Ketil Thorgersen wrote: I've looked but can only find one other thread on the subject which didn't help me. That's got the same problem. It just sounds too tinny. I've got a Yamaha YPP-35 at home. I would have thought it's a pretty cheap digital piano- only 5 octaves, 8 voices and partially weighted keys (though my parents seem to think it cost over 500 pounds at the time, which seems slightly mad, but I could be wrong- it was 10-12 years ago). But it sounds really nice- even the strings work well. All the sounds are clean and simple- they aren't too muddy in the bass, they don't resonate, they don't twang if I hit the keys hard, they aren't too tinny on the higher notes, and the volume is balanced across the keyboard. Why can't I get this sort of sound out of my laptop? I guess maybe I'm not really looking for soundfonts. I don't really want samples of real acoustic instruments because recording them is impossibly difficult and leads to too much background noise. What I need is to know how to make these sounds up on a synth. I don't mind it sounding a bit electronic- actually I think I'd prefer it to some extent. Then all I need to do is find a synth which handles the response curve sanely and allows me to actually balance the thing across the keyboard, instead of being too quiet in the bass and getting louder as I work up. Maybe I'll end up writing my own. But at the moment I haven't got the slightest clue how to get the sound I want out of a synth. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance. Simon