I chose No.1 as the best for that piece of music, but a different piece may have favoured one of the others. (Hence the reason musicians choose a particular types of piano for a particular set of songs)
Bill
Hench why you want different brands of piano sample sets..
Its indeed not so much the quallity of the onboard sound that matters, but the differences between the orriginal Grand piano's..
Thats why Yamaha with only Yamaha and one Bosendorfer trails behind in usefull nes for a stage piano behind Korg and Nord. I used to have 5 different brands (Yamaha, Steinway, Bosendorfer, August Fostner, Fazioli) in my Kronos. Same goes for Nord that comes with even more high quallity grand piano's onboard. And thats just the samplesets.. from each of those samplesets a plethora of sounds is created.
My MODX has 3 Grand piano's YAmaha CFX and C7 and hte Bosendorfer Imperial 290. Thats enough to cover most of it due to the onboard edditing..
When my MODX gets sold, i will be adding the Yammex XXL to the Genos, which comes with 2 very good piano's, same as int he piano module from V3. Thats a German based Steinway and a Bosendorfer Imperial.
A few months ago, i bought a Dexibell Piano module, super high quallity, but sound managament was unpleasant, and i sold it again. as for Roland, there are some great Piano's in the Integra 7. And some even better ones in the V-piano (which is also inside the new Fantom)
Point is.. people here are basing their opinion on the orriginal Grand Piano's, and not on the sample and sound engine quallity of the Keyboard Brands. Which is a very possitive thing, as it shows how good those engines and sample sets actually are...