BUT..., Ian.., take this into consideration. This is YOUR ears..., YOU may think that section sounds inconsistent, and they person behind you just might say the register lower sounds MORE inconsistent.., and that the middle register sounds NATURAL.

I'm all for keeping those natural side effects of an acoustic instrument in the sampled version. I think the patch sounds less realistic without them... Again you prefer the Yamaha piano.., and that's fine for YOUR ears. Some of us prefer to hear this "inconsistency" (if present) because it lends to a more natural sounding patch. For me Yamaha strips too much of that away and focuses more on the "cleanest" sample possibly..., which again could possibly be why we often hear other brands sound more LIVE than Yamaha. It's not just with their piano samples..., but their drums are even stripped of natural naunces that occur from an acoustic kit..., and often sounds like they completely took apart the ENTIRE acoustic kit and sampled each part of it by itself (rather than sample the kit as a whole to capture the natural nuances produced by the real kit)

I've got both Roland and Yamaha in my set up. I go to both for what I need. I don't even touch my Roland's anymore for orchestral or score music. My Yamaha's the first go to keyboard for that. When I want to do something a little harder I go for my Roland's....

In the end it's what makes us happy. I'm not buying my boards to make someone else happy...... They sure as hell don't make my wife happy.....

[This message has been edited by squeak_D (edited 01-29-2009).]