I have a Kawai grand here at home, but it’s a lot easier and more reliable for me to use Grandeur.

I understand the concern about sympathetic vibration. Just one more thing I’d like to add: you posted a question about best VSTi pianos, and I would like to mention that NI Komplete comes with a lot of digitally sampled pianos. I had done a piece where I used almost all FM-8 patches just for fun. If I understand correctly, the DX-7 was digital inside, so I have been convinced that FM-8 is just as good. (My son still has the DX-7 which he uses as a mid controller). I used to have a DX-7 but I found it easier to use FM-8 because it was all within the computer. You probably already know, but you can find lots of DX-7 patches on the web, including all the original patches. It has all of the editable parameters of the DX-7 built into it, and it can run DX-7 patches. I have Native Instruments Komplete, and FM-8 comes with it. So there’s virtually no sound you can’t make. If you know your physics, you know that means that you have complete control of the harmonic structure, And you don’t just get one of those, you get 6 of them.

The other thing that’s great about Sytrus is that each oscillator (“operator”) allows you to hand-draw the waveform from scratch if you want. I like how you can take a bank of separate oscillators give each one of them its own unique waveform and harmonic structure and a zillion other parameters, and then interact these as operators on each other and with separate filters and effects through its modulation Matrix. For example, last year I was studying Japanese pentatonic scales so I decided I needed a koto for some music I was composing for a video, so I built one in Sytrus. I don’t have a particular “kind” of sound I need to make I want a powerful flexible tool I can use to make whatever sound I need from scratch.

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