Hi,
This hybrid approach - combining sampling and modeling - is perhaps coming more and more. At least they promise us more adjustability, flexibility, no looping and velocity switching problems. Probably not that giant memory usage also.
Check this "Thor":
To me it sounds very similar to TruePianos. Which is, not "true" at all...
I'm tired of garbage pushed as inovations.
If they want to do a acceptable thing... than do with a large library and moddeled for create harmonic effects, or create a entire modeling like pianoteq or V-Piano.
BUT STOP CREATING FEW CHEAP MODELING ALGORITHMS JUST TO SELL A 50MB SAMPLED LIBRAY.