As far as key press to audio delay that is your AUDIO driver (separate from any of your MIDI settings

You are going to need an ASIO driver - if your sound card has a NATIVE one that's usually best. But I suspect you don't have a dedicated USB, Firewire or PCI/PCIe audio device (like a Presonus, Focusrtie, M-Audio, etc. ) probably just the built-in motherboard audio chip (Realtek?), which is fine for most things just doesn't have a good native ASIO driver.

However, there is one call ASIO4ALL

http://www.asio4all.com/

You can google about what ASIO is and does for audio

As to still having "crappy" piano sound I agree with Rharv I would think you are hearing at least a violin? But one problem at a time - pick one

Larry


EDIT-----

Sorry the "pick one" sounds rude, I don't mean it to be. It's just that it's probably just easier for us and YOU to concentrate on one issue at a time so problems and solutions don't get conflated..

Larry



Last edited by Larry Kehl; 07/03/16 04:28 PM.
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