I agree with what you guys are saying. Most of the piano RT's sound pretty good but the ones that don't tend to be slower ones. To me one reason for that is the sustain pedal. Midi can do the sustain pedal correctly but the RT's can't because nobody knows ahead of time what chords a user is going to pick so when there's a chord change, the sustain from the last chord must be cut off in most cases. There seem to be a few chord changes that were recorded in their entirety like a some 2-5-1 turnarounds so the sustain is correct but most chord changes are cut off. The RT sounds choppy and unnatural in that case.

Many times because of this a good midi track going though a good synth (VERY important) can sound better than an RT. I also agree that's there's a few where the basic piano tone is not right and the description of an electric piano trying to sound like an acoustic is right on. I've heard that too and I have a very good stereo monitoring system. No idea what causes that. Maybe it's the tempo stretching, we could test that by playing the offending track at it's listed best tempo and see if it sounds correct.

Bob

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