Check out the piano sound on the new Korg KRONOS!

You guys all know what it's synthy sounds are like but you have to admit that it's piano sounds are simply gorgeous!!!
 
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc80C0A2u...Rno3HyYuHK3ND1u

Nice.

Yeah, nice. And it's slightly cheaper than buying and miking a grand piano. 

It's cool and all, but I don't know anything that comes close to the real thing.

Isn't that song from Final Fantasy 8...?

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It's cool and all, but I don't know anything that comes close to the real thing.

Yeah, my parents have a baby grand and to me the way the sound fills the room when I play that thing is the major difference between sample and hammer to string.  I mean, you can get a waveform to be an exact duplicate of a piano's waveform, but you can't reproduce the waveform with speakers the same way a piano vibrates the air.  I think this is the fundamental physical reason why we'll never have digital piano that sounds like real piano.  Now that I think about it, digital drums have the same limitation.  I guess I'm stating the obvious here. 

In my opinion, it sounds well for keyboard standards. I'd not think this was mic-recorded of a physical piano, though, if I just heard the recording. A calm, classical-y piece like this is a good example to compare the sounds, though.