Well you could spend 10s of thousands on a real Grand Piano, and pay for a Piano tuner to retune the instrument every time you moved it to a new Gig, or you could pay a few hundred Pound/Dollar/Euro for a VST and load it into a Laptop (If your still using a Hardware Arranger) or if you have a Wersi OAS Instrument or Mediastation, load it straight in, and use and play it as if it was a normal voice. (Just think your playing a Grand Piano with other Grand Pianos in your styles)
Another option is to purchase a Hardware VST player (Such as Receptor) and link this to your Keyboard.
Enjoy whatever you play

Bill

All I care about is REAL TIME ON STAGE KB NAVAGATION for the way that I personally play a KB ...I couldn't care less how other people play...if it works for me I'll buy & use it proudly...my concerns were that the AVERAGE player knows nothing about VST's & can or will they take the time to learn & incorporate it into their musical playing lifestyle in some way with successful results. Will manufacturers like Yamaha, Korg, Roland etc ... be using them in their arranger KB products of the future too?
who knows? As for PSR technology, me & my pocket are very happy, ...for now

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Is a separate piece of hardware aka the Receptor the only way to do that or can it be run thru one of the Yamaha toy keyboards that have been spoken about?

Is "TOY" referring to the high tech endurance Plastic RESIN Compounds used by Yamaha or its Great Sounding Lightweight KBs enjoyed by thousands of musicians alike around the World?

Toy is an affectionate word..You can use your "toy" keyboard to control thousands of dollars worth of VST's

or just play the dang toy and stash the money like DNJ does

BTW, that is really what I want to do..play a 12 layer, dynamic piano VST on undersize, light touch plastic keys...not

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Lightweight or Heavy weight Keys do not make a musician I assure you

Now here is a real anchor!!
http://download.yousendit.com/A0A5247F07CE1D31

Looks like a G1000

Yea,, DonM is using it as an anchor on his fishing trip in the Gulf..

The G70 will be next years anchor for him..

Count me as one of the dummies.
I did eventually get my software arraqnger working, but with great difficulty.
You need a good 76 note controller (I don't have that, probably why I had so much trouble) a good PC, a vst host, the vst, good speakers, OMB software, lots of patience, and some time to load it all up.
If I turn up my PSR3K, I am ready to play in 4 seconds. Gary Diamonds Grand piano voice change made it sound really good.
If I was going to play live, I would use my PSR3000 not a vst. IMO, the softsynth arranger future is coming, but it is not here yet. The software required is just not ready. What is required is a total package. One piece of software that contains all that is necessary. Not 4 different pieces of software. I also found the latency to be noticeable.
Starkeeper

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