Wrong Donny,
If you consider world wide sales Yamaha is #2.
Also, No it is not just or mostly Mid-Eastern folks that use all the in depth editing...Many of us all around the world use them a lot. In fact including me, I know of at least 5 people on out=r Korg Forum that have created fromscratch some of our own sounds...some using the new DNC functions.

On your other note...Yamaha has some great products and a great following. I myself do like a lot about the Yamaha's (OS is not one of them) but, I being a geek and musician prefer the Korg in general for many reasons. I had a T2 here side by side for 6 monthes and I tell you as far as most of th sounds and the general sound quality...the Korg blows it away. However, there are a few sounds I loved on the T2, that I am now recreating on the Korg.

Fran,
A brand new Irish Grand Piano sound set is due to be released to us all very soon. It is of the Steinway and has 4 samples per note (different velocitys) and has dynamic resonance, supports half pedaling and to me sounds absoluely beautiful.

It was put together by 2 of the Korg forum members, I am a beta tester along with others. It uses 160 MB of sample ram.
You can hear a demo of the beta version here: http://www.korgforums.com/forum/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=44820

It is being refined by the two developers now. By the way, the Grand Piano OTTB on the PA is pretty darn nice. But this Steinway is really super, especially for slow ballads, classical etc.

The tools to do this stuff on the PA are there, and many of us are learning how to do it. This is in response to your original post. Style editing and sequencer are also PRO level.

I'm not saying it is perfect or better for everyone...just that the programming and tools are top notch and I have not seen anything better...IMHO and in response to your original post.

Lee S.



[This message has been edited by leeboy (edited 08-21-2009).]