Hi, good. Well send me one of your favorite piano MIDI files and I'll make a recording for you to listen at.. So that you can compare to the current (in my eyes) not perfect beta version of Grandest Piano v0.1. Ever since I made 'digital instruments' (since 1995/1996) I've always tried making instruments as small as possible because in my oppinion this allows for the greatest amount of users to work with it. Since we usually price our products quite low compared to competition we are depended on large sales (uh, that's to pay the rent, food and university, not really much more these days). I agree that the larger a piano is the more likely it is that it sounds even better but 2 GB is hardly usable for the average person.. I'm not saying I won't release a full version using around 1.6 to 1.7 GB of samples, which are all the samples that were made for the piano but it certainly hasn't got much priority. To be honest I've thought about resampling the samples to a minimum usefull samplerate to further decrease the size (around 100 MB or less). The only thing that's stopping me is that we use oggvorbis compression (high quality) to store the instruments in the installer making it easy to download over 200 MB of soundfonts while only effectively having to download 15-40 MB for the installer. The current installer (still only windows based, linux installer can be done within a day if needed) is 40 MB.. I've also made a 6 MB installer in which I couldn't hear any different compared to the 40 MB installer so you might see the benefits of compression here.. If I would resample the samples to a lower frequency oggvorbis compression will be less effective and the quality of the samples would become lower because of this forcing us to ship out CDs instead of simple download accounts. I'll see if I can't borrow a friends copy of Halion or EXS (have to look around) and make a version of Grandest Piano for them too. If there are any other much used softsynths/samplers please tell me.. I've often only making instruments for friends as a hobby but never make music myself (I did play the piano 10 years ago though). If I find the time versions for most popular softsynths will be included in the installed (this won't take any extra space since we'll simply build the banks, again and again in one pass from the samples stored in oggvorbis format). Well Grandest Piano may not be as 'grand' in size as your piano is but it will certainly have a grand sound :) --- Roel / Utopia Sound Division http://www.utopiasd.com