[stephendanielson97]

I created a new instrument track separate from the rest of the tracks in my song, which have other plug-ins already on them, isolated Addictive Keys on its own and played it on my keyboard, and it still sounds quiet and dull. I've heard from many people that very little tweaking needs to be done to piano VIs in order to make them sound good, maybe a bit of EQing and compression and that's it. I, on the other hand, am trying to add tons of reverb and gain, as well as a lot of EQ and compression, in order to get it to sound anywhere close to what I'm hearing in demos and videos on youtube. I could understand having to do that with a very cheap piano, but not with something like Addictive Keys. Did that sort of answer your question?