I've heard better and I've heard worse. Nowadays they've started sampling pianos in stereo. They weren't doing that in the days of the 1080's creation. I've made a piano patch that in my humble opinion surpasses all the stock sounds by a long shot. I'm using an XP-80, which i think has the same sound engine. My patch almost sounds like it has been stereo sampled, due to the EFX and other effects I used. Another thing I did was used one tone for all the notes from the bottom up to F#6. From G6 on up I used a combination of 2 tones with a longer sustain to sound more like a real piano in the upper registers. The G6 on up gradually lessens in decay as you go up the scale, which sounds like a real piano does as the string lengths get shorter and tighter.

[This message has been edited by FAEbGBD (edited 02-14-2002).]