What was the problem with my suggestion about changing the note velocity below a split point?  I don't care but i am curious why that wouldn't be easy.  I have done this a lot of times.

@glen- i think the problrm would be when the hands switch position and octaves. youd need to automate the filter to track. it would also cut off some of the harmonics of the lower notes and assign them to the high pass band. i also think with a piano vst thats multisampled at diff velocity levels you might want to keep the tonal characteristics of a key thats hit hard but reduce the volume of the hand in the mix.

I didn't think about sympathetic resonance. Crap. I like the Idea of velocity adjust now. It'll be a bit more tedious that way but I think I'd feel better about it.

xxxsoundxxx, Thanks for explaining in more detail.  This is an interesting thread and there are some good ideas here.

Although almost all my piano recording these days uses Ivory II Grands, I remember the mic'ed up Steinway in the studio where I used to work as a session player and I remember it always had a more interesting stereo image.  I also remember the engineer always asking me to lighten up on my left hand when playing rhythm section stuff.

Note: I don't want to go back to those days of playing the same track 20 times until it was perfect, spending hours on the 1/3 octave graphic EQ to get the sound right, and calling the tuner every few days!  There is a lot to be said for 21st century software!