I'm making a piano VST. The current ones are all garbage. There are lots of synths that SOUND like pianos, but not that many that FEEL like pianos. Pianoteq is a good start, but it kind of sounds like shit.
http://www.pelpix.info/rhapsodyinblue.mp3It needs samples to start off and figure out how to sound but is mostly modeled. Right now it's trained to and using Piano in Blue samples. This is not your mother's Piano in Blue.
Limited features from adapting other samples:
CONTINUOUS
ALL PEDALS. Halfpedal? Quarterpedal? No problem!
Physically modeled resonance! Not sampled!
Fully accurate pedal and damper behavior--damper materials and kinetic energy of individual strings included!
DESTROYS DPBSD, only digital piano
on earth with
progressive multiple repedal.
Planned features when I can record my own piano:
no velocity layers
infinite round robin/repetition variation
more realistic attack