Piano junkies can never have enough pianos. It's just one of those things. This IS a very good piano...probably the best free piano there is. If Piano wasn't my thing, I wouldn't load it either.

that would be true..

But then there is no reason for a piano junk not to move into VST's these days. if you really want as much diversity in acoustic grand piano's that is the way..

I agree with you on the quallity of the Salamander piano..
Its one of the best free grand piano's for any source..

Espescially for PA4x, where you allready have a STeinway and a Fazioli, a Yamaha C5 works well in the mix..

For the Kronos, it sadly does not use the SGX2 engine, and misses out on string resonance and damper resonance features from that engine.. which in my book makes the piano sounds just that little bit more realistic then the standard sampled piano's. If i am correct however the SGX2 engine is Korg propriety, and can not be used to load 3rd party samples.

But for collectional vallue, i need to admit, the Yamaha C5 is not covered by any of the current EX piano packs. The Japanese grand in the Kronos is a Yamaha C7.

Who said pianists don't own Piano sample libraries! That's a whole different thing not to be confused with Salamander Pianos or any Piano library that runs natively on a keyboard. Totally separate topics. The idea here is that a user gets to load this library on a Kronos and use it without needing a computer.

That's not to say you can't edit a computer based sample library and come up with a Kronos compatible package, but that would be illegal to share.