I have FINALLY found the piano sound I have been searching for !!!!! It’s on this Yamaha PLG-150 AP expansion....it’s the second patch (CFBrite).....I saved that patch to USER 1 as the user voice bank in the PLG is always the first thing you see and you have to manually switch to the preset banks.......

I have spent hundreds of dollars (literally) buying expansion boards and sample voice libraries and at last the search is over !!!!!!

I installed it in my Motif rack (the original, not ES) and my quest is over !!!!!! It is perfection to my ears !!!!!! (the samples are made from a $300,000 Yamaha CFIIIS 10 foot concert grand)…

I installed it in my Motif rack instead of my Motif ES6 as I never want to take my ES6 out of the house again (it’s my recording studio).....

This piano sound had no reverb default so I changed the reverb setting from a 0 to a 3 so there’s just a tiny bit of reverb .....perfect !!!!

NOTE: Save your PLG board to the Motif after you install it and you have more settings (like voice name) available among other things ....there is a save PLG and load PLG area in settings....once yThis demo was recorded playing on 76 unweighted keys (I start out with playing all 76 keys).....bear with the playing
(I just had shoulder surgery and my accuracy is a bit off)....this is the patch I mentioned and it will show you what it sounds like you save it, the name of the PLG board is listed.....

This demo was recorded playing on 76 unweighted keys (I start out with playing all 76 keys).....bear with the playing
(I just had shoulder surgery and my accuracy is a bit off)....this is the patch I mentioned and it will show you what it sounds like (this recording doesn’t sound as good as the real thing):

UPDATE: I found out that the distortion I was hearing on the following MP3 was from the laptop I was playing it on because when I played it on my other laptop there was no distortion .....if you are hearing distortion and want to hear what it really sounds like, either play it on another computer or burn it to a CD and play it on a separate CD player....

https://www.dropbox.com/s/b0o0mzpm5i2i4fi/YamahaPLG150AP-GregFredericks’Demo-A-April10,2014.mp3

PLG’s are so nice...no loading....you boot up and they are ready !!!!!

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q;=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CE4QFjAA&url=http://usa.yamaha.com/products/music-production/plugins/plg150-ap/?mode=model&ei=FO1GU7T6Jq3nsATp7oHAAw&usg=AFQjCNEAd1p50u0wQGhiCxhtoZghx5iJmQ&sig2=ruPAkMPK-R1E6h0TmU0b6A

I’m glad you found the right piano sound for you. Piano sounds are so personal of course. It may be heresy on a Motif site, but I prefer the pianos in my older EX5 as they cut through better, especially the “Stereo Piano” patch, which is so versatile.

But my piano heaven right now is PianoTeq and its CP80 model. With a touch of chorus, it’s instant Tony Banks! :)

I have a PLG150-VL and a PLG150-AN in my Motif Rack ES, so no room for any more!

That piano sounds really good (I went to the web site)....my computers are old and I have trouble with latency with software
or I would use software in my setup....

I used to have an EX5R but it met a sad end and I bought Motifs and never replaced it, although I might....it was cool as it had different types of tone generation in it.....it was a big rack unit (3 rack spaces).....same size as the Yamaha TG77 which I also have....I bought it to replace my SY77......

Shame you never replaced the EX5R. It’s still amazing today! I too have a TG77, and an SY99, and an AN1x and an FS1r! I guess I like Yamaha! :-) Certainly the older ones.

What happened to the EX5R?

I bought my EX5R new but with no warranty and shortly after I bought it the two buttons that select the internal banks quit working and quotes I got to repair it were sky high and I sold it....

I might buy another, but I really have all the gear I need....I can
do pretty much anything with what I have....my Motif ES6 is my best synth but I love my Roland XV-3080 too....

I have:

YAMAHA:

Motif 8
Motif ES6
Motif rack (the original)
DX7IIFD
TX802
TX81Z
TG77
TG500
DX100
FB-01
P-70 piano
NP-30 piano

Korg Karma

ROLAND:

XV-3080
XV-5050
JV-1010
A-37 MIDI controller

I can do most anything with what I have....my wife’s getting bummed out when I want more stuff as it’s all so expensive, even used and I can’t blame her.....when she buys stuff for herself, it’s not expensive like my stuff......plus, I’ve actually reached
a point when I am completely happy with what I have (you ought to
buy a used Roland XV-3080).....great piece and it has 128 note polyphony.....I wrote this about it:

http://www.harmonycentral.com/forum/forum/Keyboards/acapella-18/30997213-36445521

Click on the photo at the link below to make it bigger:

http://www.vintagesynth.com/roland/xv3080.php

http://www.rolandus.com/products/details/272

I flip through patches and there are a lot I don’t use but a lot
that I do......but the real power is when you edit.....it is a
real synth....it does more than layering like some synths....very
deep editing is possible.....it has tons of synths & pads....
there are way more sounds that I use than most synths and it’s
well worth the price used (I got mine on Ebay for $300 with
free shipping)....the acoustic pianos aren’t as good as the Motifs but that’s not why I like it and the acoustic pianos aren’t terrible (remove the effects and they are pretty good)

Synths & pads are the best things about it but it does a lot well....very good sounds in many categories....my other two
Roland synths have a lot of the same sounds but this one sounds
the best of the three for sure and the other 2 are 64 note polyphony....

This IS a nice sound.  I still prefer the original Motif rather than that stuff they make now.  Yamaha really put a lot of thought into the first Motif.. and that PowerGrand.. oh my, thats the BEST piano patch they have ever made. This recording you have of the brite sounds REALLY nice, especially for salsa/Latin. Im going to do some digging around to find one of these cards.  Thanks for actually taking the time to record this and post it on DB.  Take care!