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Originally Posted by elambo 
OK, so maybe AK piano was "perfect" for her production, but can you honestly say that you believe that they choose to use the samples because they were better from a production perspective? Can you honestly say that you believe that, had the AK piano not been under development, they'd consider using samples, even if a competitor already had a library which sounded exactly like this one?
Again, she's a piano chick -- it's VERY hard to believe that she'd opt out of using a real piano. Much more likely is that they're using samples to help promote this product.
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As a businessman I can tell you it doesn't make much businesses sense for them just to use the samples on the album to sell this product.
I believe it was done for the very reasons someone else has stated. Its a useful writing tool. To 99.9% of people they wont be able to tell the difference between K4 instrument and the real thing - and it looks like it was mainly set up to use live. Simply fire up a laptop and shes got an almost indistingusal sound to the real thing right there...
Funny how this thread has gone from saying its the best sounding piano in the world when it was a Scarbee product to mystically sounding flat now now its an Alicia Keys branded NI product.
Im sorry but time and time again people on Gear Sluts seem to hear what they want to hear by their own hyped opinions. In the same way shootout after shootout has got many people to chose plugins over real analog gear despite them saying how they can easily tell the difference and all the "physiological" of turning real knobs that it has on people is once again shown here.
The piano sounds great, its a clever bit of marketing - in all likely hood the idea to market this way came after the idea to sample the piano for her ease of use wherever she was. It does NOT make commercial sense to use it on the album ONLY to sell the product. This product will sell to a niche market in the thousands - the album will sell to the millions...
If you dont like it because your mind is telling you can't use a product branded by NI and Alica Keys then simply dont. But im betting in a shoot out with 5 other sampled pianos blind, you'd be very very hard pushed to tell me which piano was which.