My honest assessment:
- Beautiful sounds
- Questionable playability
I don't need legato for this kind of stuff - it lives from the room to breath - and it's not it's intend to be a soloistic library. For that you have other options. The sounds are stellar, and I like the emotional content in there. Clear, close, very textural.
Playability - I said "questionable". I'm not a pianist, and currently I only have a Synth-action Keyboard (my StudioLogic SL88 is coming next month). With that, I find it hard to getting used to - hard to control. The loud layers are very loud, and the textural layers are very soft, so when you accidentally press too hard, e.g. a way too loud cello pops into your ears. You can do fade ins and outs with CC11 (Expression), and that's good enough for the textural usage I intend. It offers enough variety for me to be worthwhile, and for 150 bucks it's fair priced - we can discuss the normal sales price, but still. I have a hard time playing it fluidly, but my Nektar isn't the world best velocity-wise. I hope the Fatar will remedy it a bit
What I miss:
- Adjustable layer "heights", to (as gpax said) compensate for bad velocities or playing
- A more streamlined volume progression, loud is so much more loud than the rest, makes it tedious to mix
I like it, love the colors and it's extremely close to my "composer voice", only that I don't have to hire musicians to record that, but I can make a cue with that, a little tundra, a little piano and maybe solo strings. Or simply sketch something out. For sketching alone - I wouldn't say "worth it", but if you use it as a tool in your toolbox rather than a "one click solution", for this price, there is nothing that can compare (except some hardcore underpaid students)
I didn't make a review video or whatever and god knows I'm not the most pro guy running around, so, take that with a grain of salt.