Fran Ice castles was very nice. I use sound fonts along with VST's, Giga and other sample libraries.
Dennis excellent m8 very well done. The T2 comes to life as soon as you edit the preset sounds adding a bit of reverb here and there and tweaking other settings Every T2 owner should link it to their PC and use the great editing software that comes with it free. It's amazing just what can be achieved. I spent from November until the end of April on and off going through just about every one of the preset sounds and loads of styles creating my own. Takes a while but the rewards are worth it.

Here are my impressions:

Ice castles: the piano sounds thin, harsh and metallic; aside from that, there definitely something wrong with the stereo image.

Slammed: the piano sounds fuller, more like a real piano, with a lot more of dynamics.

Still sloppy: different song, but the piano sounds still a lot more convincing than the one in "Ice castles".

To summarize my impressions, if I had a digital piano that sounded like the one used in "Ice castles" I would try to sell it immediately. If this wasn't possible, I would dump it in the garbage bin.

Sorry for being a bit blunt, but these are my impressions.

Craig....can you or anyone perhaps go into some detail about using & or its features of the included T2 Editing software CD? I've been so busy gigging & havnt had a chance to load it or try it out yet or for that matter IDC either ....Thanx.

I loved both pianos and if your ears can differenrtate to that extent good on you ! The Yamaha as usual is a bit bright for my liking but still an excellent piano sound. Dennis you are a heavy weight pianist !!

I think when pianos get to this level of realism it really just boils down to tastes whether you prefer the Baldwin, Steinway or Bosendofer piano. When they are played as well as the demo Dennis just threw down then i cant see anyone having any genuine complaints

Dennis

Just listened again. I'm wondering if you made use of the octave button on this or if that was all one setting.

Scott

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It's a shame the octave shift + or - isn't able to be assigned to the pedal function yet. I use the pedal function to change the OTS up and down, registrations, fill ins and DSP variation on and off so I'm sure it should be easy for Yamaha to implement in the next software update. Pretty please

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i listened to them again and actually i agree with fran. The sound font piano seems to have more dynamic range. You hear it especially when the piano is played more quietly and on the upper range.