Yes, I understand that, however, we, as performers and entertainers, primarily use our piano along with styles - not as a solo pianist. If I were a solo pianist I would have purchased an electric piano - not an arranger keyboard. Then, after about 30 minutes, my audiences would be sound asleep. Of course, there are some on this forum that are great piano players - I'm, obviously, not among them.

What I did with that piano voice is make it much fuller, more realistic sounding, and as close to a real, Yamaha, Grand Piano as I could. I added depth and fullness to the voice, which just was not there in the default grand piano voice.

I did this by listening carefully to a recently deceased and Synthzone member's and good friend's Yamaha Grand Piano and adding the needed effects to make the piano voices I posted sound as much like the real thing as possible. I have access to a Steinway as well, however, I never really liked the Steinway as much as I liked the Yamaha Grand. Just my personal preference, though. I'm sure others will feel the opposite way.

As an entertainer, and an arranger keyboard player, I sincerely believe that we can tune our instruments to sound very, very close to the real thing. And, with the use of things such as the sustain pedal, pitch bend, and modulation, we can do wonderful things that provides our audiences with the kind of quality music they want and pay us so generously to hear. Of course, there is one additional caveat - we must also be top notch players as well. Unfortunately, I'm not in that category, but there are members that fit that bill.

I once performed for the Saint Andrews Society at a huge ballroom in Towson, Maryland. I only had to do a couple numbers, both of which were my own compositions consisting of mix of several upland songs. It was just the intro to their featured entertainer, who was an incredible vocalist, a beautiful redhead (sorry Dave wasn't there) who was flown in from Scotland for the occasion. Her pianist was a beautiful, young Russian lady who played piano for the Baltimore Symphony. Back then, I was using the PSR-2000, which was used to create both of those posted voices. I set the keyboard to full fingered mode, no style - just the piano. I added a light layer of strings for voice2, which she said really sounded great. For the next hour and a half this lady brought that PSR-2000 to life. Her fingers danced over the keys with incredible accuracy, the sounds coming from the speakers were beyond my wildest dreams and that good looking redhead nailed every song with perfection.

The bottom line is if you put me in front of the best grand piano on the planet, I couldn't make it sound good at all. In fact, it would likely not sound as good as the voices I posted - I'm NOT a piano player, and most of the forum members, I strongly suspect, are not as well. So, those voices I posted were my creations to make my keyboard sound better - nothing else. In that respect, I sincerely believe I have accomplished that goal.

All the best,

Gary