That's good Ian.., but you were complaining about things it's not designed for and comparing it to digitals that WERE designed and marketed for what YOU'RE wanting.

Ian there are MILLIONS of people out there who don't give a rats left testicle about ANY other sound on a digital than the piano. Many people buy digitals just FOR the piano alone. This unit is going to really fill that market need. There are people that simply are PIANO players and nothing more, but don't want a HUGE acoustic piano that requires costly upkeep, but want and are willing to spend the money for the MOST realistic digital emulation they can get (that won't take up the space of a baby grand). This V-Piano is IT. Try to look at it from the eyes of the person who just plays piano. Even at $6,000 it's still LESS than a good quality baby grand and soundwise is well..., probably the closest hardware emulation on the planet at the moment. Plus it'll allow the PIANO PLAYER to do things not possible with a real acoustic piano. Could you imagine how much it would cost to get an acoustic tailored to your specific needs SOUND WISE from a piano maker??? This V-Piano is going to make A LOT of piano players very happy. Me it's not making happing because I can't afford the thing

You and I share something in common. We're both PIANO players. I like doing all kinds of things on my synths and workstations, but above all that my love is the PIANO. My entire studio is getting a remake and my master controller will be the best fully weighted 88 key controller I can afford. I spend countless hours just playing piano on my keyboards and nothing else. That's what I started with and continued to play throughout the years regardless of what and how many synths I owned at the time.

Yes..., this will up the game and the others will now work hard to improve. Yamaha surely will tackle this one. They got some work to do (I'm sure they can get it). Roland just got their first..., and this is one of those cases where Yamaha might have to take a lesson or two from Roland. The success of one clearly can make the other better as they try to compete. I'm confident Yamaha in time will do their version of this (probably will sell for more though..., gotta be honest on that one). Yamaha's still relying on velocity switching and the number of LAYERS in those samples to be switched (Motif XS's piano a great example) They heavily marketed the number of layers in that piano and the amount of velocity switching used to make all those layers work.