIS search is reachable... 
I'm sorry, but only a non-pianist (that doesn't make you a non-arranger player!) would dismiss how important the sound of the piano is. Just as a non-singer would dismiss how important the singing voice is... For those of us raised on the piano, it's impossible to think that they are all the same, give or take a few EQ tweaks or so! Thankfully I don't consider myself an expert player. I am spared from the frustration of those with "super ears" agonizing over the intricacies of "wolf" notes.
Take a hop over to Pianoworld.com. You won;t find many at all who respects any player who even would hint any digital piano is remotely close to real for serious players. It's all relative how seriously people take themselves and their knowledge based on their "training". And sometimes humorous.
Actually I am thankful I have the ears of Avg Joe. He is the guy who writes the checks. A piano has to be way off not to be a piano,,,,,,,Then to him its just a CP 70 or Wurlitzer 200, Fender Rhodes, DX7......The point is you don't have to be a 50 year classically trained player to enjoy music made with any keyboard. Thats why there is Steinway and Yamaha ,Baldwin, and Pearl River, Dongbei......Everyone has an opinion regardless of their backgrounds and they are all relevant,whether a singer, songwriter or pianist. Success in music has no rules or sound. Even You should know that by now.
[This message has been edited by Kingfrog (edited 01-08-2009).]
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