Pieces which I practice on the VPC1/Pianoteq translate very well to the Grotrian, without a need to adjust my playing much.
I recently bought a beautiful second-hand Grotrian-Steinweg grand (a Cabinet 192 from 1990) and I can switch back and forth pretty seamlessly between Pianoteq (played through the Kawai VPC1) and the Grotrian. And its noisefloor is shocking, especially when you're playing complex parts the noise in all the individual samples just piles up. Its soundboard resonance modelling is unconvincing - way over the top and just weird-sounding. Sometimes I play my Garritan CFX, only to be shocked once again by how frustrating it is to play compared to Pianoteq. Playing a sampled instrument is like playing a corpse. Piano sampling is an unwieldy, unsophisticated, obsolete technology and I literally don't buy it anymore. Then again, I generally feel that the days of sampled pianos are essentially over - the problem doesn't lie specifically with Ivory. The soundboard modelling on Ivory is a joke, as far as I'm concerned.
It sounds better, much more alive and with much better soundboard resonance and interaction between the strings. Pianoteq 7 is a far better virtual instrument. I personally dislike Ivory quite strongly.
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