navindra I'm pretty comfortable with my programs (Finale, BIAB, Sonar, GarageBand), so making tracks doesn't feel like a lot of work. Not nearly as much as when I used tape. LOL! I have some recordings made with a Tascam Portastudio 246, which uses cassettes to record 4 separate tracks; pretty hot stuff in 1987. But trying to fix a mistake, oh, man... now that's work. I suffer from "REC button-itis", so I really have to be in a good frame of mind to record anything.
By the way, one of Pat Metheny's best albums, "New Chautauqua" was made on a Tascam 246, with him playing all of the guitars and bass at home, then had it mastered in the studio.
As to Dore's pianos, I don't really remember if the Yamaha S6 i used was from Pianobook or Soundfonts4u, both pretty good quality piano samples, especially for free. I was just playing around, and liked the track, so, kept it. Normally, I would have used one of my Snythogy Ivory 1 pianos, German D, or Studio C7, to record.