<head><style>body{font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9pt;background-color: #ffffff;color: black;}</style></head><body id="compText">That doesn't say that much, though. I'd like to hear it side-by-side with one of the Steinways it is supposed to represent. I've been fooled by demos before, and sorely disappointed as soon as I fired up the real thing. Software companies have ways of hiding flaws in their demos, for example, using certain pieces that cleverly avoid problematic areas of the compass. Really sux when that problematic area is that the middle octave sounds like a banjo, which is often the case. Listen to the Rachmaninoff demo of the Akoustik Piano Boesendorfer voicing on the Native Instruments website, for example. Sounds magnificent. But it also avoids the middle octave which sounds tinny and synthy when you play the software yourself. And banjoey. You can't play Joplin's Solace on NIAP, it sounds awful.<br><br>They don't have a full-demo download for the Steinway program, do they...?<br><br>THanks,<br><br>Matt<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 0px;">-----Original Message-----
<br>From: Matthew Todd <toddpianoworks@att.net>
<br>Sent: May 8, 2008 2:19 PM
<br>To: Pianotech List <pianotech@ptg.org>
<br>Subject: Re: New computer software
<br><br></pianotech@ptg.org></toddpianoworks@att.net><div>Those Steinway demos are much more musical than the disklaviers and the like.</div> <div> </div> <div>Matthew<br><br><b><i>Kent Swafford <kswafford@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:</div> <blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px;">Behold the Authorized Steinway Virtual Concert Grand: <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 13px; font-family: Verdana;"><a href="http://tinyurl.com/673gzu">http://tinyurl.com/673gzu</a></span></div> <div><br></div> <div><a href="http://garritan.com/steinway_demos.html">http://garritan.com/steinway_demos.html</a></div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div></blockquote><br></blockquote></body>